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

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

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