海之味 — Restaurant in Tainan

Ok so when you step into the restaurant, there's a pungent fishy odour. We were lucky to have the private room, once the door was closed it's safe. The thing is, there's no menu in this restaurant, we trusted the chef and he didn't disappoint us. The seafood was the freshest I'd have in my life, and they weren't too salty or overly seasoned. I later learnt that the prawns were cooked alive...... (- 1 🌟) This place serves shark's fin.... (- 1 🌟) I can't under rate it because the food was really extremely good. Freshly shucked oyster was one of the best I'd had. Seafood porridge was also great. Crab seemed to be water cooked and it carried the flavor of the ocean with a slight sweetness. I wished they didn't serve shark's fin or have the tradition of cooking the...

The food here is good and fresh, that's true. But, they don't have a menu. They think they are great because everything was caught that morning. I always see others with beautiful dishes and wonder how they ordered them. "What do you want?" "What do you have?" "Well, what do you want?" "What is available?" "Do you want rice or noodles?" "I WANT SEAFOOD GOD DAMMIT!" They actually took me into their kitchen to see the available items and discuss how I wanted them cooked. The food turned out to be excellent. Can't you take pictures of the catch and put them on a big screen or even print them and put them on a whiteboard with subtitles about how they could be cooked? What...

No menu to reference. The wait staff will read recommendations for you to choose from. For tourists like me, it's an audio choose your own food adventure. You need to understand the accent and what they are trying to sell when ordering food. And it felt as though asking for clearer explanations will be frowned upon.

To be fair, the food is pretty good and enjoyable. Not exactly cheap though. 3 of us chomped down simple fares that cost close to NT$2k.

Won't go back and not because the location is really quite a hike from the town centre.

Best dish for me was the fried noodles and it's not even seafood...