Salted Fish, Anyone?

Hi everyone out there,

I'm back to blog on one of my favourite food, that is 'salted fish'! How do you cook it? Well, there are many ways, one of my favourites is minced pork steamed with salted fish which my mother cooks it the best! Yummy! My saliva drops when I think of it! Actually, in order to taste the best, the secret lies with the salted fish, it has to be 'mui hiong ham yu' according to my mother.

Salted fish is one of Macau's specialities, especially to the Hong Kong visitors as they claimed that the salted fish available for sale is the best in Asia. I've seen salted fish on sale at the shops on the narrow streets leading to St Paul's Ruins but the best shops selling those are located somewhere else instead!

I walked along the Avenida de Almeida Ribeiro, the main shopping street which the local Chinese called it 'San Ma Lou' all the way to the Inner Harbour to take the ferry to Shekou. I side-tracked a bit here, in case anyone wants to know about the ferry information to Shekou (Shenzhen). The Yuet Tung Shipping Co. Ltd offers a ferry service departing from Macau (at the end of Avenida Almeida Ribeiro, Rua das Lorchas, near the Master Hotel, Pier 14) at 10:00 a.m., 2:00 p.m., 6:00 p.m and 8:15 p.m. Tickets cost MOP$129 for adults and MOP$78 for children. Passengers departing from Shekou (Shenzhen) can travel at 8:15 a.m., 11:45 a.m., 3:45 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. The trip takes about one hour and twenty minutes. Tel: (853) 2857 4478 You do not have to make any booking, you can actually purchase the ticket over the counter.

Just before reaching the ferry terminal at the Inner Harbour, you will see a few shops selling Chinese delicacies for example, Chinese herbs and medicine, dried seafood like shark's fins, abalone, beef and pork jerky, Chinese and Macanese pastries and last of all, salted fish! Check out the photos! I even saw one shop just across the ticket office of the ferry terminal hanging all the salted fish at the ceiling in front of the shops! Amazing but I hope that those salted fish are not for sale and just for advertising purpose only.

This is the first time, I've seen salted fish being display this way! Unbelievable! This is one of the many reasons I have always enjoy travelling and sightseeing. You'll never know what you are going to see. The experience is irreplaceable! Well, I'm going to sleep now, more to blog soon!