The Little Big Club in Puteri Harbour Family Theme Park at Nusajaya, Johor.

The Little Big Club in Puteri Harbour Family Theme Park is located beside Puteri Harbour and Traders Hotel Nusajaya, Johor. The theme park is open for public since few years ago, and only until now we had a chance to visit it.
We decided to visit The Little Big Club instead of Sanrio Hello Kitty Town because of my daughter prefer Barney than Hello Kitty. Anyway, it's very much depends on the children...and this theme park is 100% design for children. :)

The Puteri Harbour Family Theme Park, Nusajaya - Johor.

The Little Big Club is located on the 2nd and 3rd floor in the Theme Park building. As for the ticket price, you can refer to their official website for time-to-time promotion.
Once you get your 'ring', we proceeded to the entrance of the park...

The 3 lovely and friendly ladies at the entrance to the park

Once we stepped in, the joyful laughter if the children were filled up every corner of the area...

The children big playground mostly is located at the 2nd floor, you can see the children running in and out every where in the playground. And the performing stage also located at the 2nd floor, the interval for the shows are about every hour, don't forget to get a copy of the shows time table at the entrance!

One of the show just started when we stepped in...it was the Thomas the Train

There's also a cafe at the 2nd floor, where the parents can rest and relax while their children having their fun time in the park...

The cafe below the escalator...

The Barney's house is at the right of the entrance...

After an hour at the 2nd floor, we proceed to 3rd floor...

All the rides are located at the 3rd floor of The Little Big Club...

Overview of the 3rd floor of The Little Big Club, Puteri Harbour Family Theme Park

Let me show the rides one-by-one...

The Knapford Station

It's also the Thomas Train ride, beside that there's another huge children playground in the Knapford Station...

The Train of Thomas and Friends

One of the slide for the playground in the Knapford Station

Bertie The Bus

The Bang Bang Car

Harold's Helitours

Colin's Crane Drop

Follow by a row of cafes and restaurants...

The cafes and restaurants available at the 3rd floor

After the cafes, next will be the Wellsworth Station. Which was maybe an office for their stuffs or others...

The last ride at the 3rd floor is the Windmill.

Windmill

We watched most of the show (2nd floor) in the Theme Park, it was really fun and the children were really happy when they saw their childhood idols came up to the stage...

The show on the stage

The children dance together with their favorite characters!

And the most welcome - Barney and friends!

The game within Barney and the children

We spent almost 4-5 hours there until the theme park close at 6pm, the last show on stage was all the superstar! And I heard the children streaming too! Haha!

After the last show, you can take photos with your favorite characters one-by-one with your own camera and also their professional photographer in the theme park. But...it was only limited time, be hurry if you want to take photo with all the favorite characters in The Little Big Club.

It's really a good theme park for family and children (age 3-12), where you can see the joyful moment and the non-stop laughter all the time! It was a priceless moment to me and my family! Worth the ticket prices!

The Traders Hotel is located just next to the Family Theme Park

Unless the children do not know the characters in the theme park, or else they will be very happy and enjoy themselves! Some of my friends asked me about the park...actually I shouldn't be the one to rate the park, let the children do the talking! And their laughter in the park already proved how good the park is...

The last session while we exit the park, the route guide us through a souvenirs centre where you can buy all kinds of toys for your children.

Entrance to the Sanrio Hello Kitty Town

It's also a nice place for weekend city escape from Johor Bahru, the traveling time from JB city to the theme park is only around 30-40 minutes. For more info and ticket price, please refer from their official website (the URL below).

Puteri Harbour Family Theme Park

Puteri Harbour, Nusajaya, Johor.

Operating hour : 10am - 6pm Mon - Sun (daily)

Official website : http://www.playtime.com.my/

Location map of Puteri Harbour Family Theme Park

Food Trail (Pt 2) of Johor Bahru street food and restaurant food

On one of the sunny day, we started our second food trail in Johor Bahru. This time we only had 3 persons (included me) which was compared with previous 5 persons on the Kulai food trail.

At first, we started our breakfast at the Wantan Mee Shop ?????? at Taman Impian Emas, Skudai.

