Grazia Cafe @ Sutera, JB

     Where is a nice place to have high tea with your buddy? Today, let's introduce a nice coffee house to you. Grazia cafe located at the taman sutera, which is nearby the Sutera Shopping Mall. This is a small but nice ambiance cafe. 

Knowledge of coffee

Decoration of the cafe

     The interior design was great. Wall decorated with several painting and there was a book shelf which provide you a reading material while you are enjoying your coffee. Besides, there was a corner which displayed the type of coffee beans, books about the coffee and accessory to sell. You can having your meal at the dining table, sofa or bar table as long as you are comfort with. By the way, if you wanna to have a long section here, please don't choose the low sofa without back seat, you really will torture your backbone.

Left top: Flatwhite, Right top: Caramel Machiatto,
Left below: Cafe latte,  Right below: Double Ristretto Cappucino

Left top to right down: Smoked duck aglio olio, Chicken chop, Cheese cake, Tomato Sauce Pasta

     The latte art here was quite nice as well as the taste of coffee. The carameal machiatto was strongly recommend for the sweet lover. Double ristretto cappucino smells good! Overall, all the coffee here really achieve a standard level. But they can't do a latte art on flat white ;(

     For the spaghetti, smoked duck aglio olio was delicious. It has little bit spicy but the taste will lingering in your mouth for long time. The chicken chop also recommended as the chicken was grill with nice, tender and juicy. However, the pasta with tomato sauce was too simple and lose to the aglio olio. Other than that, here also has pizza, sandwich and cakes.

     The cheese cake was really a suitable dessert. Really delicious and won't feel bored with the cheese.

     Overall, this is a nice shop with friendly screws, nice ambiance, nice food and cheaper price. You may make a visit here.

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Adress: 80, Jalan Sutera Tanjung 8/3, Taman Sutera Utama, 81300 Skudai, Johor, Malaysia

     

Dong Seoul Korea Restaurant

For Korean food lover, this is definitely a recommended place you must go for. This korean restaurant named dong seoul korean restaurant. The design and decoration in this restaurant are simple and comfortable, which make you feel the cuisine of korean once you step into this restaurant!! The table design is just exactly same as the korean style, which you are required to sit on the floor to enjoy the meal (which you see from the korean drama).

For it's food, I will recommend that it's better for a group of friends to chill out together, as it is really big portion it will serve. More that what you have imagine. As observe from the situation during the day, I will recommend 4-6 person per table as it is just sufficient and nice. The tasty and delicious food that I wanna recommend is their "fried dong hoon". You will never have any chance to taste such funny , tricky and delicious food in your life, as there is no way that it can be cook in such a way except in korean restaurant. Since I tried out in this restaurant, it totally change my mind and concept towards "dong hoon". It is a kind of noodle , transparent in color, and need be soak in water to make it soft before can be cook and serve. The tenderness and simple ingredient that cook together with it will gave you surprise for every bite you take. 

Fried Dong Hoon

As for korean cuisine, bbq meat is a necessary to be presence on any dish they serve on the table, so as to immerse in such situation, I also ordered the pork which marinated before hand.

 For any meat that you ordered, they will all come with side dish. After a rough count, there is estimately 11 side dish they serve. There is really plenty as it totally occupied your table!! One of the benefit that you can gain from this restaurant is that all the side dish are free to top up, which means there is no worry for you to charge for additional side dish!!

 After the end of your meal, the kindest boss will serve with a korean traditional drinks. Basically I have no idea what drink is that, but after i drank it, it kinda taste like similar with "barley" juice. However, it is actually made by rice. It is really match well after you had a feast. It makes you feel comfortable as this drinks is slightly sweet in taste, but make you just feel nice and good at the moment.

Address: 109, Jalan Sutera Tanjung 8/2, Taman Sutera Utama, Skudai, 81300, Johor Bahru, Johor .

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Johor Bahru Traditional Bakery

Small well-known bakery

     Nowadays, it is hard to find a traditional bakery. Well, Hiap Joo Bakery & Biscult Factory is a good example for traditional bakery. This famous bakery located near city square, so it has attracted a lot of Singaporean tourists in addition of local people. The bakery opens at the morning and sold out at afternoon. And it closes at Sunday.

