Aside from the fantastic view of Penang island others will tell you about,let me tell you the things they won't mention.
- Your entire order will contain one dish which will be jacked up higher than the norm compared to all the other reasonably priced dishes.This will push your grand total to the halfway of the level of Bali Hai in Gurney Drive.No kidding.Now considering the lousy makeup of the area (a mixture of low/medium cost flats and fishermens huts in the vicinity) I would say it costs a bomb.
- If you order plain boiled shellfish,the accompanying sauce is going to greatly dissapoint you since it comes straight from the manufacturers bottle.Not only that,the shellfish they serve here is of irregular shape,you'll feel like an orang asli dining on some really wild cuisine that have not been properly cleaned of muck and mud.
- The baked crab was terribly overcooked,that the flesh was stuck to the shell and didn't come off easily.Thus the mini mallet they provide you with MUST be utilised or else it will be impossible to wrestle the meat out.Also,even though we requested for crabs with roe,the waitress noted our order yet never bothered to inform us that it was not available
- We ordered deep fried sotong in batter.What we got was 1 quarter sotong buried underneath 3 quarters of flour fritters with a light texture that was more suitable for the prawn fritters in loh bak stalls
- The red tablecloths are riddled with TONS of cigarette burn marks.There are so many holes you wonder why they bother to use it as a cover.Plus it SMELLS so awful,the stink gave some of us such a headache,it was necessary to have it removed.
- Honestly the food is nothing much to shout about,nothing remotely Penang about it,world's apart in terms of taste compared to other better known places on the mainland.I would say the taste is akin to food court standard.
- This place is quite a rip off .Naturally before you get the bill or someone else is sponsoring your meal,it doesn't come off as such since the place looks so cheapskate and cheapo.After coughing out blood for the damage,you'll know what I'm talking about.
- If it's the view you're after,I suggest you enjoy the breathtaking Outer Ring Road drive and stop just before the toll plaza near Pantai Bersih where dating couples like to make misty windowed pitstops.Don't forget to bring along a stash of home made heavenly buttered dash of lemon sardine (oh yes so smelly but oh so good)sandwiches with crisp cool thinly sliced cucumber slices and a thermos flask filled with hot coffee rather than waste your money here.
