Top 25 Local Cuisine Only In Johor

This social media blog is part of Integrated Marketing Communications Project and hope to promote the local Johor’s cuisine to wider area in Malaysia    

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Warakuya Japanese Restaurant is an outstanding Japanese restaurant which the Mount Austin restaurant is the third shop they set up in Johor area. They offered plenty of dishes for consumers to choose, but their price of their dishes are slightly higher as compare to others Japanese restaurant. However, the price is worth for their dishes because the dishes are tasty.

During the peak hour, there have a big crowd and long waiting queue in there. This might say that it is the best Japanese cuisine, but their winning point is the fusion of their Japanese flavor which attract lot of people consume it.

Address 1: 9, Jalan Austin Height 8/2, Taman Mount Austin, 81100 Johor Bahru

Address 2: 43, Jalan Kuning 2, Taman Pelangi, 80400 Johor Bahru

Address 3: 2, Jalan Sutera Tanjung 8/4, Taman Sutera Utama, 81300 Skudai, Johor

Operating Hours: 11am - 2pm, 4pm - 10pm

Phone: [phone]

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Japanese Cuisine has attract many people likes and recommend, but it cost expensive to a lunch or dinner. It normally cost about RM40-RM50 for eating. However, Wafu Kitchen makes the Japanese Cuisine can be consumed by everyone just like the other normal price range foods offered by other restaurant.

During afternoon, the sits in Wafu is always full and left no sits for more persons to come in consume. So, they need to wait for the sits if they want to eat.

This dish is Japanese cooking style of the fried chicken with rice. This is a popular dish that plenty of consumers will order it to consume. It maybe look normal on the photo, but the taste is very nice and memorable.

Another recommend dish is pork bone soup which loves by many diners. Wafu insist to use the fresh pork bone to cook this for about 8 hours and add on vegetables at the same time, for ensuring the taste and smell is best. This delicious soup is not easy to get it.

Overall, there are other delicious dishes offered by them which are also strongly recommended. So, who likes Japanese cuisines should try in Wafu for getting the good eating experience and with a cheaper price.

Address: 18, Jalan Austin Heights 3/2, Taman Mount Austin, 81100 Johor Bahru

Operating Hours: Monday to Friday 10am - 10pm Saturday to Sunday 8am - 10pm

Phone: [phone]

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Noodles Colors Sdn. Bhd. is a family restaurant which set up it first shop at the Impian Emas Skudai in 2014. Then, they open the second shop at Indahpura Kulai. They mainly provide own-made noodles to the consumers, other food variety provided in there are fried rice, nasi lemak, toast and etc.

They provide their foods with an acceptable price to the consumers to consume, they are providing three types of noodles to the consumers to choose when the customers order noodles. Among three types of noodles, Ban Mian is the recommended noodles by them and the most popular choice among the consumers.

Their pricing is in acceptable range which can be afforded by people who work and students too. This place is recommend to the people loves to eat noodles as this restaurant is a paradise to them.

Location 1: 41,Jalan Kananga 29/3, Bandar Indahpura, 81400 Kulai, Johor          Opening hours: 10am to 10pm Thursday - Tuesday

Location 2: 83, Jalan Anggerik Emas 1, Taman Anggerik Emas, 81300 Skudai, Johor                                                                                                                      Opening Hours: 9am to 9pm     Thursday - Tuesday

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Taika Huat Braised Duck was set up in 1973 and become popular from time to time with their Teochew style braised duck to attract the foodies coming to try it. It is located at behind of the SJK Kuo Kuang School and near to the pineapple factory. Furthermore, it is close to the skudai Sutera Mall which can be easily found. They have an another well recognized name to the public which is “Duck meat under the tree”.

All the foods they sold is very tasty and delicious which will make the consumers try again after their first trying. Moreover, if you want to try it, you should come earlier because their foods will be expected sold out in afternoon after 1 to 2 pm. Their pricing is in affordable level that can be acceptable by the public. Overall, this is the best choice for who want to try braised duck as their cooking style is from generation to generation.

