Pulau Pangkor Restaurants

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.

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

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!

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!

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.

call it a dessert or a drink - it sure does taste BEST - esplly nice young ones...nd chilled ones. It is yummy to sip from straw and then use a spoon to dig into the young white silky pulp. One is never enough....

but if you have problem with wind in the stomach - one is enough.

Here you can get all kinds of food; pasta, locl noodles, but the best I tried was their Indian platter, which has rice, pappadam chips, beef dry curry, fried fish, and spicy prawns. cabbage and pickled cucumber It was very very delicious.

My favourite is the fish maw - fish stomach soup. It taste tomato base and slightly sour, and drink with a dash of black vinegar. It has lots of chopped seafood, bamboo shoots, mushrooms. It is a thick soup. somewhat like the szechuan soup.

also must have are the deep fried fried soft shell crab, special bean curd, steamed large pomfret fish in special soy sauce. any kind of fresh greens stir fry with scallops.