Hua Mui - The Traditional Kopitiam with Colonial Touch, Johor Bahru

Hua Mui Kopitiam (N1°27.438' E103°45.857') is located between the junction of Jalan Trus and Jalan Dhoby of Johor Bahru town.

Hua Mui Kopitiam of Johor Bahru town

This Kopitiam existed since 1948, it's 61 years ago...and I believe the boss today might be the second generation of the family.

I Love it because I called the Kopitiam of Malaysia. You will see all the Malaysian customers in the Kopitiam at anytime, no matter what races or religions you are from...all of them just like to have cup of coffee over here. The area will be crowded at most of the time.

The customers of the Kopitiam

Beside the coffee and tea, they are famous with the toasted bread. Till today they still using the charcoal oven! And I ordered their Signature dish - Hainanese Chicken Chop. Overall it was Delicious! It's crispy and tasty!
The cost of the foods & drinks here are reasonable price.

Hainanese Chicken Chop (Cost MYR9.80)

Honestly, I still haven't come across the second kopitiam like this in other corner of Malaysia. It's really show the True of Malaysia. That's mean the Kopitiam for Everyone!!

* Kopitiam - it's direct translate from Hokkien Dialect, meaning simple or traditional coffee shop.

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Traditional Watch Shop at Bukit Gambir, Johor

Traditional Watch Shop

Spotted this watch shop at the town of Bukit Gambir. Think of keeping this photo for the future....because I believe it's really difficult to find this kind of Watch shop nowadays in our daily life....
Do you see any shop like this in your area?

Apologies of the poor quality photo, it's snap from my mobile phone.

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Jade Garden Seafood Corner at Sungai Rengit, Johor

Jade Garden Seafood Restaurant (N1°21.056' E104°13.435') located at Jalan Hee Seng at Sungai Rengit of Johor.

"Sungai Rengit is a town in southeastern Johor, Malaysia, located near Pengerang. It can be reached from Singapore by boat from the ferry terminal at Changi Village.

Sungai Rengit is essentially a collection of fishing villages and is very popular with seafood lovers. The town usually comes alive during its weekend flea markets. There are also regular Chinese opera performances which liven up the atmosphere for the local population. From Wikipedia."

This small fishing village has a nickname called the Lobster Village.

Initially we don't know which restaurant to choose, we simply drive around and passed by few like Good Luck, Sin Kong, Sg Rengit & Jade Garden. Among all of them, Jade Garden has more customers than others. So we decided to have our early dinner (about 5:30pm) here.

Jade Garden Seafood Restaurant

The fish tanks at the right side of the restaurant are full of Lobsters!

Lobsters Heaven!

While we walked in, their customers are almost fill up the tables! We quickly order our dishes immediately.

The Restaurant environment

1) Spicy Lala clam

2) Vegetables

3) Sweet Sour Crab

4) Steam Fish

5) Signature Lobsters

Spicy Lala Clam

Vegetables

Sweet Sour Crab

Steam Fish

The Lobsters (cost : MYR90.00)

The Damage : MYR205.00 (For 4 adults and 1 child) included drinks.

It's reasonable Cheap! No wonder everyone willing to drive all the way from Johor Bahru to Sungai Rengit (About 110KM) to enjoy the cheap seafood over here!

My comments on the foods : If you want to enjoy the seafood over here, you have to order the Lobsters beside other seafood. Because A)...this place is famous with the Lobsters, and B)...the way they serve others seafood are not as good as those seafood restaurants around Johor Bahru (even there are fresh). Therefore, the only reason for me to dine here is just because of the Cheap Lobsters! Not others seafood....

Foods rated : 3.5/5

The Lobsters : 5/5


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The Pulai Desaru Beach Resort, Johor

The Pulai Desaru Beach Resort (N1°33.636' E104°15.202') is located approximately 49KM from Kota Tinggi town and about 90KM from C.I.Q. Johor Bahru.

The Main Entrance of the Hotel

The Guest Room

The Reception counter is located at the right after you enter the lobby area.

One of the decoration at the Lobby

The Reception

On the left side, there's a small cafe and convenience store behind the cafe.

The small cafe of the hotel

I found the place is well maintain and clean. It also provide the basic facilities like other 3 Star hotel. I like the swimming pool area, and there's a cafe at the back of the pool.

The Swimming Pool

The cafe located between the Swimming Pool and the Beach.

Children playground

After we walked through the pool, the beach appear and it's clean. Below are some photos of the beach....

Beach of Pulai Desaru Resort

Beach of Pulai Desaru Resort

There water sports equipment for rent

I believe it's ideal place for couple too! :)

I discovered some animals beside the pool later, there are many rabbits and chicken?! They called it the Mini Zoo....

If you are bored, rent a mountain bike and have some adventure around the resort! :)

I had a chat with staff at the reception, the weekend (Friday & Saturday) room rate is MYR285.00 per room - One King Size bed or two single bed. The hotel current promotion is MYR120.00 per room for weekday (Sunday to Thursday). That's very much different from the weekend rate!!

Miniature village house display

Actually, if time allow me to stay on weekday....I believe is a very good breakaway vacation from the City Johor Bahru. You can even have a your Seafood dinner at Sungai Rengit - The Lobsters Village. Shuttle service is available at a minimal charge. Please inquire at the Activities Desk.

