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One of the popular attraction in Batam is a Chinese teample, known to the local as the Tua Pek Kong Bio (no idea what they called it in Indonesian). Its location in Batam town, quite a big temple and you will be surprise there are so many buddhist in Batam.

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This is one of the oldest and historical temple in Batam, I think there are other temples too but this is the only we had a chance to visit during our last trip.

The parking is huge and there are lots of sculpture for those photo moments. There are also some stalls selling local “kueh”, praying stuff and drinks here. I saw quite a bit of tour bus here, so figure this must be a popular tourist attraction too.

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In the main temple building, you can pray and there are lots of coiled shaped incenses having around with latterns making the temple look really good. When I was there on Sunday morning, there’s actually a buddhism class going on at the back with a lot of young students attending and its all done in Bahasa Indonesia.

So if you are in Batam, no harm checking this place out, plus can “bai bai” for health and happiness .

GPS: N1 08.367 E104 00.645

I wanted some Chinese for lunch when I was in Batam, opposite the Tua Pek Kong temple on the road heading to Lucky Plaza is where Kopitiam 68 is located. They don’t sell pork here at this shop but its Chinese food and some Indonesian food.

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I ordered chicken rice which I must say is not too bad… fried rice was ok too. The chicken rice is a bit different here, the standard serving is both bbq plus white chicken with some braised eggs . The rice is quite tasty meaning the stock is ok, Miharusee me eat so syiok halfway gasak  my chicken rice hehe… lucky the seafood fried rice is ok too, quite yummy and the rice don’t stick together.

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I also ordered some gado-gado and lontong to share, a bit spicy for the lontong but nice. I tried some char koay teow from siok li’s order and its quite good too.

Price is ok la… like KL rate but I was drinking Bintang beer for lunch hehe… so quite ok la plus food is ok.

Kopitiam 68 @ Batam
GPS: N1 08.512 E104 00.683 (agak-agak la… forgot to capture waypoint, this is estimates )

Me & the makan gang went to Nagoya Hill in Nagoya, Batam for dinner… at the top floor of Nagoya Hill there’s a food street with all sort of local as well as fast food outlets. We decided to try traditional Indonesia food, known as Sundanese (don’t get confuse with Sudan) at Rumah Makan Pak Chomot.

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Bahasa Indonesia is a bit different from Malay, so here are some of the stuff we ordered, Cumi Pete (sotong with petai), Garume Goreng (type of fish fried), Kepiting Lada Hitam (crabs, cooked with black pepper sauce), Sate Kombinasi (mix satay), Gado-gado (Indonesian rojak), Baby Kailan, Ayam Chomot (funny fried chicken), Kerang Bakar, etc.

I also ordered my favourite drink, Es Jeruk Kelapa. Es is ice, Jeruk is a citrus juice, Kelapa well coconut. So it is coconut in a citrus juice, very nice .

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The whole meal is ok and quite interesting, the crabs portions are small, people here don’t eat crabs like how we do in KL, here its a bit of crabs and lots of rice, where else in KL, all crabs no rice, we all really spoilt.

It was an interesting experience for most of us, trying something Indonesian and traditional, overall food is good here and all the above cost us about Rp. 377,000.00 for 8 persons. Not bad la… worth trying if you are ever in Batam, plus the place have aircond and good friendly service .