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Pumpkin Fish Head soup

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I was not a fan of fish head soup. Actually, I do not like fish. So every month when I clean the fishes and cut up the fish filet for my MIL, I will end up with at least 4 fish heads. We are talking about fish heads from snappers and threadfin. Each fish weight 2.5 kg and above.  So sometimes, I will end up with large fish heads too. All these are bought with cash. So I need to turn these into delicious meals so that the fresh fish head is being appreciated. For a start, since these fishes are very fresh, I will steam them with salted vege (teochew steam). Everyone loves it except my MIL was not impress.  She reprimanded us that salted vege is not good for our health.  So I started to explore other ideas like curry or assam fish head. I even cook it as sweet and sour fish. The last takes a lot of my time, though delicious but not much meat to eat. After learning from a colleague that her maid cook fish head soup just by boiling them for 1 hour, I decided to try out. I decided to p