Final Stop - Chuan Xin Restaurant

Established a few years, Chuan Xin Restaurant has become a popular restaurant for people to eat its abalone soup and full of praises have been given by the customers after they having their wonderful meals here. 

Its abalone soup became popular because it uses the real and pure abalone and the fresh materials to serve the each bowl of abalone soup.

It used the soup of Chao Zhou style and coupled with the fine kway teow and mix with the rich ingredients. Then, a bowl of rich ingredients with a reasonable price’s abalone soup has satisfied the customers. 

The front façade of Chuan Xin Restaurant.

The menu.

Fried Fish Cake – RM3.50

Fried Golden Chicken – RM6.00

The fried fish cake here is made by them and the fish cake is fried quite well and you will not feel oily and greasy after you finished it.

Its fried golden chicken is a unique dish which is fried the drumstick with the egg york of salted egg. The smell of the salted egg york really provoke my taste buds. Nice!

★What is fish cake?

Fish cake is a food which used the minced fish and adds the ingredients like chopped vegetables, eggs and seasoning with starch. It is different with the western style’s fish cake. 

Fresh Prawn Dumpling Soup - RM9.00

The prawn inside is fresh and the meat is chopped finely and wrapped with the appropriate thickness dumpling skin. Taste good!

★What is dumpling?

Chinese dumpling generally consists of minced meat and finely chopped vegetables and wrapped into a thin and elastic piece of dough skin. Common meat fillings include ground pork, ground chicken, ground beef, shrimp and even fish. Popular mixtures include pork with Chinese cabbage, pork with spring onion, pork and shrimp with vegetables, pork with garlic chives and garlic chives with scrambled eggs. Filling mixtures depends on personal taste and regions. Dumplings are usually steamed or boiled and remain to be a traditional dish eaten on Chinese New Year’s Eve.

Lesson 10 - How to make Dumplings Soup?

Dry Kway Teow with dark soy sauce - RM4.00

Its Kway Teow with dark soy sauce is a famous main dish here and it normally will be eaten with the abalone soup. It is a good combination. The Kway Teow used the dark soy sauce match with the lard and onion oil to increase its fragrance. Basically I will add its homemade “sambal” to churn it and it will be more spicy and tasty if you want to do so. Good!

★What is Kway Teow?

Kway Teow is a kind of Chinese food which is using the rice flour to steam and cut it becomes shape of strip. It generally will be used to fry with other ingredients especially the Char Kway Teow and Wat Tan Kway Teow are the popular noodle dish in Malaysia. 

Lesson 11 - Making Kway Teow at Home
(Please check out the blog of Waitakere Redneck Kitchen here for the recipe:
http://neckredrecipes.blogspot.com/2008/03/homemade-kway-teow-steamed-flat-rice.html)

Abalone Soup – RM8.50

The abalone soup is not just an abalone soup but it has a lot of seafood ingredients inside such as oysters, pacific clams, shrimps, abalone shoots and crab sticks with lavers and its soup stock. Yummy!

★What is abalone?

Abalone is small to very large-sized edible sea snails. The common names for abalone also include ear-shells, sea ears, muttonfish or muttonshells and ormer. The flesh of abalone is widely considered as an ideal food and is consumed raw or cooked in a wide variety of dishes. 

Actually, all the foods here are Chinese cuisine and cooked by the Chinese chefs as well. The environment here is quite nice and you can enjoy your meal comfortably here. I like the rich ingredients of its abalone soup here and coupled with the dark soy sauce kway teow. Nice match!

Finally, this is my last stop of my recommendations for finding out and exploring the delicious food to my lovely readers. All of the foods here are valuable for you to try and enjoy your wonderful moment there. Hope to see you guys come to Johor Bahru one day and enjoy the food paradise there. Goodbye! 

Business Hours –

Monday – Sunday

10a.m. – 10p.m.

Location -

1C, Jalan Maju Jaya, Taman Maju Jaya, 80400, Johor Bahru，Malaysia.

