Smaller towns abundant in fresh seafood harvest


ACROSS the street from Perak’s Sitiawan wet market is a coffeeshop serving boiled golf ball-size cockles at night.

Across the street from Penang’s Menara Boustead in Jalan Sultan Ahmad Shah is a lane that leads to the huts of flower crab fishermen.

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