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Saturday, August 1, 2026

[Travel] Across the Causeway - Saturday Day Trip 2026 Version @ Johor Bahru, Malaysia

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Breakfast 1 (10:04 am)

皇家咖啡店 WONG GA KOPITIAM




This coffee shop has a drinks stall (obviously), an economic rice stall, duck rice/noodles and a beef noodles stall.

Spacious place and there was a table available. One can place order at the various food stalls and the staff will bring it over when it is ready. Pay when served. 

For drinks, you can order via the order chit placed on the table (which we didn't notice) or via the staff, or at the drinks counter. Cashless payment is available. Recommend to order and to pay direct at the counter.

assorted braised - tofu, duck gizzard, pig skin and ear

braised duck (portion for 3 pax)

kway teow kia (dry)


Our breakfast was mainly from the duck stall. Paid RM60 for the duck, assorted braised and a bowl of kway teow kia. Food was good.

mixed beef soup (RM15 - large)


For the beef soup, it was different from what I imagined it would be. Suggest to order it with noodles instead of without as the soup tasted better with the noodles.

cham (tea and coffee mixed)


I liked the cham here but probably better to go for the less sweet version. 



Address: 141&142, Jalan Lumba Kuda, Bukit Chagar, 80300 Johor Bahru, Johor Darul Ta'zim, Malaysia

Business Hours: Daily, 6 am–8 pm




Breakfast 2 (11:07 am)

13 Units Hong Kong Cafe - Danga Utama


shop front



Do you think we'd be here to eat say, just a bolo bun? Never. Haha! Let's see what we ended up with.

bakes on display

merch corner



Staff was friendly and we got our table almost immediately. However, after placing our orders, we asked the staff if we could move as the place didn't get the fan coverage. He was rather nice about it and warned that the table nearby had strong air conditioning and if we were ok with that.

themed concept

menu

might order this if I hadn't had breakfast prior


The hardcopy menu looked like it had seen better days. Order via the QR code. Liked that for the drinks that we had selected, one could choose the less sweet option. 



HK chee cheong fun (plain)


The rice rolls were more sweet than savoury. Tasted like dessert. 

pistachio egg tart


cross section view


nornal egg tart


We were happy with the egg tarts. Crispy, flaky shell and good flavours from the pistachio and egg custard.


signature ice milk tea

ice-lemon tea


Hehe, that tiny piece of mahjong tile on the ice-lemon tea drink cover, can be plucked out and take home by the diners.

bolo bun with butter

nissin noodles with egg and luncheon meat

steamed milk custard



Total meal costs around RM95.


Address: 60G, Jln Pertama 1, Pusat Perdagangan Danga Utama, 81300 Johor Bahru, Johor Darul Ta'zim, Malaysia

Business Hours: Daily, 10 am–10 pm







Entertainment and Tea Break (3:00pm - 5:00pm)

Chun K Music Family Karaoke 纯K

The first KTV place that we went was inside a shopping mall but it was strictly for members' registration only but it was fully reserved. Hence, searched around and decided on Chun K as it accepts walk-in and was available. 

We took the RM99++ 2 hour package which included a jug of drinks (choose 1 from 3 selections), some fruits and snacks.

Song selection was alright, service staff was polite and helpful. However, one of the mic at times no sound or sudden burst of sound. Not sure if it is a technical issue or our voice needed better control. Hmmm.


Address: 37, Jalan Austin Heights 8/3, Taman Mount Austin, 81100 Johor Bahru, Johor Darul Ta'zim, Malaysia

Contact: +6072886648

Business Hours: Daily, 2 pm–3 am






Pre-Dinner Snacks (7:05pm)

B&B Bakery

This shop sells one of the larger sized shio-pan that I've encountered thus far. The Penang shio-pan size was similar to Singapore. 

dining space outside the shop

shop front


I bought a couple of flavours for breakfast but my bro at the fancy flavours while I tried the yam mochi and the normal shio-pan. One could also add selected fillings into the plain shio-pan inside the shop, to customize the bun. 

shio-pan with additional butter fillings





Address: 1, Jalan Kasa 7, Taman Sentosa, 80150 Johor Bahru, Johor Darul Ta'zim, Malaysia

Business Hours: Daily, 9 am–8 pm



BBQ Dinner (7:40pm)

Tanba Japanese BBQ 炭马烧肉专门店(Twin Galaxy)

shop



One could opt for either hot-pot or BBQ in this same shop. That night, we observed more people having hotpot than BBQ.

We chose the RM198+ per pax Basic Course package for the BBQ.

