Sekinchan-我的故乡

Sekinchan-我的故乡

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ekinchan (适耕庄), in Chinese means the ‘village suitable for plantation’ is well known as one of the major rice suppliers in Malaysia. Sekinchan is my home town as the place I grow up. Sekinchan is the place not known by others before. When someone asked me where you come from, I said Selangor rather than Sekinchan because they do not know the Sekinchan when I study in Northen University Malaysian in Kedah. But, nowadays, it has become one of the famous tourism destination. It is always a famous paddy field and fishing village. The picture below show where the situation of Sekinchan.

Paddy Field

Sekinchan lives up to its name as the town is the rice bowl of Selangor. Large plots of land are cultivated to produce the staple rice supply of Malaysians. This area is well-known for its high yield of rice and mechanised farming methods.

Green Paddy Field at Sekinchan

Your drive through this road to have a close contact with the Paddy Field. My father has always drive our family strolling the paddy field from site C go to site B and may go further until end to Tanjong Karang. Haha, is a bit of exaggerate, but it's true. Most importantly,we had enjoyed  the beautiful view of paddy field along the little journey.In addition, my siblings sometimes will spend their time jogging in paddy field in the sunset. There is also others like to spend their leisure time hanging in paddy field.

The wooden bridge showed in the picture might see not stable and will collapsed in anytime. But this bridge had been appeared long ago. Well, some might not stable and can not afford for people stand on it, but still some capable for the motorcycle pass through. Thus, don't worry and enjoy your journey in Sekinchan!

Visit Paddy Processing Plant

There are also factories which allow visits. They will briefing regard paddy plantation process, type of rice, you can watch the video presentation regarding the paddy plantation process. You can also purchase the rice here which is not available in the market.

Eel Fishing in Sekinchan Paddy Field

 Eel fishing is a common activity among the locals in Sekinchan during the paddy harvesting season. There are many opportunities for the exciting activity of eel-fishing. When the paddy fields are being harvested, the water level is lowered. This is the best time to fish for eels as they will be trapped in their nests. The eels will be all hungry waiting for the water level to increase again.

This picture I get from the internet and honestly I don't know who this two guys are, haha. But one thing for sure, they are fishing the eel in paddy field at Sekinchan.

Don't misunderstanding! The picture above is the eel fish that you can fish in Sekinchan. Well, it appearance look like the snake. The eel fish is delicious and juicy and you must try it!

The picture showed above.... erm.. I don't know what is it but we usually called it sheng yu (生鱼) in Mandarin.It is holded by my brother. My father and brother, they are crazy for fishing. If have some free time, they will definitely go for fishing at the river near the paddy field. They often brought the fruitful result. Sometimes, there were too many of them, my father will give some to our neighbour or my brother will sell it to others to earn some money. My mother, who was responsible for cooking the different cuisine of sheng yu. Cuisine like porridge sheng yu, curry sheng yu, fried sheng yu and so on. My brother is a fish killer!! Haha, just kidding. He always make ready the "clean" fish for my mother to cook.

Bagan-fishing village

Bagan is the main fishing village in Sekinchan, this fishing village is located along the river and small seaport, south-west of the town. The economy of Bagan is dominated by fishing industry. This fishing village will become very quiet after all the fishing boat go to the ocean for their catching at the morning. The situation of this fishing village will change to very busy during the time of fishing boat back to seaport, you will see the fisherman busy with their work to unloading their catching and the workers in jetty are busy with categorize according types and sizes. That why we describe this fishing village as Calm and Busy Fishing Village.

Seafood in Sekinchan

Eating SEAFOOD  is the most important culture in Sekinchan. In the meal of my family, definately there are more than one meal are seafood. 

 Crab....mmm....yummy. This is  my father most favorite seafood. He will nonstop eating until we scolded him. This is for his own sake because eating too much will have high cholesterol. When we have dinner except my father, he always the last person eat dinner, my mother or sister will tell us eat more as you can as long as left just two for him, haha...sorry...dad...

 

Lala in Mandarin, favorite seafood for my family. tasty, juicy and spicy!!! Wow, I want more, more, more...

 

 

 

 

 

Delicious.....

 

There are many many more, I cannot list them all......Arggh.....they are so delicious and I cannot hold back my saliva!!

Welcome to Sekinchan.