Santaria kopitiam
I usually like to go to Santaria kopitiam to have my ikan bakar meal. It has two branch one same row as new berlian and the other one is across the street. The boss is a old Chinese uncle. The bbq ikan pari small portion only cost me 30k =
S$3 compare to spore selling
S$10 compare to JB selling rm18=
S$6
There are also many other popular dishes like the otak otak (wrap grill seafood paste) which taste very good and price reasonable too. They also sell all kinds of fried "carbohydrate" like bihun, mee, rice, kwetiau, etc.
If you are soup lover, they got sell :
1) oxtail soup (sop buntut)
2) mutton soup (sop kambing),
3) meat soup (sop daging)
4) village chicken soup (sop ayam kampong)
5) fish soup (sop ikan)
6) yellow spicy chicken soup (soto ayam) which is cook with lontong & turmeric
If you are fish lover, then can choose from the following:
1) Ikan bawal putih (BBQ white Chinese pomfret)
2) Ikan bawal hitam (BBQ black Chinese pomfret)
3) Ikan Kakap merah (BBQ red snapper)
4) Ikan Selar (BBQ scad fish)
5) Ikan Pari (BBQ stingray) - in my opinion the best...
6) Ikan Lebam (BBQ rabbit fish) - signature dish
And if you like food other than fish you can order the following:
1) Tahu bakar
2) Tempe bakar
3) Ayam bakar (grill chicken)
4) Udang bakar (grill prawn)
5) Sotong bakar (grill squid with special chili sauce)
Drinks wise the popular ones are teh obeng, kopi-o, es jeruk (orange juice), kelapa (coconut) and many other fruit juices.
In spore/msia, tea with ice is call tea-o ice
But in batam, they will not understand.
So you have to call it "teh obeng" (sweeten ice tea) Actually the meaning of obeng means screwdriver, don't know how the hell they get this name for tea o ice ?
They will normally brew the jasmine tea with sugar syrup and stir to dissolve before mixing with ice cube.
Two good points about this kopitiam is that it has free Wi-Fi and opens 24hours...
