Johor Bahru Food Trip
1st June 2015
1st of June which is a Labour Day, Boyfriend and I walked across to Johor Bahru for our food trip. The journey was a smooth sailing one as we managed to clear the custom within one hour (that includes the bus travelling, check in of our passport of two checkpoint borders).
Mum have been complaining on the number of times that I travelled to Malaysia. Not only she complained, she was asking why I didn't bring her along! It was such hilarious to receive such remarks from my Mum but somehow I knew that she is dying to get out of Singapore. I wish I could save more to bring her to Hong Kong but in the midway, I decided to spend one of my weekend with her to drop by JB again at the end of June.
So we visited one of the hawker centre situated right behind JB city square. Before that, i went to purchase my 3G card so that I could access to Internet to get our routes right. But at the end of the day, I found it useless as we didn't really went far away from the custom, we were settling our foot more at City Square.
I wanted to bring the folks to this famous Kam Long Restaurant Curry Fish Head - 金龙咖喱鱼头 but it feels weird to have it in the wee morning, furthermore with the problematic tummy I have. We ended up eating Wonton Mee noodles at one of the coffeeshop nearby. With a large bowl for RM5, I shared the noodles with my Boyfriend. The guys went ahead to order roasted chicken to add on to their food.
I am picky in choosing meat of chicken. I don't take any part of the body except of chicken breast so no matter it is half chicken or full chicken, I will be sitting down there choosing their chicken breast meat and leave the rest of the body part to them.
We walked past an alley with graffiti vandalizing on the wall and Boyfriend claimed to take an #OOTD here. I was so astonished by the strong stench smell which similar to garbage bin and here he was, requesting a picture. So these were their "good boys gone bad" photos.
Not long after our lunch, we went back to City Square to book our movie tickets because we know that watching movie at JB is sooooooooooo cheap! #cheapthrill number 1. But before we booked our slots, we wanted to go for a good massage and therefore it it advisable to call in to make your reservation. We didn't call in and therefore walked in for our booking.
We adjusted the time and went back to buy our movie tickets and caught San Andreas. Movie there costs RM18 which is around 8SGD. Not saying that it is very very cheap but at least its almost half of the price and we were given Cathay standard kind of services.
After movie, the guys are hungry again after packing food into the cinema. I wonder what their tummy was stuffed of? We went in to this Thai Restaurant and order Tom Yum Soup and Thai Vermicelli Salad to share. One plus point for this restaurant was the free Mango Sticky Rice that they gave us.
After meal, we went for our massage, It was really funny to massage after meal because the whole entire session, I was feeling uncomfortable, The strength that the masseur pushed was beyond my limit. I was feeling the pain all over the body or rather whatever point that she pressed, my body reacted to the pain. It was a torturous 1 hour of massage session and for the first time I hope to end it fast!
Dinner was under Joel's recommendation for their San Low Seafood Restaurant 三楼海鲜园 and to take cab from city square by meter, it costs around 7RM only.
San Low Seafood’s signature dish is actually the San Low Bee Hoon and we ordered the larger portion (RM12). They have the largest serving but only if you come in with a group of friends or family. So San Low Bee Hoon is just your typical fried beehoon, The uniqueness is that the bee hoon is pressed against the hot pan in order to char the outside. This allows the flavours to be locked into the bee hoon, while having a nice crisp exterior.
The dish was used of simple ingredients like, prawn, egg, fish cake, chicken and some vegetables. However, the taste of the dish is amazing! Among all the tables that I observed, this dish will definitely set on the table and that explained why it is so popular among Singaporean and Malaysian. Singaporean will drop by here when they across over the border.
Last and not least, our food trip ended off with La Gourmet Desserts which is famous for their Mango shaved ice. No doubts of it name, it is truly is. I scrolled through their Facebook and saw one of the menu indicated Pax of 10 of mixed fruits shaved ice. You will be astonished on how huge and tall the shaved ice is. Let me give you an example?
Now you know what I meant? HAHAHAHA! I really think that 4-6 person wouldn't finish off this bowl of dessert. Its sweet unless you want to get sugar rush, you may want to try it?
So that's the end of our food trip to JB (:
Till then
