Then I come in like,
(In mandarin): Wah, the fish is so fresh!
Hi everyone, I'm Xenia,
welcome to another episode of
"Hired or Fired"! In this episode,
I'm going to be a fishmonger
for a day. The only thing
that I know about the life of a fishmonger is
that they cannot netflix and chill
because they need to start work when
everyone is asleep. How I know?
Because it is currently 3am
and we are at Jurong Fishery Port where
fishmongers usually start their day.
Unfortunately, we can't go in,
but it's okay, we'll wait here, while
my mentor does his thing.
Guess what? I had my first panic attack in a
wet market, and I've never been there ever
since, it's been 11 years.
So I'm a bit scared now, I hope you guys are prepared.
Paper bag, ambulance, everything!
Today's episode is a little bit
out of my league, but who knows?
I might surprise myself, it's too early to tell,
so, we're just waiting for my mentor to
come out, and we'll head to the wet market
together.
My name is Xavier, I'm the in charge of sales and
marketing for my mom's business.
(In mandarin): I'm Doris.
(In mandarin): I sell fish, this is my stall.
I've been helping out from time to time,
since I was in secondary school.
(In mandarin): Since young, I've been helping out.
(In mandarin): Then, I took over the business about 12 years ago.
So what people might normally think of
fishmongers is like they're very aggressive,
and fierce, very
outspoken, but actually,
times are kinda changing,
and we start to see more fishmongers that are
able to provide very
good customer service, or understand
your needs very well. I think
the toughest thing would be when
the business isn't doing well, and
you feel the weight on your shoulders.
(In mandarin): Yeah, having to wake up in the middle of the night
(In mandarin): Then not having enough sleep.
(In mandarin): My body will be very tired.
(In mandarin): We run a business here.
(In mandarin): So when we have customers,
(In mandarin): my family can go about their day.
(In mandarin): It's a sense of satisfaction.
Hi! Nice to meet you, I'm Xenia.
Hi Xenia, I'm Xavier, and I'm the in charge of
sales and marketing at my mom's business.
So for today, we'll be going through about
the different types of seafood that are popular
in Singapore, next you'll learn how to
calculate the prices of the
seafood and how to prepare them.
Last but not least, we'll be packing
for some orders and delivering orders together.
Wah, that's a lot to do.
Do you think I'm ready?
I feel like I purposely wear like that so that
-more people will buy fishes from me -I don't
think your outfit is complete yet.
Wah, very serious ah, this mentor.
I haven't ask him what to do, he already
tell me what to do, and he already pass me some
I don't know what this is, but let's
go get changed.
(In mandarin): Let's sell fish.
(In mandarin): What's the first thing to do?"
(In mandarin): Unload the fish first.
(In mandarin): Oh, unloading is bringing them down only.
(In mandarin): This is too heavy.
(In mandarin): Don't look down on me ah.
(In mandarin): Wah, really very heavy.
(In mandarin): No, I'm his girlfriend.
My girlfriend came here before.
Oh shit, (laughter).
It's like hugging a baby.
Yeah. (In mandarin): How many kilos is this?
(In mandarin): 4.5?
Oh, my god!
(In mandarin): Wah, so accurate eh!
(In mandarin): Spoil market, this mentor.
Right, so the next step
is to lay some ice over the fish,
to preserve their freshness. This is the
fun part for most people.
Oh, is it?
Yes, okay.
This one no need teach lah, I know.
Okay, let's go.
Woah, this is a lot.
Like Ice Kachang ah.
-Wah, you didn't wanna make another trip ah? -Yeah.
Next we'll go through again,
what are the types of fish that
-you'll be learning. -Okay.
Tell me what you know.
Okay, wait ah.
Now cannot see the face eh.
This one is
Red Snapper.
This one is Golden Pomfret.
Oh no, I don't know this one, skip first! Wait.
This is um,
-You said that was easy just now. -Red grouper.
No.
-Red grouper. -Yes.
Then what else? Salmon!
Yeah. Actually salmon we got 2 variants today.
So one is the Atlantic one,
then the other one is Trout.
Now when I go to Genki sushi,
when I order sashimi, I'm gonna ask them,
"Is trout? or like, Atlantic?"
"Do you buy from like, NTUC?"
"or,"
(In mandarin): Your stall is called what?
"Din Xin Seafood?"
"Oh cool! Thanks."
Initially I was a bit nervous because
I realized that my
impression of fishmongers were
fishermen.
And then after that I had to adapt you know.
