Pulau Pangkor Restaurant Tips by grets

Restaurant Name: Royal Bay Beach Club, Pangkor Laut

The bar/cafe by the pool serves lunches only and has a shortish snack menu. It's the first time I've seen a pool bar with starched linen tablecloths and napkins. Excellent service. The second day the waiter knows my name and greets me with the comment: "A Tiger Beer I think Mrs Howard?" Have I got a reputation as a drinker already?

Limited menu with things like crab with chilli dip, pizza, fish & chips, burgers and bruchettas.

Some evenings they have live musicians there, they are very good and the music is not so loud as to be a nuisance if you want an early night.

Favorite Dish: The steak sandwich is the best I've ever had!

The steak is 1.5cm thick and I am asked how I want it cooked! It is served with potato wedges.

Also the pineapple relish served with the burgers

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Theme: Eclectic/International
Comparison: less expensive than average
Prices: less than US$10  » Currency Converter

Restaurant Name: Uncle Lim's at Pangkor Laut

The whole concept of this restaurant is totally different. There is no menu as such. You choose what you want (from a list of ingredients) and how you want it cooked.

Initially I found the concept a little intimidating, as I usually like to be inspired by descriptions of food before I order, but once the waiter points me in the right direction, the whole thing flows.

We choose a selection of dishes: Spicy chicken with cashew nuts, beef with chilli and garlic, tiger prawns, steamed rice and watercress soup

Favorite Dish: The chilli and Garlic Beef is very tasty indeed, not so spice that it burns your mouth but hot enough to be interesting.

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Theme: Chinese/Dim Sum
Comparison: less expensive than average
Prices: US$11-20  » Currency Converter

Restaurant Name: The breakfast buffet restaurant, Pangkor Laut

Choice of cooked breakfast, either western or Oriental, omelette with a choice of fillings, cold meats and cheeses, many different ypes of fruit, several flavours of yogurt, 10 different pastries.

View over one of the pools and terrace areas, with monkeys frolicking in the trees between the pool and the hill villas, and a peacock strutting his stuff on the terrace.

Favorite Dish: Omelette with cheese, onion, pepper and chilli.

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Theme: Buffet

Restaurant Name: Emerald Bay Beach Cafe

Wooden seats a little up from the beach, some on a covered terrace, some on the sand.

They serve drinks and snack, and we are talking SNACKS now, not lunch!

We order peppered beef, spring rolls and samosas, thinking we have a fairly subsatncial lunch. Wrong! They are very tasty, but more like a coctail snack than a proper "dish". We go back to the main pool area for a "proper" lunch after!


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Theme: Other
Comparison: less expensive than average
Prices: less than US$10  » Currency Converter

Restaurant Name: Samudra Restaurant, Pangkor Laut

A choice of Western or Malaysian menu. David has steak, whereas I try the set Malaysian dinner:

Chicken Satay, Fish in Coconut sauce, Beef Rendang, Green beans in sauce and steamed rice, followed by Green Tea Creme Brulee.

Favorite Dish: Beef Rendang!

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Theme: Other
Comparison: about average
Prices: US$31-40  » Currency Converter

Restaurant Name: Dinner at the Rocks

Normally held on a wooden terrace set amongst the rocks over the sea - hence the name - but tonight there is the danger of rain, so the tables are laid up under the roof of the beach club instead.

The evening is more akin to a dinner party - everybody eats the same food at the same time. Transport is laid on from the main hotel in a Land Cruiser, not the normal mini bus.

The scene is very romantic and very unusual. There is only seven guests here tonight, on three tables. Little fairy ights are strung out between the trees on the beach, and the palm trees are lit up from below giving a very eerie look. Sounds of the waves and the geckoes add to the atmosphere.

A quiet three pice band playing in the background accepts requests from all the tables.

First Course: Stuffed rice wrapped in banana leaf with crab and beansprout salad. Delicious

Second Course: Chicken and vegetable consomme. Very tasty

Third Course: Lime sorbet served in goblets made from ice with flowers and leaves fron into them. Very impressive and refreshing

Fourth Course: White snapper in cream sauce with bok choy, split peas and sliced potatoes with cheese.

Fifth Course: Heartshaped cheesecake with a chocolate edge, chocolate straws and coulis of strawberry and passion fruit. Served with fresh strawberries and lychees.

Favorite Dish: I have never before come across White Snapper, and I will say it is the best fish I have ever had. Slightly crisp coating (not batter), beautifully moist and soft flesh. Very, very, very good

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Theme: Other
Comparison: most expensive
Prices: US$41 and up  » Currency Converter

Restaurant Name: Fishermans Cove

Said to be the best restaurant in the resort, although very good, we didn't think it was patch on Dinner on the Rocks.

There is a choice of fish and seafood - all freshly caught that day - and cooking methods.

For starter we have prawn and mago in filo pastry with a chilli dip and lobster bisque.

Neither of us being real fish lovers, we both choose stir fried beef with black pepper sauce.

Dessert: Mango and pineapple strudel and apple tart.

Being my birthday, David has ordered a cake for me, but it never arrives. The table next to ours do get one, and we share theirs. I'm glad mine didn't arrive, as I didn't like it very much (that may not be the fault of the cake - I'm not very fond of cakes)

Favorite Dish: Stir fried beef with black pepper sauce - very tender and absolutely delicious.

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Theme: Seafood
Comparison: more expensive than average
Prices: US$41 and up  » Currency Converter