Eating at Kelongs- Seafood Restaurants on Stilts (i think), has been somewhat a memory of the past for me. Whenever we made family trips up to Bintan in Indonesia, or Tioman Island, eating at a Kelong would be mandatory. I loved the fact that we could go fishing around the area, and get the cook to season and fry it the way we like it.
So, starting off our journey rather late and with a very very empty stomach, the 5 of us formed a search-party for the best kelong in JB. And of course the search party thing is silly, all we had to do was to ask the taxi driver to take us to the restaurant with the best seafood, and we were there pronto. JP's rather fluent Malay expedited the whole process while bringing the cousin's supposed knowledge of Malay to shame.
Empty stomachs usually creates false impressions of vast appetites, and we fell for that trap! Amongst the 5 of us, we had 9 coconuts (an entire tree really), baby squid, la-la(s), cereal prawns, tofu, vege, egg, and of course Lobster- done in 2 different ways no less. Phwaarrr. So we point out what we want in the life seafood tanks they had, and next thing we knew, the chef does something amazing to it.
At the end of it, JP was our last man standing. He literally polished up everything saying 'Don't waste the prawns'. The rest of us just stared while he did his job.
Now, I'm regretting not snatching the last prawn away from him. Darn.
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