It was a simple traditional type of Chinese kopitiam which only sell variety of different type of noodles with different combinations. Among all, we love the BBQ pork (char siew ??) the most! The owner of the shop - Mr Darksen is a humble and nice person, we had a short chat with him about the noodles and his history.

Wantan Mee Shop ?????? at Taman Impian Emas

A traditional type of Chinese kopitiam

The Char Siew noodles ????

Nice dumplings ?? from the Wantan Mee shop

We are the regular customer here and been visiting the shop every week, and every time we are fall in love with their Char Siew ??. Most of the time we requested for additional char siew and cost total of RM8 (the photo above). The BBQ pork is one of the good or I can say the only wantan mee which serve this type char siew within Johor Bahru. We prefered the pork with slight charred on the outer skin and mixed with fat, which provided extra juicy compare with those lean meat. It's hard to describe by words how tasty the pork and the noodles are, unless you need to try it yourself. :)
Beside that, don't forget their big and nice dumplings ??!

Kedai Makanan Wantan Mee ??????
Address : Jalan Seri Impian 1, Tmn Impian Emas, Skudai, Johor Bahru.
Contact : Mr Darksen So 016 6605498
GPS Coordinates : N1.54276 E103.68163
Business hour : 8am - 2pm, close on Thursday
More info : The Char Siew is finish mostly on 12pm, visit the shop earlier if you want to try out the magical Char Siew.

2nd stop : Warong Sonto (Fried mushroom)
This warong is famous with their fried mushroom (goreng cendawan) in the area, and claimed to be the first warong selling this type of snacks food since year 90s.
The warong (a small eating shop in Malay) is rather simple and traditional type of village style located along the main road of Jalan Kampung Maju Jaya which in the direction to Seelong. It was shifted from the road side stall since 2 years ago...
They do serve other Malay foods like mee soto, mee rebus, goreng pisang and others.

Warong Sonto which famous with their fried abalone mushroom
 

 

 The fried abalone mushroom aka Goreng Cendawan in Malay

We ordered the plate of fried abalone mushroom which only cost RM2 for 6 pieces. The magic of this snack food is the soy sauce which mixed with bird eye chili (chili padi). It was crispy on the outer skin and tender in the inside, especially when you dipped with the homemade soy sauce, it give you another satisfaction by enjoying the snacks.

The homemade soy sauce with bird eye chili

We will be back for their others food in the warong.

Warong Sonto - Goreng Cendawan
Address : Along Jalan Kampung Maju Jaya which in the direction to Seelong.
GPS Coordinates : N1.59529 E103.71977
Business hour : 11am - 10pm, close on Sunday.

3rd stop : Haji Wahid Mee Rebus at Plaza Angsana
Mee rebus is one of the signature food in Johor Bahru that you cannot miss, it had a long history since Hj Wahid took over the business on the year 1938 from his father. Today, they have many outlet in Johor Bahru town and all run by his son...
The stall we visited at Plaza Angsana is located in the food court and the area has a clean and wide sitting place.

The stall of Hj. Wahid's Mee Rebus in Plaza Angsana, Tampoi

The comfort dining area of the food court

The plate of mee rebus cost RM4 which is unique and different from others state within Malaysia.

Hj. Wahid mee rebus from Plaza Angsana

The noodles served with eggs, scallions, green chili, some crispy fried crackles and dried shrimps. The gravy is the important part of the meal, it was just nice, fragrant and not starchy at all. This is the traditional recipe of their family almost a century ago. Before the noodles serve on table, they added some vinegar and dark soy sauce on it to enhance the tasty noodles.

Hj. Wahid's Mee Rebus at Plaza Angsana
Address : Plaza Angsana, Jalan Tampoi, Johor Bahru.
GPS Coordinates : N1.49598 E103.70691
Business hour : 10am - 9pm daily.

Fourth stop : E Pin Bak Kut Teh ??????? at Taman Bukit Indah

This Bak Kut Teh is rather special compare with most the Teow Chew Bak Kut Teh within Johor Bahru area. It rather has the Klang taste but cooked in clay pot. The shop was shifted from the location behind AM Bank previously and now the new outlet is behind the Hong Leong Bank of Taman Bukit Indah. You can read from my previous post here.

