Also riding on the #SadLoveStory train and thought of some fishing ones. Can you think of any? *Any characters or text here are fictional. It's a light hearted thing and not intended to be offensive.

Nicely decorated restaurants with hype and lots of influencer/blogger reviews don't always mean that food is good. I learned that the hard way at Orchid Live Seafood . So I wasn't going to take any risks with my birthday lunch from the wife and humbly requested that we try Holy Crab at their new Capitol Singapore location. I've had their crabs for delivery during the circuit breaker period and they were good so I was pretty excited at the thought of trying it "LIVE"! We tried a couple of dishes during our time here and we made it a point not to try those we had before. Reviews below: Live Crab We really loved the Green Mumba Crab and Sauna Crab in our last order but we went for something new this time. We tried "Otak" and "Orgasmic". Otak was basically coconut milk, sambal and Orgasmic was salted egg. Crab was 2.5kg (or 2.2kg IIRC) and we thought it was really nice they could cook it two styles without any extra charges. This way we can try mor...

When your wife really loves you, they bring you fishing and this is exactly what my wife did during my birthday. We booked the entire Fish Stalker fishing charter for ourselves! There's plenty of misconceptions about Fish Stalker and the way they fish. Most folks think they do mostly drifting because they have no spot but this is quite the opposite because you have to know your spots well in order to drift them. If it was so easy just drifting and getting good CRs, we will all have our own boats. The fun thing about Fish Stalker is that your bait is almost always down since the boat drifts for long hours. To cover a large area, anglers often use tenya, madai or jigs. Anything that can "layang" and search bottom works well as the area doesn't have much snags except when near wrecks or drop offs. There can be quite a few monster fish too and I burst one such monster fish on size 20 fluoro carbon bite leader, double 4/0 hooks! The setup used was a Zenaq PE4 and Ocea Jigg...

The best bones to use for making fish broth is the red grouper bones! In fact, I don't even fry the bones. They go straight into the pot for boiling. Given the simplicity in preparing a solid fish soup, sometimes I really don't understand why would folks queue and pay top dollar for fish soup. I've been experimenting with different styles of fish soup now and I can share with you that tweaking it to your own preference and taste is important. Below is a simple recipe to get started. The reason why we usually season the batang fish in fish soup is that the texture is usually not firm enough and sometimes if not fresh might contain a "fishy" smell. My seasoning it, we can improve the texture and taste. Many of you will recognise this as "starchy" texture sort of like the texture you get in heavily seasoned prawns in siew mai. Steps to create fish broth Get about 500g of batang fish bones. Prepare a few pieces of ginger slices. Pan fry the fish bones in 1 t...

Let's face it. Farmed Mangrove Jacks are going to be a regular occurrence because of religious fish release groups in Singapore. In fact, it is now one of the most common fish caught at Changi waters and the reason is that it is probably one of the cheaper fish to release. Such activities won't disappear overnight and is also starting to occur at the Southern Islands side. Some of the fishing boats have already caught farmed fish there. So what can we do as anglers? I don't think we are able to structurally change culture that fast but one thing we can do is the cull these species as they are able to spread bad genes and diseases to our wild fish. In time, they may also possibly alter behaviours of wild fish. Rather than choose to lament, let's find ways to enjoy our fishing hobby in Singapore. Hence, below I present to you an easy baked garlic and herb mangrove jack recipe. You can also use it for golden snapper, red snapper and barramundi or rather all fishes even! I ...