Mukah I : Fishies at the fish market

I like hanging out at the markets, fish markets in particular. The more remote you are, the more interesting the markets are. So are the people who goes there. Definitely a different crop than those that frequents your more modern town supermarkets ie. Parkson and the likes.


The fish market, note the terendak.


Setting out the fish for sale. When the boats don't come back with fresher fish, these stalls will put out surplus from previous day's catch for sale at reasonable price.


Our super fish-monger displaying the day's lobster catch. They all went within 3 minutes.


Fresh catch from the morning.


Fish being gutted and cleaned up for a buyer.


Frozen mackerel to make up for the lack of them in today's catch.


A ray that has just been brought up and still waiting for a buyer.


A black-tip baby shark for sale. According to the guy selling it, this makes for very nice "umai", fresh fish salad made fish slices, vinegar, onions and lime; a typical Melanau dish in these parts.


A stash of coral came up and went within 2 minutes for $15 for a bundle of them, I didn't even get a chance to pictures of it. Apparently this is a bycatch that is very much sought after by those who keeps saltwater aquariums.


"Toshiba" fish! Took me all of 15 seconds to comprehend what the old guy said when I asked him for the name of these beautiful reef fish.