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Originally posted by sassina2
I have not tried Batu Besar nor Barelang area which I heard is very good.
However, I went to Riverside at Punggur and belive me, it's very good. Make sure you tell them not to pay commission to taxi and you will have really good food at reasonable prices too. They keep the live-stuff in the cages in the sea and you just pick what you want!
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Oh ya, now I remember about this pungur seafood place. It’s certainly the BEST in Btm. It’s very near to the domestic jetty which service Btm and Bintan/Tg Pinang. Once you passed the domestic jetty, it’s on the 1st track on your left in going a bit down hill. This place is actually known as Ah Kow seafood, but I think not many taxi drivers know how to get there.
Some of their specialties are like the “ham piow” (scallop) cooked with Chinese wine, steam prawns with lots of garlic, but my favorite dish there is their steam fish. It’s the way they steam it, so perfectly done that the meat are so tender and juicy. The main difference which makes them BEST seafood in Btm is their very own special Teochew style of cooking.
Ah Kow has been around for more then 10 yrs, but they slowly loses their clients to other seafood operators (555, 933, Reziki at Batu Besar ect) mainly due to 2 very important factors, location and their prices. At one stage, when they were having more and more clients, they actually started charging Sg prices.
So who wants to drive all the way to Pungur to have expensive seafood, maybe their few regulars or some new kakis who were brought there either by taxi drivers or after reading this posting and wants to give it a try.
BTW, my last meal there was something like 2-3yrs ago, shall check it out again in the near future and provide another update here, that is if you kakis here are interested in Ah Kow’s “HUM” piow, apart from the Nagoya’s “hum”
