A Traveller's Tale: Dinner in Bukit Tambun

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Bukit Tambun has long been known as a seafood paradise. This quaint town is said to be a small fishing village and I suppose it is; for I remember seeing boats anchored in a river there the last time I was in the area and there were cockles being unloaded from a boat too. I also remember seeing a brackish, very polluted river and had in fact been advised not to take crabs or shellfish dished out by the restaurants there. As it is, there are many seafood restaurants in the town and when Eng Lai and I paid Mau Wei a visit on our way back to Taiping after visiting the delightful Penang's Queensbay Mall, Mau Wei would have us ushered to a little restaurant near the Batu Kawan Stadium. According to her, the restaurant is frequented more by Bukit Tambun folks. Outsiders mostly patronise the bigger, more popular and more expensive restaurants in town and the one she took us to was supposed to offer tastier and cheaper dishes. At nearly RM 50 for a dinner for three, I thought the dishes weren't very cheap and they weren't really that tasty, too but thank you, Mau Wei for dinner. It was nice to be able to dine in a restaurant that had been frequented by the ex-chief minister of Penang. Tan Sri Dr. Koh Soh Koon and the former Transport Minister, Dr. Ling Liong Sik but really, it was your hospitability that I appreciated.



In a little restaurant in Bukit Tambun...



Dinner was served...









Comments

Liudmila said…
:-))) You have to change the name of this blog. Something like "Beautiful meals". To look at this food it seems to be all made from vegetables. Or not?
April 10, 2009 at 11:31 AM
footiam said…
There'll be more beautiful meals coming! By the way, the meals here are not all vegetables. The first one that looks so mushy has fish in it! Over here in Asia, there are vegetarian restaurants offering just vegetrarian food and you'd be surprised to see the variety of food and the creativity!
April 16, 2009 at 4:13 AM
Liudmila said…
Oh, I would like to go there to see all that. I try to eat less meat now and it would be very interesting to learn how it has to be.
April 16, 2009 at 7:06 AM
footiam said…
People becomes vegetarian because they fear the cholesterol in meat. Some people here do it for religiois reasons.
April 27, 2009 at 11:04 PM
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