[BlickBassy]

I followed the thread for the longest time. Reference points are made so we can make informed choices.

It is therefore futile to disparage a guidance. Treat it as an opinion. When it comes to value, there are too many stories to tell and there is no end to finding value, bang for buck, no pun intended.

Food. We all love food, even if it is second to sex. If you make a general statement, food, seafood is cheap, some will disagree. I find seafood generally cheap because it is closest to the source. Having said that, seafood is seasonally available. For example, lobster come to batam region from late November to March. At the same time, festive demands for seafood drives up the price. If you don't believe ask the trappers for rabbit fish and they can tell you day by day the prices of these prized catches fluctuate like the stock market. For the local fisherman there are basically two market, one for the Singapore market and one for the local. And for the local market, the middlemen segment them, first the seafood restaurants n hotels then the others like wet markets. There are also 3 kinds of seafood, live, chilled and frozen. If a Chinese fishing trawler with an open TOP near CNY and go to the fish farms and pick up all the stocks..lock stock and barrel, what do you think you will be eating at the batam restaurants.

Don't be silly and argue which place have the best bill. A table size of 4 and one with 12 cannot be compared. There are too many itinerations to provide one single complete picture. I ate seafood every meal from 25th to 27th and personally did not find the bill exorbitant. I think it is a very personal opinion I only share because I find the current bickerings silly. I don't know people like Bro Nono but I find him sincere and trustable. His word is good for me. Others disagree go else because the info shared is not forced down your throat. This is one of the better thread because of people like him. If he says to avoid places like Wey 2, I will continue to go so that I end up paying lesser for my transport bill since I know the driver had already been remunerated by these outlets. I used what bro Nono states categorically here and develop my own game plan. Thank you bro.

For the distractors, just fark off ok, we got our bangs for buck. And I forgot to tell you my Christmas bang was FOC. That will be another story. cheers