Bintan, Indonesia Dinner At A Kelong Restaurant (RM Ciu Yong Seafood)

The finale of our day’s road journey to Bintan Island became dinner at a conventional Indonesian kelong eating place.

Kelong is a Malay-Indo phrase which means a floating platform, including a floating shape or house which can be predominantly observed in lots of islands and fishing villages in South East Asia.

In Indonesia, and specially the island we visited, Bintan Island, eating places floating at the water or eating places built on wooden stilts are very popular. I don’t clearly realize how the demand for those sorts of eating places rose to popularity but the idea of eating out at a kelong eating place transcends your common mainstream consuming out in a restaurant revel in.

It is all approximately the whole ‘kelong revel in’ package deal which makes a speciality of its ambience – eating exterior at the water, and consuming fresh seafood – stuck stay earlier than your very eyes.

These restaurants have their very own fish aquariums, that are massive net cages built inside the water within the middle of the open-air eating place. In right here they shop stay stuck fishes, shellfishes and crustaceans different for restaurant intake. As a client, you could even assist in helping the final harvest of the fish of your choice.

In a preceding put up, I mentioned approximately the 2 worlds in Bintan: Bintan Resorts (a gated village of vacationer beach inns) vs Bintan Island (in which the relaxation of the locals stay), and this means that costs of kelong eating places in both places differ significantly.

The kelong eating places internal Bintan Resorts are of course owned by using the unique motel and are charging fees similar to ingesting out in an upscale Singapore eating place. Whereas the kelong eating places outside the motel village, which are with the aid of the way catered to vacationers from the lodge are lots less expensive, with expenses along the variety of hawkers in Singapore, but are for sure greater costly than what locals are used to paying.

The ecosystem, design and luxury of the kelong restaurants vary in both worlds too. We are used to eating in quality places, in addition to we're already staying at the Bintan Lagoon Resort & Golf Club and have tried some of its restaurants (examine: Nelayan Grill situated right on the seashore is very exceptional), so we want something exceptional this time. It became a unanimous choice to move neighborhood and outdoor the hotel for our last night’s dinner, even though that is an understatement in itself as locals do no longer virtually come to those kelong eating places to consume. But the idea and ambience do matter for nearby although =)

So our driving force introduced us to RM. Ciu Yong Seafood. He did no longer dine with us, and for all we recognise, he should have snagged a loose dinner from the eating place as part of the deal for bringing commercial enterprise to them. By the sound of the eating place’s name, it should be owned through a Chinese Indonesian. We learned from this trip that many Chinese stay in Bintan.

Another factor we have been pressed about was spending the final Indonesian Rupiahs we've. There had been no plans in retreating extra neighborhood money so we have been cautious no longer to get carried away with ordering meals. We had about 1.3 Million Rupiah left, eyeing to spend about a million on dinner and giving the relaxation as a thanks tip to our tour manual motive force.

And now for the important question of this nighttime’s dinner: Did we enjoyed the meals?

Yes, all of us really favored the meals here! Personally, the exceptional changed into the fried calamari; crunchy, juicy and savoury. I assume anyone voted for this because the best dish of the evening. The simplest sadness became the noodles (Mie Goreng) which we all agreed. We were anticipating nicely-cooked egg noodles and we were served alternatively, well highly, with ‘immediate noodles’ directly from the p.C.. I swear, I should have cooked this plenty higher with veggies at domestic.

In overall, we gobbled food within the place of 1 Million Indonesian Rupiah. That’s IDR 1,0.5.00 to be genuine. Right up against the alley of our budget. But we can not get the hold of paying lunch and dinner inside the tens of millions, although. It sounded a piece preposterous to us. Can you imagine when you buy a vehicle or a house? Bazillions! Haha.

Check out the eating place and meals pix below.

One of the traditional kelong eating places in Bintan island (outside Bintan Resorts).

Lobsters, shrimps and crabs are decreased down into the water in nets. You can choose which one you need to devour. And this guy is making ready my coconut juice drink.

Yup, a steamed grouper order coming up! Not actually live fishing but near it. Because it was dark, I can't vouch if the waters here had been smooth.

We every had a plate of white rice and we ordered Fried Chicken (Ayam Mentega) and Water Spinach with Belacan (Kangkong Belacan).

Their Fried Calamari (Sotong Telur Masin) changed into delicious, possibly the pleasant dish of the night time and the Mie Goreng turned into the frustration (they used instantaneous noodles).

Fresh coconut juice drink, Steamed Gong-Gong (sea snails) and Cap Choy (blend vegetable and seafood dish). All delicious.

As you can see, the eating place is built on timber stilts at the water, and pretty simple and rudimentary in finish.

The million (Rupiah) dinner =)

Here we're inside the car lower back at the lodge, our driver checking in with the defend at the gate. The Bintan Resorts is a gated with 24-hour safety surveillance village of beach lodge resorts.

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Travel Period: November 2019
Destination: Bintan Island (Riau Islands), Indonesia

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