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Husi ai parapa kosta súl to’o<br />
iha travesa restaurante Dili –<br />
viajen husi kadiuk tahu nian<br />
Hadomi hahán ne’ebe inspiradu tebes lori<br />
Danny Lee, ema ne’ebe moris iha Malaysia<br />
hodi loke ninia negósiu liuhosi Restaurante<br />
ho naran Ocean View iha kapitál, Dili, liu tinan<br />
19 ona. Durante ne’e, restaurante ida ne’e<br />
oferese hahán tasi nian ne’ebe gostu tebes<br />
ba konsumidores sira, no sosa ikan fresku,<br />
kurita no kadiuk husi peskadór lokál sira.<br />
Danny no ninia kaben Elly ko’alia bahasa<br />
Indonesia ho Tetun di’ak los, no fasil ba<br />
sira atu halo negósiasaun ho peskadór sira<br />
oinsá mak bele simu produtu tasi nian ho<br />
kualidade fresku no presu ne’ebe justu (halo<br />
sira hotu kontenti). Hahán produtu tasi sira<br />
ne’e maiória mai husi tasi Dili hanesan Tibar,<br />
Ulmera, Hera, Metinaro no Atauro. Maibé<br />
husi ibun ba ibun informasaun pasa lalais to’o<br />
ba iha peskadór sira iha Welaluhu, Munísipiu<br />
Manufahi, iha Tasi Mane, Timor-<strong>Leste</strong>. Iha<br />
ne’eba peskadór sira ka’er kadiuk ne’ebe<br />
ho moris no kuidadu, transporta liuhosi bis<br />
ka motór mai Dili. Restaurante koko atu<br />
enkoraja peskadór sira ho prátika ne’ebe<br />
sustentabilidade atu lori de’it kadiuk ho<br />
metade todan minimu grama 400. Maibé dala<br />
ruma peskadór nafatin lori kadiuk ne’ebe ki’ik<br />
liuhosi tempu dahuluk (karik ba peskadór sira<br />
ne’ebe mai husi dook) sira nafatin sosa maibé<br />
depois sosa sira bá hamutuk husik filafali<br />
kadiuk sira ne’ebe sei ki’ik ba iha tasi laran.<br />
From south coast mangroves<br />
to a Dili restaurant platter –<br />
the journey of a mud crab<br />
A love of food inspired Malaysia-born Danny<br />
Lee to open Ocean View Restaurant in the<br />
capital, Dili, 19 years ago. Since then, the<br />
restaurant has served delicious seafood to<br />
its customers, sourcing its fresh fish, octopus<br />
and mud crabs from local fishers.<br />
Danny and his wife, Elly, speak fluent<br />
Bahasa Indonesia and Tetun so can easily<br />
communicate and negotiate with fishers<br />
to purchase seafood at a fair price. Most<br />
seafood products are sourced from coastal<br />
fisheries around Dili, such as Tibar, Ulmera,<br />
Hera, Metinaro and Atauro. However, word<br />
has spread as far as the community of<br />
Welaluhu, Manufahi municipality, on the<br />
south coast of Timor-<strong>Leste</strong>. There, fishers<br />
catch mud crabs which they carefully<br />
transport live to Dili by motorbike or bus.<br />
The restaurant tries to encourage sustainable<br />
harvesting practices by asking fishers to only<br />
bring crabs that have a minimum weight of<br />
400 grams. Occasionally fishers bring smaller<br />
crabs which the restaurant still buys the first<br />
time (if the fisher has travelled from afar) but<br />
then they go together to release the crabs<br />
back into the sea.<br />
The mud crabs are kept alive in a tank at<br />
the restaurant until they are ordered by a<br />
customer. Then Elly and her small team of<br />
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