大胖活海產 — Restaurant in New Taipei

This is the only seafood restaurant along the fisherman wharf, we were searching for dinner and the lady convinced us to give this restaurant a try. She recommended prawn, clam and a fish for the two of us. We added a vege and two plain rice. Being tired and hungry, we didn’t really take note on how the sum added up but trusted her on the calculation entirely. The total for the meal is 1590. Anyway it’s not very expensive for fresh seafood compare to where I am from but I think it’s consider pricy for local people. Anyway the prawn is fresh and sweet! The clams taste nice, it tastes a bit like little oysters. The fish is of course the best dish of all. Very fresh, soft and little chewy. Not many bone and perfect for the two of us. They added fried prawn to the stir fry vege, I like it very much. Overall, the food is perfect. I wish they can give me a receipt so that I could validate some of the other Google comments with regards on...

A very nice place, good seafood, you can pick your fish (or crabs or shrimp or mussels), and the staff will suggest different ways of preparing it. Very fresh! In addition, they have veggie, some meat, fried rice (also excellent) or fried noodle. What I liked most of the restaurant though were the people working there, extremely friendly, helpful and pleasant. Even though their English is not perfect they were chatting with us. Plus we got free Chinese lessons from one of the ladies working there! When going there for a second time we were almost like old friends of the place already. Highly recommended...

Fresh, local seafood. Decent price for the quality and freshness. The staff make helpful suggestions about the quantity you’ll need, what you can do with the ingredients (e.g., using a fish for both soup and a steamed dish), and how to stay within your budget.

I think ordering would be difficult without some Chinese skills, since there’s no menu. What you see on the paper might not be what’s actually available.

If you haven’t been somewhere like this before, know that you can discard the shells on the table itself (it’s covered in plastic), and that you grab drinks yourself...