Eating frogs and eels in Sabah

There is a popular seafood center in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah which serves a lot of live seafood. It's notable due to the way the live seafood offerings is presented - the customer is presented with a huge array of see-through aquariums that hosts a variety of (still alive) marine life from green lobsters to huge oysters and a lot of swimming fish in the middle. We decided to go for something a little unorthodox - frogs. It tickled me to no end to see large frogs jumping around a container for the benefit of the customer. I choose three large frogs to be cooked. Poor frogs. ;) The proprietor of the stall also recommended their eel. The eels were swimming around lazily in their aquarium and the eels are rather long, sinewy characters which looks rather like snakes with water as their habitat instead of land. I also chose an eel for our consumption. Poor eel. ;) There were also local oysters on display, which were flat, solid looking objects. I also choose a couple for our table but the ...

20:41:43 October 21, 2005, Friday (PDT) Source: sixthseal.com

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