Across the Atlantic, on board a chicken-or-fish jumbo, I studied the Engineer.
There are hillside Taoist temples that include the Po Lin Monastery, and the Big Buddha, which weighs as much as a jumbo jet; ancient fishing villages built on stilts; miles of fine beaches; and an opportunity to track down the rare and endangered pink dolphins on boat excursions.
Twenty minutes from Boca de Nigua is Najayo, a section of coast jam-packed with crowded restaurants serving fish and jumbo bottles of Presidente.
That way you can have a variety of treats, like unagi (freshwater eel), octopus, striped bass, fatty or baby yellowtail, jumbo sweet shrimp, green fish roe, live orange clam and spider (soft shell crab with avocado).
Bright, jumbo-size Moorish idol fish trail dorsal fins longer than their bodies; dotting the seascape are healthy corals and fat purple barrel sponges, some occupied by spotted groupers.
Victus, a Filipino squidder who said he had fished jumbos in Cuba and in the Bermuda Triangle, got his, a sloppy, shiny squirter, and dragged it across the deck by one tentacle, as if it were a stubborn cavewoman.
One is Balikci Sabahattin, Armada Hotel, 1 Seyit Hasan Kuyu Street, (90-212) 458-1824, fax (90-212) 458-1802, where traditional fish dishes, like jumbo shrimp baked in clay pots, are specialties.
When Jumbo took the younger children fishing, Miura vehemently refused in continuing to use the live bait then opted for salmon roe instead (a luxury according to her); she ultimately distanced herself from the sight of Jumbo and Ena fearlessly gutting and cleaning-out their still wriggly catch.
WHAT WE LIKED West Lake beef soup, sautéed lamb slices with scallions, pork in garlic sauce, jumbo shrimp in spicy hot pot, fish and tofu hot pot, eggplant in garlic sauce, Shanghai greens, pork with sour cabbage hot pot, dry-braised whole fish, spicy double cooked pork.
Visitors can build imaginary speed-fish and can examine a jumbo squid, which uses jet propulsion.
Mr. Nicos' crew serves deli sandwiches, chicken, fish, breakfast dishes and of course, Jumbo burgers.
