Marina Bay Seafood

Went there for few times but never try to dine in the restaurant – Marina Bay Seafood Restaurant, from its outside it looks like a high expense restaurant, worry that it will cost high for one meal. Recently family came to Miri to visit us, so we thought to have a try in this restaurant.

Marina Bay located at seaside, with a huge seahorse statue nearby, a very easy locate landmark, constitute a lovely and comfortable panorama.

 

 

 

No matter inside or outside the restaurant, it show its gorgeous design and decorations, some kind like Thailand or Malay culture. It serves not just Chinese cuisine, but also has another set of Italian menu foods.

Seafood toufu soup and Fish scoop soup

Thai style sour chicken

 

Fried 4 vegetables 四大天王

Seafood stew toufu

Get ready to start eating

Surprisingly, the dishes are not that expensive that I though, of course if comparing with small restaurant outside, It a bit higher price. All these dishes plus one pot of Jasmine tea, 5 bowls of rice, 2 plates of snack, and 5% service charge, cost us total RM 92.93.

Well, It kind of enjoying eating there, especially if you choose to sit at the open sea view balcony seats, where you can hear the sound of wave, smell of the sea and enjoy the sunset. One thing to mention: advice not to look up as you will see lots of spider web stick on the lamp and roof. The restaurant should be caution on this.

 

Marina Bay Seafood Restaurant

Lot 1406, Block 9, MCLD Marina Park,

Jalan Temenggong Datuk Oyong Lawai Jau,

98000 Miri, Sarawak

Tel: 085 - 408013

Photographer: W.Y. Sam

Disclaimer: The comments and ratings are based on the particular experience and personal opinion.

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Environment: ★★★ Food: ★★★ Service: ★★★ Value vs Price: ★★★ Overall: ★★★

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Seafoods at Yehliu, Taiwan

Yehliu GeoPark, a beautiful seacoast in Taiwan, located in Wanli Township, Taipei. It has been known as Taiwan's North Coast's Pearl, rocks that been existed since million years ago with blue sky, rocks, wave, and beach has make it a beautiful panorama and well known throughout the world. Which make it so special are the rocks with different type of shape and forms: Candle rock, Ginger rock, Mushroom rock, Fossil, Pot hole, Queen’s head, Elephant rock, Earth rock, Fairy’s shoe, Marine bird rock, Bean curd rock and etc.

Nearby the Yehliu Geopark is the Yehliu fishing port with lots of fresh seafood available, therefore many seafood restaurants along the street walking to the Yehliu Geopark. While you are walking pass by the restaurants, you can see many restaurant workers standing outside their shop calling and shouting for business.

After visiting the Yehliu Geopark, my husband and I had decided to have our lunch at one of the restaurant there – San Ye Mei Shi (三叶美食海鲜). Well, what had it attracted us were the word at signboard: “fresh seafood set meal for NT1000” and the aquariums in front of the shop that fill full with different fresh seafood.

As we do not really know how to order, the staff had recommended us to take the set meal NT1000, which can serve up to 4 persons. We were desperately want to try the local seafood, the set meal including 3 seafood (steam prawn, ginger clam, squid, 1 crab soup, 1 vegetable, rice and tea).

 

Since it located near the port, the prawn and crab very fresh indeed. Personally like the crab soup with shao hsing rice wine (紹興酒) ,make the soup smell good.

 

Fried squid with vege, not bad just that the squid was difficult to chew.

Overall, my  impression on this restaurant is quite good, food tasty and staff are quite nice, we ate for quite long (more than 1 hour) but they still treat us politely, not as some other restaurant, keep looking at you to "signal" you that your time is too long. No extra charge (feel worry before enter to the restaurant because scare they will charge extra to foreigner). But next time, I will suggest not to order set meal, because seem not quite worth as going there surely main purpose is to eat seafood, and the set meal included a vege that seem like a normal dish, and the squid was fried with vege. Since there already has vege in our meal, why not order another type of seafood instead, NT1000 for 2 is not cheap too.

 

 

Enjoy Grilling

After doing some research online, I had decided to have a try in 極屋精饌燒肉 , which is a grill meats restaurant. What I had found from comments online, it has quite a worth eating, with acceptable ingredients at a reasonable price. It is located at Taichung town, opposite GuangSan Sogo, easy to locate, just get off from bus at Sogo bus station, walk along ZhongGang Road (中港路一段) for roughly 2 minutes, and you will see the 極屋 restaurant.

極屋精饌燒肉

 

It offers variety of choices in terms of pork, beef, mutton, chicken meat, prawns, seafood, and vegetables. While each type meats have choices like pork meat has streaky or known as belly, pork butt (shoulder butt or collar butt). I didn’t know which part is best to eat, so I just simply choose some to have a try.

Chicken Soup in pot

Before we made the order, the waitress had served us a pot of chicken soup, for us to warm our stomach and chase out cold. Feel warm after drinking the soup, but personally do not really like the taste.

I had ordered a set meal for two persons price at NT676, where I can choose two sets of main course, 6 plates of small dishes, an additional dish (either rice or udon mee), two cups of drinks, and two desserts.

Beef Set

Pork meat (side dish), seafood set

It use charcoal to grill

Main course mean the big plate of meats you choose, there are three choices: pork, beef, or seafood. Since we can choose two sets of main course, I had ordered for beef and seafood. I like beef a lot. I like the rice too, quite special, with some smash fish meat on top, smell good and tasty.

 

Smash fish meat rice

Dessert - Ice cream and chees yogurt

Desserts are ice-cream and cheese yogurt. For me, the desserts are just so-so, still ok, but not impressed me. Overall, this restaurant is quite worth eating, especially the set meal, where we can eat until stomach full. Of course, the choices and quality of the meats are less attractive comparing with others higher class restaurants, but with the price that 極屋offer is worth to try.

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極屋精饌燒肉

台中市中港路一段340號

No 340, ZhongGang Road Section 1, Taichung City.

(台中廣三SOGO對面 opposite GuangSan Sogo)