Seafood yumm yumm....

Last night my kids and I had our special dinner at Bluebay Seafood Restaurant at Madinah Street. I called it a special dinner not because it's on my bday but for the savoury, tasty, delicious,luxurious seafood served there. We had fried prawns and grilled fish with sauce and also seafood soup with sky juice for JDxx or RMxxx(rahsia, nanti darling I tau I dengan anak-anak makan mewah heheh , dia pun malam tadi kata makan lobster....kira seri lah ) .

Seafood is considered a luxury since it's difficult to get and all seafood is imported mainly from Egypt and Yemen. Most Jordanians do not eat seafood other than fish..like crabs, shrimps, squids,lobster, clams, oysters since according to some of them it is makruh and some even say haram(not sure if there's any mazhab says it's haram !!). So most of them only eat beef, mutton and chicken as daily consumptions. Once I bought some crabs from safeway hypermarket and when it's time to pay, the cashier looked at me some kind of weird and asked me whether I eat that stuff, I nodded ....hey I bought it very expensive( 1kg Rm70 ) of course I eat it. Seafood here is very expensive. No fish is less than JD4 ( RM20) and during summer the price is tripled...very small fish could mark up to JD10 per kg...... Prawns normally cost JD20 - JD 30 per kg( RM100 - RM150), Squids/calamari is around JD7 per kg (RM35). Chicken costs less than 2JD per kg. Beef and mutton JD4-5 per kg.This week at safeway I was shocked to know that all fish no matter waht kind/size cost only Jd3 per kg. I asked why it's so cheap, thay said it's from Yemen. I bought quite a lot of fish since it's so cheap and when I got back I told my daughter sumayyah in korea about the cheap fish from yemen and we just wonder... was there any tsunami/flood in yemen that made the fish so cheap...couldn't figure it out........bila mahal mengeluh, bila murah risau pulak.....

The best place to enjoy seafood is in Aqabah which is 350km south of Amman....even there seafood is still expensive but you have a lot of choices.

Next time when we are back in Malaysia, for sure we'll say YES to all seafood and NO to chicken and meat.....sampai jemu......I miss that Phuket restaurant at tanjung lumpur, Kuantan...eeemmm.