Because of
its close proximity to the sea and all her bountiful goodness, Miri is known
for its Seafood restaurants. Missing out on this experience while we were in
Kota Kinabalu, we made it our mission to head out to one of those seafood
centers, when available.
Asking
directions from the concierge, we walked a good 5-10 minutes and headed out to
the Seaworld Seafood Center.
The place
is an unairconditioned local watering hole that serves fresh seafood nomnoms.
Various huge tanks may be found at the front of this Chinese-Malaysian run
establishment. I brought up the nationality as Chinese food almost always has
pork in its menu.
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| La tortue will one day be La tortured :( |
True
enough, even the traditional crispy pata (Philippine Crisp Pork Leg in the menu
to you) was available.
Communication
was a bit tough if you had to inquire about the food as the employees speak
Malay, Chinese and just a handful of English. It wasn’t as simple as pointing
out the menu, as when it comes to these places, you had to specify the
portions, size and flavors not expounded on in the menu.
Summoning 6
months worth of conversational Mandarin, we ended up ordering the ff.
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| seafood fried rice |
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| yangchow fried rice |
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| salted egg crabs |
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| garlic butter praws (emphasis on the garlic) |
When the
bill came, we were happy to know that all the stuff we got was around 60-70 MYR
(less than a thousand Philippine pesos, tops).
As
expected, food was a good 20-30 minute wait. Phil got some delightful lime and
dried plum drink while MAX and I had our Cokes. I wanted root beer, saw it on
the fridge out front but the Malay waitress did not understand root beer and
said there was none. Oh well.
It was our mediocre adventure for the day. After packing up enough leftovers for another meal, we headed back to our hotel with thoughts of what to eat next, temporarily forgotten for a couple of hours.
From TMW,
may all your wanderings be better than ours.
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