Skyelark has developed the ultimate cruising experience! Grazing the Seven Seas. We suspect this is what Dan has been doing since Em and he set out on this adventure, and we have happily joined in through Indonesia, Singapore and Malaysia! Starting out in Kupang where you honestly would prefer the street food to any restaurant, we had soup turning us into fire spitting dragons for a short while and grilled corn cobs from a little, elderly ladys tiny little barbeque. But the little old ladies were lined up all over the harbour so all in all they provided the people with plenty. Whilst babysitting their toddler grandchildren. Getting more and more British, I should probably mention that HSE leaves room for improvement, but here all somehow falls into place and the toddlers didnt fall into the barbeques. In Bali the locals recommended a quayside warung which showed to be working on their western menu - or actually their menu in general - which left us with few, but tasty options, including a whole crab in very spicy curry, which in Bali translates into soup . Going back there for a bite with our newcomers, Edward and Francis, the night before departure from Bali, Francis and Dan managed to negotiate lighting up the barbeque for two snappers. The lady who obviously did the numbers for this place was in that night. Our current theory is that they were doing counts on which items to include in their final menu and that the one we saw was merely a suggestion for future business. Fair enough. So well fed we left Bali with a new word in our vocabulary>>>>warung. Georgetown, Penang, Malaysia - an unexplored gem of a city - apparently has won several food prizes in Asia, so of course this was on our itinerary(!) Trusting the food writer that Lonely Planet talked to, some of us ended up in a street, steaming with food-stalls and people. A good choice. Spotted a table and got spotted by the toothless waitress - who of course showed to be all but toothless! In her own very direct way she commented on all our suggestions for a menu and added that one of her advantages was that she understood our language. (Take that as a hint. I will know what you are talking about....). The pointy little mussels that Dan picked out were the hardest to eat.... For the untrained eye it could seem that Dan is the food-wise adventurous one of our two skippers>Do they really mean sea cucumber? and Oh! The fried oysters is actually an omelette! The markets - more questions, How do you eat these little, dried, big-eyed fish? The wrinkled cucumber? Prefer the Chinese markets in Singapore where the livestock section had three big, live frogs for 2£ and live, pet-size turtles for a bit more, not to mention the next stall where they had fresh crocodile meat - but no staff.....makes you wonder..... Again, all was fresh and very much local produce and you would happily eat the giant tuna on the floor, whereas I very much agree with Stephens comment that you would think twice about eating the vacuum-packed, imported European bacon in the far corner of the market.... As for the dining in on Skyelark this is excellent too (and when you are on galley-duty you get 12 hours off in the watch rota!) Actually, Skyelark is a floating food-storage
Posted on: Tue, 18 Nov 2014 07:24:47 +0000
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