The first of our Hidden Gems of Sabah is on the outskirts of Sandakan - a very simple place to eat in a water village a good 100m from the shore. It is a hawkers stall (simple restaurant). When BBooks was there the only item on the menu was mee (noodles) but.....mee with anything that was being landed by small fishing boats pulling in all the time with everything from flatfish to garoupa to snakefish to prawns to belligerent mantis shrimps. We watched one bucketful of prawns come in and were eating them a few minutes later. Seafood doesn't get any fresher than this! In a screened off section tuna or something similar were hung in silent serried ranks, drying in the wind.
To find the place ask to be dropped off at Sim Sim Bridge no. 8. There is a statue of a prawn as a landmark. There is no signpost but head off into the water village straight out to the seaward side, and ask if necessary.
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