好友聚：安曼岛吃海鲜 Seafood at Pulau Aman

The Floating Restaurant at Pulau Aman

以海鲜闻名的安曼岛（又称和平岛）是一座位于峇都加湾附近海域的小岛。岛上居民都是马来一族，是个马来小社区。上周六，我和几位好友一同来到安曼岛品尝海鲜。我们越过槟城二桥来到了峇都加湾，再行驶差不多十分钟就来到Batu Musang码头。我们把车停泊在码头附近（须付RM2停泊费），过后再乘搭快艇前往安曼岛。

Pulau Aman, which is famously knows as the "Island of Peace" is famous with it's seafood. It is a small Island in Penang near to Batu Kawan and it is a home to a traditional Malay Village. During last weekend, me and my friends have came here to try out their seafood. We passed through the Penang Second Link and reached Batu Kawan. From there, we drove for about 10 minutes and soon we reached Batu Musang Jetty Complex. We parked our car near the jetty (required RM2 parking fee) and then we took the speedboat to Pulau Aman.

当天是周末，我们在码头一带没看见半个人影，所有的小贩挡口都是关着的。后来看见布告板上写着周末没有快艇服务，有点小失望，想着是白来一趟了。然而我们还是走到了码头，在码头那里看见了快艇和船夫，最后我们还是成功搭上了快艇。。哈哈。。

It was a Saturday and we didn't saw any people around the jetty. All the hawker stalls were closed. Then we saw the speedboat schedule on the notice board and it was rather disappointing. It was written that there was no speedboat service during weekend. Even so, we still walked until the jetty and we saw a speedboat and some people at there. At last, we managed to get on the boat and make our way to Pulau Aman.

我们六人乘搭那艘比较小辆的快艇。

Six of us were riding on the smaller speedboat.

快艇每隔两小时就有一辆，从安曼岛是早上八点开始服务（傍晚六点最后一趟），而从Batu Musang是早上九点开始服务（傍晚七点最后一趟）。当时我们到的时候是中午十二点二十分，所以我觉得只要在码头看见有快艇的话就能上船了。成人来回船费是RM6，小孩是RM4。单程船费是RM4。

The speedboat service is available once every two hours. The service starts from 8 AM and ends at 6 PM from Pulau Aman. From Batu Musang, the service starts from 9 AM and ends at 7 PM. However, I think that the time can be flexible as long as there are speedboat available at the jetty. The fees for the adults (two ways) is RM6 and RM4 for children. One way service fee is RM4 as well.

欢迎来到安曼岛！

Welcome to Pulau Aman!

这班朋友都是大学时期在社服（社区工作坊）认识的。论辈分，我可是最老的那个！

These are the friends I met in She Fu (community service club) during my university study. Among all, I am the only one that have been graduated.

还没来安曼岛之前我一直以为安曼岛是个旅游区，会有很多旅客前来参观的。抵达后才发现原来岛上是个马来乡村，是个小社区。路牌后面是一间学校，基本的社区设施都能在岛上看见。

Before this, I have always thought that Pulau Aman was a tourism place, so there will be a lot of tourists visiting it. When I arrived, I realised that it was actually a Malay Village and it was a small community. Behind this directions board is a school and the basic community facilities can be seen on the island.

岛上的住宅区算是还蛮传统的，偶尔可以看见高脚屋。

The houses on the island is quite traditional. I have seen some traditional Malay style houses.

前往海鲜餐厅的路途上看见一户马来人家在制作Kuih Kapit。我问了这位马来同胞在岛上是否只有一间海鲜餐厅？她说不是，还有其他的，只是现在是斋月所以都没做生意。

On the way to the floating restaurant, I saw this Malay family making Kuaih Kapit. I asked them whether or not the floating restaurant is the only restaurant on the island? She said no, there are others on the island but due to the Ramadan month, they didn't opened for business.

这间就是安曼岛著名的海鲜餐厅啦。餐厅营业时间是从早上十点至傍晚六点。

This is the famous floating restaurant on the island. The business hour of this restaurant is from 10 AM to 6 PM.

餐厅里只提供海鲜面类，海鲜饭类，海鲜粉类以及饮料。如果要单点海鲜的话必须到入口处的海鲜处购买海鲜，过后再交由餐厅烹饪。虽说这是个马来餐厅，不过很多顾客都是华人哦！

The floating restaurant only offers seafood noodles, seafood rices, seafood koay teow and bihun and drinks. If you wish to just have the seafood only, you must buy the seafood at the entrance place first and then the restaurant will cook the seafood for you. Though this is a Malay restaurant, yet most of the customers are Chinese!

这里的海鲜是不让顾客挑选的，而且也不能杀价。老板的语气也不是很好，硬要我们购买一公斤。应该是就只有他们那么一档，所以比较骄傲吧。最后，我们还是购买了一公斤的虾，RM50。

The seller don't let the us pick the prawns we want and no discount was allowed. The seller spoke in a bad manner and insisted us to buy 1 KG of prawns. At last, we bought 1 KG of prawns which costed us RM50.

除了一公斤的虾，我们还点了一盘虾面烫和虾炒饭。

Besides the 1 KG prawns, we have ordered one plate of prawn noodle and prawn fried rice.

这些虾有些大只有些小只，最大的差不多是一个人脸那么大。无论如何，面对这些虾，我就只有看得份，没得吃！唉，谁叫我对海鲜过敏啊~

Some of the prawns were big and some were small. The largest one was about the size of a human face. Anyway, all I can do was to look at these prawns but cannot eat! I am allergic to seafood!

虾面汤 Prawn Noodle - RM6 (普通 Normal) , RM10 (加料 Special)

没得吃大虾，所以只好吃面了。这是我第一次吃虾面，吃第一口时我就爱上它了！我不晓得其它地方的虾面是否味道也一样，不过这里的绝对是很好吃！甜中带酸，很合我口味，吃完了真的很想要再来一碗啊！

Well, I was left with the noodles and fried rice to eat. This was my first time eating prawn noodle and you know what? I instantly fall in love with it! I was not sure how the prawn noddle at the other places taste like, but for this one, it was definitely delicious! It was sweet with a little bit sour, really suit my taste.

虾炒饭 Prawn Fried Rice - RM6 (普通 Normal) , RM10 (加料 Special)

至于这个炒饭就完全和虾面汤相反了，淡而无味，不好吃。

As for this prawn fried rice, it was totally different from the prawn noddle. The taste was dull and not delicious at all!

吃完海鲜我们就离开安曼岛了。在岛上除了吃海鲜其实还有其他活动可以做的，例如爬山，骑单车，钓鱼，露营等等与大自然接触的活动。岛上也有民宿，至于价格我就不清楚了。

We left the island after having our meal. Other than eating seafood, there are other activities can be carried out on the island. For example, hiking, cycling, fishing, camping and so on. All these activities will bring you close to the nature. There are home-stay available on the island but I am not sure about the rate.