Seafood at Pasar FIlipino - Day 1

Pasar Filipino with fresh seafood background

After taking brief rest and power nap, although we still didn't fully recover from jet lag tiredness, we didn't wasting our time to visit Kota Kinabalu night market or known as Pasar Filipino. The Pasar Filipino is located 0.5 mile from our hotel so we went there by walking. Pasar Filipino is divided to three sections. If you coming from South or from Le Meridien Hotel, 1st you'll meet the fruit and groceries market. Then you'll meet raw fish and meat selling section. After this two, it was the place that we were aiming before coming to Sabah. That was Seafood's selling section.

Fresh lobster! 

Ready-cooked seafood on sale

For seafood lover, this should be the place that you need to put on your list. There were many stalls selling fresh and ready-cooked seafood in Pasar Filipino. Cleanliness might not that excellent but this is normal environment at outdoor seafood grilled outlet. It is better to choose fresh seafood rather than ready-cooked one if you doubt about cleanliness. The price of the ready-cooked seafood and fresh seafood is not much different.  You need to bargain if you want the price cheaper and also you need to look every stall as their price are different. For example, the lobster's price at stall we chose was RM16/100g but other stalls were RM18 to RM20/100g. The price normally inclusive of cooking. You can choose grill or cook. If compare to seafood grill outlet in Peninsular Malaysia, the price was quite high so polish your bargaining skill before coming to Pasar Filipino :).

Our dinner. Grilled lobster, crab and fried squid (not pictured)

Since our kids not much eating seafood, we ordered a lobster, crab and some squid. Lobster itself costs us RM80 (500g @RM16/100g). Total amount we spent was RM115. Lobster and crab were grilled while the squid was fried. It was more than enough for me and my wife. The taste was very good especially the lobster. It tastes sweet and fresh! We were very satisfied for the food and also its fast service.

Happy moment. Seafood time!

We were so happy at this place. Meeting fellow Malaysian from different state. Had brief chat with them. Food also was nice. Till next time, if we have chance to revisit Sabah, we will come here again. After finish eating, we returned to our hotel also by walking. 2nd day will be more interesting as we plan for island hopping. See you in the next update. We'll share Pulau Manukan and Pulau Sapi experience with all of you! Stay with us.