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Best Seafood Restaurant in Kota Kinabalu Sabah

July 3, 2012 Enqvist 3 Comments

Here is the summary of our seafood hunting during our visit to Kota Kinabalu, Sabah. Sabah popular for it seafood variety and freshness and our trip to Sabah prove that, lot of seafood you can’t find in Penang but you can easily get it in Sabah seafood restaurant. Price is not really cheap as compare to Penang except few items which is dirt cheap such as small crab but big crab still very pricey. Understand from local people they normally go further from town to enjoy seafood for much fresh seafood at cheaper price but since we are tourist hence we just go for somewhere nearby, hoping AirAsia got cheap promotion price to allow us visit Sabah again so that we can hunt for more seafood.

Back to our seafood hunting mission, we went to four different seafood restaurants which all located just walking distance from our Hotel Cititel Express, below are listed review of each restaurant.

Talking about food quality and price, we recommend “Welcome Seafood Restaurant” as it has the cheapest price among the restaurant and their food quality is the best but their seafood variety is not that much compare to other restaurant. If you are looking for environment then “Port View Restaurant” will be your choice as you have to pay premium price, else if you looking for huge variety of seafood then please proceed to Sedco Square as there has few restaurants that has lot of fish tank with different seafood in it, ranging from crab, prawn, fish, clam to abalone. We recommend Hua Hing in Sedco Square as our experience tell that their food is good and price is reasonable.

Hope that our review for various seafood restaurant in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah do help to proper plan your trip for seafood hunting. Good Luck!

Port View Restaurant
Most Expensive Fish SuMei at Port View Restaurant
Jalan Tun Fuad Stephen, Kota Kinabalu, 88000, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah
088-242875
N5 58.779 E116 04.239

Hua Hing Seafood Restaurant
Steamed Stone Fish at Hua Hing Seafood Restaurant Sedco Square
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Gigantic Tiger Prawn at Hua Hing Seafood Restaurant Sedco Square
SEDCO SQUARE, KAMPUNG AIR (BLOCK B, LOT 4)
Mr.SIM WAN SENG 017-8163868 / 019-8213868
MONDAY – SUNDAY 6.00 P.M – 2.00 A.M
N5 58.641 E116 04.443

Suan Tain Seafood Restaurant
Suan Tain Seafood Kota Kinabalu Sabah
Sedco Complex, Blok A, No.9,10,11,12, Kampung Air
Sabah, Malaysia
+6088 233 080
Opening Hours : 5pm – 2.30am ( Daily)
N5 58.641 E116 04.439

Welcome Seafood Restaurant
Welcome Seafood Restaurant 大茄来海鲜餐厅
Asia City Mall, Kota Kinabalu
+6088 447866
N5 58.535 E116 04.369

3 Star, Chinese Food, Chu Cha, Sabah, Seafood

Most Expensive Fish SuMei at Port View Restaurant

June 19, 2012 Enqvist 3 Comments

Wrapping up our trip in KK in one of the premium restaurant Port View Restaurant and today we going to try what we been waiting for, the famous Su Mei fish. One of the very rare fish that you can only get in Sabah as far as I know, you can see it swim in the tank with price tag of RM380 per kg, WAU! Yes, we are WAU! as well but since we came so far definitely we have to try it.

Steamed White Clam RM30, white clam steamed with glass noodle and garlic, the portion is pretty small but the combination of garlic and glass noodle make perfection.

Fried “Tea Won Miao” with Belacan Sauce RM20, I just hate the sticky texture of this vegetable, it just doesn’t taste good.

Cheese Baked Oyster RM36 (RM9 each), since we do not have good oyster in Hua Hing hence we must try it here, the oyster here is bigger and the meat is much more fresh and bigger, baking with cheese is so delicious.

Steamed Parrot Fish aka SuMei RM304, RM380 per kg. What we should we expect? how does it taste? What is it texture? Blah blah blah and lot of question just cross my mind, long awaiting SuMei is finally served on table. The SuMei meat is not something very extraordinary, it texture smooth and soft but not very significant, doesn’t it value for the dollar paid? NO! it just overprice and I can say that stone fish taste much better.

Night view from restaurant

Most expensive meal on our trip, total cost almost RM500 for 4 persons.

Port View, Jalan Tun Fuad Stephen, Kota Kinabalu, 88000, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah
088-242875
N5 58.779 E116 04.239

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Chinese Food, Chu Cha, Sabah, Seafood

Steamed Stone Fish at Hua Hing Seafood Restaurant Sedco Square

June 16, 2012 Enqvist Leave a comment

Since we staying at Cititel Express and the nearest restaurant is Sedco Square hence we went back to Hua Hing Seafood Restaurant for another of seafood dinner, this time we try more dishes and more fishes as well.

Dry Curry Beef RM20, very strong curry powder taste and the curry beef is delicious and not chewy.

Snow Hill Oyster RM8 each, huge disappointment with the oyster, oyster shell is so big but the oyster inside is extremely small and it doesn’t taste fresh either, RM8 just not worth the value.

Oyster in tank.
Snow Hill Oyster

Pepper Salt Abalone RM50, my first time to eat oyster in such cooking method, proper sealing to ensure juiciness of abalone.

