Fishing Prawns

2 aimless people roaming around the beach of eastern part of Singapore, after some , practically waste of stomach space hawker food, sat on the stone bench and sigh. What to do, where to go, no shopping centers, not movies again. Suddenly this 1 & 1/2 human (+ baby) came up with a splendid idea, we should go fishing! Yeah sounds boring to many people, but I don't want to fish fishes, I want to fish prawns!

Isn't it cool to suggest a place to go and immediately people beside you comply? Jef even know the place that opens 24 hours prawn fishing farm. How not to love him dearly as he never reject my request. Therefore we drove from eastern part of Singapore all the way to old Choa Chu Kang road in search of the farm. It was a long drive and after 30 minutes (my little red riding honda not as fast as his sleeper black mah) we found the place.

Wah very kampong style le, this farm is located at a small hill top.

Photographs not very clear coz it was taken using my 2 mega pixel handphone. It was good for me then, anyway I wasn't in a dust of make up at all. Don't want to post my picture too big, if not will scare you!

Woooopiiii, this is the fishing pond for prawns! Let me tell you the charges, per hour is charged at $13 with 1 fishing rod and bait. If you get 2 hours, it will throw in additional one hour free. Therefore we got 2 fishing rods and 2 packets of prawn food, cockles and fish for 3 hours! Wah, I was thinking to myself, it was a kind of expense leisure for 2 person, costing us $52 altogether. Hopefully we could catch as many prawns as possible to make it worth while! hahaha


Jef did what a gentleman will do, he wanted me to stay out of all cutting and baiting, telling me to leave all this dirty job to him. Cracking up the cockles, cutting them into small pieces, hooked them up to lure the prawns!

As for me, I am in charge of putting the rod into the pond and wait for the prawns to hook. hehehe

Look! I caught the 1st one! And the second one, 3rd, 4th, 5th.... hahahaha I was lucky lucky!

Jef was really busy, non-stop unhooking the prawns, hooking the bait as I kept pulling out prawns from the pond! Wah that's what I called beginner's luck!

See, another one caught by *cough, ah hem* ME! Others had their envy look on their faces when Jef and I kept fishing out the prawns. The others had no better luck, wonder why....

One whole basket of prawns, I was delighted and Jef was tired. He got bitten by the prawns sharp claws so many times, pain pain... never mind I sayang you! Some passer-by saw us and asked Jef how much does one prawn cost, hahaha. What's more hilarious was Jef did a mental calculation and told them $2 each. 3hours, 2 rods, $52, caught 24 prawns, divided out.. yeah one cost about $2.. hahahahah!!

Some of the prawns were still alive when we put them in the kitchen sink at home. My maid was also very excited when she saw live prawns and started to think how to cook them.... hahaha

Look at this Huge prawn! I caught it, had a hard time pulling it out of the pond because it struggles vigorously. When I saw it's claws, I told Jef immediately to cut it away before unhooking it out from the fishing rod.

Our total catch, 24 prawns of different sizes. It's not easy ok, we saw other couples only managed to catch 2 prawns in an hour... Guess we almost fished out 1/2 of the prawns in the pond that day.

FUN! This was our first time catching prawns together and it was so refreshing. I couldn't stop smiling and giggling and kept telling Jef how happy I was, (behaving like a little child) but I still find it quite expensive... He told me that as long as he could see me smile, everything was worth it. I was so touched to hear him say something so sweet and I deem that to be super duper romantic. I will exchange an expensive romantic candle light dinner with a sentence like that from Jef anytime.