Tanjung Piandang Salted Fish Makers

Salted fish being laid out under the sun in Tanjung Piandang (29 August, 2015)


As Tanjung Piandang is a fishing village, you can find many houses there making salted fish. For city folks like me, I don't often get to see salted fish being laid out under the sun (the last time I saw that on Penang Island was at Sia Boey). To see the making of salted fish, you need to go to more rural places. You can consider Tanjung Piandang the backyard for Penang. Although it is in neighbouring Perak, the village is close enough that much of its fish is sent to Penang.

It is not difficult to find houses where salted fish is made. They are right along the main road of Tanjung Piandang (GPS: 5.07572, 100.38541). That road is called Jalan Pantai. A good place to view salted fish making is where the main road makes a sharp bend, in front of the Tanjung Piandang Chinese Temple. You can stop your car and walk around to see salted fish being laid out under the hot sun. Of course, you need to go at the right time of the day, particularly a hot, sunny one, so as to ensure the people are sunning the fish.

You will see various types of fish, as well as shrimps and cuttlefish, being laid out under the sun. It is an interesting sight, although to be honest, the smell of salted fish is overpowering. I am personally quite taken in by how neatly the fish were arranged on the sunning mat. They are all more or less of equal size, and forms silvery pattern like plates. You will see the fish at various stages of sunning. The fresh ones still hold their silvery colour, while those that have dried up and are almost ready to be collected are brownish.

You can find houses making salted fish at on the Map of Tanjung Piandang

The making of salted fish in Tanjung Piandang (29 August, 2015)


Mats laid out in the sun with drying salted fish at Tanjung Piandang (29 August, 2015)


Various types of fish being dried under the sun (29 August, 2015)

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