Location: 1B, Jalan Skudai Batu 8 ½, 81300 Skudai, Johor Bahru

Operating hours: 8.30am – 4.00pm

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Located at Taman Melodies, Johor Bahru, there is a stall which selling soft, crisp, stuffy and delicious non- greasy bean cakes. This non-greasy bean cake is famous and most of the Malaysian especially Singaporean are visiting Malaysia just because of this non-greasy bean cake. The price of getting one box with 10 pieces of soybean cake is just only RM 9!

 Location: 116, Jalan Cengai, Taman Melodies, 80250, Johor Bahru

Operation Hours: 9:00 a.m until 3.00 p.m. (Closed on Tuesday)

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Muar Glutton Street (麻坡贪食街) is the food paradise at Muar. The street is located at Jalan Haji Abu. It offers various types of traditional foods.

The most popular food in Muar is Otak-Otak. People from other places are looking for Otak-Otak. It is well tasted and spicy. Muar also sell Otak bread to customers. Otak plus bread is another nice mixed food.

Furthermore, the Carrot Cake in Muar Glutton Street is another attraction. It is mixed with eggs, rice flour, salt, garlic and so on. It is not too salty or sweet, it is well tasted.

In addition, people would see a van park in front of Eu Yam Sang Retail Store at the same street. That is a van that sell the fried fritters (You Tiao). Many customers would stop by their vehicles to buy You Tiao. It also one of the reason causes the traffic jam in Jalan Haji Abu. Customers can see the hawkers make and cook the You Tiao.

On the other hands, Wan Tan Mee is popular with its fresh shrimp wantons (sui kaw). The sauce is spicy and tasty. It is put in a chicken’s brand bowl which is another attraction in Muar as well.

  Address: Jalan Haji Abu, Muar, Johor, Malaysia.

Opening hours: 3pm – 8pm (everyday)

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There were lots of new cafés arose in Muar since 2016.

52 Bites Café is one of the café that established in 2016 as well which located near the city, Jalan Bakri, Muar. The café offers Korean, Western, Fusion and Pizza. The foods are mainly Italian food.

The pizza is well tasted and mixed with pineapple, cheese, meats and ingredients like peppers. Besides, Cheezy French Fries is another attraction. It tastes better when it’s hot.

Many young people like to chat and gathering in this café. However, the cafe’s wall has low quality of voice’s resistance. When everyone is talking, it became noisy. Customers need to higher their tone levels to communicate with others.

 Address: No. 315-1, Jalan Permata, Taman Maharani, Jalan Bakri, 84000 Muar, Johor.

Contact number: 017-6499188

Opening hour:

6pm – 12.30am (Tuesday – Thursday, Sunday)

6pm – 1.00am (Friday – Saturday)

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1988 Florist & Café is located at the corner of Jalan Meriam. It is a white and red classic building. As a pedestrian, you wouldn’t notice it’s a café, you would think it is a florist. In fact, it is a combination of florist and café. The café is veggie and lei cha’s lover’s paradise, as it offered various type of veggie food such as “Lei cha”, Petai Fried Rice, Oat Noodle, Cabbage cake, handmade Orange pumpkin bun, oat tau foo and so on.

As shown in the photo, it is the “Lei Cha” cuisine and the pumpkin oat noodles. They used healthy rice – brown rice to serve customer. It is very special. Many people who want to have a healthy meal would prefer this café.

Besides, you can see flowers in the shop. Customers would definitely feel fresh and relax with the flowers’ fragrance while enjoying their meal.

 Address: 120, Jalan Meriam, Pekan Muar, 84000 Muar, Johor, Malaysia.

Contact number: [phone]

Operating hour: 10am – 8pm (close on Sunday)

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Restoran Soon Lee @ Taman Pelangi

Soon Lee is a classic kopitiam and had established more than 20 years in Taman Pelangi. Soon Lee preserved their old-time appearance till now. In this small coffee shop contain only 2 stalls that sell Mee Hoon Kueh and Sarawak Kolo Mee.

The Kopitiam do sell classic breakfast such as mee siam, nasi lemak with otah, Kaya Butter toast and bun. The kopi sold here are well-brewed and aroma.

