Pulau Ketam Day Trip

Pulau Ketam or a.k.a the “Crab Island” which was a place where i never thought of putting in my visiting list. It’s a small fishing village where visitors can take a day tour by a ferry from the Port Klang Jetty to Pulau Ketam. The details ferry operating hours can be seen here.

The main purpose of visiting this island is of course to taste the fresh seafood and also the crabs. Unfortunately, I did not managed to try any seafood during my visit there because of our non-peak and weekday visit to this island. The houses and shop lots of Pulau Ketam were mostly build on stilt as like many fishing villages beside the seafront. The land of this island can be seen to be at a muddy and mangrove land. This maybe the reason why many houses are built on stilt.

The most intriguing thing that Pulau Ketam leave to me is the villagers and people there that travels around with bicycles. You can see that most of them travel around with bicycles and I did not see much of motorcycles nor to say cars. Pulau Ketam can be said to be just another normal town as compared to other fishing village.

One thing that surprise me is that I am able to have a nice ABC ice kacang after walking under the hot sun at this Island with a plate of Fried Kuey Tiew Mee. These are the only food we ate during our visit at this Island. During the weekdays, many food stalls are closed. We did not manage to eat the famous “Lao Zhi Hao” Lala Jien- Fried Clams as it only opened during the weekends.

As to wrap up on this trip, it can be a short trip to fill up your time during your visit to port klang to visit another different fishing village or to have a trip for photo snapping in this place. But, if you plan to try out nice food, my advice is to visit Pulau Ketam during the weekend.