CNY Day 1 early morning had never been so fun!
Went prawning at 12am on V-day/CNY Day 1!
Was supposed to go with the cousins too but their mum don’t allow them too.
My other uncle was saying it’s cruel, will have karma etc. ZOMG
la.
Tell that to a fisherman.
To think he risks his life by venturing out to the deadly open seas daily so that you might have your prawn dish on your dinner table and you say
“woah, you’d get karma leh..” He’d slap you upsidedown.
(What is o, that’s his livelihood, different? It boils down to the same subject - taking of animal/crustaceans’ life! Get a life.)
What’s so cruel about prawning?
Aren’t they themselves abettors for such cruel acts since they consume prawns?
Under law, abettors are equally guilty even though they didn’t personally act on it. TMD.
Sheesh. O, vegetarians (some, there are different categories) don’t get off the hook too. They consume food such as veggies which they deemed as
‘low life’. What exactly is the definition of
‘low life’? I see cockroaches/locusts as ‘low life’ too, why then why didn’t they eat them too?
Bleargh. That’s just my point of view.
Just said I don't believe in karma to my uncle and I don’t wish to argue and be late for prawning (by the way, we’re already late in meeting our 小姑, Esther, there).
So toodle doos to the '
high life' people and we’re off to
Geylang Prawn Fishing at former Singapore Badminton Hall!
It’s my maiden visit there, but not for the rest!
(My family once queued here many years ago for National Day Parade tickets too!)
Got a rod for myself at $25 for 2 hours.
I have to add we had a good deal as we had another 2 hours thrown in free cause they didn’t bother to check our rods that night!
小姑仗(Stephen),
the master prawner, who taught us the art of prawing.
Hurhurhur.
Our prawns! Caught 34 in total.
34/4 = 8.5 prawns per hour.
8.5/4 rods = 2 prawns per person per hour!
No
laaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.. BO KO LENG.
Huan Zhi and I caught more than that. It’s because 小姑 held on to a lousy rod for almost 3 hours and caught nothing before she decided ask for a change of rod. -.-
Rod no.36.
Don’t ever use it if you happen to go to Geylang Prawning! It's been condemned.
Pulling out the pincers of the
Big-headed Prawn, 大头虾 and skewing them alive!
Went to bbq our prawns.
Mannnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn… they were the most
delicious and freshest BBQed prawns I’ve ever eaten thus far.
Lightly salted.. Ooooo.
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Went back on 20th Feb, CNY Day 6 again!
This time with Huan Zhi’s brother, Huan Yu and their mom.
But 9/10th of the time, their mom was sleeping.
The other 1/10th was to stop Huan Zhi from crushing the pincers of the prawns to induce pain detachment of pincers by itself. Each time she’d snatch the rod and try to free the prawn herself,
“O-mi-ta-hoot! (a taoist chant in hokkien )Cannot do that!”.
LOL. The rest found it a comical sight.
Also caught a worker ‘scuba diving’ in the ponds to clear out the dead prawns.
O yes, there are 2 crab ponds too.
It was said that the same technique used for prawning can be applied to catch crabs too, but sadly we’d zilch.
I didn’t bother to try catching after spending half an hour on with not even a bite on the first visit.
At least, Huan Yu said he felt the crabs bit the bait TWICE. Woah, imagine the excitement.
These crabs were some other patrons'. Boo hoo.
Will try again next time!
FYI:
Geylang Prawn Fishing Restaurant at 100 Guillemard Road
Rates
$15 - 1 hr
$25 - 2 hrs
$30 - 3 hrs
VIP:
$130 - 15hrs
with max 2 rods used. (which was what 小姑 bought)
