MombasaFish
Chaza · per piece
Shucked fresh to order. Eat them raw with lime and pilipili, grill them over charcoal, or bake with garlic butter.
KES 40 per pc
| English name | Oysters |
|---|---|
| Swahili name | Chaza · per piece |
| Scientific name | Saccostrea cucullata |
| Family | Ostreidae (rock oysters) |
| Caught | The rocky shores of the Kenyan south coast |
| Method | Hand-gathered from rock shelves at low tide |
| Sold by | Per piece |
| Price | KES 40 / pc |
~68 kcal · 7 g protein · 2 g fat · extraordinarily high in zinc, plus iron, copper and B12
The single richest natural source of zinc of any food. Also high in iron, copper and vitamin B12.
Nutritional values are approximate, per 100 g raw edible portion, and vary with size and season. This is general information, not medical or dietary advice.
Raw on ice with lime and a drop of pilipili, or grilled in the shell with garlic butter until they just open.
Goes well with: Lime, pilipili, garlic butter, cold beer
Every order is cleaned to your preference — scaled, gutted, filleted, cut into steaks or left whole. Choose at checkout.
Shellfish are the most perishable thing we sell. Keep cold and cook the day of delivery where possible, and within 24 hours at the latest.
Keeps: 1 day refrigerated
Every fish is looked over by hand before it is packed. These are the four things we check, and they are the same four you should check when it reaches you.
Then it is packed. On ice, in a sealed EPS cooler that holds cold for up to 72 hours. Mombasa goes the same day by rider; everywhere else travels by express courier or bus.
Do these four checks yourself when it arrives. If any of them fails, send one photograph within 24 hours and we replace the item or refund it — we never ask you to send fish back. Read the guarantee.
Raw shellfish always carries some risk. Ours are gathered and iced fresh, but anyone pregnant, immunocompromised, elderly or very young should eat oysters cooked rather than raw.
Six to twelve as a starter.
Discard any that is already open and does not close when tapped, or that smells of anything but clean sea.