BBQ package


wasabi and yakiniku sauce

I was wondering why Hence kept asking me if I need to get the sauces from the sauce counter. I didn't as I was using the sauce available on the table. Turned out, the sauces from sauce counter were already charged per head. 


charcoal ready


Was a tad skeptical on the tiny pieces of charcoal for the BBQ as it looked like it might not have enough fire. No worries there as the meat pieces served were pretty thinly sliced. 

tiny plates per serving order

beef karubi


fresh lettuce is a must 

kimchi is recommended


let's start cooking

munch on karaage while waiting

next round of orders

can request for staff to replace the grill once it got too much char on it

beef fried rice


Hmm, not too sure about the beef fried rice. Didn't like the rice texture here. 

matcha ice-cream


Cold tea, iced water and dessert are included in the package. For dessert, one could get the aiyu-jelly, matcha or vanilla ice-cream or the marshmallow. Hence and Tracy recommends the aiyu-jelly. 

The place was pretty packed during dinner time on a Saturday evening at 730pm. 



Address: Twin Galaxy, 01-03 #01-05 #01-06, Jalan Dato Abdullah Tahir, Taman Abad, 80300 Johor Bahru, Johor Darul Ta'zim, Malaysia


Business Hours: 
Sun - Thu: 12–11 pm
Fri-Sat: 12 pm–12 am


This trip was made possible by Hence, Tracy and Ivan. Thank you for the company!

Saturday, July 4, 2026

[Travel Thailand] Eating Our Way in Siam Paragon @ Bangkok

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Siam Paragon was just a 5 minute walk from our hotel. So we went there for lunch and dinner.


Gourmet Eats


everydough Butter Tteok

Was excited to find butter tteok here, so cheers to my first ever taste of this dessert.


poster

let's buy a bag

mission accomplished

sweet, firm and chewy and definitely buttery

I think butter tteok would taste better when it is toasted? No idea as we finished ours while waiting for for our queue number to be called at Thong Smith.


ขนมเบื้องหวานผึ้งน้อย สาขาเอ็มควอเทียร์

Little Bee Thai Crispy Crepe


small kiosk

box of 5 crepes (Khanom Bueang ขนมเบื้อง)

The flavours that I got were one savoury (dried shrimp), and four sweets; yam, coconut cream with coconut flesh, chocolate, and coconut cream with yolk thread.

closer view



Thong Smith



shop

Waited for about 15 minutes for the queue number to be called. Got a table a few minutes before 2pm.

order chit

menu

The noodles all looked hearty and delicious. Ordered 3 with noodles and one wagyu soup.

are you team skin or fats?

pork noodles (dry)

thin egg noodles

Kurobuta pork boat noodles

sliced wagyu with broth

enough photos, let's dunk the meat into the hot broth


It was pretty good. Now I understand their popularity. 


sour plum soda to quench thirst

I enjoyed our lunch and we went walk walk around the mall to walk off some of the calories as well as to source our dinner venue for the next day (!)



Domo Yakiniku

This restaurant is at Level 4 and we were in the mood for more wagyu (!) We went there for dinner.



watermelon juice

hardcopy menu

We could use our mobile phone to order. So, let's start!

marinated cherry tomatoes (appetiser)

nakaochi

beef tongue

assorted platter

let's get the grill going~


We had to remind ourselves that this is not a buffet! Thank you Hence for grilling the meats.

yummy in the making

Beef tongue was the group's favourite cut and that was evident because on the bill, we found 4 orders of tongue (!)

For me, I like the jo karubi's texture and its fats ratio.

let's munch on some leaves too~


Ordered a beef rice pot to share. This was the only dish where the staff will help to mix and dish out into a bowl.

beef rice pot with matsutake mushroom

this was yummy!

The rice portion, I think it was meant for 2 pax. Flavourful, oily and yummy. Good choice.

beef tartare


Oh my goodness. The beef tartare was wow. Clean taste and nice flavours. I love the texture of the tartare strips.


nakaochi (rib finger)

Nakaochi is also another meat cut which I liked. Hence, I can conclude I liked all the ribs related meats.


squid and mushrooms

doesn't it look like a caterpillar?

Tracy wanted to end the meal with noodles, so we also ordered the fried beef fats rice to try as well.

fried beef fats rice with garlic chips

Oh, another good call! The beef fats rice was yummy. The beef fats was so flavourful!

cold noodles

We spent about ฿6900 for the meal. Thank you to Tracy, Hence and Ivan for sharing the calories!



Siam Paragon

Address: 991 Rama I Rd, Pathum Wan, Bangkok 10330, Thailand

Websitehttps://www.siamparagon.co.th/

Business Hours:

Daily 10 am–10 pm

 
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