Returning visit to Portland, Maine #4, 2019/Carlos Pueblo

Returning visit to Portland, Maine #4, 2019/Carlos Pueblo

The cruise ship turned south at nigh to the U.S. Coast from Nova Scotia, Canada. We arrived at Portland. Maine on the next morning. It is my 4th time to visit this city. I took a senior Taiwanese lady to walk on the city center closed to the pier. She was with her daughter Kathy
from New York City and had had also a back to back trip like me, a gift from her elder son. She and her daughter  are here for the 9 months resident requirement after receiving the green card status. Her late husband is about my age and she lives in the south of Taiwan.

We walked to the lobster restaurant and I showed her the price of what we had had in 2018, a pair of 1.25 pounds for $25 with potatoes and corns. She remembers what she has in NYC. Eating lobsters is a treat for Taiwanese and I believe that there is no such kind of shrimp in that island and around area. We do have a large size of shrimp which we call the dragon shrimp exactly the same name as lobsters. Actually, the taste is different.

I took her across the restaurant to the other side of the street to visit a fish market. We all love to visit the fresh seafood market. She is from a big and famous seaport in Taiwan with plenty of experience of seafood. She is so delighted to see the mackerel on the shelf. It is very popular and inexpensive in Taiwan and Japan. Japanese would grill the fish to make a delicious dish on the table. We also compare the price of the seafood between Taiwan and the U.S. She told me that you could get good price in NYC, of course, the market which we visited was also reasonable. We also circled to the end of the pier to see some warehouses, fishing boats, and the nets for lobster baits, etc. Obviously, the city is a production center of lobsters and delivery center as well.

We came back to the main street of the city and walked toward the city hall on the other direction. There are some stops for shuttle bus or van to take passengers for excursion. I know that Kennebunkport is south of here yet require a vehicle to visit. We ran into the fellow Taiwanese from Arizona and I recommended them to that lobster restaurant we just visited.
They were very happy for that experience afterward.