See-Food, Eat-Food

On the spur of the moment, Robin and I went to Lama Island today. It's just a short trip by ferry from Central to Lama and it is definitely worth the trip. However a word of advice would be to avoid the upper deck of the ferry. Up there the waves are much more pronounced and so you can get pretty sick. Stay in the lower level. It may not be so grand, but neither is feeling nauseas on the high seas.

Lama is essentially a fishing village on an island where tourists commonly go to hike, see the sights, and then splurge on exotic live seafood. It's the best of both sight ans taste.


Check it out. This old time house was apparently built in 1956 and people are still living in it. In fact they sell cold drinks to tourists while this old ah pek was snoozing in his deck chair outside.

The cave that you see was apparently supposed to be used by the Japanese to conceal boats during the war. But however the cave never was used.

After our jaunt around the beach, we made or way back to the restaurant strip to look for our meal.

After walking the strip we decided on a restaurant that overlooked the ocean and seemed to be the largest and cleanest. Best of all it's washroom was 4 star! So it was a definite thumbs up!

We sat ourselves down and browsed the menue. The good thing was that there were so many great dishes to try. The bad thing was that we could only order four dishes since we didn't think we could eat more than that. So we got some beer (in this part of the world, beer comes in liter bottles. I love this place!) and ordered lai niu prawns, clams, squid, and scallops in tofu. I should tell you that it was delicious and everything was achingly fresh. It made me smile to think that we literally travelled around the world to eat this meal at this place, far from the world we were used to. It was magnificent.

I can't wait to go back again. Next time I'd like to stay for the evening and sample some of the other beauties there. The adventure continues...