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The touristy Kukup Fishing village. |
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For a long time we had targeted to check out this favorite haunts of the Singaporeans. There was little change to this one street "Cowboy" town. Exception! - that the original restaurant and the immigration office were swamped by many buildings that came up beside them. |
| The crowded street had uncanny parking problems. These shanty town type buildings confirmed that this place was the same Kukup! |  |
Villages of houses [Mainly wooden] on stilt
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Here is a
good view of those restaurants built on stilts over the
sea.
For a change, the rear portion of a building was a better looking part! |
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Kukup was still a shanty town on stilt, the novelty from
this same attraction stayed on!
Those looking forward for a change, city dwellers were thrown back a couple of decades. Wooden houses, boardwalk and no cars! This township appeared more widespread than Pulau Ketam of Selangor. |
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We did not miss the fun of having breakfast inside this tiny township. Breakfast served, was "Hock Chiew" style curry rice with soya sauce duck meat. |
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this family carrying on a cottage industry.
Making fillet out of small fishes and drying up the fillets as salted fish meat. The toddlers at least one of them was assisting the mother to spread the fillets on the wire mesh for drying in the sun later on. |
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Fish Farming
Fish farming that started as a tourist attraction appeared to be a core business overtaking the restaurants.
| Sampans load of live fishes queued up at this special jetty for the products to be heaved up to the platform! |  |
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Fishes of
a few varieties each weighing above 2 kilograms are then
weighed.
They were then allowed into waiting tanks on a truck to be dispatched to the Singapore's market. Live fishes are intended for those restaurants who could serve their clients with really fresh farm produce at a prenium! |
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view of the farms! Front, right, of the picture.
Then further back as far as the eyes could make out. |
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Tourist Industry
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The
immigration department was started to cater for the large
number of Indonesian workers who shuttled through this
entry point.
Today, the situation had changed dramatically. Tour boats or ferry were transporting visitors to Singapore and Indonesia. The regular ferry service to Singapore at its heyday were having daily schedule. Now the slow down had reduced them to weekends service. |
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program, the flow of traffic was shifted to flow from
Malaysia to Tanjong Balai in the Rhio Archipelago.
This time table here indicates the traveling time and frequency. The cost incidentally was RM50 for two ways ticket. |
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To put
your mind at ease, these were not converted fishing
"tongkangs" but streamlined, air-conditioned,
sea going high speed transporters.
To get you there and then back to Malaysia on time. |
| Inhabitants or migrants did not miss out the potential tourist trade. Fishing enthusiast could hired "Mattress" for overnight stay at the "Kalong". This group could have a room in the shanty town for RM60 a night. Or Rgt. 60 per head for a package of board and lodging, with 3 meals at Kukup Seafood restaurants. |  |
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