And not let Xavier know, because I realised
Xavier can be quite savage sometimes.
(In mandarin): I know this, Cod fish!
-Yep. -Hired.
Not so soon.
Not so soon!
I think even the neighbors all wanna hire me already.
(In mandarin): Uncle, if I help you sell fish tomorrow can?
(In mandarin): Tomorrow? Tomorrow okay.
-You see? Hired. -(In mandarin): You sell on your own.
(In mandarin): Huh?! I sell on my own?
(In mandarin): First, I'll teach you
(In mandarin): how to descale the black pomfret.
(In mandarin): They are easy to descale.
(In mandarin): You need to hold the head, then
(In mandarin): scrape it this way.
Whoo, okay!
(In mandarin): Some people hold it this way, but it's wrong.
(In mandarin): You have to be careful this doesn't hit your hand.
(In mandarin): It would hurt.
(In mandarin): Okay, you descale this.
(In mandarin): Hold the head.
(In mandarin): Scrape it upwards.
(In mandarin): It won't feel the pain ah?
(In mandarin): Use more strength.
(In mandarin): I'm so bad at this, wait!
There we go.
(In mandarin): A lot of friction ah!
-(In mandarin): Should be done right? -(In mandarin): Yes.
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(In mandarin): Don't hold the knife too close,
(In mandarin): you'll cut yourself.
(In mandarin): You have to aim downwards.
(In mandarin): Can't cut it this way,
(In mandarin): If you don't use enough strength, you'll cut your hand.
(In mandarin): Aim downwards.
Wah!
(In mandarin): Put your thumb in.
(In mandarin): Grip it this way.
Oh. (In mandarin): Grip what?
(In mandarin): This!
Woah, my god!
Okay, I- Oh! My God!
(In mandarin): What was that?
(In mandarin): That's its gill. It's innards.
(In mandarin): Now its clean and ready to be cooked.
(In mandarin): You dare to do it?
(In mandarin): Don't dare ah?
(In mandarin): I dare! I dare, I dare, can, can.
-(In mandarin): Hold like this first? -(In mandarin): Yes.
(In mandarin): Knife like this.
(In mandarin): Just cut down, it won't hurt.
(In mandarin): Can already.
-(In mandarin): This is open already? -(In mandarin): Yes.
Walao eh!
(Groaning)
There we go.
Okay, then how?
Wow.
Such a clean cut!
(In mandarin): Your turn.
(In mandarin): Huh my turn already?
(In mandarin): I think today you guys have high expectations of me.
(In mandarin): The training part ah,
(In mandarin): very minimal eh.
One two step, like that, like that.
Okay, you do.
(In mandarin): Actually, practice makes perfect.
Oh practice, practice, okay, okay.
Eh, sorry.
(In mandarin): My butt hit Ahma's butt!
That's how we get to know each other!
(In mandarin): Wah, you're very good at this.
(In mandarin): Really?!
(In mandarin): Really.
(In mandarin): Say it louder for Xavier to hear!
(In mandarin): Xavier, did you hear?
(In mandarin): Nope.
(In mandarin): Xavier, you know how to do this?
(In mandarin): Xavier doesn't know how to fillet.
(In mandarin): This side is prettier right?
(In mandarin): Yes, well done.
-Eh, Xavier! -(In mandarin): Look, she's so good at this!
(In mandarin): You dare to do or not?
So I think you're ready to start
serving some customers and packing some online orders,
-on your own. -Okay.
-I'm gonna give you your first one, for -Ah!
for orders.
Red snapper. Wait ah,
wait, wait. I know this.
-Red snapper is this one right? -Wrong.
Not that.
Not that either, those are different variants.
Yeah, not that, that's a variant also.
-Oh, my god. -This.
Wait, this is snapper, this is what again?
This is deep sea one.
-Can! There we go. -Oh my god, perfect eh, 1kg.
-Okay. -Whoo! Okay.
-Oh, yay, yay, yeah! -Nice.
Okay, golden snapper.
300-400g.
Oh! 400g.
Okay.
Put it all together, and yeah.
Bring over.
How did he get out of there?
Did y'all see?
So you think I'm skinyyyyyy?
I've never seen two hands do this.
-Today you see, first time. -Mhmm.
-Okay. -Yep, there we go.
Hurry, close.
Okay, now that we've squeezed our brains dry,
calculated all the online orders, we're ready
to deliver them.
Road trip time!
Bye!
-Okay. -Eh, quite strong ah.
I am.
(In mandarin): Got guns horh.