The restaurant has a modern decoration with the limited tables, the history of Bak Kut Teh is clearly display from the wall in the restaurant. (apologies that I couldn't show you the photos due to some technical problem which cannot retrieve the photos from the memory card)

We had the dried pork knuckles and soup based pork ribs clay pot bak kut teh, and the friendly owner - Mr Kenny introduced us their special signature dish - stir fried clams ????, beside that we also tasted their homemade fish cake.

Homemade fish cake

Dried type pork knuckle in clay pot

Pork ribs and others intestine Bak Kut Teh in clay pot

Stir fried clams with scallions

The taste of all the foods were above average with the reasonable prices, worth trying if you happen in the area or after shopping from the Aeon Bukit Indah.

E Pin Bak Kut Teh ???????
Address : 26,jalan indah 15/1,Taman bukit indah 81200 (behind Bkt Indah Hong Leong Bank), Johor Bahru.
GPS Coordinates : N1.48196 E103.66057
Contact : Mr Kenny Wang - 013 778 9998
Business hour : Mon - Sat 11am - 11pm, Sun 9am - 11pm.
Website : https://www.facebook.com/yipin9998

Fifth stop : Goreng pisang - Mawar warong.

This stall serve the most famous goreng pisang in Johor Bahru since more than 30 years ago. They operated in the simple road side stall until they have a proper dining area today. The warong located just next to the popular Thistle Hotel in JB and behind the JB Clock Tower.
Despite the negative rumour around JB area, the area is pack with peoples during their operation hour.

Warong Mawar

Beside the goreng pisang (deep fried banana), they do sell nasi lemak, nasi ambang and others. When the place is too crowded, you need to have good patient for the food you order.
We had a plate of goreng pisang cost RM2 (below), the crispy outer part was the magic of the snacks. Compare with other popular goreng pisang stall within JB area, this was really gave us the most satisfaction! Deep fried by the fresh banana, dip into the dark soy sauce which mixed with the bird eye chili...it made our best tea break of the day!

Goreng pisang (deep fried banana) from Warong Mawar

I will be back for the pack of nasi ambang soon!

Warong Mawar Goreng Pisang

Address : Jalan Sungai Chat of Jalan Kolam Air, Johor Bahru

GPS Coordinates : N1.46176 E103.74192

Business hour : 11am - 5pm, close on Friday.

Sixth stop : Dong Hong Traditional Chinese Kueh ???? at Tmn Sri Tebaru Hawker Centre.

The stall located in the historical hawker centre called Taman Sri Tebrau Hawker Centre. They sell full of variety of Chinese traditional kueh which hardly can find it else where in JB. This type of stalls are getting less and less nowadays...

Dong Hong Chinese Kueh stall - ????

Mr Low, who is the owner of the stall told us that the 'kuehs' sell in the stall are all homemade with the original ingredients, that will really make the kueh taste perfect! His customers are 40% from Singapore and everyday across the causeway to buy the kueh and another 60% are from the locals.

We tried some of their 'Ang Ku Kueh' and 'Bang-kuang kueh'.

Traditional 'Ang-Ku kueh' from Dong Hong stall

Bang-kuang kueh from Dong Hong stall

They have different type of kueh with the above shape...bang-kuang (turnip), Ku-cai (Chinese chives) and others.

Beside retail, they do supply to other shop and restaurants within Johor Bahru area.

Do drop by if you are the fan of these Chinese traditional kueh.

Dong Hong Trading ????

Address : 62, Taman Sri Tebrau Hawker Centre, Tmn Sri Tebrau.

GPS Coordinates : N1.48684 E103.76804

Contact : 019 753 9830

Business hour : Sat - Tue 4pm - 11pm

Website : https://www.facebook.com/pages/%E4%B8%9C%E9%B8%BF%E7%B3%95%E7%B2%BF/487895931281137?id=487895931281137&sk=info

Seventh and also the last stop of the day - Mama Nyonya Food Restaurant ?????? at Taman Molek.

The restaurant located in Tmn Molek which is just behind the Alliance Bank of Tmn Molek. This restaurant is one of the three famous Nyonya restaurant within Johor Bahru. I had been visiting many times and still continue visit it till today...

