Ba Li Pan Da Jia Fa Duck Rice - 八里半大家发鸭肉

Johorkaki was my favorite blog whenever I need help in JB foods. And I happen to saw this particular review which he wrote about this fabulous duck rice located at Jalan Skudai. Don't ask me where is the exact location, all I know is that we pass by Sutera Mall. Thankfully he provided the GPS: 1.523723, 103.6724 details and we manage to get to the place smoothly!

You got to park at the roadside, there isn't any proper parking area here. And yes, this 'open concept' restaurant is under a Big Tree! Having a little toddler, I'm always concern if there is any baby chair at the place that we are going. They do have a very 'antique' high chair which is made of those rainbow plastic strips and is clean! Expect a long queue during lunch hour!

Opening hours

Tau Kwee - This dish came first and we waited around 15mins for the others to come. Is very soft with a little taste of herbal.

Mixed Organs - Sadly no more pig bloods, they have stop selling   It is nicely braised, no stinky smell and tender.

Duck meat - You can find lots of tender and juicy meats instead of bones. With a some taste of herbal and goes perfectly with their chills! 

Kway Tiao - Since I am here, I choose to tried this. Probably not my liking as the gravy is thicker like having lor mee and the kway tiao has absorb much of the sauce that makes the whole dish heavy, sorry.

Total damange: $35RM with 3 drinks! My goodness, where can you find such price with so many foods? FYI, I ordered for 2 adults to share with my older kid. Filling, nice food and definitely worth the return! My hub won't mind the drive for good food!

 (Credit from Johor Kaki)

Address: Jalan Kilang Nenas (Jalan Skudai Batu 8½ near Lee Pineapple Factory and SJK Kuo Kuang school)

Map: http://g.co/maps/r4qqu

GPS: 1.523723, 103.6724

Hours: 8:30am to 4:00pm (closed on first day of every lunar month)

Uncle Tom's Tavern @ JB

One of my favourite JB makan blog and let me found a cheap and delicious western food in JB. After our groceries shopping at Plentong Giant we decide to hop by this place for dinner. Is it next to Tesco Extra Plentong located at those shophouses.

Do note that they are closed on Sunday! We reached around 7pm and still manage to get a table, service was superb and food was good too. We ordered Calamari, Chicken Burger, Black Pepper Chicken Chop and Cajun Salmon with drinks. I have stated the price below, worth it or is it cheap is up to you to judge. A happy meal = A happy customer

The Restaurant

 

Menu

 

Calamari $11.90RM - Was a little bland, average dish nothing to shout about

 

Huge Chicken Burger $12.90RM - The chicken patty was good, not oily and tender

 

Cajun Salmon $15.90RM - My happy dinner, generous serving and healthy

 

Sizzling Chicken Chop $14.90RM  

 

You can find them at:

G31, Jalan Masai Jaya, Plentong

 

Opening Hours:

Monday - Saturday 8.30am - 10.30pm

(Closed on Sunday)

Kiang Kee Bak Kut Teh @ Kota Tinggi

Went all the way to tried the famous Bak Kut Teh @ Kota Tinggi but I made a mistake to go during PH (9th Aug). Luckily custom was not jam and it took my hub to drive an hour to reach, 45 minutes to Q (look at the picture of the crowd) and 30 minutes to wait for food. It was the longest time waiting for my food ever...

Is so hard to find a table and by the time we ordered is already coming to 11am and mostly all the side dishes has sold out including my favourite you tiao  so we just ordered the Ba Ku Teh and Salted Vegetable.

The soup taste is way different from the one we had in JB, it was really good, strong and favourable but if you ask me to come back here again I will think twice. After this we went to Desaru Ostrich farm which is another hour drive again................

Oh by the way I found a link on youtube showing the direction to the BKT place, hope it helps for those who is going from Singapore
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You can find them at:

 

Batu 8 1/2, Jalan Mawai, Kota Tinggi. 81900 Johor

 Opening Hour:

 

7.30 am to 12 am (or untill sold out)

Tel : +607 8821290

 

Che Go Korean BBQ Tebrau City Jusco

Brought my bestie to JB for a walked and had planned to bring her to have buffet at Grand Paragon hotel since is for her birthday but a pity that their buffet only served on Saturday. So we thought of bring her for korean food since she is a hard core fan of korean stuff, simply mad crazy of it

Okay I better stop saying her before she murder me lols.... We chance upon this restaurant at Jusco and they had a great deal for 4 pax for $78RM but is not buffet style but I still find it cheap.

