Tilapia is considered a premium fish in the best restaurants on the mainland, including Chinese restaurants which often have a large tank of tilapia from which your fish will be picked. The price for Tilapia is high— On one menu there was a note saying that the restaurant used real tilapia and not fakes with an explanation of how to tell fake from real tilapia. It tastes great as long as you can turn off your memory from growing up seeing tilapia in drainage dishes, stagnant ponds, smelling up the State Capital ponds (odor was from the fish but could be wrong given the location  of the pond).