Mama Nyonya Food Restaurant at Taman Molek

It has a simple and cozy setting of the environment and with air-conditioning. The restaurant can be very crowded during weekend evening. That's one of the reason we usually visiting on the weekday...

The interior deco of the restaurant

We ordered few types of fish, one Nyonya curry chicken, steam lady finger and Baba cendol for dessert.

Nyonya style deep fried fish tail with dried onions and garlic

Same cooking method with different part of the fish

Nyonya style steamed fish

Nyonya curry chicken

Steamed lady finger with homemade spicy sambal

Baba Cendol with palm sugar

We have no doubt for the Nyonya foods in this restaurant, the lovely couple Mr Andy and Ms Grace provide their original ingredients and their best effort to serve their every customers. This is one of the worth visit Nyonya restaurant with the delicious foods and reasonable prices. You cannot miss it if you are the Nyonya food lover wihtin Johor Bahru.

Mama Nyonya Food Restaurant ??????
Address : 8, Jalan Molek 1/28, Taman Molek, Johor Bahru.
Contact : Ms Grace Lim 016-7167190
GPS Coordinates : N1.52416 E103.78535
Business hour : 11am - 8pm Mon - Fri. Saturday base on reservation and Sunday off.
Website : https://www.facebook.com/pages/MaMa-Nyonya-FOOD/110292562374357

*  You can find all these nice food by downloading the HungryGoWhere mobile app for both IOS and Android.

Mission accomplished!
We had total of 7 different places with 7 different dishes and snacks around Johor Bahru area. Will start to plan for the next food trail again!

*  Some of the photos above were taken by mobile phone, apologies for the poor quality.

Lemon Tree Restaurant at Melodies Garden, Johor Bahru

Lemon Tree Restaurant (N1.49135 E103.76201) is located along Jalan Bedara, Tmn Melodies, Johor Bahru. The restaurant is situated in a residential area since 11 years ago, and most of their customers are regular...
The owner - Mr Jeffery Bong said he surveyed the area before starting his restaurant and like the trees in front of the shop lot very much. And because of the trees stories, he named the restaurant as 'Lemon Tree', a popular song which was famous by Fools Garden, released on the year 1995 and became a major international hit in 1996.

Lemon Tree Restaurant at Tmn Melodies

The setting of the restaurant is simple and cozy, with retro ambience. The warm lighting made the guests feel comfort while dining in the restaurant...

The simple interior deco of Lemon Tree Restaurant

The area is well ventilated and I like to view through the old photos (the owner's collection) on the wall...the Elvis, Beatles and other famous artist from the 60s & 70s...

Our first appetizer was Tuna Bruchetta Cheese Bread.

Tuna Bruchetta Cheese Bread

The piece of bread evenly covered by tuna and nicely wrapped with cheese, the slice of cucumber and baby tomato provided extra refreshment to the appetizer, these Bruchetta were nice!

After the appetizers, each of us have a homemade mushroom soup served by the restaurant.

Homemade mushroom soup by Lemon Tree Restaurant

The flavorful mushroom soup was nice, creamy, but not starchy, I can taste the mushroom started from the beginning till the end...the bowl of mushroom soup was just nice for a person.

Next, there were two 12" pizzas were served. Tropical Hawaiian and Island Seafood Pizza.

Tropical Hawaiian pizza by Lemon Tree Restaurant

Island Seafood pizza

The both cheesy pizzas were topped with a large mount of fresh ingredients, pineapples, cucumbers, hams, tunas, prawns and many more! You have to taste it yourself. I would prefer the Hawaiian pizza because of the fruits, but...that would very much depends on the individual taste bud.

The Mixed Fruits Salad was the following dish...kind of like the foods arrangement by the owner - Jefferey Bong, because the refreshing fruits salad was served after the large amount of cheese loaded into our stomach...:)

Mixed fruits salad

The fruits salad was prepared with the fresh fruits, and don't forget the special dressing by the Chef Jeffery, therefore it definitely cool us down for the 'part 1' foods session...