Best thing about this place is you don't have to cook the meat by yourself but the staff will do it for you and the bad is if you choose to sit at the low table be prepare to step on a sticky and oily floor. Their side dishes are free flow but not much variety, I miss the one I had in Singapore at Ju Shin Jung their variety is so much that can filled up your stomach. The set meal comes with one choices of meat and we choose chicken since they can't have pork here (you should know why) and it comes with the sides, seafood pancake, korean style fried cellophane noodles (dong fen) and soup. My bestie was talking about nice and very yummy korean rice cake so we also ordered for her and forgotten to take picture of this and also ordered dumpling soup requested by my husband.

The menu

The sides

The BBQ at the side of the table

Start BBQ!

Korean style fried cellophane noodles just like Phad Thai very nice

Seafood Pancake - I am missing this! Is was very fragrant and nice, is not fluffy or very starchy aiya is just very nice la

Kimchi Soup - Nah not nice at all, is like red water soup totally tasteless

Dumpling soup - This is nice, very light and sweet we finish the whole pot of soup! Dumpling of course is chicken as well, nothing special except the soup

Total bill come up to $150RM, expensive or not for all the food we ordered is for you to decide

You can find them at:

Jusco Tebrau City Shopping Centre

1 Jalan Desa Tebrau , Johor Bahru, Malaysia

Level 3

Operating Hours :

9:30am to 11pm

Sushi King @ Tebrau City

Happened to be at Jusco JB on a weekend and my girl was craving for sushi so we went to Sushi King to tried out.

It was crowded, restaurant was full, service here was very bad and food here wasn't fantastic at all! We were given the seats near to the belt and what surprise me was that people from the table at the side came to the belt and grab the plate instead of ordering. Do you get to see this in Singapore? Really speechless! Lols

Husband order his Teriyaki noodle and my girl order kids meal since it was only $9.90RM. I had what was on the belt and also ordered my favourite salmon skin. It was upset because their salmon skin was soggy skin with weird sauce, is cold and yucks!

No doubt some of their sushi is real cheap but cheap don't come good. I reminded them more than 3 times for my girl kids meal they just asked me to wait.After my husband has finished his noodle my girl food still not here yet and my husband was boil and went straight to their kitchen and asked for it. They asked him to go back his seats and it will be served shortly but my husband insist them to do it straight away and in the end they are the one who has forgotten our ordered but keep asking us to wait. And I don't understand why is it so difficult to prepare the kids meal whereby is only a few pieces of chicken with rice.

This will be my first and last time coming here. I wonder if they have tried the real sushi they should come tried our local sushi is so much better than their so called sushi. Calling themselves Sushi King it simply don't justify!

www.sushi-king.com

Restoran 59 Abalone Noodle JB

I am going into JB very regular nowadays mainly for grocery shopping, for yummy food and car washing. Their car washing is definitely cheaper than SG and better service.

Recently I went to this famous Abalone Noodle located near Taman Sentosa, I try to search for address but seems like there is no exact address only found from another blog that it is located at Jalan Kelewang (Turn in from Jala Keris / Beside Wisma Tiong Hua). Is about 5-10mins drive from the JB custom. Is near to the famous Taman Sentosa Food Centre where people go for their seafood and this noodle stall is after the Shell station and turn right into the small lane and you will see this stall as it is facing to the small road. You will spot a small van selling Lok Lok and you will know you are in the right place already.

We ordered the 'L' size abalone noodle, the difference is not the extra noodle but more ingredients
The soup is simply naturally sweet and tasty, really alot of ingredients!!! Pork, (fake) abalone, prawn, meat ball, prawn, oyster and so on. I love the noodle with the nice black sauce, is not too dry and noodles are just right and not over cooked. And we ordered their Jelly juice which is a must to ordered here
Don't forget to ordered the 'Lok Lok' is their local delights which can't be found in SG. Lok Lok is like kebab but in a smaller portion lol or like our malay satay but in many variety hahaha.... Oh I found my favourite 'pig blood' at the lok lok and dip with their super hot & spicy chili is so yummlicious

One thing I love going to JB to eat is because some of their food which cannot be found in SG and in SG we are more particular of cleaniness so to eat along the road side or at a open space carpark with many cheap food is not very possible la lol

Definitely worth the return, cheap and nice food makes my stomach go grumping now

Todak Seafood JB

Not sure why lately I seem to fall in love with the seafood in JB. Heard from my god papa who is a malaysian told me about this Todak seafood near Permas and out of the sudden hubby decided to go and give a tried.