However, the place will be sultry most of the time due to the narrow space and huge crowd.

Address: 148, Jalan Sri Pelangi, Taman Pelangi

Johor Bahru, Johor 

Hour: 6.30am to 3pm

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Restaurant Woon Kiang (Non-Halal)

Woon Kiang’s Kuey Teow Kia (Kuey Teow noodles with braising herbal soup) is the top local cuisine search in Johor Bahru. The traditional taste of Woon Kiang maintained all over the years attracts many Singaporean and local Johorean customers.

The Kuey Teow Kia can be served together with many side dishes. One of the signature will be braised duck. Besides, it also selling braised pork, pork innards, tofu, egg and salted vegetables. As customer preferences changes over the time, Woon Kiang added many other dishes to retain their customer base.

Address: #G-06, Jalan Pandan 1, Pangsarpuri Impian, Stulang, Johor Bahru. Hours: 6:00pm to midnight (closed on Tuesdays)

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Restoran Ban Ki is an authentic stir fried of various noodles located in Nusa Bestari, Johor Bahru. Although, Ban Ki does not have extensive range of food on their menu. Plenty customers came just for their few signature dishes.

The Number 1 signature dish will be Fried Hokkien Noodle. Their Hokkien Mee is acknowledged by every customer and must be order for every visit. Besides, customers love to order their “Handmade Fried Ngoh Hiang” which is the Chinese Beancurd Meat Roll as well as their fried fish cake. The Ngoh Hiang is crispy and fragrant, most importantly not over-seasoned. Not only that, almost every noodle based stir fried is mouth-watering because of their “Wok Qi”

The restaurant is only open until 10pm unlike others restaurant which operate till midnight. For additional information, the serving time is considered slow dues to many customers. However, it is worth waiting for such delicious local cuisine.

Google Map: 1.4992374,103.6491716

Hour: 4pm to 10pm

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Tai Hong Lei Cha @ Taman Pelangi.

Lei Cha is a traditional Hakka cuisine which exists many years ago. However, this cuisine cannot be found in many places in Johor Bahru. One of the places that serve Lei Cha is Tai Hong Kopitiam also known as Tai Hong Lei Cha located in Taman Pelangi.

Lei Cha is basically a bowl of rice covered with plenty type of vegetables, tofu, and nuts together with soup. The soup is tea leaves, sesame seeds, peanuts and other ingredients. The customer can choose either normal rice or brown rice that is more nutrient. Lei Cha will be a good alternative for breakfast especially for those who love vegetables and it is a healthier choice.

Not only that, Tai Hong Kopitiam offers a range of food on their menu which includes Yong ToFu, Laksa, MeeSiam and Curry Chicken.

Address:  42, Jalan Kuning,Taman Pelangi 80400 Johor Bahru, Johor, Malaysia.

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Once again, we come back to backstreet of Jalan Wong Ah Fook. There are not only two food shops that serving delicious foods, but there is also one food shop that has been found at Jalan Wong Ah Fook. The food shop which has been found by our team is called as Fried Char Kway Teow & Mee, we actually can guess the foods that they are serving based on their name of the shop. Yes, they are serving very delicious and popular Char Kway Teow and Mee.

Their Char Kway Teow and Mee are so famous that attract many of the Singaporean to visit Jalan Wong Ah Fook and taste this cuisine. But, the most famous dish is Char Mee (Fried Noodles). This Char Mee is special because of it taste, normally we go another place to eat fried noodles, other fried noodles were like oily and tasteless but their Char Mee is special. It does not oily and tasteless, their fried noodles was cooked by using black sauce and special mixtures. Besides, they also serving the fried noodles with fresh clams. Good food with good comment, so let us try together with this Char Mee at Char Kway Teow.

Address:  Medan Selera Meldrum Walk, 80000 Johor Bahru.

Operation Hours: 4:30 p.m. - 10.00 p.m.

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Union Fashion Bar Garden (UFB) is a unique New York concept restaurant with the combination of western and local cuisine. UFB was introduced in Taman Pelangi since 2015 and became a popular place for families and friends gathering. The restaurant ensures their customers get the best and exciting dining experience.

