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S$1,200 Resort World Sentosa Restaurant fish dish shocker




IT IS ONLY OUR RIVER FISH CALLED "SULTAN FISH" FROM THE KUALA LIPIS RIVERMOUTH/ NO BIG DEAL. YOU CAN GET IF FORLESS THAN RM100 IN OUR MALAYSIA RESTURANT
 
 

Friends,

 

Be careful not to order this dish in Resort World Sentosa 

unless you first checked the price!


S$1,200 (about RM2,800) RWS Resort World Sentosa ) fish dish shocker
 

A 35-year-old diner and four friends feasted on a steamed fish dish at a restaurant  in Resorts World Sentosa (RWS). At the end of the meal, upon receiving the bill, his jaw hit the ground.

What seemed like a simple dish ended up costing a whopping S$1,224.
The diner, who only wanted to be known as Mr Liu, took his four friends to RWS’ Feng Shui Innrestaurant on June 12. He had initially asked for marble goby, better known locally as “soon hock”, but was told there was no stock for the fish.
 
A waiter then recommended the white sultan fish instead. The group agreed, without enquiring about the cost of the dish. But when the bill arrived, the five diners were shocked to find that the single sultan fish, weighing 1.8kg, set them back by a staggering S$1,224. ( When you want to eat Sultan Fish, then you have to pay like a Sultan )
 
“(The waiter) didn’t mention the price (of the fish), and we also didn’t think too much about it and just said okay,” Mr Liu told Lianhe Wanbao. He complained about the price of the fish during payment and the restaurant responded by giving him a 15% discount on the bill as a gesture of goodwill. “The customer has the right to know and the restaurant should have made clear its price so we could decide whether it was worth it,” Mr Liu said.
 
In response to the incident, an RWS spokesman claims that the practice of not disclosing menu prices is common in upscale restaurants. “It is not always appropriate to state menu prices to high-end customers who have come to expect a certain discretion when they entertain high-level guests, ” he explains.
 
RWS conceded that the incident could have been a “lapse of judgement” but it was smoothed over quickly with an on-the-spot discount.
 
But is S$68 per 100g for a sultan fish a reasonable amount?
A quick comparison with Capital Restaurant, which has been selling sultan fish for 36 years, reveals that the dish can go for as low as S$6 per 100g. This is less than a tenth of Fengshui Inn’s price tag on the fish
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Chef Pung Lu Tin, 50, of Seafood International Market and Restaurant, explained the sultan fish is sought-after because it was not easy to catch. He added that its meat was “very smooth”.
“The flesh is tender and snow white. It’s a wild river fish, so it eats fruits that drops from trees and bears the fragrance of fruit,” Chef Huang Ching Biao, 58, kitchen operations director at Jin Shan restaurant at MBS told The New Paper.
 
But despite its draw, both chefs added that they have not come across any commanding such a high price. One seafood distributor known only as Mr Lee even described the price of the fish at Fengshui Inn as “outrageous”.
 
This seafood shocker is reminiscent of an incident that occurred in March last year, where six American tourists were charged S$239 for a mere eight tiger prawns at Newton hawker centre.
The stall involved had its licence suspended for three months by the National Environment Agency(NEA) for breaching licencing conditions.
 


 via nikman

 


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