Mantis Prawn

[Thursday August 23rd]
Ok, so a group of us went out to eat at a restaurant just down from the floating Mosque by Batu Ferringhi. (That's a beach on the North side of the island). They are famous for their Fish Curry. They serve their food Chinese Style. (We'd call it family style). It all gets put on a Lazy Susan in the middle of the table. You wouldn't believe what I ate though...

Ok, so they have these fresh Mantis Prawn. As you all know, in the US shrimps are quite small, maybe a few inches for a jumbo shrimp. These things however, are huge! They're about 1 foot long! They bring a few of them out to the table so you can see them fresh and strutting their stuff. They get real aggressive with each other. You watch them attack each other before your eyes. Its intense and scary watching them and their praying mantis like arms! After a while you pick which ones you want, typically people pick the most aggressive as they're reportedly the tastiest. They take them away and bring them back, shell and all, laid out on a plate.

Oh , they are tasty! Ok, ok, you got me, that whole bit about the table fighting isn't true, but it'd be kewl right? Anyway, seriously they are 1 foot long! They are kinda scary sitting there on the plate, you can see their strange arms. You know how fierce a bug the praying mantis is, you start imagining that this thing is also fierce, and its not that small either! Yikes! Now talk about a jumbo shrimp!

We had the Fish curry, it was pretty good but hard to eat. They leave the bones in the fish so you've got to be careful eating it. We also has deep friend squid, quite tasty!

It was a good meal.
-Terry