We decided to eat at fatCUPID because the TripAdvisor reviews were so enthusiastic about the food. I suppose it depends on what you are comparing it to. The food were perfectly decent and probably better than the plethora of largely empty restaurants lining the main road.For the starter, we had satay, which was the best dish. The meat was succulent and not dry; and the sauce was not just the standard peanut curry. We asked if the fish was fresh and were vehemently assured that it was. So we both had fish dishes for the main course. Both were perfectly edible , but not outstanding. The Malay dish was not recognisable as Nyonya cuisine, whatever the restaurant's claims. (As we have both spend much of our lives in maritime South East Asia and eat Nyonya/Peranakan food when possible, we may be rather discriminating judges.) To give fatCUPID a chance to shine, we ordered the other dish from the European part of the menu. It was acceptable but not special. Langkawi being an island with a big fishing industry we hoped that the fish would be really fresh, which it was not. With only a quarter of the tables occupied and so turnover slow, perhaps this is not surprising.Acceptable but not worth going out of your way for, especially if you have a car, as there are far better venues on the island.
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