Buy and Eat Cheap Seafood in Jakarta: Everfresh Seafood

Alright I've already shared the other day on where you can get cheap and good imported meat (read post here if you have not). Now I'll complete the meat loop and share where you can get great and fresh seafood in Jakarta without damage to your wallets! You'd have to check out Everfresh Seafood.

Sounds cheesy? I know right..but who cares when you can finally stop buying old stale fish from the supermarkets in Jakarta or stop being ripped off at 'Bule' stores.

You will probably need a good driver and sharp eyes to spot the place.

Very inconspicuously hidden.

An array of fish and other seafood.

You can pick your seafood, how you want it cooked and they'll cook it on the spot!

When you enter the place, you will notice that there's mostly locals, which is a very good sign that the price will not send you a panic attack. Besides the seafood on display(as shown above), there's also aquariums keeping the live fish and prawns which you can purchase to eat there or bring it fresh home.

Prices ranged from 15,000idr/kg to 400,000idr/kg for fish( pompfrets, snappers, catfish, tilapia, groupers, etc) and 150,000-220,000idr/kg for shrimps. They also sell live lobsters for about 500,000idr/kg. If you buy the seafood back home to cook it yourself, they might even waive off 20% on selected items.

On a side note, I did not notice any salmon or mackerels but you can get them in Indoguna (read post here).

My friend A and I decided to have our lunch there. We ordered the Calamaris, Fried Snapper, Black Pepper Bamboo Clams and Stir fried Kang Kong and everything was delicious!

You'd bet I'll be back there for more.

Everfresh Seafood

Tel: (021) 57905524

Jl. Penjernihan I No. 8 Bendungan Hilir

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