H.K.Rakit Seafood Restaurant at Jalan Pantai Kampung Pasir Puteh - Pasir Gudang, Johor.

The H.K. Rakit Seafood Restaurant (N1.42801 E103.95605) is located at the Kampung Pasir Puteh, behind the Tanjung Puteri Golf Club of Pasir Gudang, Johor. The word 'Rakit' (in Malay) means 'Floating'...well, it's because the restaurant was built on the sea (Johor Straits), and it looks like (kind of...) floating on the water...but it won't shake! :) And H.K. is 'Hock Kee', might be the name of the owner...

H.K. Rakit Seafood Restaurant

There is a 'unpaved road' to drive through which about 1.5KM...we like this place because it won't be over crowded and you can enjoy your seafood dinner quitely...

The timber small alley that lead you to the restaurant...

The restaurant has indoor and outdoor session. It was a nice weather that evening, so we prefer to dine at the outdoor area...

The outdoor dining area...

There is another 'floating' dining area which is Really 'Float'. But the staff said because of low tide, and they temporary close that session. According to the staff, this area also become a beer garden when almost midnight...

The floating area of the H.K. Rakit Seafood Restaurant

The peaceful and calm environment is the main reason attracted us to dine here, especially accompany with a Nice sunset...unfortunately, we didn't manage to see the Red Ball that evening...

Peaceful and calm environment

The owner also has a mini Orchid garden in the dining area...are you a Orchid lover?!

 The orchid at the restaurant

The seafoods sell in the restaurant all are alive, well...they are Fresh!

The prawns

The crabs - my favorite!

Our order for the dinner :-
*  Steam fish (sea bass)
*  Steam clam (la-la) mixed with chili padi
*  Hot Plate bean curd (tou-fu)
*  Crabs in two flavor - Sweet sour & salted egg
Their signature dish is Salted Egg crabs

Steam sea bass

Clams

Hot plate bean curd

Sweet sour crabs

Salted egg crabs - signature crabs

All seafood dishes tasted above average, I like the Steam Clams which was really special cooking method with the chili padi. The Salted Egg Crab was Nice and you can taste the salted egg even in the crab meat! Excellent!

We enjoyed the seafood dinner in the scenic view for more than 2 hours...with the company of Tiger beers. It is not complete having a seafood dinner in the nice environment, cool sea breeze without the company of beers! At least for me...:)

The Salted Egg Crabs

The Damage : RM222.00 for 4 adults and 3 children included drinks. Reasonable price for the different dining experience!

Due to the restaurant situated quite far away from Johor Bahru town, otherwise...I will visit it every month!

If you haven't try it before, please visit the seafood restaurant at least Once. :)

Hock Kee Seafood Rakit & Restaurant

111, Jalan Pantai Kampung Pasir Puteh,

81700 Pasir Gudang, Johor.

Mobile Tel : 012-7309777 / 012-7134455 / 012-7984577

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Famous Stuffed Crab at Tong Juan Restaurant (东源酿蟹餐室) - Chukai Kemaman, Terengganu.

Before we drive back to Johor Bahru from Legend Resort Cherating on the Media FAM 2012 trip, I decided to drove to Chukai - Kemaman for the Famous Stuffed Crab at Tong Juan Restaurant (N4.23150 E103.42813).

The journey Only took us 15 minutes drive from Cherating to the restaurant, it was 3pm in the afternoon and the lunch hour had pass...so the restaurant just left one table of customers...

Tong Juan Restaurant at Chukai - Kemaman.

It's actually a 70s old fashion type of kopitiam...I like the classic look, especially the chairs...

The 70s type of restaurant interior...

We already had our lunch at the Resort, our main purpose here was to try out the Famous Stuffed Crab. I heard about the stuff crab decades ago, therefore we have to try it since we already so close to it...!

Beside the stuffed crab, there are som many singature dishes serve by the restaurant...well, I will definitely try it on my next visit...

Other dishes serve by Tong Juan Restaurant

We ordered four stuffed crab, having one in the restaurant and 3 take away...

It looked abit weird by presenting Only one crab shell on the plate?! Haha!

The Stuffed Crab of Tong Juan Restaurant

The dish was unique and special!
They filled up the shell with crab meat mixed with some vegetables and cover by a layer of eggs with a nice aroma of butter...deep fried to perfection.

Filled up with crab meat and vege...

The dish goes well with rice, because it taste a bit salty. But we can't take any rice with it due to the heavy lunch from the Resort...Anyway, I'm satisfied with the unique taste! And it cost only RM8 per stuffed crab, reasonable and worth to try!

If I'm not mistaken, Tong Juan was the first restaurant to serve the Stuffed Crab since the earlier 80s, and the Famous dish is well known through out the region. Nowadays, you can find a few restaurants around the same area selling the same dish...

