The Food Site

This hawker complex used to be called the Seahorse Food Court when it first opened and initially, it has quite a lot of really great stalls offering really delicious hawker food. We have stopped going there for several years after moving further away from Tanjung Bungah. So, recently, we decided to go there to meet up with some friends.

Golden Sand Bayview Food Corner

There are still quite a few hawker stalls still surviving there but not as much as in the ‘old’ days. It has been renamed (I heard it’s due to change in owner) and it is now called Golden Sand Bayview Food Corner.

Claypot chicken rice

The best stall in this place is the claypot chicken rice which is delicious and cooked just nice.

Bak Kee Noodles Soup

This is a different type of food that is not usually found. I understand it is a type of Teochew noodles. The bak kee is made of pork covered in starch and fried to give it a crunchy and sticky consistency and then cooked with mee suah.

The food we ordered at the food court

The prices for the food there are pretty reasonable but not exactly cheap. As with everything nowadays, the prices have increased. Prices are from RM3.50 per plate onwards. The centre also has other hawker foods like char koay teow, western food, fried Indian noodles, fried oyster omelette and etc, etc.

To go to this food complex, check out the map here.

Rating: 5/10

Price: $$

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In times of increasing prices, it is not easy to find places selling reasonably priced or cheap but good food. So, it is quite reassuring when we went to the Taman Free School hawker centre (near Heng Ee secondary school roundabout) to find that the food there is still quite reasonably priced and some of it are quite good too.

This is one of my favourite stalls there…they sell cheap seafood but only limited variety because they only have crabs, mussels, balitong (can’t remember what it’s called in English) and the weird shellfish with spiky shells in which I do not know what it’s called.

Since the ‘atmosphere’ is not as fine as a ‘restaurant’ and the dishes are served simply ala ‘hawker style’, the price for a plate of seafood is quite reasonable - between RM5 and RM20. A plate of balitong for two (if we order medium size) is RM8. Two crabs (with roe) could cost between RM10 to RM16 (depending on size). However, the way the dishes are cooked is very limited as it is either fried with chili, fried plain or in the case of the crabs, steamed, BBQ or fried with chili. No fancy schmancy dishes here.

However, the simple dishes are good enough. I have not found any other stall selling balitong as good as theirs and at that reasonable price too!

Another stall I like there is the pancake stall which is opposite the seafood stall. Their pancakes are quite good and they even have the brown sugar variety. However, it is not all that cheap but still quite reasonably priced. A pancake costs between 90 cent to RM1.50 depending on ingredients.

There are also quite a few good stalls there selling wan tan mee, curry mee, koay teow soup, chicken rice, baked rice with sambal seafood, fish head curry, etc.

All in all, its a good place to go for dinner if you seek variety and reasonably priced hawker food. I won’t say it is all that cheap but it is definitely not expensive as some stalls in the middle of town. Parking is also convenient as there is a parking lot next to it and since it is council lots, the parking charges are 40 cent for 30 minutes.

Rating: 7 /10

Price: $$

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