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Originally Posted by micmac888
LOOOOL, truth be told. as I live in Batam Center, to drive to INSTAR/PENUIN wet market, means I have to get up much earlier than usual ¨C beat rush hour, and find parking (packed during mornings ¨C especially the wet markets). Once a while, ok. But if its really good, or great value, food I still am unable to getting up much earlier and driving almost everyday just for a $2-$3 meal.
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Being a person who eat to live,i still prefer those everyday food i rush to eat to fill myself up on a daily basis,the Bak Chor Mee,fishball noodles,chicken rice,char siew rice etc etc,hehehe...i would most gladly exchange my bowl of bird nest or abalone (if i have) for a bowl of simple bak chor mee....
Thats how i couldnt survive a wedding dinner,hehehe....(my parents says so)
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Originally Posted by micmac888
So I am being selfish actually. I write food-FR is so that these value-for-money (Btm-standards), good-food (to me) businesses perhaps further flourish. Have actually seen, and heard (from local friends) good food stalls close or cutdown/substitute-ingredients due to lack of biz , or increasing costs, or (like ADI 88 case), forced out of location / vanish. When such thing happens, what I eat ? I also *susah* as I live-to-eat.
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Selfish? No,i dont think you are.
We all have our own reason/s. You just did something i had an idea sometime ago to plan to do. But i can only be in Batam once or at most twice a month hence i was limited by my own experience. Lucky there is "you" (and some other good bros) posting those food FRs in Batam,which i start bookmarking and do some research of my own online. Rome is not build in one day and i take my time too.
Lets not forget,what would most of the mongers go Batam for? Beside bonking all day,party all night,we also need to recuperate after all the "strenuous" exercise,hehehe... So what do we do next? We relax in a massage shop with a cosy environment to relieve our muscles and eat things right at our convenience so we recuperate ourselves fast enough to continue our enjoyable "strenuous" exercise again,and then repeat the whole process next day all over,hehehe...just going with being part of nature. Eat ,rest,bonk and try to survive then repeat process.
This thread already have the cheonging list where there is a list of massage places in place,and then there is a basic guide to help newbie survive their 1st few trips to Batam. So its about time there is something good (and convenient) to fill the stomach so as to call the Batam info thread complete,hehehe...
Some older generation (age 65+) keeps telling me,Batam got nothing much to offer,a 3D2N is an absolute waste of time etc,hehehe...i told them,they just didnt find the right element to stay longer.
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Originally Posted by micmac888
So I always try , never-try-never-know even if its not my cup of tea. Example : My trip to FR INSTAR yielded a mutual-benefit : got Momo to understand the competitive landscape and created "Momo-size". Win-win (I eat one bowl @ RP20K, instead of 2 std bowls at total RP36K, and he having created the quiet-low-profile upsize-portion based on my feedback of ingredients - made himself even more competitive and attractive to walk-ins)
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Hehehe...this reminds me of the experiment i am doing now with nearly all the booking joints and some massage places. I shant elaborate this part. Just wish to say,keep up the good work....doing things bit by bit within your strength and time is way better than just seat somewhere doing nothing but make a lot of noise, complain things are how bad and how bad which we often see in real life....
The easiest thing to do in life is,do nothing and simply give up.