Belut Khas Surabaya — Restaurant in Surabaya

We visited this lovely place twice during our 3-day stay in Surabaya - this says how much we love it and the people there! The restaurant was big, bright and clean. Only the restaurant owner speaks English, but everyone is super friendly and tries to help. At our first visit, the smiley female chef used Google Translate to help us order food. We ordered an eel, a duck and a "kale", which is actually "morning glory". The eel was fried perfectly - even the bones are crispy and edible. The galic-and-shallot-stirfried morning glory was so delicious that we ordered another two portions! When we went back to the restaurant again, the staff recognised us and we were like old friends already. We ordered gourami fish and our favourite morning glory to take away. The owner very generously offered us to try their homemade traditional Indonesian drink Beras Kencur, which is a kencur rice drink has a wonderful sweet, savoury and spicy taste. When we left, all the staff stood there to see us off. What a precious friendship! We will definitely come back to it and will happily...

The best eel restaurant in the town. Do you know why? This place gave us a bunch of chopped eels on a plate of sambal (we called it cobek). I found it so interesting tho because not all restaurants bravely served it like the way they did. The most exciting part also happens when you take the meals out. They still gave you the plate for you to take it out too. Good enough for saving money to...

Good food but bad services, staff manners also bad.. They are using bad languange among them with loud voices and the server smoking around the customer areas.. Please owner make this notification as a reminder for you business. Looking forward for your improvement... ...