Live Abalone in tank

Signature Steam Fish RM56, the fish meat is very smooth and soft while the soy sauce has very strong flavor.

Steam Stone Fish RM80, a fish that most of the people will not ordered but that is what attracted me, since the stone fish has very less movement and just stood on the floor most of the time hence the meat must be very special, with that in mind I decided to give it a try, it is very expensive as well, a small fish cost us RM80.
We have no regret ordered this fish as the meat is the most smooth and soft I ever had before, simple soy sauce steamed is good enough to bring the sweetness out from it.
If you notice the bone is light blue color, it like glow in the dark, we even keep one to try it at dark place but it never glow…haha!
Steam Stone Fish

The ugly stone fish.

Stir Fried Vegetable RM15

4 Star Rating

SEDCO SQUARE, KAMPUNG AIR (BLOCK B, LOT 4)
Mr.SIM WAN SENG 017-8163868 / 019-8213868
MONDAY – SUNDAY 6.00 P.M – 2.00 A.M
N5 58.641 E116 04.443

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Chinese Food, Chu Cha, Sabah, Seafood

Gigantic Tiger Prawn at Hua Hing Seafood Restaurant Sedco Square

June 15, 2012 Enqvist 2 Comments

Going to Kota Kinabalu should never miss Sedco Square where a few seafood restaurant is available for selection. Most of the restaurant price is almost the same and too many variety to pick, we choose Hua Hing Seafood Restaurant as it was crowded and the live seafood seem to be more active.

2 Big Crab RM160 cook in two different flavor, steamed with wine and pepper baked. Crab is extremely big but the meat inside is shrink and not that fresh.
Steamed with wine can truly taste the original flavor of crab.
wine steamed crab

Pepper baked crab taste much better as the sweetness of crab is seal inside and this crab is fresh compare to the other one.

Big Prawn RM175 cook in garlic grilled and soy sauce, two different way of cooking it.
Prawn shown is actually tiger prawn that is extremely big, which is RM250 per kg.
Garlic Prawn has very strong garlic flavor, prawn meat is very firm and sweet.

Soy Sauce Prawn, the prawn is very fresh and yet cooking with simple soy sauce is so delicious.

Overall meal that cost us RM300+

Big Tiger Prawn we ordered, RM250 per kg. From the picture it kind of hard to share with you how big is it, you may imagine the length of body is almost double Iphone height, I believe you can get a better picture now.
Live Tiger Prawn

Best deal in the shop is definitely the crab RM16.80 per kg, so cheap that you will never get in Penang but the size of crab is pretty small as well.

Mantis Prawn RM100 per kg

Scallop RM40 per kg

3 Star Rating

SEDCO SQUARE, KAMPUNG AIR (BLOCK B, LOT 4)
Mr.SIM WAN SENG 017-8163868 / 019-8213868
MONDAY – SUNDAY 6.00 P.M – 2.00 A.M
N5 58.641 E116 04.443

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4 Star, Chinese Food, Chu Cha, Fried Rice, Sabah, Seafood

Suan Tain Seafood Kota Kinabalu Sabah

November 5, 2011 Enqvist Leave a comment

Kota Kinabalu Seri Selera previously known as SEDCO Complex is the place to taste fresh Sabah Seafood which has 4 big seafood restaurant in the open air area, one of the popular destination for local and tourists. Suan Tain Seafood Restaurant has been operating since 1983 and one that has highest popularity among the rest. This meal is to get our self ready for conquering Kota Kinabalu Mountain, it going to be a very challenging and we believe we can do it.

Fish, crab, shell, prawn..etc is fresh here in Suan Tain Restaurant where lot of aquarium fitting in various type of seafood.
Let me introduce the most interesting seafood here is the tiger prawn which is extremely big in size, it cost RM40 each, definitely not cheap.

Follow by Seven Star Grouper 100g RM12, the fish size is around 300 – 600gram so still acceptable.

Stone Fish 100g RM100, this fish is extremely delicious, we did not try at Suan Tain instead we try it at another restaurant, stay tune for the upcoming review.

Fresh Scallop 1kg RM40, this is pretty cheap

Fresh Abalone 100g RM10

Shark Fish

Fresh big crab, they offer various size for different price

We had some simple dish today to avoid too feeling, started with a fried rice.
Seafood Fried Rice RM15, lot of seafood in this plate of fried rice and the taste is good, rice fully absorbing the freshness and essence from the seafood.

Steam Seven Star Grouper RM42, one word to describe “Fresh”, it is extremely fresh and the soy sauce is definitely very tasty, not too salty but just right on the flavor.

Butter Cook Tiger Prawn RM40, butter always a good ingredients to cook seafood as it will bring the flavor out, same goes to this tiger prawn where the freshness of prawn meat is just best companion with the butter, personally love this tiger prawn as it meat is very firm and not chewy.

You must come here to try out the seafood restaurant, if you stay at Cititel Express, you will be surrounded by 5 seafood restaurant. Suan Tain is one of the best and we going to share with you more on our upcoming review.

Sedco Complex, Blok A, No.9,10,11,12, Kampung Air
Sabah, Malaysia
+6088 233 080
Opening Hours : 5pm – 2.30am ( Daily)
N5 58.641 E116 04.439

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