On The Way to Austin Heights

Spotted this beautiful cloud on the drive to Austin Heights.

So much beauty around when you stop and look.

More Penang Food

Address: Near Uncle Tetsu, No 47, Jalan Austin Height 3, Taman Mount Austin, 81100 Johor Bahru
Hours: Evening time (closed every Tuesday)

Somehow or rather, we just love the Penang food in Johor. When we walked past this stall the last time we were there with Fiona and Audrey, and despite being super full, hb still had a bowl of prawn mee and Fiona a bowl of assam laksa... 我们就对这间小吃念念不忘. And so here we were, here for dinner. It is just a mobile foodstall, parked outside Uncle Tetsu.

Penang Prawn Noodles, fragrant and yummy.

Assam Laksa full of oompfh, spicy and sour... typing this makes me salivate!

Ice kachang, not fantastic. Just sweet and full of syrup taste. The roasted sunflower seeds was interesting though.

Uncle Tetsu

Address: No 47, Jalan Austin Height 3, Taman Mount Austin, 81100 Johor Bahru
Hours: 10:00 - 21:00
Telephone: +607-364 7777
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/uncletetsumalaysia, https://www.facebook.com/uncletetsumountaustin/
Website: http://www.uncletetsu.com.my/home

Visited 26 Feb 2016.

This was our maiden trip into JB, first time we are driving into Malaysia without my dad. We were joined by OPF, Lianne and Makcik Elena. Initially it was pretty 心惊胆跳 cos of all the "horror" stories about driving in Malaysia... but hubby was really brave and drove like a pro. Armed with printed addresses and names of the destination, and the car GPS system... we made it into and out of Johor without any hiccups... we did a bit of detour here and there, but that was expected... GPS is quite a confusing thing sometimes... and we made it. That trip paved the way for more future trips for hubby and I... so much that now, my dad just lets my hubby drive when he joins us for our JB trips.

Anyway, OPF said that there is this very famous cheesecake which used to have a shop in Orchard, but closed down, called Uncle Tetsu. And I was like... got meh? Never heard of it before. So ok, googled and printed down the name. When we finished shopping at Aeon Tebrau, we went to the shop to buy cheesecake. I still remember along the way, we kept saying how come OPF bring us to such ulu places (GPS keep bringing us to small roads)... bring us to sell is it? When we reached Jalan Austin Heights... wow, we were surprised... the area seemed really atas, as they had a lot of restaurants and shops... all looked trendy and upmarket too. And we bought one chocolate and one original flavored cheesecake to bring home. The cheesecake has to be kept in the fridge if not consumed within 12 hours, so we usually try to coincide this place as the last stop.

The cheesecake is soft and light... in fact, feels a bit like eating sponge cake. Pretty good... @ RM21 for the signature cheesecake... less than S$10 for a cheesecake leh... value for money.

They have this in original and chocolate flavor. Both are nice. The chocolate flavored one reminds me of the Rich & Good Cake Shop's swiss rolls.

Uncle Tetsu Cheese Zuccotto (Hat Series) 

We wanted to try the Strawberry flavored one, but at 2pm they were sold out already! Next time then.

Torazou Ramen Restaurant

Address: 45, Jalan Austin Heights 8/3, Taman Mount Austin, 81100 Johor Bahru
Telephone: 012 717 9178
Hours: 11:00 - 22:00
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Torazou-Ramen-%E8%99%8E%E8%97%8F-Austin-569672723160177/

Visited on 28 Mar 2016.

As we changed our itinerary for our trip today, Taman Mount Austin became our last stop. Wasn't really prepared for dinner to be in this area and we did a last minute scramble to find a eating place. I initially thought of MaMa Nyonya Restaurant in Taman Molek... we arrived, walked into the shop and after 5minutes walked out... cos the price was steep! And they didn't even have soup on the menu... how can a Peranakan restaurant not have soup?! So we decided to go back to Taman Mount Austin area to have dinner.

We initially wanted to try Warakuya, but as usual, queue was long. The waitress told us we had to wait at least 25mins for a table. So we took a number, sat down for 2 minutes and flipped through the menu. The price was not very cheap, so we decided to drive around the area in search of another restaurant. I remembered KOBO 烤霸工坊 and we wanted to try it, only to realize that they are not opened on Mondays. Great. So bobian, have to 随便吃 and we wandered into this ramen restaurant, called Torazou Ramen Restaurant. Was a bit apprehensive walking in, cos at 745pm, there was only 1 table filled, the restaurant only had 3 people - 2 customers and 1 waiter... with us, that made 5.

We sat down and ordered the ramen and some side dishes, and surprisingly, the food was actually quite good. Another plus point is service was good too... and the waiter reminded us of our gaming friend, Josh. We were also pleasantly surprised when the waiter wrote down the wifi password for us to connect... not that we needed it since we have the uMobile prepaid card... but it definitely added points to the place.

It's called big char siew raman, but not char siew lah, it's actually pork chop to me.

Your normal char siew ramen, quite nice.

The shishamo is really good.

Mentaiko gyoza... totally love it... I can never get enough of mentaiko...

Pork skewer recommended by the waiter, marinated with salt and pepper and grilled. Very nice.

Just Want Coffee JWC, The Factory 30

Address: No 30, Jln Mutiara Emas 5/3, Taman Mount Austin, Johor Bahru
Telephone: 07 350 7508
Hours: 14:00 - 00:00
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thefactorythirty

Visited on 4 Mar 2016.

Came here after having lunch at Chai Jia Chai @ Mount Austin, since it was just around the corner. We had to park along the streets and being in a factory area, just somehow didn't feel too safe initially. But then, everyone else was parking along the road, so it wasn't as unsafe as I thought lah.

4 of us - Lervonne, Alison, hubby and I - ordered drinks, brownie and chicken wings. The chicken wings were so-so only. The coffee was good and the brownie was the most interesting. The brownie came on a hotplate and the waiter poured the chocolate syrup onto the cake and ice-cream after serving us. It was really good. That was the most expensive "meal" we had in JB that day too... bill came up to RM90+, which is quite expensive based on JB standards.

Chai Jia Chai 蔡家菜

Address: 45, Jalan Rosmerah 2/3, Taman Johor Jaya, 81100 Johor Bahru
73, Jalan Austin Height 3, Taman Mount Austin, 81100 Johor Bahru
Telephone: 012 775 7928 (Mr Tan), 016 410 5998 (Goh)
Hours: 11:00 - 15:30 / 18:00 - 21:00 (Johor Jaya closed every Wednesday; Mount Austin closed every alternate Wednesday)
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ChaiJiaChai/

Visited on 4 Mar 2016.

Lervonne brought us to the Taman Mount Austin branch to eat. We loved the meetaimak, the peppery pig stomach soup and the lor bak. We found the vegetable choices somewhat limited and ordered the lady's fingers... not too bad. Even though hubby didn't like lady's fingers, liked it... pretty surprising.

Meetaimak and lor bak