The Pulai Desaru Beach Resort
PO Box 29, Bandar Penawar, 81900 Kota Tinggi, Johor, Malaysia.
Tel: +60-7-822-2222 • Fax: +60-7-822-2223
Email: reservation@thepulai.com.my

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MATTA Fair (2009) at The Zon, Johor Bahru

Visited the MATTA Fair (Travel Fair) at The Zon (N1°28.253' E103°46.980'), Johor Bahru. The event is located at the Zon Regency Hotel 6th Floor.
Entrance fee was MYR3.00 per person and children below 12 years old is free. Free gift 1) Pen, 2) Recycle Bag, 3) 3 small bottles of mineral water.

Entrance Fee : MYR3.00

Many booths at the main hall including the Major Travel Agency. It was not really crowded, and it's easy for us to move around. (Unlike the PC Fair). If you want to collect the Bag & the Mineral water, you need to goto the second hall which is not far away from the main hall.

I noticed there were many Bank promoting their Credit Card at the fair, and makes me feel like a "Credit Card Fair" rather than Travel Fair. Sometime, really feel annoying about the sale person approach! Beside that, Time Sharing Company also had the heavy promotion. Another area we need to avoid it.

After all, the travel package promoted at the fair was not really attractive! It's just like they promote it from the newspaper. Some booth not even wanna entertain you when approaching the booth....like A'Farmosa. Surprisingly, I didn't see any booth from Airline, except Firefly.

My main purpose was actually get the contact from the fair to easy my future travel planning. One of it was Malaysia National Park.

Again, no attractive package to offer...

We were trying to search for the Best package to Sabah, but...disappointed. There was just a normal package available, that you can get it anytime along the year.
Anyway, I found it's good to get most of the local contact for Resort and Hotel. Especially for us, who love to travel locally very often...

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Yu Yuan Bao Restaurant at Permas Jaya, Johor Bahru.

Yu Yuan Bao Taiwan Food Restaurant (N1°29.807' E103°49.007') located at the Permas Mall Block A. Which is facing the main road (Jalan Permas Utara) and only few shops after beside the Police Station of Taman Permas Jaya.

Yu Yuan Bao Restaurant at Taman Permas Jaya

Been noticed the shop open quite some times ago but....never notice it's a Taiwan Food Restaurant, I thought of some shop selling some other thing because of the creative signage decoration.

The interior design of the restaurant

The interior design is good and different from the local typical restaurant. The Boss took our order personally in a very polite way! I'm impressed! He introduced many dishes they have and he said most of it only sell in this shop, that means you won't taste it else where! Really??

Our order :
1) The Taiwanese Fried rice
2) The Unique BBQ Pork Rice
3) Minced Pork noodle
4) Peppercorn noodle
5) Lion Head (Side dish)

The BBQ Pork Rice

Surprisingly, the BBQ pork is not in Red colour like what we usually eat locally. And the rice serve in half wet. But the taste.....GOOD!

Minced Pork Noodle

The special was the homemade noodle, it's "Q" when you bite on it! I have never taste this kind of noodle before even in Taipei!
Overall - Perfect! You might taste bit salty, but for me....it's just nice!

The Hot Spicy Peppercorn Noodle

It was Hot & Spicy with Peppercorn, again the homemade noodle was the Best!

The Lion Head - very special name

I wonder what is 'Lion Head', it's actually minced pork ball! It serve with some vegetables and...yes! It was delicious!

I forgot to take the fried rice picture, and it's good too! They also serve special homemade drinks, too bad I forgot to snap the pictures of it!
The restaurant serve many type of Beef with noodle and rice, you will have various of choices if you love beef. And most of foods serve here are not in big portion.

The damage : MYR45.00 (for 4 adults and 1 kid) included drinks.

I rated : 4.5/5 (Included the interior design)
It's worth visit it again!

* Noted the shop had closed down (May 2010)


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The Hike of Chang and friends at Gunung Panti, Johor

On One sunny Sunday morning, Ah Teck (the hiker guide) and his team guiding a group to hike up to Mount Panti of Kota Tinggi.
This post is about to share the photos of the hike of Ms Chang & friends.

They started around 9am morning from the parking area.

Group photo taken at the parking area

The leader of this group who contact me was Ms Chang. There were total of 15 persons from her group.

And also the children group

The journey started....

This is the first short wooden bridge to cross

After about 1 hour more, they reached the exciting part of the hike, 'The Rock'. Where you can see all the guides were standing at each corner to help the hikers get over it.

The Bastard??! I like this shirt...:)

After 30 minutes, most of them are getting over the rock session, and continue to climb to the summit of Mount (Gunung) Panti.

The continue ascending is the last path and at last all of them reached the summit. You can see the Victory sign of their hand! :)

Successful conquer the Mount Panti (550m)

The group photo of Chang and friends

After about an hour rest and enough scenic view from the mountain, they are on the journey back...

This cute little boy...

Total about 4 hours of hiking journey to back at the parking area.
Overall, Chang & her friends were really enjoy the hike! Thanks.

* All photos above are provided by Chang.

Related post :-
* Hike on Mountain (Gunung) Panti, Kota Tinggi, Johor.
* Hike on Mount. Ophir (Gunung Ledang), Johor

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