Recommended foods & restaurants
Recommended foods & restaurants
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*Average customer spending💰 is for 2024
🍽️ Recommended restaurants (by cuisine)
This is a must when visiting Pangkor Island
🦀 Seafood
Delicious & affordable
🍲 Local Food
For those who love spicy food!!
🌶️ Spicy food
When you feel a little hungry
🥡 Snacks & Late-Night Snacks
Delicious bread & stylish desserts
🍰 Bread & Dessert
A must-see for coffee drinkers!
☕ A place to get decent coffee
Advice when eating
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Restaurant popular with foreign tourists
1st place
Daddy’s Caffe (Malay & Western cuisine)
- You can eat on the beach
- You can also order alcoholic drinks
- A wide variety of menu items
- The food and the setting look great on social media
2nd place
Ye Lin
(Seafood & Chinese cuisine)
- Seafood is delicious
- You can order beer
- A wide variety of menu items
- You can enjoy your meal with if your family or with a large group.
3rd place
Bingsu by L Afters
(Food & Dessert)
- Desserts look great on social media
- You can eat inside the air-conditioned restaurant
- Stylish
Advice when eating
At Muslim-run restaurants
🚫Please be aware that Muslim-run restaurants strictly prohibit the bringing of alcoholic beverages such as canned beer🍺 and pork🐖 (including pork products) into the restaurant.
On the other hand, you can bring in other foods and drinks.
For example, you can enjoy the restaurant’s food while eating satay you bought from a food stall.
(You cannot bring it into stores that have a no-carry sticker 🚫)
If you want beer🍺 or pork dishes🐖, go to a non-Muslim restaurant (such as a Chinese-run restaurant).
If I want to eat beef🐂, I go to a restaurant that is not Hindu (Indian-Malay).
🌶️ For people who don’t like spicy food
Generally, Malays love spicy food.
Although the level may vary, most dishes use spicy condiments such as chili sauce and sambal sauce🌶️.
Of course, there are also dishes cooked with mild oyster sauce or sweet and sour sauce, so if you don’t like spicy food, just add “No Spicy" or “Tak mahu cili" (no chili) or “jangan masak pedas" (don’t cook it spicy) when ordering.
Most restaurants will recommend non-spicy dishes on the menu or change the way they are cooked, so don’t worry.
🍹Are drinks other than cans and plastic bottles (such as water and ice) safe?
On Pangkor Island, the water used in drinks at restaurants is boiled and disinfected, and the ice 🧊 is purchased from an ice shop, so there is no need to worry about water poisoning.
Let’s challenge ourselves to try drinks we’ve never tried before!
However, as is the case in Malaysia in general, don’t expect too much from the coffee.
🆖 Foods to avoid
🚫 Goat meat dishes when your physical strength or resistance is low (it may cause food poisoning)
🚫 Takeaway Nasi lemak left over until lunchtime (even locals sometimes can’t leave the toilet)
Nasi Lemak is a typical Malaysian breakfast.
Take-out versions wrapped in banana leaves can be purchased at most stores for around Rm1.
💬 Why haven’t I mentioned the famous “Daddy’s caffe" on Pangkor Island?
For tourists looking to dine there, it offers both Western and Malaysian style menus, is reasonably tasty (though a bit pricey), and has a great location that looks great in photos.
However, if you’ve been staying on Pangkor Island for three months each year for the past 18 years, like me, it’s too expensive to go there every day with my fellow islanders, and you’ll notice some sloppy hygiene practices.
If you want to go to Daddy’s Caffe, head towards Coral Beach along the coastal road in Teluk Nipah and you’ll see a sign.
Nipah Deli next door (run by a former chef at the Pan Pacific Pangkor Hotel) is often tastier (this is just my personal opinion).
