An Afternoon @ Kuala Sepetang 2 Jun 2016

After our charcoal factory trip, we heading to Kuala Sepetang town itself, at first we were looking for our hotel first as we do not know where is the place.

It was not so difficult to find, a its signature eagle head have showed or already a landmark here in this small town. The person in charge was not there yet.

We just unloaded our luggage in the reception waiting area first, as the time of check in is not arrived yet.  The hotel helper suggested to us that we should have our lunch then only come back for the check in.

We were looking for a restaurant named Xin Kuala Sepetang Seafood Restaurant, as this is recommended by Mr. Chuah. It is not difficult to find either, just the entrance to the restaurant is a bit weird, we entered from the back door.

It was such a nice view as the restaurant just situated at the river side. Thus, the visitors can see clearly the river view, fishing boats just from their dinning tables.

The children were so excited on this! They were running around the restaurant just to see the fishing boats passing by, the small boats which transport the bakau wood to the charcoal kilns, and seeing the eagles flying over the river hunting their food.

Daddy ordered a sweet and sour steamed fish, a vegetable dish and a braised taufu. It was just nice for us.

There was a little misunderstanding on our hotel booking, luckily it was settled with a call and we were able to check in after our satisfying lunch at the seafood restaurant.

After checked in to the hotel and settled down with our luggage, we went out to the town again for a walk. The weather is so hot, everyone of us is sweating!

The town itself is not big, to be exact it is a fishing village, located along the Sepetang River connected to the sea.

We were walking passing by the houses along the river. Some of the units actually are converted to the docks for the fishing boats to park at the ground floor, and the first floor either is a restaurant or their own homes.

We walked in to one of these unit, the families members were busy segregating and categorized the prawns at one side

At the other corner at the dock, they were receiving the caught of the day - unloading the fishes from the fishing boat to the dock.

They were friendly too, as they do not stop us from enter to their working place. We were allowed to walk around and watched how they doing their works without disturbing them. This was the first time, all of us get so close to the real fishing boats at work.

After this, we did walk in to another unit but the fishing boats were parking so far in near the river, that we only able to see their cold room area only.

We can see all the fishes were taken out from the  cold room where they stored and started to load it to a lorry. The fishes were so big and fresh.

Unfortunately, that was not for sale, as the owner told us that it was for wholesale, where they would deliver to nearby city. I think may be for restaurants or the hypermarkets. Or even to Taiping or Ipoh. Well, this time, the owner of the shop was not so friendly, or may be they were in the midst of loading the fishes.

After walking out from the fishing boats docks, we headed to the center of the village where is the famous signage of the “Port Weld” railway station sign are.

We went to the nearby hawker selling ABC and some fried fish ball or fish cakes to rest for a while.

The small stalls in between two rows of shop lots became so packed as it is the location of famous curry mee noodles, ice kacang, fried ‘Loh Bak’ also selling at here.

The curry mee was different from the one we have in Kuala Lumpur as it came with cubes of coagulated pig’s blood, which it is quite alien to us.

Moreover, my man does not like that at all. Thus we just have some fried ‘Loh Bak’

It was such a cooling after walking under the hot sun in the afternoon. Even though the school holiday just started, the visitors or tourists are started crowded to this small little fishing village.

Along the way back, we can see all sorts of fish, shrimps were putting under the sun to make salty fish, dried shrimps, dried squids, etc..

We walked back to the hotel and took a rest before we got ready ourselves for the 5.00pm river cruise trip.