| ng along Boat Quay the other day, I was amazed | | | | asking from a sample of the fruit before they |
| at the sheer size and collection of restaurants | | | | make a purchasing decision. Now if this is possible |
| that served live seafood. Now when I say they | | | | when it comes to just a matter of a few dollars, |
| served live seafood, I meant that diners can | | | | I think restaurants have it right when it comes to |
| literally see their dish walking along tanks, tied with | | | | a possible, even a few hundred dollars, as a table |
| raffia string as they squirm with each other inside | | | | of 5 – 10 people can have bills than run |
| those plexi glass prisons as the waiters proudly | | | | from 200 – 400 dollars. I think it is a great |
| show them in their ‘after’ states. | | | | idea, even when you have no clue to as what |
| This has been a phenomenon to hit the eating | | | | makes a good lobster or a good crab. I would |
| culture in the world today, especially Singapore as | | | | just choose the ones that look the healthiest and |
| more and more diners are flocking to these types | | | | the largest, with my Singaporean mentality in |
| of restaurants to eat their food. Call it what you | | | | mind. Others say it reaches out to the more |
| want. | | | | primal urges of eating, where we become the |
| Many people say that it is the complete dining | | | | hunter – but of course we do not do the |
| experience for the person who wants to be in | | | | actual killing. It is hunting from a distance, murder |
| control from start to finish. It is as good as going | | | | behind a veil to satisfy our hunger and primal urge. |
| out in a row boat, fishing the whole day, choosing | | | | Whatever the reason, it has become a dining |
| the best catch and getting a chef to cook it for | | | | experience within Singapore. In other parts of the |
| you. Just put a price on this process and you can | | | | world where fishing is a commodity like no other, |
| skip the first 8 hours waiting in a river for those | | | | one might be able to just go up to a live |
| excellent grouper fish to bite. Restaurants, | | | | restaurant on the pier, choose the catch and sit |
| especially live seafood restaurants have really | | | | down at the mouth of an impressive River. |
| reached and out grabbed the diner and told them | | | | Singapore has managed, with some clever |
| they yes!, they can have more choice over what | | | | conjuring, to offer the same sort of experience |
| they eat, especially when they want to eat and | | | | to tourists and to the locals in Singapore. Not only |
| pay for it. The same principle actually carried over | | | | limited to Boat Quay, there are plenty of |
| from buying fruit in the Singapore market. | | | | restaurants, seafood restaurants all over |
| I am sure you have seen it before, people at fruit | | | | Singapore that offer this sort of interesting and |
| stalls inspecting the fruit, smelling it and sometimes | | | | exotic live seafood experience. |