[Singapore] Farmart – Buying Live Prawns and Fresh Seafood at Grand Atlantic Fishery
Assortment of fresh seafood sold at Grand Fishery @ Farmart Singapore
My happy loot! Live prawns (still alive when I reached home)
It’s certainly a cook’s dream come true to cook with the freshest ingredients on hand. And when it comes to fresh seafood, nothing beats purchasing them while they were still alive :p For my foodbuzz 24 writeup, I needed live prawns to prepare one of my fb24 meals, drunken prawns, and I was really happy to find them at Grand Atlantic Fishery, a seafood stall located at Farmart.
Drunken Prawns – Made with live prawns (recipe here)
At the seafood stall with tanks of fresh seafood
Grand Atlantic Fishery sells a wide variety of seafood – including lobster, crabs and clams, in addition to prawns. Not all the seafood are alive, though it seems to me that they always have live prawns for sale.
Uncle weighing the prawns I ordered
You can request that they place the prawns in a special bag with oxygen pumped into the bag, so that the prawns will still be alive when you reach home, at no additional cost. Otherwise, I think they would just place the prawns in a normal plastic bag for you. If you want them to stay alive when you reach home, go home as soon as you can after purchasing the prawns, as the oxygen in the bag can only last for a few hours. You also need to trim the prawns feelers before you prepare/serve the dish.
Uncle at work
I was lucky one time and managed to get the live prawns at an offer price of S$12/kg. I purchased half a kg and only paid S$6 for the entire bag of prawns you see in the photo below (we counted and there were 29 prawns inside … what a steal!). When there are no promos, the usual price is around S$20/kg, but you get much bigger prawns than the S$12/kg lot. Still quite reasonable as compared to the prices at supermarkets, especially when they are so fresh.
Bag of prawns with live prawns at home
P.S. This is NOT a paid review, everything written here is my personal opinion.
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Place: Grand Atlantic Fishery Pte Ltd
Opening Hours: 8 am – 4pm (Closed on Thursday)
Location: Farmart Centre (67 Sungei Tengah Rd Unit 30 , Singapore 699008)
Phone: ‎+65 67649035
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Great read as usual! I recall how we got our fresh seafood growing up. An old man on his bicycle would ride by the village with seafood in his big basket and the stink that came out of it thinking back now, just made me realise that his catch wasnt as fresh as he claimed them to be but at that time that was supposed to be the best. Rustic alright!
I can smell it from here. Fishy fishy hehehe… but his catch is still fresher than the dead seafood at the supermarkets, right? :lol:
NC, you’re a tease.
We get a lot of fresh water fish around here. And while prawns, lobster, crab, etc. are available, they’re always frozen. So it makes me sad, and a little jealous. But your recipe for the drunken prawns is bound to cheer me up. Hint, jab, hint.
heheh … I shall tease you not much longer. Drunken prawns recipe will be the next post :) I think there are a lot more variety of seafood where you are and I’m also jealous ;)
That is a great deal for such fresh prawns. Can’t wait to see your recipe for drunken prawns. Looks delicious!
Yes I ccouldn’t believe it too when I hear the prices. Thanks!
Oh! Love prawns and the live ones taste just amazing…look forward to your recipe…enjoyed the pictures :-)
Recipe coming up … very soon :-)
I was just about to ask …where is Farmart…then I saw Sungei Tengeh….then I have to ask you…where is Sugnei Tengeh? ;p
let’s see, Farmart is in Sungei Tengeh, and Sungei Tengah is in … Singapore hehehe … :halo:
just kidding. it’s at the Kranji, CCK area. Nearest “landmarks” there are Warren Country Club and CCK MRT Station.
Wow, I’m wicked jealous. I’m not the biggest seafood fan, but I bet I would like it a lot more if it was that fresh!
yes … sample more fresh seafood, and I think you may be converted :D
I love markets like these! Live is always the best way to get your seafood. I wouldn’t have it any other way. :)
yea! Live is the best but I sure wish I wasn’t so far from where I lived :P
Prawns of prawns… they are my fav.. I could tell how fresh they were!
yes still swimming kind of fresh! hehe
This is great, being able to take home a bag of live prawns!!
It’s, like I said, a cook’s dream come true ;)
What a big fishery :). No wonder why they call them selves “grand” atlantic fishery. I’ve never seen the oxygen being pumped into bags before other than at pet stores in my area. Well…most of the shrimp or prawns in my area are frozen :( and not alive.
Have to “special request” them to pump the oxygen. I was surprised they did it for free! I thought it’s quite small compared to western standards hehe
very jealous!!!
no jealous, I think there are fresh seafood at Melbourne too hehe
Now, that’s fresh, we have to pay big buck for it here.
Yes, I saw the prices for seafood at SF, and they were really high. But I’m sure they are oh, so fresh!
Fast fast post the recipe :)
Done :D
Do they sell mussels too? Do you need to wake at an unearthly hour like 8am to buy the freshest produce? ;p
I think I saw some mussels there. You think you can call them before you go to enquire if they have the seafood you want.
Hmm I didn’t go at 8am. I went at like 11am or so … I’m not quite an early person ;)
They no longer have the $12/kg ones… the lady told me those were too small… now they only have the $20/kg ones
yeah, like I mentioned in my post, you only get S$12/kg ones when you’re lucky. But the S$20/kg ones are bigger so it isn’t too bad either :-)
Do you have live lobsters and what are the prices like, thanks?
Hi, please call the shop for any enquires, thanks.
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