Their pasta comes with a range of toppings includes chicken, smoked duck, mushroom, and seafood. The Aglio- olio gives a tempting presentation with the well-seasoned garlic that raises the fragrant.

Next, UFB serves unique pizza which made with tortilla-based rather than common dough-based. The Tortilla pizza gives extremely thin and crispy bites to the customer. It can be serve uniquely with half-baked egg on top.

It is recommended to try their grilled salmon steak. This plate contains baked carrots and potatoes which make the serving just nice! The black pepper gravy creates a great taste but not covering the freshness of the salmon.

As for Asian Menu, UFB provides Classic Indonesia Fried Rice. The chicken satay’s seasoning does not overwhelm the taste of the fried rice. The rice comes with an egg as well as mild spiciness, fit for those who cannot accept spicily.

Not to mention UFB’s signature desserts. UFB delivered the various type of dessert including cake, waffle, ice-cream and etc.

Address: 2, Jalan Kuning, Taman Pelangi, 80400 Johor Bahru, Johor, Malaysia.

Hours: 11:30AM–1AM

Phone: [phone]

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Black Tree Café is located at Jalan Khalidi, Muar, near the round-about of The Store shopping centre. The café is famous with its creative ideas on food. The menu includes dinner, lunch, and dessert.

The most popular dessert in this café is the Dessert bombs such as Chocolate Bombs and Mocha White Chocolate Bombs. The bombs are made from ice-cream. When the hot mocha pours on the top of the ice-cream, it bombs and melts which form another piece of art. It absolutely brings a nice visual view to customers. Most of the customers in this restaurant are young adults. 

Besides, “Flying Spaghetti” is another creative food in this restaurant. As shown in the picture, the spoon did fly on the air. The Japanese Spaghetti is tasty and attractive by its awesome visual view. 

The last picture is the Creamy Shitake Pasta. It is well mixed with peppers and meat. The food provided by this café is nice besides its creativity. 

Address: No. 1-3, Jalan Khalidi, 84000 Muar, Johor.

Contact: 017-6072042

Operating hours: 

Monday: 5.30pm – 11pm

Tuesday – Sunday: 12pm – 11pm

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Cannot deny that we are struggling for the question of “what should we eat for our breakfast?” Recently this breakfast shop has been found out by us at Jalan Maju inside the “No Signboard” Restaurant. Normally this restaurant is serving the seafood to the people but they only sell at night, so the owner has taken this opportunity to open his breakfast shop which called as Morning Market.

The food at there are very attractive and delicious, they serving the noodles, kway teow, and fried rice noodles. There are also having a lot of side dishes for customers to choose, but the main dishes that I recommended is the noodles. The noodles are cooked with the black sauce and the secret recipe, as quote said that, ‘All Happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast’, having a wonderful breakfast is a must in our daily life. Come to try this at Morning Market and make your day become wonderful.

Address: No 37, Jalan Maju, Taman Pelangi, 80040, Johor Bahru, Johor

Operation hours: 6 a.m – 10 a.m.

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Cannot deny that, we are not a fully Malaysian if we do not know what Wonton noodles (Wanton Mee) is. Wonton noodles (Wanton Mee) is a very popular cuisine in Malaysia and all the Malaysians are really like to eat Wanton Mee with the soup of the Wanton Mee. There is one old and famous Wanton Mee shop which called as ‘Ho Seng Kee’. Ho Seng Kee is serving the Wonton noodles for more than 81 years since the year 1936. They have received a lot of good comments such as “Best Wanton Mee”.

The food is actually nice and delicious and they did not added colouring nor preservatives in making the noodles, it taste really good with the soup of the Wonton noodles. The soup have a little taste of Japanese Miso soup. Besides, it also serve with three pieces of fried wonton and barbecued pork. This cuisine is highly recommended, so guys please come to Ho Seng Kee when you visit Johor Bahru.

Address:  J6-07, LvL 6, City Square Johor Bahru Shopping Mall, 108, Jalan Wong Ah Fook, Johor Bahru, Johor.

Operating Hours: 10 a.m. - 10 p.m.

Phone: [phone]