Contact -

07 – 3323097

References

Holetzky, S. (2011). What are Dumplings? Retrieved from http://www.wisegeek.com/what-are-dumplings.htm

Itkman. (2010). How to make Dumplings soup (Video). Retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vULYxvqEq-U

Sinners8. (2008). Making Kway Teow at Home (Video). Retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KbgMSa5ito

Smith, S. (2011). What is Abalone? Retrieved from http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-abalone.htm

4th Stop - MRJ

MRJ is a famous burger stall that provided their unique style of their burgers.

It is located at the street nearby the Permas Jaya’s McDonald, Johor Bahru. It is just using a lorry to do their burger business since a long time ago. All of the works are also doing on the lorry. It is a special phenomenon and unique way to attract customers to come and try it at the first time. 

The lorry of MRJ.

Double Beef Egg with Cheese – RM6.00

Double Chicken Egg with Cheese – RM5.50

Actually, most of the burger stalls will just grill the meat and put it in the bun with the ingredients such as lettuce, sliced cucumber and sliced tomato with chilli sauce only. But the burger here is different with others. It will cut the meat and put the onion in the middle of it with curry powder and the special sauce which is made by them. So it will increase its fragrance of burger. That’s why MRJ has become popular among the residents in Permas Jaya even attracts the other residents from other areas. Sometimes, the customers might take 1 hour to wait for its burger to serve for them as well. Nice!

★What is burger?

The name of hamburger is formerly from the city of Germany - Hamburg. It is a sandwich consisting of a cooked patty of ground meat and it placed inside a sliced bread roll or bun. It usually uses beef but haply pork, turkey or a combination of meats as the patty of ground meat. Burgers are usually served with onion, tomato, bacon, lettuce, pickles, cheese and condiments such as mayonnaise, mustard, ketchup and relish.

Lesson 9 - BBQ Beef Burger Recipe

In fact, the burger here is nicer than others that I have eaten before. Its stall is located at the street beside the road so it looks like the street culture that appeared in Malaysia – the Pasar Malam which means the night market. They are doing their business at the street and their customers can enjoy their burger there or take away to go home. Other than that, they also provide delivery service for their customers as well!

Business Hour –
Monday – Sunday

9p.m. – 12a.m.

Location –

The street which is nearby the McDonald in Permas Jaya, Johor Bahru, Malaysia.

Contact –

017 – 7552285

* It also provides delivery service!

References

burger. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.google.com.my/search?q=what+is+burger&hl=en&biw=1366&bih=643&prmd=ivnsu&ei=MtjHTc-tC47zrQf0qOS4BA&start=10&sa=N&cad=cbv#hl=en&sa=N&biw=1366&bih=643&q=burger&tbs=dfn:1&tbo=u&ei=IQPITZvKA4bSrQeo1YzHBA&ved=0CCIQkQ4&fp=be1097524d2b0e3d

OriginalNakedChef. (2010). BBQ Food Beef Burger recipe how to make whopper hamburger barbecue fries chips cook cooking chef (Video). Retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eYrn67YT24

3rd Stop – Lavender Bistro

Lavender is a boutique bakery and bistro established in June 2000 inspired by the pleasant scent and beauty of the Lavandula plant.

Award-winning Lavender Bistro is renowned for gathering flavors from different cultures of the world and catapulting popular local cuisines into the modern age. Lavender Bistro is uniquely designed, creating a sophisticated yet comfortable ambience for an all-day dining experience.

The front façade of the bistro.

Menu with purple sensation.

Tuna Focaccia – RM11.90

The Tuna Focaccia is using the oven-baked bread to fold the tuna paste and vegetables together. It taste good because of its hot, fresh and fragrant oven-baked bread with vegetables and mixed with the tuna paste. Good!

★What is Focaccia?

Focaccia is flat oven-baked Italian bread which may be topped with herbs or other ingredients. It is quite popular in Italy and it is regularly seasoned with olive oil and sometimes herbs or may be topped with meat, cheese, onion or flavored with a number of vegetables. It is very popular as a snack in Italy and school children will often purchase a slice of Focaccia from a baker on the way to school in order to enjoy at break time.

