Labuan Seafood & Chicken Wings

Went on a one night short working trip to Labuan with my buddy Raz-da-man. Decided to make the best out of this trip (stressful meeting mah) and try the local speciality, chicken wings and seafood (According to Alex, our office Labuan expert :P).

However, knowing Man, before we can venture out, we stocked up the apartment with lots of duty free beers! RM1.70 for local beers and RM2.50 for imported! Wines start from RM10!



Its my first time here and its amazingly such a small town and there's hardly any cars on the road after 7pm! We couldn't get a cab on the street and we end up walking to the shoplots behind Mariner Hotel.

We stumbled into our first makan objective, Chicken Wings :). Per order is 6 pcs @ RM6, that's very reasonable. The wings are serve burning hot, with a squeeze of lime and a dark dip (spicy, sweet and sour).

Next, we went to New Sung Hwa Seafood which is next to the market. Its upstairs at the PCK building which have a pub downstairs (fyi, 1 jug of beer at the pub is RM13 only). Its a small little corner upstairs, probably 10 tables or so, price is quite cheap, RM80/kg of lobster, prawns start from RM60/kg. You can basically get fishes, crabs, lobsters, prawns, giant calms and all sort of shell fishes here.

Since there are only 2 of us, I ordered fish to be fried with ginger and soya sauce, 4 giant prawns (RM90/kg), 1 fried squid and 1 vege. The fish is so-so, with more people I would have ordered a seabass to be steamed, squid is cut and deep fried, the dip is sweet and sour. The best are the prawns which is fried with minced garlic, simply fantastic. Everything with rice and drinks is RM58.00.

Cab are hard to find unless you call for one and its RM10 everywhere within town. So when we are done with dinner, we decided to just stand downstairs and enjoy the breeze from the ocean. Then one of the restaurant guy came down and asked if we have transport. I say no, waiting for taxi and he laughed! Hehe... but he was nice enough to give us a lift back to the hotel, small town people are friendly. He told me its his sister's restaurant and they are planning to extend 1 unit next door. Also, its always full on Saturday. I asked him about chicken wings in Labuan and he said the best are out of town in the kampung. The funny thing is when I told him I come from KL, he told he will be here through AirAsia's free ticket and he really want to eat Ipoh Chicken Rice here, but that to us is like... what? Hehehe... so I guess we are mad about their seafood and there, they fancy our everyday food here. Funny but think about it.



Overall, its not a bad trip after all, and I think its a good place to return for a good quiet holiday, probably go snorkelling by day and seafood hunting at night. I shall be back ;)