Another fishy area in downtown
Colaba, Sassoon Dock is the Mecca of local gourmets and restaurateurs
who forage for quality seafood at dawn, when the trawlers unload their
booty. Baskets of shrimp, lobster, thin, bony mackerel and fleshy pomfret
are sold here at wholesale rates by loud fishwives who sit on the wharf
right next to the colourful boats. There are also cold storage places
where you can buy the cleaned and filleted variety that is earmarked for
export. Despite the pervasive smell and the chaos, however, Sassoon dock
is an experience worth undertaking.
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