Harbour Bay Seafood Restaurant

Arrived around 8pm or so. Restaurant seems understaffed and it took us a while to find someone to seat us. Once seated we were more or less left on our own device and we were not even provided with a menu. We had to get our own menu and only managed to secure the attention of a server after a while. To our disappointment, almost everything we wanted to get is sold out but it was understandable as it was a long weekend crowd. After placing our orders for food and drink, we were again left on our device for a long time before the drinks were finally brought over. The food came about an hour after we ordered. Meanwhile we were "entertained" by the live singer assaulting our eardrums. Foodwise, the total cost came up to be about 1.4m rupiah. We order two crabs (about 600gms each), 1 grouper (tiny), cereal prawns (frozen cos live prawns were sold out), crispy baby squid, fish maw soup and a fried rice. Crabs - salted eggs crabs don't taste of salted eggs and were overcooked. Pepper crab was good. Fish - was fresh enough n sauce was ok. But the fish was overcooked n tough. There were quite a lot of scales left on it. Baby squid - bad, taste weird, not crispy and tough. Worst rendition of this dish I ever had. Prawns - acceptable even though it was frozen. Fried rice - bland. It was edible but nothing I will eat again voluntarily. Fish maw soup - the only item that was passable. Overall, there are better seafood places in batam. This place was a disappointment. Would rather have gone to 933.