I still haven’t found what I’m looking for…

Actually I was having second thoughts about putting this up as the award-winning professional photographer cum blogger rubberseeds has had a post on it already (after spending 3 HOURS there!)…and my dismal snapshots would more than pale in comparison but what the heck! After all, mine is not a photo blog and we do not focus on the same things. All of you can click the link to have a look at his and you will see what I mean. LOL!!!

Well, I had been telling everybody that I would go and then write a post on it, so on Friday last week, I did just that. I think you all know already by now that I usually abstain from meat (…or at least, I try!) on Fridays, so I went hunting for fish at the Ramadhan Bazaar in Sibu…

It is located across the road from the Central Town Square…and you can see the towering Wisma Sanyan in the background. I went looking for some ikan bakar (grilled fish) and spotted these…

I bought the pais udang but it was a disappointment as they used sea shrimps/prawns. I was expecting luit – those shrimps that we used to catch in the streams when we were kids or at least the pinky finger-sized freshwater prawns (udang galah). Tastewise, it was ok…which was more than what I could say about the otak-otak ikan (left) and the botok ikan tenggiri (mackerel)…

The otak-otak did not taste like what I knew otak-otak to be…and the other one with the mackerel had too much daun serai (lemon grass leaves) so I did not quite enjoy it. There was this stall selling satay and stuff…

…but I did not get anything from there. Neither did I buy the roti jala at this stall…

It seemed that instead of giving you the curry gravy for you to dip the roti jala, they used it to wrap the filling (like popiah) which did not look very alluring – mostly potatoes, peas and carrots! And then I spotted this ikan bakar (grilled fish) stall…

Unfortunately there wasn’t any choice – just stingray (ikan parek) so I asked for one that cost RM10 which was much bigger than the one I had in Penang for RM12. But what I did not like was they buried the fish in sambal while grilling…

…so the flavour of the fish was virtually drowned by the strong taste of the spices and stuff…

…probably to disguise the fact that the fish was not that fresh, especially when compared with the one I had in Penang. So, it appears like I will have to go again one of these days considering that I was not at all satisfied, and I still haven’t found what I’m looking for…