Kuwait City is blanketed with a pristine quality. My mom and I dropped in for 24 hours plus en route to New Delhi and were instantly struck by the city's polished, almost austere look. The Fahaheel fish market on Gulf Road doesn't evade this flawless aesthetic. It's the antithesis of the typical seafood market where dingy, slippery floors compete with an overly fishy aroma. Housed in an airy building possessing the prominent vibe of Grand Central Station, Fahaheel is an endless stretch of seafood stalls flaunting the freshest goods caught straight from the Persian Gulf. Everything looks and smells clean, thereby making for a pleasant shopping and sight-seeing experience. Shrimp tails and fish fins jut out from buckets spilling with ice, prepped for delivery to their respective vendors on the floor. Salivating customers outfitted in jeans and t-shirts, dishdashas and jilbabs mingle about to inspect and select the wares.
Try these critters on for size: behemoth females crabs boasting their assets of rustic eggs are stacked neatly together as if ready for battle. Fish of otherworldly lengths and widths are tempting to lug home for the sheer fun of it. Pink-orange shrimp with their protruding beady eyes seem alien-like with their colossal girth. Our friend Diana scooped up two pounds of chubby milk fish for an economical 3 bucks. Watch below as a Fahaheel fellow shaves the scales away. It's incredible how impeccably lustrous all this seafood looks, as if they underwent a rigorous scrubbing of sorts after their capture.
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