MENTION Tanjung Sepat and beaches, glorious sunsets, wooden houses and, of course, fresh seafood come to mind! Therefore, it is not surprising there has been a steady rise of city folks traveling there to feast and frolic over the past decade. Tanjung Sepat is primarily a fishing village. Most of the inhabitants have some kind of connection to the fishing industry, although the relative importance of fishing to the economy is dwindling due to pollution in the Straits of Malacca. Many believed this is caused by the fact that the areas surrounding the town are known as the largest pig rearing area in the state. The non-controllable waste flowing to the sea produced not only stench but hardship for the fishing industry participants.
Tanjung Sepat is well known locally for its many seafood restaurants. The most famous dish is the seafood steamboat.
Indeed, fish and crustaceans are found in all dishes served at home and in restaurants – seafood porridge, seafood bak kut teh, seafood nasi lemak, seafood Maggi Mee and, most recently, seafood steamboat are available. Nobody goes hungry in Tanjung Sepat as the writer had discovered.
Visitors do not return home with merely stuffed bellies, but would take with them Tanjung Sepat delicacies such as fish balls, fried bean curd, locally grown and roasted coffee beans or powder, Chinese buns (pau), tapioca chips, longan fruit, bottled Lingzhi drinks and fresh mushrooms.
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