We all heard about how healthy it is wiht living food, but the questions is: how much living???

Hungry and nearly starving, thirsty and warm, we found a sign that says ” Seafood restaurant” in Kota Kinabalu, Borneo.
We wented in, at first a huge hall filled up with bubbeling aquariums and basins, filled with ratteling seashells,enormous langusters, a small shark, all kind of shellfishes and of course fishes in all kind of colours and shape.
-Fine, this will be very fresh and newcooked food here was the first thought.
Then in to a large and almost empty dinningroom and in a second we had a table and a menu in our hands.
There was only one problem, the menu was in chinese, so it wasnt easy to decide what to eat.
Well, we decided to have ”Steamboat”, the only english word on that list…

Our quick waiter were running like an yo-yo between our small table and the kitchen, he started to place a gasolinstove, all kind of instruments and plates.
We didnt have a clue at first, but after a while a big pot with boiling boullion were placed at the table, and we understood that it going to be FONDUE. Nice…

That fact was just a part of it, cause the next thing coming in was a big plate with all kind of raw products like fish, shellfishes, chicken, egg, meat and noodles, very beautyful arranged.

It was just one problem, a big problem…
On the top of the plate were 4 shrimps; ABSOLUTELY ALIVE!!!
They were sitting there and waving with the tentacles to us.

HELP! Was the first reaction, then we started to laugh, what to do with four living shrimps…
Ok, the most human thing to do was to make the pain short so they wented directly in to the boiling water, followed by curious fishballs, which swalled up to three time double size.
We also put in something white and slimy, it might could had been seacucombers.

We did had company at the table, the waiter with friends were standing there all the time, watching us with big eyes and whispering to each other.
They proberly never had seen such a strange foreigners sitting and fishing in a bowl.