Day 6 - Kota Bharu
Saturday, August 1, 2009
Hey everybody,
Really sorry that we didn't post anything yesterday.. Most of the time we were on the road, crossing over from Perlis to Kelantan and by the time we reached Kota Bharu, it was already 10pm. 7 hours on the road going up the Banjaran Titiwangsa and down, is insane! But we made it! and it's all good.
So we woke up this morning fresh and walked around town and stumbled upon one big open market. As we were just looking around, we saw the turtle eggs, proudly being displayed on top of other vege at the stalls.
From my own experience, I've seen before the sales of turtle eggs when I travel down to the islands in Terengganu but this time around I feel its a bit wrong that they're selling it openly. We were thinking of getting some video interviews, but knowing the sellers, probably they would just throw some kain batik at us or something.. heh. you never know. Anyways, what we found out is that most of the eggs are being sold at RM 10 for 3 eggs. I spoke to one of the sellers and the info that I got from them is that how the sellers receive their stock is from Sabah, where the eggs are usually being transported by air or by illegal sea transportation.
After a while, we were already getting some attention where people start looking at us, so we decided to leave and head on to look for restaurants serving the turtle eggs. Yeap, we found them and found out they're selling it at RM 4 per egg. Usually, the eggs are served with steamed rice and known to be a delicacy among the locals.
There are some who mentioned that its actually illegal to sell the turtle eggs openly, and I did post a question to the sellers whether if they were being stopped by the law enforcement officers to sell it openly.. the answer is NO.
Its really time for us to do something about this. They are even aware that the turtle eggs are not easy to get. Tsk Tsk.
Ok. we have to go now.. our boat to Perhentian is waiting.. Updates coming up soon!
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