Lae Lae

Makassar


A locally famous seafood restaurant, Lae Lae is a no-frills, no-fuss magnet for lovers of grilled fish. Enter past a smoking streetside barbecue, choose your piscine pleasure from deep tubs of super-fresh iced fish, and eat at long, battered metal tables, rubbing shoulders with the locals. Three sambals, rice and squeaky-fresh raw vegetables are the standard accompaniments.


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