Kenting Seafood Restaurant

By grace.g.yang · April 8, 2015
Under: Asian,Chinese,Dinner,My Life,seafood,Taiwan,Travels

While I don’t have the translation for the restaurant we went to in Kenting, I do have the website, which you can view (in Chinese) here. My cousin drives to Kenting once in a while because he loves fresh seafood and brought us to one of his favorites. The restaurants are all closed during the day because the fisherman are actually fishing for the day’s catch.

The seafood is dropped off in the front of the restaurant and placed in tanks for people to select:

There were so many different types of fish I’d never seen before, like these cousins of the lobster:

And this colorful fish tail:

You can select all types of fish (and different cuts of the fish from the head to the tail) from their cooler:

My cousin selected the fish with my mom and then we sat down and started eating almost immediately. We started with the chewy fish skin, a cold dish that was mixed with carrots, cucumbers, and a peanut sauce:

Next, fried shrimp balls with white pepper and salt:

And then sauteed shishito peppers with anchovies:

Next, a favorite of the night: clams with basil, red peppers and garlic:

This wasn’t a favorite but it had a very interesting texture – fried fish eggs with Asian mayo (kewpie):

Cabbage sauteed with goji berries:

Chinese water spinach:

Really delicious and spicy fried chicken:

Bacon with white pepper:

Conch:

Three lobsters in miso soup with tofu:

Our table (with this really good grass jelly tea in the background that I didn’t see in Taipei when we returned):

Four fish steamed with green onion and ginger:

And me and Ken with my mom, my cousin and his wife, my aunt and uncle, and my cousin’s friends:

The seafood was all so fresh and prepared really well. All of the women that worked there loved my cousin because he picked all of the lobsters and was very specific on the preparation, too. He definitely knows the seafood restaurants in the area. This restaurant was packed when we arrived and packed when we left, so it’s worth a visit if you’re in Kenting (or a drive if you’re in the Kaohsiung area).