I guess you can sit on this right?
-Yeah, we can actually flip it upside down. -Okay.
But I don't want you to sit under the sun.
Aiyo so sweet,
Xavier!
Stop.
Sun block important you know,
26 years old already.
(In mandarin): This way, I won't age.
(In mandarin): Next time I'm 56,
(In mandarin): When I say hello to you, I'll still look 26.
Too short.
Graceful descent.
-This is how we sort it. -Right.
-Orh. -Yep.
Good morning- eh, afternoon!
Mr Gan!
-How are you? -Good.
-You're good? I'm good too! -Yeah.
I heard you watch TSL?
Here you go.
Thank you.
-Okay, $30 change. -Thank you.
-Thank you! -Okay, take care ah!
Bye!
Whoo!
The important thing about me doing is
money go into my pocket lah! Give back to Xavier?
I can hear you.
(In mandarin): Why did you leave out one fish?
(In mandarin): Xavier's fault.
(In mandarin): Xenia's fault.
Now we are troubleshooting. This is the
fish that we missed, and we are
going up to apologise, and I know
just how to cheer him up.
Watch me.
We took the wrong lift.
-Actually I was the one who ran to this lift. -Yeah!
Normally when this happens what do you do?
This normally doesn't happen.
Mr Gan!
Sorry!
Here you go, here's your fish, you check first eh.
Have a fin-tastic day ahead!
-Haha, thank you, thank you. -Bye bye.
See? I tell you, will cheer him up.
He happy already.
With my fish puns.
It's my last delivery!
And I didn't know that fishes can be
so heavy.
I got one more fish pun.
The fin-tastic was bad.
Wait for my next one, okay?
And I hope that you remember my age, you know?
-You cannot talk to a senior citizen like this. -I'm so sorry about that.
Hi! Your fish is here.
Hello, I hope you didn't wait too long, it is
Fin-ally here!
Thank you!
Bye bye!
Can't believe I almost
spent seven hours in a wet market without
passing out.
This experience was very
pleasantly different. I was able
to handle a raw fish,
a task that my own mom doesn't even trust me with
and my dad doesn't even bother to ask me to go
fishing with him, but I think the job
itself looks gory on the outside,
it's actually not that bad. And I think the one
that thing blew my mind
was Xavier. He's learning different
dialects, different languages, to
preserve what is seemingly
an outdated shopping experience.
He definitely changed my perception
of what it takes to be a fish monger today.
Okay! So we are done for today.
And I feel like I've learnt a lot of things
from you, before you even met me, how well do you
think I would do today?
First impression like xiao mei mei ah,
-like, uh... -I am a xiao mei mei?
Okay, anyways...
He's done with my nonsense okay.
I didn't think you would be like
the one that would take initiative a lot.
The first thing you asked me was like,
What's the first thing I have to do?
I was like woah, you just got here, like
-Woah, this girl intense yo. -Yeah.
I was pretty impressed by that. The prices
are hard to memorise, so
I can't blame you.
-Right. -And there's also the fact that you
weren't able to calculate
on the spot.
So I get it, my calculation
math, not very good.
-Still can be improved. -Can't blame you, you're getting old.
(In mandarin): Uncle! Hear what your son-
Without further ado, let's take out our paper.
Are you ready? Hello?
-Yeah. -Okay.
So will hire or fire me?
Hired lah!
Aw, 100%?
Even though you had some struggles here and there,
I really cannot tell that you're 26.
You have this like...
-I don't know whether that's good or bad. -You have this passion for learning, like
you want to make learning fun.
-Oh, okay, okay. -And that's why I think
you have such a successful series.
Thank you!
Now that you've explained, it's fin-ally my turn!
First I just wanna
thank you and your family, for the
oppo-tuna-tiny!
-To work for you guys. -Wah, you've been working on that.
Okay, so I must say that when I first saw you,
realising that you were only
20 years old, I was like,
(In mandarin): Huh? A 20 Year old is going to be my mentor?
You really proved to me
that you're more mature.
And organised, and
and very thoughtful. Not many
youngsters have the maturity
to also be responsible in helping out
with your family's business. I don't think
I can do that,
even now, at 26 years old.
Is it you want to cry? Okay lah, tissue?
Even though I'm older than you, I
I look up to you today.
I really did.
Is it because of the height?
(In mandarin): Really ah, I tell you,
(In mandarin): Once we cut the cameras,
(In mandarin): you better run to your dad ask him protect
(In mandarin): you, I tell you ah.
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