Prawning in The City

A new fad has started on our little island of Singapore, prawning - the new wholesome family activity. Prawning ponds are now largely available throughout Singapore be it the east, west, north or south and located mostly within parks such as East Coast, Bottle Tree or Pasir Ris.

I used to hate prawning with a vengeance,
1) I didn't see the return on my investment of renting a rod (Zero catches),
2) I associated prawning with smelly, drain water-ish dirty looking ponds (URGH, how do you eat something from a place like that? Out of sight, Out of mind people, I don't want to know how my food is grown),
3) plus I hated crowds and kids running amok (It was like every family in a 5km radius with a under-5 child was there!).

This prawning pond located in Bishan changed my mind SLIGHTLY. It was relaxing, clean, well-lit, with numerous vendors providing food for hungry fishermen. After being defeated by the prawns during our first hour, the men upgraded their bait from the chicken liver given for free to purchasing some earthworms and we really started to see some action from that point onwards.

Plates and BBQ pits were readily available for all, there were people who brought along their own sausages to go with their prawns.

Fifteen prawns died honorably for us, but considering that we spent 3 hours, 2 fishing rods and S$60, it effectively worked out to S$4 a prawn which made them very expensive prawns in a remote part of Singapore.

The math portion of this experience still does not work out well for me, even to kill some 3 hours with a couple of friends, it was still a pretty expensive experience. I leave it you... ...

Hai Bin U Enterprise
Prawn Fishing in Bishan Singapore
603, Sin Ming Avenue
Singapore 575735
Tel/Fax: +65-6554-1986
Email: HaiBinUEnterprise@gmail.com