Dinner with Malacca Club Golf Section @ Batam Indonesia

As defending champion we carefully brought this Trophy to Batam for the 2010 Challenge and were pleased to declare winner again this year. So this Trophy remains in the safe keeping of Royal Selangor Club. Well Done RSC.

Our dinner was held at “Lucky Seafood” restaurant, one of the many shop houses in Nagoya Batam, Indonesia. We had a good time at the first floor of this seafood restaurant.

It was time to give small speeches by both Convenors.
Paul Chua our appointed man to select and order the food for the night.

And finally the official presentation of the Trophy for 2010 Challenge. Friends from the Malacca Club.

KL Tan the organizer for a special category for RSC members and Dr. Mano the Master of Ceremony. Friends from Malacca Club toasting with the RSC boys.

2nd Runner Cash Winner were Chan & myself. 1st Runner Cash Winner were Dato Hari & Tam Chiew Seng.

The first cash winners were Johnny Soon & Jeff Hoh. Colin, the winner of the Wooden Spoon Award.

Colin & his partner of the Day, William. Jeff & Soon were enjoying the coconut water and staying away from the whiskey water.

Another private group cell de Bengali Warriors whom also have their own private bet. And the winners of the Bengali Warriors.

These were the makanan Laut we had for the night:-

The steamed crabs were gorgeous. A good plate of Kangkung Belacan fried the Batam way.

Sweet & Sour Grouper Fish was sedap. A plate of fried rice to fill up the loose voids in the tummy.

Batter prawns fresh and crunchy. Deep Fried Kampong Chicken crispy and delicious.

Petai, angle bean stir fried with anchovies. Batam fried Lala.

Lucky Seafood Reastaurant

Nagoya Batam

Indonesia

Puti Bungsu Rumah Makan & Restaurant @ Batam Island

It was time for “Masakan Padang” or Padang Cuisine and we were recommended this place “Puti Bungsu Eating House”.

View from the outside of the restaurant.

All the foods are pre-cooked and displayed at the counter for you to pick. These foods are nicely stacked. Your choice will then be placed in small individual plates and ready to be served. I find that the dishes are rather cold but that the way it is practiced here except for the “Istana Ayam Pop”.

This is the popular Istana Ayam Pop a must try dish.

Just like Dim Sum all in small plates, we were hungry and had lots to eat. We have beef dishes like “Dendeng” served with red chili, pounded beef meat, beef tendon curry, fried chicken, sambal prawns & fried eggs.

Free range kampong chicken being steamed first before a quick deep fried. What a delicious ayam.

The food was good and the pricing was reasonable. There is also another Puti Bungsu at Jalan Yap Kwan Seng in Kuala Lumpur and managed by the same people.

Puti Bungsu
Jalan Teuku Umar
Komplek Nagoya Garden
Phase I Blok A No.6
(Di Samping Puri garden Hotel)

Batam Island

Indonesia
Tel: 0778-457960

We Like A Chai's Cooking at Batam Island

We found a good eating place near where we were staying (Harmoni Hotel) at Nagoya. And the shop is called "Kedai Kopi New Holiday". We patronized the place twice. Ah Chai is the owner cum cook of this place and his food is generally simple yet gorgeous.
We like his cooking and the freshness of the seafood, without any objection from the group to ask him to prepare for our following day’s lunch.

This is a common sight of a typical eatery place in Batam Island where air conditioned shops are rare.

Tam, Tan, Ting, Tay, myself and Paul Chua checking the bill with A Chai after our good lunch at New Holiday.

Tan, Tay, Chan and Allen Yuen chatting while waiting for the food to come.

K.L. Tan organising a separate mode of play for our golf game at Southlinks Golf Course.

A Chai at work.

A Chai showing us the freshness of the seafood and this one was our sole fish.

The serving of Chinese tea is different from Malaysia, the tea leaves are in small pellets and kept in plastic bag. A glass of hot water served with a plastic cover. That's your Chinese tea, Sir.

Grouper fish head meant for our curry dish.

There were a variety for fresh seafood available here and we took the 4 crabs.

These were the dishes we savoured from this simple kitchen.

A before and after steaming of the delicious crabs.

Stir fried bean sprouts with salted fish.
Sole fish was fried and served with preserved bean it is a popular Teochew cuisine.

This is the wonderful curry fish head and a taste of Batam Sambal Belacan (slightly different from Malaysia but it tasted good).

Just like our Muar Otak Otak and the cone shape plain rice is unique.

Free Range Chicken cooked with Sesame oil and soy sauce. Calamari fried with onions.

This was our first day's order - a steamed fish head fresh and tasty.

Ikan Bakar from the other stall and A Chai's seafood soup.

Kedai Kopi New Holiday

Komp. New Holiday

Blok A No.3 - 4am

Tel : 0778-700-5633

Nagoya - Batam

Indonesia