Happy Land Café serving old school desserts and hasn't changed much since 1976 has a special place among Kulai people.
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Old School Time Desserts @ Happy Land Café in Kulai (near Johor Premium Outlets) 欢乐园饮冰室.
Happy Land Café serving old school desserts and hasn't changed much since 1976 has a special place among Kulai people.
Johor Dessert - Yong Yong Dessert Restaurant 荣荣甜品 in Taman Perling
It is probably safe to say that almost anyone born and bred in Johor Bahru would have heard of Yong Yong dessert stall 荣荣甜品.
Restaurant name: Yong Yong Dessert Restaurant 荣荣甜品
Address: 46, Jalan Layang 16, Taman Perling, Johor Bahru
Map: http://goo.gl/maps/90YO3
GPS: 1.473083,103.676621
Hours: 8:30am to 5;30pm (closed on Monday)
No pork, no lard
Meet Jeff the second generation owner of Yong Yong at Taman Perling. Jeff was working in Singapore as an engineer before returning to Johor Bahru to run Yong Yong together with his wife, Shirley and his father (the founder). Jeff's brother runs the Yong Yong stall at Tepian Tebrau with their mother.
Jeff's dad started Yong Yong at the corner of the now demolished Capitol Cinema in old downtown JB. He then ran a push cart stall at the beach along Stulang Laut in the 1970s that has since become one of the good food that defines the Johor brand.
Ice Kacang RM4
This ice kacang is Yong Yong's original claim to fame. Yong Yong's signature ice kacang is made with fine, soft ice shavings topped with boiled maize, red beans and chocolate syrup. As the ice is fine and soft, the chocolate syrup penetrates the ice mound quickly, saturating it with chocolaty flavour.
The soft ice mound melts pretty fast, revealing the treasures below like attap seeds and grass jelly. The best way to enjoy this watery icy concoction is with the drinking straw provided.
Ice Jelly RM4.50
Ice Jelly is shaved ice doused with a sugary syrup and topped with sea coconut, sour sop, jelly and fruit cocktail.
A squeeze of lime gives the jelly and ice a slightly sourish taste. Ice jelly is a refreshing cold dessert for hot afternoons.
Tau suan 豆爽 is one of my favourite hot desserts. I used to eat a mee rebus and tau suan combination for lunch everyday at the office years ago.
Yong Yong's tau suan is just perfect for me. The mung beans have the right texture and bite (neither too hard nor too mushy), the starch is the right thickness and stickiness, and it's just the right sweetness.
Tauhu Bakar RM3.00
Yong Yong's tauhu baker or grilled bean curd. Look at the lovely glint on the sauce's surface.
The grill bean curd is stuffed with shredded cucumber and crunchy boiled bean sprouts.
Every order of tauhu bakar and it's sauce is made on the spot.
Jeff ladling in the marvellous sauce on the tauhu bakar. The sauce is savoury, nutty, with subtle hints of spiciness and not overly salty.
Yong Yong's savoury sauce is a blend of chili, crushed ground nuts, prawn paste, sugar and other condiments. You can have the sauce to suit your taste just by informing Jeff.
Yong Yong's rojak is one of the best around. The cucumber, pumpkin, and pineapple slices are fresh and juicy without them feeling damp. The salad is tossed in the same savoury sauce made on the spot for the tauhu bakar.
Yong Yong in Taman Perling and also in Tepian Tebrau is a "must try" if you are looking for old school desserts in Johor Bahru.
Date visited: 16 Oct 2013
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Ice Kacang (Air Batu Campur) at Azmie Wawa in Kampung Malayu Food Court, Johor Bahru, Malaysia
Azmie Wawa ABC Special RM3
One hot afternoon, I headed to the food court in Kampung Malayu opposite the clinic and ESSO gas station, and true enough, found this stall easily. My friends were right, this stall has the longest queue I've ever seen for an ABC joint. For the record, this popular ABC stall is known as Azmie Wawa. It's such a nice and easy name to recall, I wonder why people aren't bothered to remember it :)
The three young partners were constantly busy, making their famous ABC to satisfy the queue of waiting customers. Some were taking away six to a dozen tubs.We didn't have to wait long though because Azmie Wawa has a very systematic and efficient way of making the ABC.
It's like a well oiled conveyor belt, assembly line system. The ingredients like attap seeds, grass jelly, boiled red beans, and others were scooped in at one end.
At the other end, the overworked ice shaving machine was whirling crazily and churning out the tubs of shaved ice non stop.
In the middle station, another partner drizzled red and yellow coloured syrup, and chocolate sauce from large squeeze bottles. I saw that this partner had to frequently recharge his squeeze bottles because they were quickly emptied :)
The ABC was as delicious as it was pretty. Fluffy syrup sweetened ice, scoop of cool ice cream, interesting bits of treasures at the bottom, and crunchy roasted nuts on top. ABC is man's greatest creation to beat the heat, besides air conditioning :)
And, Azime Wawa's ABC is one of Johor's coolest hot favourites :)
Restaurant name: Azmie Wawa ABC
Address: At the food court off Jalan Tebrau Lama, opposite the clinic and ESSO gas station
Map: http://goo.gl/maps/F7jJn
GPS: 1.514515,103.757286
Hours: 12:00 noon to 11:00pm daily
Halal
Date visited: 9 Oct 2012
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Ais Kacang @ Awiet Corner in Larkin Bomba, Johor Bahru, Malaysia
Awiet Corner at the food centre near Larkin Bomba just beside the fire station is famous for its cold desserts, especially its ais kacang special.
This is Awiet Corner's RM4 Special. Isn’t this irresistible, especially on hot sizzling days in humid, tropical Johor?
On top of the little mount of shaved ice were two scoops of vanilla ice cream. Over the ice cream and ice mountain, they drizzled chocolate syrup and dropped a few roasted peanuts.
Ice Kacang can be found everywhere in Malaysia Singapore
The ice mountain itself was doused with rose syrup, evaporated milk and gula Melaka.
Buried underneath the mountain of ice were boiled red beans, creamy sweet corn, grass jelly and attap seeds.
The ice mountain crumbled rather quickly even under the cool shade of Larkin Bomba food centre – the heat attacking it from top and me stabbing its underside with my plastic spoon digging for treasures inside. Attacked from the top and bottom, the ice kacang was soon reduced to a sweet concoction of rose and chocolate syrup, soft sweet corn, gula Melaka, evaporated milk and melted vanilla ice cream. We were given a straw to drink up this multi-flavoured sweet mixture.
Restaurant name: Awiet Corner @ Medan Selera Larkin Bomba
Address: Next to Larkin Bomba fire station off Jalan Tun Abdul Razak
Hours: daily
Halal
Date visited: 20 Mar 2012
Ais Kacang ABC @ Joo Yee (Tan Kee Pelangi) in Taman Serene Hawker Centre, Johor Bahru. Update 2018 彩虹陈记
Johor Bahru has an iconic chocolate ice kacang by Joo Yee (Tan Kee Pelangi) stall at Taman Serene hawker centre (also known as Medan Selera Jalan Biru).
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