     What make this bakery so special? Well, it is due to their traditional baking method. Once you step in the shop, you will see a big brick built, wood fire used old style oven. This bakery has been established since 1919 and the owner insists to use this traditional oven to bake the fragrant breads and cakes. You can see a warm picture from this family business: all three generations are busy to make the breads and cakes. This hand made cakes and breads plus the old style oven produce a quality food and good reputation. A lot of tv shows and news paper had visit this bakery.

Brick-built, wood fire used oven. The empty trays shown how much breads and cakes they have done for half day.

If you wanna find certain flavour bread, you have to ask the salesman there. I can't read the label on it.

The wall was full of  the articles which reported this bakery's  glory history.

banana bun

banana bun

     The most popular bread is their coconut bun. While you eating the bun, you can smell there that is slightly charcoal smell, I think this is attributed by the oven. The coconut bun consists of fresh coconut shreds which has acceptable sweetness. It won't be too sweet and the bun is just fluffy. If really want to find out the flaw, I think the coconut shreds can be put more.

     Another popular cake is the banana cake! A lot of people will come here and buy their banana cake. The responds and comments are good.

     Besides, there are selling peanut bun ( for me, it is normal only), butter bun, otak, kaya, custard, sausage, red bean, curry potato and so on. The bun normally is RM3. One pack consist of 5 buns and it depends on the flavor. The banana cake is RM8.

     The opposite shop is a chinese traditional cafe. It is well-known too. So bring your bread and cake go there to have cup of coffee!

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Name: Hiap Joo Bakery and Biscuit Factory
Address: 13, Jalan Tan Hiok Nee, 80000 Johor Bahru
Map: http://g.co/maps/nf7rs
GPS: 1.456931, 103.764222
Hours: Daily 8:00am to 6:00pm (Closed on Sunday)
Halal

Che Go korean BBQ restaurant @ Tebrau Jusco

Che Go Korean BBQ Restaurant located at Tebrau Jusco, Johor Bahru. It was my first time to be there. Recently, have the urge to have korean food. I was being attracted deeply by it. 

     This restaurant was not so crowded at the afternoon time. Beside the BBQ, there was other dishes such as steamboat, snacks, rice in the stone bowl and etc.The environment was still ok. I like the that kind of seating  which was sitting on the floor while your legs can put inside a hole under the table.

    We ordered the set meal which includes their trademark grill beef, 6 side dish, fruit, one bowl of Kimchi soup and 2 bowl of rices.This set costed RM68. The meal was delivered in awhile time and the waiter was helping us to BBQ the beef. When he was cooking, the smell of the beef made our saliva lost of control and flooded our mouths. The beef was grilled with the onion, corn, pepper and enoki mushroom. The beef was just well-cooked and tenderness. We  enrolled the beef, onion, kimchi and the paste with the salad and ate. The beef was so sweet and nice! It made us can't stop to eat it.

     Talk about the side dishes, these were kimchi, guava, fish cake, celery, finger ladies and fruit salad. The guava was sweet and tasty. Beside the kimchi and guava, other side dishes need to be improved..The kimchi soup was not spicy and it made me frowned and disappointed. The fruit served was 4 slides of watermelon and it was pale and  not sweet.

     

    

Side dishes were allow to refill. The salad was too less and small so we refilled for several times.

Trademark grill beef 

kimchi soup

before start

After start

     Overall, the beef was really marvelous! The side dish and kimchi soup were normal only.

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Kenny Rogers Roasters Special Red DAy

     Today is annual special red day for Kenny Rogers Roasters Malaysia. If you bring any red stuff like red shirt, accessories or anything red, you can enjoy the offer of buy 1 free 1 (quarter of chicken meal only). The normal price for the quarter chicken meal is around RM17.90. You will have one quarter of chicken with 3 side dishes and 1 muffin. I feel the pasta salad and baked sweet bean are quite nice. However, the fruit salad is disappointing as the fruit is not fresh, like it have been refrigerated for one night . Try to imagine how the taste of watermelon which has been put into refrigerator without any cover for one night. 

