Michael H.
Yelp
When I was a kid I had severe fish allergies. I couldn't even pass a fish market without feeling extremely uncomfortable. But luckily shellfish seemed to be fine. When I tried my aunt's fried shrimp I was in heaven.
That is until the worst day of my life.
I was eating shrimp and I felt my throat itching. 'Not you too' I sobbed into my handful of steamed shrimp probably, I dont know, I was like 7. And for years fish markets had absolutely nothing to offer me except pain and misery. Angel Fish Market was one that my parents would order from frequently, and I dared to eat the fries that touched the fish they'd ordered. They were good, but alas, not enough to base a Yelp review on. Even worse, Yelp hadn't existed.
If you've made it this far in this tragic anecdote, the worse has passed because we are now going into my formative college years. In my quest to explore who I am I sometimes had to take a step back and solidify who I was. If you thought that the last sentence had confusing usage of tenses, shut up, I was an engineering major; not a writer. By the way that was proper usage of the semi-colon, I get some points for that.
Any who, one of these day I decided to readjust my perception of self was the day I decide to risk eating clam strips at the cafeteria. I put a piece in my mouth... no reaction. I then tried shrimp, scallops, crab... I'd lost my shellfish allergy.
I cannot describe the amount of joy I felt because I don't even remember being that happy, calm down its just shrimp. But now I had a wider palette, and I eventually I moved back into the area. I could walk around and into fish markets without feeling like I was standing in a swarm of mosquitoes.
My parents visited and stopped by Angel Fish Market like way back in the day, so I was like "lemme get that shrimp/crab stick/scallop combo" and they were like "let you get your own damn cellphone plan you leech". After my 274th time assuring them that my company discount offsets my cost of the bill and therefore I am not a total leech, they agreed to order me the food.
I was completely blown away by what I was eating. Probably some of the best seafood I'd had since my shellfish renaissance back in college. So many restaurants around here and getting way too goddamn pricey and 'fancy'. I hope this hole in the wall never changes. Good cheap food is getting rarer in this neighborhood and this place is one of the best and cheapest.
Call ahead during peak hours though, unless you like standing around fish for a half an hour.