After a short break, the 'part 2' began with 2 spaghetti, appeared on the table quietly...
The Spaghetti Hawaiian and Spaghetti Seafood Alio-Olio.

Spaghetti Hawaiian

Spaghetti Seafood Alio-Olio

Both spaghetti were delicious! The Spaghetti Hawaiian was served with hams and with sweet sauce, and the Spaghetti Seafood served with lots of seafood...especially the big prawns. We like the taste of the both spaghetti.

Before the we could finish the spaghetti, the New Zealand Air Frown Rib-eye presented!

New Zealand Air Frown Rib-eye steak

The steak served in the medium well doneness and the black pepper sauce was separated, which give a choice for those who like the original beef taste and those who like with the sauce.

The a bit char grilled steak was succulent, it could be better if serve in medium rare with the taste of meat juice...but this is my personal preference and it may not suitable for all of us, well arrange by the Chef! You will be surprise by the reasonable price of this steak, find out yourself! :)

The medium well doneness New Zealand Rib-eye at Lemon Tree Restaurant

The Chef did serve some of the local delicacies on the following after having such a nice western cuisine, that were the popular Lemon Tree Special Fried Rice and the Mee Mamak.

Special Fried Rice

Mee Mamak

As I recalled, the Lemon Tree restaurant caught my attention few years ago from some of my friends comments on their nice and simple fried rice, as a fried rice lover...I was a bit late to try out but never regret on it!
The fried rice was fragrance and yummy, served on the perfect moist level and never too dry to enjoy it! The plate of fried rice served together with a fried chicken wing, ham, cheese, fried egg and the sauce. It can be a filling dish for lunch or dinner.
According to the Chef...the combination of fried rice was a advise from a regular customer who visit the restaurant 3 times a week, the customer requested to has more stuffs beside the fried rice and Chef Jeffery 'tailored made' the dish as what he need, surprisingly the dish sell very well from the kitchen...that's the reason Jeffery named it The Special Fried Rice of Lemon Tree Restaurant!

The Mee Mamak was an enhanced version from the local mee goreng where easily available in most of the mamak shop. But the Lemon Tree's version was slightly different, it topped up with many veggie and fried to the perfect taste...which mean not too sweet or salty. It was an eye opening for me to taste the mee mamak in the western food restaurant.

After all the scrumptious meal for the dinner, the lovely desserts surfaced...
The special edition of Tiramisu and the Chocolate Lava.
I'm not a dessert person but the desserts on that evening 'seduced' me too much! Haha!

The Tiramisu

The Tiramisu was made in 3 types of coffee and with the unique cheese cream. The Wow factor was on the first bite! Not overly sweet (as peoples are more health conscious nowadays), and it was a surprise for me!

The Dark Chocolate Lava cake

The chocolate lava cake was made from the pure 70% of dark chocolate, it won't be overly sweet...no worries! And the so called 'Lava' will not ooze from the cake once you cut it due to the high density of the chocolate cake.

I believe the two desserts above will easily drive the girls crazy! It will become the favorite for the desserts lover!

We were satisfied for the dishes served by the restaurant that evening. Especially with the reasonable prices. The prices for the dishes above are within RM5.50 and RM49.00.

Lemon Tree Restaurant had expanded their dining area to the next door. According to Jeffery, the new wing is cater for private function or catering services, 20-30 persons.

The Chef - Mr Jeffery Bong was a executive chef of one of the 5 stars hotel in Singapore, he decided to came back Johor Bahru to start his own business 11 years ago. He wanted to serve his customers with the quality foods and a reasonable price, in fact...it's a good news for the western food lover in Johor Bahru. The restaurant had been through more than a decade, and Jeffery continue to provide the best cuisine to his customers from day 1 till now...

Do drop by the Lemon Tree Restaurant if you are happen in Taman Melodies area, I believe you will find what you like!

Lemon Tree Restaurant
18, Jalan Bedara,
Taman Melodies, Johor Bahru.
Tel : +607-335 5688

Business hour : 12pm - 11pm (Close on Monday)

GPS Coordinates : N1.49135 E103.76201

Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/pages/Restaurant-Lemon-Tree/157181411041060

Location map of Lemon Tree Restaurant at Melodies Garden, Johor Bahru.

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