We went to the market for the first time. The market is huge with several areas such as vegetables, fish market, meat market and a few others areas.
We went there with kak Maya and her daugther. Faiq do not want to follow as it is 7.30am in the morning and he wanted to play xbox with his friend, Qashi - kak Maya's youngest son.
The market is situated near a Saudi Army based camp and it took us estimated 7 mins to reach there from our house by car. The road where the market is situated is King Faisal East Road.
I bought some fresh prawns, squids and fish on this very first market trip. Listed below are the details of what we get for our fridge.
(i) 1 kg fresh water Prawn @ 45 Riyal per kilo - the prawns are fresh and of the size of typical "udang harimau" in Malaysia.. yumsss
(ii) 1 kg Squid @ 25 Riyal per kilo
(iii) Fish = we bought 2kg ikan "selar" ( will update the name later) @ 10 Riyal per kg; 1 kg Ikan "Kerisi" @ 12 Riyal per kg and 1 whole Baracuda fish (according to kak Maya, the Baracuda is nice being cooked in Curry brooth, which I did cook and hubby loves it - will update the recipe in another post ok peeps !!).
Total cost for all the fresh Seafood is 130 Riyal. Which is reasonable for such fresh seafoods. I am happy with the trip. Yeay!
** Note : What triggerd the trip to the market? It is simply because a few days before this date, I followed kak Maya to mini Panda which is 5 mins walk from our house and bought myself 1 packet of frozen shrimp. I wanted to cook something seafoodish as we have been eating eggs, meat and chicken only since our 1st day we arrived in Saudi which was 2 weeks back.
MashaAllah, the price is 29 Riyal for a small-medium sized packet. The shrimp is stale, not fresh, frozen with lots of ice coating each shrimp - which initially gave me an impression of a big sized- shrimp. After being thawed, the size is very very small. Yes, the shrimp has been cooked and has been de-shelled - but why soo small mehh??!! So that is why my husbund and I decided to buy seafoods straight from the market from then on. Am not complaining - only stating out my unmet expectation.
Ok here are some pictures to savour about my 1st market experience in Saudi. Enjoy!
Baby is still sleeping when we brought her to the market - hence the milk bottle picture is there.
The Army base camp nearby the market
They even have a Fish auction area. By the time we get there all fish were sold out - khalas.
Medium sized squid which is like 50 times the normal size of squid that I normally eat in Malaysia. I only bought the small ones as am too afraid to eat the big ones. gagagaga
Kak Maya brought us straight the shop that Malaysian normally buy fish . Why? because they understand some Malay and can converse in English well. Shop number #68. and #64 ( which we did not went on that day)
The long fish is Baracuda Fish. I bought 1 whole fish and cooked Fish Curry. Yummsss. My hubby loves the curry. Yeay!
My 1kg squid being prepared by the fish monger.
Bought 1 kg of 'Ikan Kerisi as well and cooked "Ikan belah belakang dish" with this fish.
There are a few Philipino/asian restaurant available around the market area for those who wanted to eat freshly cooked seafood. Mainly male are seen eating.
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