Sands Beach Café @ADENA — Restaurant in Pahang

Extremely disappointed by the food here. Environment was fine but kinda too dark to see at night, live band and music were a bit too loud.

Biggest problem is the food. After more than an hour of waiting, food finally arrived, freshly wrapped in food foil (not sure if its microwaved, or its wrapped to protect it from sand). And the food was served cold. Ayam percik literally does not look the same as the pic, its like 1/4 of the portion. Chicken chop most likely only has one type of sauce, black pepper, because we ordered sizzling chicken its black pepper sauce directly on chicken chop, but chicky cheese its also black pepper sauce but served separately in another plate.

Speaking of chicky cheese, definitely avoid ordering this if you are expecting it to be cheesy, as it is just a slice of cheese on top of a ham on top of a chicken and literally does not taste anything remotely like cheese. I have never seen any dish this sad and untrue to its name before, so sad that I have to take a picture to show everyone how this looks like.

Fries served with chicken chop were okayish even though it was cold, maybe because we were so hungry waiting for more than an hour and had no choice but to fill our stomach with fries from other family member that ordered earlier than us.

Fried rice was okayish, but at the price of RM32 it tastes more like fried rice that you can get at other places for RM6, and its cold. Not sure about the pasta as I didn’t try them. The only thing that I recommend getting here is the orange served with ayam percik.

So yeah, extremely overpriced but not okay food (they are all RM30-40) that you can probably get better ones in your regular hawker centre or mamak store. And to top it all they took 1.5 hours for it to be served cold, wrapped in thin plastic foil....

So disappointed by the food and drinks here. The nachos here are subpar. Taste like it’s clearly from a bag of doritos, which i can excuse, but the salsa, was flavourless and there wasnt even sour cream. There was just cheese sauce which taste bottled. Its not nachos. Its chips with ground meat and chopped tomatoes with mayo. The fries you can tell were frozen fries, which would’ve been great if it were for a homemade sauce or aoili but it was served with chili sauce and mayo. ( Btw the fries came an hour later as they “forgot” about it) Don’t even get me started on the drinks. If I wanted to drink kopi ais and not latte I would’ve went to a mamak instead. The iced latte was diluted. Its fine if you don’t know how to do a latte, but don’t put iced latte on your menu and sell it for rm 16. The customers will expect a good quality latte, not nescafe ais that’s not even good. The iced chocolate… i almost want to laugh. Tasted like iced milo if u left it to melt in the sun for a few hours. The cup glasses in which the drinks were served were also mamak style. You are a beach resort, at least invest in better quality glassware. Im writing this review with this restaurant being a beach resort restaurant in mind, therefore i believe you guys can invest and improve in the quality of the food more. People come here to a beach restaurant for amazing food, not food u can get tepi jalan. For the prices you guys are having, its absolutely ridiculous the level of quality you guys are serving. At least the service was okay and view...

Price - rm40 - 60 per pax if order food and drinks for both.

Service - Service is okay. They let us order buy 1 free 1 selected cocktails for happy hour even tho its over the time but i guess the happy hour promo is always available.

Time for food - takes about 25- 30 mins to serve spag aglio olio and 40 mins to serve chicken chop. Quite slow cooking actually giving that only 3 tables were ordering food at that time and its quite empty.

Food - Order spag aglio olio seafood. Taste quite nice but only 2 mussels and 3 prawns all average size. Not full. And ordered chicken chop. The black pepper taste good but its also not that filling.

Drinks - ordered buy 1 free 1 mojito. But can hardly taste the rum. Maybe they used a little bit of rum only. More on lime and mint leaves taste.

Ambience - not crowded at all. Maximum 5 - 6 tables but its good for me so its less noisy and can relax and dine longer enjoying the beach view. Music also not too loud. Mainly playing 80-90s songs which is...