Okay I went to search for a map online and use it to head to Todak but it was outdated already. It asked us to drive to Jalan Dedaru 11 and we will see a Restoran Tepi Pantai but when the GPS lead us there it was a dead end, it was all landed property and we didn't see any Restoran at all. At last we found our way there and realize there is a new expressway which can lead all the way there without any detour. Just turn right after JB custom head all the way straight, roughly about 25min of drive and you will notice Permas Jusco on your left and at this moment look out for signboard giving you the direction to Todak. Is actually a U-turn ahead and than turn left into a tiny road and all the way to the end you will see a few seafood place, turn right in for Todak.

We reach here around 6.30pm and never expected it was already so crowded for a ulu restaurant like this. If you want tried dinning on a kelong with a great seaview and a nice sunset view you got to come here though the food wasn't that great but is a place which you can't find in Singapore.

Take note!!! There is NO SERVICE here!!!! Lol You just got to do your yelling and waving for the them to come and take your order. Next time I will tried to come eariler as I realize all the cheap crab which is at 40RM and 60RM per kg was totally SOLD OUT!!! Oh my godness lollol

We ordered Chili crab, Cereal Prawn, Vegetable, Steamed Seabass and a Soup, total damage was $137RM. The billed was expensive due to the crab which is at 90RM per kg but the fish was reasonable it was half a kg at the price of 50RM. I will bring my friends here the next round, I actually prefer to have a larger group to have seafood so we can ordered more to share :P
They even give free fruits platter after you finish your dinner, still not too bad after all.

Chili crab was normal, not very spicy I still prefer the crab at San Low and the tool that they use here for the cracking the crab shell was HUGE!!!! So funny, I thought what the fish is that for lollol

Vegetable, plain and very normal

Cereal prawn portion was small maybe because is just the 3 of us so they didnt give much but it was fragrant and quite nice

Steam Seabass this fish was very fresh, tender and smooth. The sauce was good for my girl to go with her white rice.

Soup was pretty normal as well

Address: No. 1, Orang Asli, Telok Jawa, Masai.
81750 Johor Bahru. Johor, Malaysia
Tel: 07-386 3696   
Opening hours: 11.30am - 11.30pm
Web: http://rest-todak.com.my/index.html

San Low Resturant JB

Happen to passed by this restaurant during my last trip, heard that their quite popular especially their fried bee hoon so we decided to come and give a tried. Is about 10min drive from custom, you have to turn right into Taman Pelangi and is located at the junction of Jalan Biru. You have to turn right when you see a church and head all the way straight you will reach their resturant. Their located among the landed houses and it was quite crowded during dinner time.

San Low their restaurant name is like directed translate from chinese, 3rd Floor restaurant. It really give me the thought that their 3 storey high or something but I am so wrong :P Heard of their famous fried bee hoon, too bad we never ordered it but maybe the next time round. Services wise no comment, you just got to do your shouting and waving lol this is JB not Singapore :P
We ordered Chilli Crab at 80RM per kg, Dou Miao, Cereal Prawn and Salted Vegetable soup.

Chili crab: Super de duper good, I am not kidding the crab claw was filled with fresh and succulent meat, don't forget to ordered fried mantou(bun) to dip with the starchy and spicy sauce. Best of all the crab meat won't stick on to the shell, it was finger licking good :P

Cereal prawn: Hmmm prawn was big and fresh but it was a little hard and dry, I rate this dish, average. Maybe the crab was too good till I got no feeling for this dish hahaha

Dou Miao and soup was pretty normal so no much comment on both of the dishes. Overall damage I think is less than 120RM is pretty worth it and is definitely worth the return. Will come back and tried their fried bee hoon the next round :)

Address: Jalan Biru, Taman Pelangi
Tel: 07-332 3869
Opening hours: 4.30pm -1am
Web: http://www.sanlowseafood.com/location.html

Pekin Restaurant 北京海鲜楼（圣淘沙）

Had a family dinner here over the Christmas holiday. This restaurant is quite well known in Johor area and this particular one we went to is next to a Ah Koong Noodle Restaurant. I guess driving here will be a little difficult if you don't know JB road well.