I will suggest you to visit the restaurant if you having vacation at Cherating, because the nice dish is just about 20 km away!

The Famous Stuffed Crab of Tong Juan Restaurant, Chukai.

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Dinner by the poolside of Legend Resort, Cherating.

After the short speech of Pahang Tourism Minister - Mr Amran Abdul Rahman, we proceeded to the poolside for our first dinner at Legend Resort Cherating.

I took some photos before the area getting dark, where the staffs did their preparation...

Alfresco dinner by the pool...

Dinner by the pool...

 

The area was really a nice place for dinner!

All of us were there about 8pm, and it was a right time because everyone was Hungry! :)

Let me show you what we had that evening...

The common foods on the buffet dinner...fried rice, curry and etc...

Fruits and salads...

Western foods like lamb racks, steaks and seafoods...(this was Special!)

I like this area very much! Because it had all my favorite! They had prawns, squids, lobsters and fresh oysters!

Fried Lobsters...

Fresh Oysters (my favorite corner)

Everyone was enjoying the dinner very much! My wife and daughter were had some simple foods with seafood, I had the steak, lamb rack, squids, half lobsters and 2 fresh oysters for the first round...:)

My first round of the buffet dinner...

The weather was good on that evening, that was our only worry...haha!

Dinner with all the guests, media and bloggers.

Most of the fodos taste were above average! Great! That made me took the second round of the foods...and it was Only Oysters! :)

The satisfied smile from everyone showed that all of us were enjoyed the buffet dinner served by Legend Resort Cherating...there was a unplug band companied us during the dinner, I enjoyed the oldies very much...especially with the Delicious foods!

I had a good chat with the organizer - Mr Anthony Clement after the dinner...and suddenly I heard : "The Turtles had landed!" Oh! That was our next itinerary - Turtle watching!

So we group ourselves immediately at the Lobby and prepare for the Turtle Watching trip!

Related post :
*  Media FAM Trip 2012 at Cherating, Pahang.

Sengat Seafood Restaurant at Teluk Sengat, Johor.

Sengat Seafood Restaurant (N1.56128 E104.03096) is located in the heart of Teluk Sengat small village of Johor. The village is just situated along the Johor River bank...
That was our First time having seafood lunch in this restaurant. The restaurant is at the small hill where you can enjoy the partial view of the village and Johor River...

The view from the restaurant...

It's easy to locate the restaurant because it's just opposite the Only basketball court in the small village...I like it very much because we can feel the cool breeze from the Johor River...

Sengat Seafood Restaurant

Our order for the seafood lunch :-

*  Sweet sour crab served together with small buns

*  Butter Lobsters

*  Steam Sea Bass

*  Vegatables

Sweet sour crabs

The small buns served with the sweet sour crabs...

Butter Lobsters

Steam Sea Bass

Vegetables

The crabs were big and very fresh, I like the sweet sour sauce! You can see from the photo below that the juicy crab meat didn't stick to the shell!

The fresh crab meat...

The lobsters were crunchy outside and succulent inside! Tasty! The Sea bass was fresh and served without the weird smell... We enjoyed the seafood lunch in the restaurant especially company with the cool sea breeze from the river...

The Damage : RM280.00 for 4 adults and 2 children included drinks. It was cheaper than the seafood restaurant at Sungai Rengit!  
Well, we will visit it again!

Sengat Seafood Restaurant

58, Jalan Belanak, Telok Sengat,

81940 Kota Tinggi, Johor

Tel : +607-8955116

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Seafood dinner at Kukup Fishing Village, Johor.

We having our dinner at the first Seafood Restaurant (N1.32552 E103.44256) on the right after the Kukup Jetty (forgive me that I forgot the name of the restaurant). We were there quite early in the evening, just because of want to enjoy the view of Kukup before the dinner...

Kukup Jetty

It was cool and relaxing evening, too bad that day was cloudy and I didn't expect the nice sunset over there...

The Seafood Restaurant next to the Kukup Jetty

Once getting dark...we started to order our foods...

*  Mixed vegetables

*  Kangkong belacan

*  Steam fish

*  Hotplate taufu

*  Steam salted crabs

The foods served on our table pretty fast...

Mixed vegetables

Kangkong Belacan

Steam fish

Steamed salted crabs

We all enjoyed the dinner Very much! Especially in the nice environment! The foods were Delicious especially the seafoods were Fresh! I like the Salted crabs very much!

If my memory serve me well, the Damage was about RM140.00 for 4 adults and 2 kids included drinks. It's always reasonable price when you have seafood at Kukup, that is one of the main reason the small fishing village attract so many tourists and seafood lovers everyday...

We had a walk at the Fishing Village after the dinner until almost midnight, and back to the Kukup Golf Resort with few bottles of beers...:)

The boat...

Location map of the Seafood Restaurant at Kukup, Johor.

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