     There are 3 types of gravy for your chicken, which are original, smoked BBQ, mushroom sauce. I feel the smoked BBQ is nice. For the muffin, there are few flavours too like gold vanilla, mocha, chocolate, banana...

     Kenny Rogers Roasters has branches at Bukit Indah Jusco and Tebrau Jusco.

Smoked BBQ chicken + fruit salad + pasta salad + cheesy macaroni

Smoked BBQ chicken + baked sweet beans + coslow + mashed potato

Mocha and gold vanilla muffins.

Winter freezy drink

Seafood feast @ Gelang Patah

     Want to have seafood feast with a lower price? This definitely is the correct choice for you!! Restaurant Tian Lai sells the fresh seafood with reasonable price which has been attracts a lot of Singaporeans to come. Every weekend, there is full house especially at the festivals or school holidays.

     If you are crab lover, this place provides variety of cooking styles as well as crabs. Personally I like salted egg crabs, it makes people saliva drip on the floor. Of course there is other cooking styles like sweet sour chili crab, steam crabs and etc. You can choose the types of crabs. The price is based on the weight, for instance, RM70, RM80, RM90 per kilogram.

Lively Crabs!

The crabs are all inside the buckets which has been labelled with the price.

      Apart from that, another dish which I recommend is sweet chicken wing with special sauce. （蜜汁鸡翼）. The chicken wing is so tender and juicy as the chicken wing is fried till crispy at the outer skin, whilst the meat is just nice and soft to bite off. The fragrance of the meat was just smell great with this sauce!!

  

When the waiter is serving this dish , i can smell it from far far away .... the fragrance of sizzling  between the egg and the plate is everywhere as the gravy is boiling on the top of the egg. There is merely curry flavour when i tasted.

Sambal Mussell

sweet sour spicy crabs. you can order fried buns to dip with its sauce.

minced meat taufu

bitter gourd soup

steam prawns.

Restaurant name: Tian Lai 天来 Seafood Garden

Address: 158, Jalan Leong Bee, Gelang Patah, Johor Bahru, Johor

Map: http://goo.gl/maps/M2Eyf

GPS: 1.447316, 103.588199

Hours: 12:00 noon to 11:00pm (Closed on alternate Mondays)

Non Halal

Johor Bahru Nice Thailand Restaurant

     If you wanna to have a nice, cheaper Thailand dinner, < bangkok village>  is a nice place. There has a nice ambiance which is surrounded by the garden. When you look up, there is waterfall-liked grass hanging on the ceiling, make you feel like being in the forest, ehm..maybe not so exaggerate. The other feature is there is non-stop thailand songs broadcasting. Other than that, in front of the restaurant is the branch of international steamboat. So you have another choice!

     Talk back to the thailand cuisine there, it is good taste with reasonable price. The white rice will be delivered in a silver classic bowl-like container, the steam fish is keep warm via the candles under the plate. Of course, you can't miss the Tom Yam soup there! The Tom Yum is delivered with the old-style steamboat   pot. So there is fire in the middle of the pot and keep the tom yum in hot temperature. If you order a seafood Tom Yum, it is full of the seafood which has lots of big prawns. But the prawns do not taste fresh or maybe cooked for too long time. 

     Another dish I feel nice is the salted egg chicken! It is a fried chicken coated with salted eggs. The crunchy flesh plus the mild salt, egg smell taste is just heavenly nice match! 

     In addition, we also ordered the steam fish which is lemon spicy one. The fish is still acceptable and doesn't disappointed us. Oh ya, try to order the coconut drinks as it is just nice to match with Tom Yum. They will give you a whole coconut. You can eat the coconut flesh besides drinking it. 

     The restaurant operates till quite late and lots of tourists will come. Although there is no air conditioner, there is always breeze and cool enough. It is a suitable place for family dinner. After shopping at Tebrau Jusco, you can have your dinner here. It is just beside the petrol station.

 Address: Lot.Ptd 19882, Jalan Harmonium 3,Taman Desa Tebrau, Off Jalan Kota Tinggi,81100 Johor Bahru ( Beside Tebrau Jusco)