I didn't manage to take a look at their menu because all dishes are ordered by my brother. He came here often so I guess he knows what's nice here. He ordered Peking Duck, Herbal Chicken, Fried Rice, Fried Dong Fen (cellophane noodles), Hongkong Noodle, Cereal Prawn, Braised Pork Trotters and Red Bean Pancake.

Total bill come up to $315RM for 13 pax which is very worth it, food is nice and is definitely worth the return.

Both the Fried noodle is nice, is not oily and not too dry but kinda of too soft for my liking lox

Bottom left: Peking Duck - It don't look like Peking Duck to me because there is no wraps for us to go with it, anyway this whole duck is very tender and best of all is not dry and it is really cheap. I think the whole duck cost less than 50 RM and my sister husband almost wanted to pack one back to SG lolx

Bottom right: Herbal Chicken in foil - The sauce contains a little alcohol so I can't take much of this and is a little too salty but the chicken is very soft and tender and is a little too small to serve 13 pax lolx

Top left: Cereal Prawn - Cereal is fragrant and nice but prawn is dry and hard, what a pity

Bottom: Mixed vegetable - I think is french bean with brinjal, the vegetable is very fresh and the fried garlic make the whole dish very fragrant and nice

Top right: Braised Pork Trotters - Juicy, soft and the fats is so smooth and tender. If you don't mind the extra calories you got to try this dish

Bottom: Red Bean Pancake - I ate 4 pieces of this, is not so sweet is soft with slight crispness, so yummy lolx



You can find them at:

Address：NO. 38, JALAN BALDU LIMA, TAMAN SENTOSA, 80150 JOHOR BAHRU, JOHOR.

Telephone：607-333 2928, 607-332 0902

Opening Hours:

11.00am - 11.00pm

Shun Fa Bak Kut Teh @ Permas Jaya JB

Had my favourite herbal bak kut teh over the weekend at Permas Jaya JB. I miss their bak kut teh and when I wanted to blog on this, I realise they have another outlet at Taman Sentosa as well. Heard from one of my collegue their ba kut teh are quite famous in JB.

Their menu is written very big on a board mount on the wall. When the guy came and take our order we asked for his suggestion and he also asked if we wanted additional ingredients like pig intestine, golden mushroom etc... We also ordered their sesame chicken which is served in a claypot to tried out. One thing to take note, remember to ordered their ginseng drink which is their specialist here. I get to know after seeing alot of people ordering it and it taste very freshing and sweet.

The bak ku teh soup is served in a claypot has well, the taste of the herbal is neither too strong or too light just nice, perfect! Just a little dissapointment that the meat is not tender enough if not it will be great. The guy miss out our yu tiao . As for the sesame chicken, it is sweet, tender and has a strong hua tiao chiew (chinese cooking wine) taste. Love the sauce from the chicken, thick and sweet goes well with the white rice.

Total bill come up to $46.50RM which I felt is reasonable enough for the mixed soup, sesame chicken, 3 rice and 3 drinks. I will tried their another oulet when I come into JB again

Sorry, I am not able to provide their full adress but their located is next to Okid hotel at Permas Jaya

No. 41, Jalan Permas 10/7,
Bandar Bahru Permas Jaya,
81750 Johor Bahru

 They will be closed on 2 Monday in a month and they operate from 9am - 9pm.

Taman Sentosa - Jalan Sutera Satu

Closed on Wednesday

Farmland Porridge Steamboat

After buying our groceries at JB we head to Farmland for our dinner. Farmland is futher up from JB the only way to get there is by car and not forgetting GPS to lead the way.

This place wasn't packed even is a weekend. Mostly people bring their family here for dinner. They only comes in either set menu or ala-carte but not buffet style. We choose ala-carte as there is more varieties to choose from. The steamboat was serve in claypot unlike the usual metal pot and it is porridge base so it can be quite filling. The porridge was very smooth and with all the added ingredients to it makes the porridge taste sweeter. Their food is very fresh and there is plenty of choice for you to choose. Total bill was less than $50RM for 2 person but also have to depend on what you order. I will come back again probably will ask some friends to join in too.

You can find them at

Farmland Porridge Steamboat