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Langkawi is located at state of Kedah Malaysia and about 30km~40km of the mainland coast of northwestern Malaysia. Langkawi is an island by itself and part of the state of Kedah. I've been here for few times, with my recent visit I've stayed a bit longer than usual to enjoy the holiday with my family.
We have stayed at 2 different hotel during our visit just to have a difference flavor of location since we been staying for 1 week.First half of the week we stayed at a hotel at area of Pantai Tengah Langkawi and the other half of week we have stayed at Pantai Kok Langkawi. If you looking for the happening place, you can choose to stay at Pantai Cenang Langkawi.
I would recommend if you want to have a peaceful area, relaxing with family or couple, please try search hotel at the Pantai Kok area. You might find good peaceful hotel there away from the crowd.
We have stayed at Tanjung Santuary - Beachfront Villa , and it was awesome, truly relaxing and had a good time with my wife and kids. You will not regrets.
Ok now, lets talk about what I had or ate when we were staying at Langkawi. On the first night we have visited this local restaurant near by Holiday Villa Hotel, the restaurant called Maya Restaurant. It run by locals, and they serving local foods. I tell you, the cook is good! I taste was like you had your mum cooking at home. They used fresh ingredients,we ordered "Ikan Kerapu Sweet & Sour" (Fish Dish), Oxtail Sup, Duck Green Curry, "Telur Dadar" - Omelet Malaysian Style & White rice. Hmmm it was nice. The foods that we order are actually typical menu that you can find at any stall at Malaysia, but what difference in Maya Restaurant was, the taste and they way they cooked it is really like homemade style of cooking where you can have all the taste which needed were there in the foods. Maybe I would say, "Cook with Love" , obviously this restaurant they focus on the food quality rather than to make money from the customer.
Take note that, this restaurant is not the 5 stars restaurant, it just normal local Malaysian style restaurant. Don't expect air-condition, fancy plate with expensive fork and spoon.
Recommend for all to go and try regardless if you are Malaysian or Tourist. Should give a try if you looking to have a local Malaysian Taste.
MAYA RESTAURANT
LOCATION: MAYA RESTAURANT - Near / Infront of Holiday Villa Hotel
GPS: N 6 16.52 , E 99 44.05
Another local food that famous at Langkawi is Laksa Kedah. Again, I found this stall near by Langkawi Airport Runaway - where you can eat Laksa and Cendol while enjoying view of the sea and aircraft take off or landing :D
They call this stall (actually not a stall, just a van carry the foods). Hawker style. The name is "Laksa Power". You wont miss it if you going to Airport direction it will be on your left hand by the sea.
Location : Laksa Power - Near Langkawi Airport
GPS: N 6 19.50 , E 99 43.37
This what we had, Rojak, Laksa and Cendol
They have variety of Rojak that you can select from, and also Laksa and Cendol
Ok what else? We drove down from our hotel at Pantai Kok - Tanjung Santuary. Drove down to the near by Petronas (To Fuel up / Petrol Station). After that? Well hungry, we went nearby there, and saw on building and the restaurant signboard say "Maharaja Restaurant". The restaurant is located nearby Petronas Petrol station, you will need to drive along Pantai Kok Road, until you reach at Perdana Quay (where you can see a lot of boats, private boats docking). When you see Petronas, the restaurant is somewhere hidden behind Petronas.
This restaurant serve Arabic cuisine, but somehow I found butter curry chicken in the menu(does it more indian?), so I order "Butter Curry Chicken". Turn out it was nice, the curry is thick with mild taste of butter and some yogurt. Delicious! I think the restaurant have both Indian and Arabic cuisine.
They have nice cozy setup of the restaurant, if you prefer eating outside at their patio will be wonderful view facing the Perdana Quay. The restaurant is open from 11AM to 11PM if I'm not mistaken. So dinner here will be awesome too with the delicious foods they have.
BUTTER CURRY CHICKEN
Location: Maharaja Restaurant - Pantai Kok - Perdana Quay
GPS: Sorry forgot to save it
But as mentioned, drive down along Pantai Kok Road, until you reach Perdana Quay, when you see Petronas, the restaurant already nearby hidden behind Petronas.
View from the Maharaja Restaurant
Another spot that I would recommend, is "The Loaf" restaurant at Langkawi, it at Perdana Quay as well. They have both local and western or eastern cuisine. Below was what we choose to ate that day.
What myself, wife and kids ordered ;) Look delicious? It does taste delicious too!!
I can't remember the name, but the one with eggs, was their signature lunch set. with potatoes, vege, egg and patty beef. The brown sauce was super nice, does well with egg and the beef. As you see the big prawn stick out of the bread, that was soup. It actually a bread, they dig the hole at the middle, and pour the soup in, creative heh.. :)
Overall, the foods here are delicious, and tasty...not sure, maybe I'm bias, but it does taste very good compare to The Loaf @ Bangsar Village Kuala Lumpur :P
THE LOAF LANGKAWI KEDAH
GPS: Sorry forgot to save it - it was at Perdana Quay
After all western, local food, we had gone to Eastern food..oh Well it Japanese Foods.
Highly recommend Japanese Foods at Langkawi, please go to Unkaizen, it will not fail you. The restaurant nicely setup based on Japanese zen concept. You can choose to eat inside the restaurant of eat outside and have a great sunset view. (Take note if you decided to eat outside, please wear long pants to avoid mosquito)
DINNER AT UNKAIZEN JAPANESE RESTAURANT LANGKAWI
Location : Unkaizan Japanese Restaurant
GPS: Sorry forgot to save it, but it near by Holiday Villa, drive up a little bit to the mountain and you will see the signboard on your left.
Just keep driving along the road.
Address : Lot 395, Jalan Telok Baru Pantai Tengah, 07000 Langkawi, Kedah Malaysia
I ordered Sake Shio Yaki, with rice, tempura and some sashimi. Look at the way they serve the rice, was traditionally prepared - Japanese old school way :)
Overall, the foods was very good but a bit pricy. It has the authentic taste of Japanese .
My wife love it and overall we very satisfied with the foods here as well as the service.
The restaurant was own by the Japanese, and seem the owner have hired Japanese Native to run the restaurant, which make the restaurant really Japanese environment restaurant, not like some other Japanese restaurant you can find in Kuala Lumpur where run by Chinese or Malay owner. During my visit to the restaurant, at least more than 2 waitress were Japanese and the cashier was Japanese native as well. Definately will comeback here if we go to Langkawi again..
One day we went to Langkawi Fair Shopping Mall to find something for my wife. While we were there shopping, we saw this one shop where they sell wood carving, some nice fine arts and believe it or not, they have cafe inside. They all it "Tropical Living Restaurant". So we had short stop to have a drink and I've tried their Mushroom soup with garlic bread..and it was really not disappoint us. The taste of freshly made Mushroom soup was very delicious, and you can taste the fine cut of the mushroom itself when you sipping your soup!
Mushroom Soup @ Tropical Living Restaurant Langkawi
Location: Langkawi Fair Shopping Mall - it was inside the shopping mall, ground floor. This shopping mall is at Kuah and near Jetty.
Address : Langkawi Fair Shopping Mall, Jalan Persiaran Putera, 07000 Kuah Langkawi
