Jocelyn n Eric, organizers
Ha.. but prawns are soooo hard to get! Seawater ones especially, according to the lao ban. Freshwater ones are easier to hook. No wonder the sea water pond only like have 3 groups trying it while, the freshwater pond have like many many families/couples. It goes by hourly rate. 1 hour goes for $20, 2 hours $25, 3 hours $30. Bait was chicken heart (tiny bits). If you looked closely into the pond water, can spot one or two prawns scurrying around. However, it was quite disturbing to see many dead ones inside as well...
waiting to be released into the prawning pond...
While waiting for Eric to catch some prawns, we girls strolled over to the beach.
海阔天空
sand...however, i still build my castles in the air...
silver linings?
ships out in the ocean
We combed the beach and decided to take pictures of the flora...
wasp nest.. so beware when standing below any tree!
hibiscus
flora 2
shrubs (no.. not that TV show...)
some tree with fruits which I found to be interesting
MH says this soft-toy on a tree is more interesting than the fruit...
Finally, around 7pm it's time to head to Jumbo for dinner. Joce made a reservation for 730pm, so we walked there from the prawning area (Carpark C4). We walked and walked.. passed by Turtle signs (D area) like 4 times and still haven't reach... it almost felt like we're in some horror shows where you can't seem to walk out of the maze and everything just sort of repeats....
night view, ships lighted up...
carrying on walking...
As they say, light at the end of the tunnel... for us, it's the neon signs of the restaurant that greeted us after half-hour of walking.
Jumbo Restaurant
However, we have to wait. Even if you have reservation, there's only 1 word: WAIT. So we waited and waited, and while waiting...
took pics of la-lang
took video of wind blowing the la-lang...
Then finally, our table number was called, and still must wait a few mins at the holding area, before they finally lead you to your table...
We were hungry so we ordered lots of food!
salted egg crab, scallop in yam basket, fried baby squids
seafood hor fun, steamed prawns
scallop (tasted great with the watery chili sauce)
baby squids
very crispy!
kailan
salted egg crab
salted egg crab that looked and tasted as crispy as shoft-shell crab (but dun bite too hard into the shell if you dun intend to have your tooth knocked out!)
steamed garlic prawns
seafood horfun (tht thing tht looked like corn, was really sotong)
chili crab (with man tou, but the man-tou is really small in size)
close-up view
taken with neutral color
taken in vivid color
After dinner, we were stuffed. The price was around $33 per pax as there were 7 of us eating. Enjoyable and was nice meeting up with old classmates (with their respective spouse). Thanks for organizing and thanks SL for the transport, and GA for the nice cakes (something to eat b4 dinner, else all of us would be famished!)
