For more than 180 years, The Manhattan Fish Market on Fulton Street has greeted the down from its location in Manhattan under the Brooklyn Bridge with the freshest seafood.
Over the years, The Manhattan Fish Market hasn't changed much and has maintained it's reputataion as the largest wholesale fish market in the country.
Rugged men arrive well before down and swing their fishhooks untill mid morning. Piles of crushed ice melt on the sidewalks. Fresh salmon being weighted on huge scales.
Butchers cutting out tunas on gaint 3 'by 8' cuting board. This are dust some of the sides that will greet you when you visit The Manhattan Fish Market.
This historic market opens its door daily from 7 to 9am where the best restaurants and local fish store owners wander though the stalls for the freshest, top-quality seafood products everyday of the year. There is always the race to see who comes in frist to get the best produce. It isn't suprising then that more than 150 million pounds of seafood pass through the market every year.
As a Manhattan Restaurant Owner once said about The Manhattan Fish Market, "This is the whole world in itself. I's seafood at its finest".
So....there goes the story and so on.....present and history....
For Manhattan Fish Market Queensbay Mall, the story goes when we opened the outlet on 6th December 2006. Now we have around 26 outlet in Malaysia and out of 4 in Penang. We also opened in Dubai, Singapore and Thailand.
For Penang outlet, we have 2 in island and 2 in "Seberang"
The Manhattan Fish Market in Queensbay Mall open nearly 2 years...and it's getting well known by Penangites.
We open for bussiness at 11am to 10pm daily.Our food basicly most seafood and vege. We have different types of method cooking from grilled, deep fried, baked, sizzling, poached and the famoust of all....flaming.
The famoust of all dished are fish and chips where we have 3 types of fish that the customer can choose. We have the well-known dory fish, alaskan pollock and pacific cod. instead of that the customer also can choose to have chips or rice.
But for the all time favourites are our best sharing platter for two or three person to have....it is seafood platter for two....where we serve have rice and half chips with dory fish, deep fried oysters, fried calamari and flaming prawns.