Gee Seng Seafood Restaurant, Tambun

Mini-Christmas Get-Together
22nd December 2009

This is a late post on my recent mini Christmas celebration with friends. We decided to travel all the way to Tambun for seafood for this year's Christmas makan. Although most of us went there before, none of us remember the way exactly! GPS came handy leading us to Tambun city because we did not know the exact name of the restaurant. Left Penang island and fetched Marcus from the other end of the bridge.

It takes the Penangites an hour to get there. Somehow people are willing to travel a mile just for good food. Maybe it only applies to us Penangites? We reached the restaurant just on time for dinner. To our surprise, there were many parking lots available. Maybe because it was just another normal day, not a public holiday.

"chi lei" or spiky snail is a must! Best served with thai chilli sauce

kam heong mantis prawn

sweet & sour crab

The traditional way of hammering the crab

They don't have "tauhu", so its their special "taukua"

The rather expensive fish, 1/3 of the total bill

"tu boh sui" or squid tentacles

The delicious special satay

The food tasted good. But the pricing was kind of ridiculous when it comes to the fish. A siakap fish costing RM60. A codfish is even cheaper than this elsewhere. Maybe because we look young and naif?

This is supposedly the best along the stretch of seafood restaurants in Tambun. Everything except the fish was cheap and good comparatively with other restaurants.

All of us went for a stroll at Auto City since we were already that far from the island. Had some coffee and chit-chat at Old Town since the gang can hardly meet up with May Xia. Left for Penang at around 2 am.

Gee Seng Seafood Restaurant 860, Bagan Bukit Tambun 14110 Simpang Ampat 04-5887220