Seafood @ Kang Guan, Pulau Carey

Since our moved from Penang, I am still trying to explore good seafood in KL/Selangor. A friend of mine suggested Pulau Carey, and I went through the blogs, only to find most people recommending this restaurant.
Pulau Carey is basically an oil palm estats and has some oil palm refinery on the island. The seafood restaurant I went to was at the mainland just before the bridge.

Since we went on a Sunday night, the restaurant was already crowded, and we had to wait for some time for our food. Nevertheless, the owner or staff were fairly nice and courteous. My friend's family and mine, which consist about 8 of us went there for dinner.

Butter prawns @ RM30, it was  not oily and fresh. The dish was huge for us, the crowd of 8. The prawns were flavoured well, with the right amount of curry leaves and chilly.

The Fried Calamari @RM15 was quite good. It was crispy and the layer of flour on the calamari was nicely spiced. It was not over-coated with flour and was not soggy at all.

Another dish that we had was the Deep Friend Assam Fish. At RM50, we were served with this humongous "siakap" (white snapper). We had a difficult time to finish up the fish. Taste wise, a balance amount of spiciness and sourness, made it just simply divine!

Besides that we had mixed vegetables and sizzling tauhu, which was just okay. There were not much variety of veges, to say that it was a mixed vegetable dish, but it tasted good. The tauhu did not really come in sizzling.

The main reason we ventured out to Pulau Carey was for the meat crab. And to our disappointment, we were too late and they ran out of crab. So we opted for the soft shell crab. The only way they cooked it here, was to deep fry. To "add salt to injury", the soft shell crab was a total let down for us. We found it too oily, overcoated and over-priced. The dish was RM54.

The total bill came up to RM203 for 8 of us, which I think is a reasonable price for a seafood dinner. The plus points were the fresh food, big serving, ample parking space, a pork free restaurant to cater for the Muslims crowd and nice drive to the restaurant. The not so good things were the long wait for the food, oily soft shell crabs and they charged us RM4 for the peanuts, RM2.70 for the towels and RM1.00 for ice !!

Other than that, I think it is worth the try...