Pantai Restaurant

Bandar Seri Begawan


The beachside restaurant at the Empire Hotel & Country Club serves an overpriced (mostly) seafood buffet every evening that includes some unimaginative sushi, king prawns, defrosted scallops and mussels, Alaskan king crab, noodle and rice dishes and desserts. Service is erratic and it tends to run out of items quite early on.


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