Location: Semporna
Top Restaurants in Semporna
Most Popular Seafood food in Semporna, Sabah, Malaysia
Find out what Seafood restaurants to try in Semporna. Semporna (Malay: Pekan Semporna) is the capital of the Semporna District in the Tawau Division of Sabah, Malaysia. Its population was estimated to be around 35,301 in 2010.
Things to do in Semporna
9. Row Row Lepa
Business hour 0730 - 2200 daily. Breakfast with our special nasi lemak dish fresh live seafood and local bajau food nightly cultural dance performance starting from 1830 - 2030 hrs
Reviewed By juergenp1957
We stayed in Seefest and in Dragon Inn and went for possible lunch and dinner there,... its definitely one of the best seafood places where we have been throughout our travel in normal life, not highpriced and image attracting - its a normal SABAH place but excellent, Mr. Mike the "seafood expert" is speaking great english and consulting you with big big open heart to delicious food and other explanation about Semporna etc.... Mr. Mike and his colleges make the place to this what it is - A great place to have lunch and a real great place for seafood dinner !
8. Anjung D'Samudera Cafe
Reviewed By Green P
We reached Semporna at noon and desperately looking for place to eat. A taxi driver recommended us this restaurant. When we reached there, it seems like the restaurant just open for business, there are only 2 small size of fish and the other 3 fish tanks were empty...and we were half hearted to eat there.However, the waitress convinced us that they are ready to take order. We decided to order something fast and easy...seafood noodle but unfortunately they only have prawns and chicken. The food did not look appetising and the chicken was not cooked well. We were very dissappointed!! We will not come here again!
7. Original Seafood and Co
We serve authentic Western cuisine, everything is made from scratch and fresh! Also, we offer fresh seafood as well , cook with different style!
Reviewed By marcsK6783WD
Friendly Boss, he gave me lot of good advice for this special city.Very good restaurant, you have choice mix local and some western menu.I asked for a spicy local special sauce, for my prawns, it was so delicious !Price correct.Thanks againmerci beaucoup, Marc. Is been our pleasure to served you. Hope to see you again. :)
6. Dragon Inn
Reviewed By Tyler S
Really great grilled food and they were very accommodating to change sauces on their amazing fresh seafood! Slipper lobsters, crabs and mantis shrimp are all must tries! Slow service and bad smell from the sea brought it down a bit.. Also, there is a great massage spot nearby on the second floor of the hotel that my group all went to. If you get a massage, you can use their cinema for free all night, great for a night off from drinking at the dive shop!
5. Fish Village Seafood Restaurant
Overall Ratings
3 based on 27 reviews
Reviewed By markvhki
This place was full of eaters mostly from China so decided to try it. After 5 minutes trying to get table for two person and making eye contact with TWO waiters and asking table from them, needed to go directly to cash counter as they kept ignoring us. They found us a table and same ignorance continued, they failed to give us menus in 10 minutes after which we told the person in charge that your service is rude - he basically throw us out (well we were on our way out anyway).There are lot of seafood restaurants on seafront, take any one of them over this ignorant and rude place where they treat you like a trash!
4. Seafood Restaurant Semporna
Reviewed By annamarie Y
i'm not sure if this is a newly opened restaurant or the owner hasn't done much advertising, i'm so astonished that its name was not on trip advisor!while this is really an excellent restaurantwe came here just by chance, of course our local friends had recommended Fat Mother and Tian Wang and some other restaurants in the seafront area, including this one. they were all good restaurants. but how to choose? we were here just because it's already open at 2 pm (after we had just settled down after long flights and connections). we had planned to take something simple and enjoy a feast in the evening. but after checking the menu we found the portions were big (for example the small noodles were for at least 2-3 persons) so we decided to order different dishes to share. Then one guy in our group (who is a boss :)) lost control and it seemed he'd like to try more things than fast foods. then finally we were already enjoying a big feast in the late afternoon :D.the prices of sea foods in southeast asia are cheaper than in the other places, that was something known to everybody. But generally speaking we think the taste of them is not so competitive with those from our hometown (we're from Dalian, China which is also a very famous sea city) since the water temperature here is higher, while we believe that the lower the seawater's temperature is , the delicious the sea foods are. when i was in thailand and indonesia i always found the sea foods tasteless, but here in A Zhang it was different!yes i'm vegetarian and used not, but i do try things for purpose of comparison. Fat mother was good, but we were there once and my friends found the steamed fish was under-cooked. so they asked the kitchen to steam it more, unfortunately after which the fish became bitter, we didn't know why. Fat mother has good reputation and we found it was crowded with guests (after 2 days of closing, donnot know why). maybe the kitchen was too busy to keep things perfect. But A Zhang's chef always cooked things in a flavorous way. i guess it changed my idea about the sea foods in southeast asia.besides the foods, the boss and the staff here were all very nice people. The boss took my friends to the may bank on his own motorcycle, and when we had no enough ringgit to pay the bill (how could we? we'd spent it all here :D), we could just put some dollars here and change back when we had ringgit on the next day! in the end the boss accepted that we could settle in dollar, although they didn't accept it on routinein the 1st evening my friends tried another restaurant in the neighborhood, i was not there, but they said that put aside the taste the portion there was smaller. and then we tried fat mother on the 3rd day, as i mentioned above, but we all agreed that A Zhang prevailed over all, that's why we were there every day afterwards during our whole stay in sempornawhen we were there, every time when the foods were ready the boss asked for our permission to take a pic of the table. we asked why? it was said that he was trying to put the pics on a chinese app (sth similar to trip advisor). we were very glad to do so since we believed it was worthy. And it was also why i'm willing to add a name of it here too to help the restaurant known by more people, it just deserves it!
3. Ocean Treasure Live Seafood Restaurant
Overall Ratings
3 based on 50 reviews
Located just beside Sipadan Inn II, in a relatively new development area of Semporna.We offer an Al Fresco dining environment with a superb seaview just outside our premises. Suitable for families, couples and groups of all ages.
Reviewed By Sonja_casha
We got to this restaurant from the market side and were so hungry we didn't bother to walk the whole street as we would have probably chosen one of the other similar restaurant that looked cleaner. Nevertheless the food was good and the price was not high. The guy who served us was very nice and spoke English. While we were there some kids hid behind the table and begged us for money making signs they were hungry. They had no clothes on and were very dirty. I gave them a little money and the restaurant lady came to shoo them away.
2. Restoran Thien Wang
Reviewed By Almyhappy
After our disappointed meal at Fat Mother yesterday, we went Thien Wang as it was recommended by the dive shop. The restaurant here all have the freshest ingredients and live seafood, but in terms of culinary skill, I give Thien Wang 3 thumbs up!! Great...Buttery Crayfish - out of this worldSteam Grouper - perfectly steam and tastyLady's finger's - crunchy and tastytomato egg - yummy
1. Fat Mother Semporna
Overall Ratings
4 based on 122 reviews
Reviewed By SengYP
I had lunch here as I read through the review it seems to be difficult to get a table at night.Ordered a fish, crab and few other seafood. Taste wasn't impressive but seafood is fresh.