Lesson 6 - Focaccia (Easy Bread Recipe)

Seafood Spaghetti – RM17.90

This is my favorite dish in this bistro. It used the fresh prawn and half shell mussel to cook with the tomato diced and the spaghetti is well cooked enough. Its taste quite special and good.

★What is Spaghetti?

Spaghetti is thin, long and cylindrical pasta of Italian origin. It is made of flour or semolina and water. Italian dried spaghetti is made from durum wheat semolina but of Italy it may be made with other types of flour. A variety of pasta dishes are based on it, from spaghetti with pepper and or oil and garlic to spaghetti with meat, tomato and other sauces.

Salmon in Foil Rice – RM19.90

The salmon is fresh and it used the chopped garlic and chopped turmeric to cook it by using foil. This is a special dish for me in bistro. Nice!

★What is Salmon?

Salmon is a popular food especially in Japan and it classified as an ‘oily fish’. Salmon flesh is normally orange to red although there are some examples of white-fleshed. It is considered to be healthy due to the fish’s high omega-3 fatty acids, high protein and vitamin D content. 

Teriyaki Chicken Rice – RM11.90

Its Teriyaki Chicken is using the Teriyaki sauce to grill the chicken and it also adds some sliced fried egg around the chicken to increase some fragrance of fried egg for it. Its taste quite special. Yummy!

★What is Teriyaki?

Teriyaki is a cooking technique used in Japan cuisine in which foods are grilled or boiled in a sweet soy sauce marinade (tare). Fish is generally used in Japan while meat like pork, lamb, chicken and beef are more used in the West. Other ingredients sometimes used in Japan such as squid, meatball and hamburger steak. The tare is traditionally made by heating and mixing sake, mirin or soy sauce with honey or sugar. Sometimes ginger will be added and the final dish may be garnished with green onions. 

Lesson 7 - 10 Minutes Cooking Teriyaki Chicken 

Baked Cheese Cake – RM5.80

The dessert that I wish to recommend is the baked cheese cake here. Its baked cheese cake is nice and you can enjoy it very well because the taste of it will not make you feel greasy after you have finished it.

★What is Cheese Cake?

Cheese cake is a dessert consisting of a topping made of fresh, soft cheese on a base made from biscuits, pastry or sponge. The topping is frequently sweetened with sugar and flavoured or topped with fruits, nuts or chocolate.

Lesson 8 - How to Make American Baked Cheesecake?

Ultimately, the food here are standard and delicious as well as the environment and atmosphere here are quite nice and suitable for you to enjoy your lunch or dinner very well. Nice!

Business Hour –

Monday – Sunday

10a.m. – 10p.m.

Location –

G01, Jusco Permas Jaya Shopping Centre,

No.1, Jalan Permas Utara, Bandar Baru Permas Jaya,

81750 Johor Bahru, Johor, Malaysia.

Contact –

07 – 3868966

Other Branches –

Johor Bahru –

Taman Pelangi

Aeon Tebrau City

Taman Molek

Senai International Airport

Aeon Bukit Indah

Kuala Kumpur –

Aeon Bukit Tinggi

Pavilion

Mid Valley

References

GoodtoknowTV. (2010). How to make American baked cheesecake (Video). Retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwCw5G7Kp2I

JMartin. (2008). What is Spaghetti. Retrieved from http://gomestic.com/cooking/what-is-spaghetti/

Runnyrunny999. (2009). 10 minutes cooking Teriyaki Chicken The fastest way to cook Japanese food (Video). Retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XBGG061Tuo

S.E.Smith. (n.d.). What is Cheesecake? . Retrieved from http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-cheesecake.htm

S.E.Smith. (n.d.). What is Focaccia? Retrieved from http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-focaccia.htm

S.E.Smith. (n.d.). What is Salmon? Retrieved from http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-a-salmon.htm

ShowMeTheCurry. (2010). Focaccia - Easy Bread Recipe (Video). Retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYoKHetaMh4

What is Teriyaki Cooking? (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.teriyakichicken.net/about-teriyaki/