Today is aceptional becuase it is RAYA holiday! Hence, i decided to do some update for this site before it grows cobwebs..Hahha...
Few weeks back, family and I decided to have seafood! And off we go to Alai. Alai is about 20mins drive away from Malacca town. This is 'THE' place for nice and cheap seafood. This place only open at night and it is by the river mouth that join the river to the sea, so you can actualy smell the sea before reaching the place.
As seen from the picture below, you basically hand pick what you want from the stall. Good isn't it? Freshness of the stuff are GUARANTEED! They have different choices of fishes like ikan pari, tenggiri, cencaru, siakapetc. There are also prawns - tiger prawns, normal prawns, you choose. Shell fish - mussle, kerang and bamboo look shell fish, squid and crab!
Once you have picked what you want, you just need to tell the boss how you would like them to be cooked. You can have them in bakar style, sweet sour style or black sauce style, as long as you can come out with any style you want, they will try to accomodate and do it the way you want :)
After try-and-error, we finally conclude that for fish and prawns it is better to have them in bakar style. Mainly becuase, they don't put in any additional flavouring, so you can actually taste the original taste of the sweet and juicy meat!
This is how the ikan bakar look like. NICE!
Okai, this is the highlight of the meal, ikan pari goreng-masak cili! If it is not for the sake of health, we could have wack more than 2 ikan pari! What the chef did was he deep fry the ikan pari and then pour the chili sauce that was prepared seperately on top of the fish. As you bite into it, you get the juicy meat and the crispy skin! PERFECT!
Okai, I must say, to get a nice squid meal is quite challenging. We have tasted black-sauce sqiud, sweet sour squid (pic below) and deep fried squid, but none of them taste very nice. The only thing we have not try is to bakar them! So, i'll let you know how it taste like once we have tried that, or you can drop a note here if you have tried it :)
Apart from seafood, they also serve plain nasi lemak and otak-otak. Both are equally NICE! After Muar's otak-otak, i think this is the next best one.
Price wise, i think no worries. How expensive can it be when you are in Malacca! Hahahahha..Let me see, there were 7 of us (4 men, 3 ladies) we have 2 ikan pari, 4 ikan tenggiry, 1 kg + of prawns, 10 squids, 10 packs of nasi lemak, close to 100 sticks of otak-otak and 1 jug of ice-lemon tea and it total up to about RM130 plus minus.
The best time to visit this place is between 6:30pm-7:30pm.... you will get all the BIG and FRESH ones. How to get there? Hm... i think the best is to have a Malaccan with you, cause the direction to this place is quite tricky at night, unless you know Malacca VERY (1000X) well... :)
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