Ratatouille La Gourmet in Austin Heights, Johor Bahru

There are many cafes and restaurants just started to operate within the Austin Heights area, which will also another prime location for this area. One of the restaurant I visited was the Ratatouille La Gourmet Austin Heights (N1.56222 E103.77841), another branch for the Ratatouille La Gourmet restaurant from Adda Heights. Operated by the same owner - Mr Brian, but with slightly different concept compare with the Adda Heights outlet.

Ratatouille La Gourmet Austin Heights

The restaurant has a simple and neat setting, clean and comfort environment. Let the photos below show you...

Simple and comfort setting of Ratatouille La Gourmet Austin Heights

Choices of 2 persons, 4 persons or group of peoples...even with one of the window seat. :)

The restaurant is suitable for family, friends gathering and also couples. The soft music was playing during we waiting for our food...

Each of us had a plate of mushroom soup and garlic bread complimentary from the restaurant, this is also the 'Ratatouille culture' since they started from the small stall in the kopitiam (Hokkien dialect means : food court).

Mushroom soup with garlic bread

Starter :-
Grilled and Baked button mushroom.

Grilled button mushroom

Baked button mushroom

Both were juicy! The original taste by the grilled type, and the fragrance with the cheese baked mushroom, you even can taste the fresh tomato from it. We like both!

Here come the main courses...
*  Aglio e olio
*  Bolognaise (or bolognese)
*  Chicken cordon bleu
*  BBQ Pork Ribs
*  Pork Chop

Aglio e olio

Bolognaise

Chicken cordon bleu

BBQ Pork ribs

Pork chop

Aglio e olio
The spaghetti was well prepared with the fragrance olive oil and garlic.  The spaghetti was not overcook and we all like the springy-ness of it, I like the taste of the olive oil very much. The dish was just nice to my liking.

Bolognaise
Served with fresh minced beef, cooked with their homemade tomato sauce. Creamy cheese but won't stop us to finish it. Another signature from Ratatouille La Gourmet.

Chicken cordon bleu
This is a common dish easily available in western restaurant around Johor Bahru area. But the Chef of Ratatouille prepared the chicken so tender and succulent unlike others made it too dry, every pieces of the chicken went well with the cheese!

BBQ Pork ribs
Well control of the heat where the ribs were tender and yummy! It served with their own recipe of BBQ sauce and you got to try it yourself!

Grilled pork chop
This was the surprised for the night! The pork chop served with moist, well done and delicious! It is difficult to have a nice pork chop around Johor Bahru area, but this was definitely scored the highest marks of that evening! Well marinated and good control of the heat, must not miss this for the pork chop lover!

The lovely dessert served after our main courses...they were same as their Adda Heights outlet, tasty!

Ratatouille signature tiramisu

Cheese cake

The lava chocolate cake

Beside the dishes above, they do serve Roast herb coated lamb rack, Pan seared Norwegian salmon, Mixed grilled platter and many more...all dishes are reasonable price.

The different of this outlet compare with Adda Heights outlet is...Adda Heights serve beef but no pork, Austin Heights serve pork but no beef.

It was a awesome dinner for all of us! Thanks and appreciated for creative and excellent Chef from Ratatouille La Gourmet Austin Heights.

Related post :-
*  Ratatouille La Gourmet Adda Heights

Ratatouille La Gourmet Austin Heights

30, Jalan Austin Heights 8/9,

Taman Austin Heights,

Johor Bahru.

Tel : +607-2893175

Business hour : 11am - 11pm daily

Website : http://www.rlgourmet.com/

Location map of Ratatouille La Gourmet Austin Heights, Johor Bahru.

New series of dishes and breakfast menu from Mama Nyonya FOOD Restaurant, Tmn Molek - Johor Bahru.

Mama Nyonya FOOD Restaurant (N1.52416 E103.78535) has a new series of dishes available started from this December 2014 onwards! Beside the new menu, they also serve Nyonya style breakfast today, you can view through some of the dishes below...

The restaurant new business hour also changed from 7.30am - 5pm (weekday) and 11am - 8pm (Fri and Sat). That means the breakfast is available on weekday only and the dinner only during the weekend.

About 9 of us visited the restaurant on one of the evening to try out the new dishes. Let me show you one-by-one...

*  Fish in brown sauce
*  Itik Sioh (duck)
*  Fish maw soup
*  Portuguese style steam sotong (squids)
*  Battered eggplants in sauce
*  Itik Tim (duck)
*  Ikan sambal garing (Fried mackerel fish with Nyonya sambal)

Fish in brown sauce

Itik Sioh (duck)

Itik Sioh (duck)

Fish maw soup

Portuguese style steam sotong (squids)

Battered eggplants in sauce

Battered eggplants in sauce

Itik Tim (duck)

Ikan sambal garing (Fried mackerel fish with Nyonya sambal)

Ikan sambal garing (Fried mackerel fish with Nyonya sambal)

Fish in brown sauce
- One of the special taste which you can slowly differentiate the sweet, sour, slight salty and spicy-ness of the fish in your mouth. The authentic mixture of Nyonya ingredients were great and we all like it!

Itik Sioh (duck)
- This was the first time tasting this authentic Nyonya Itik Sioh out of Malacca town. The gravy was tasty and really went well with plain rice. The duck was tender and succulent.

Fish maw soup
- The fish maw soup served with salted veggie, mushroom and chicken. Tasty and enjoyed the soup. The fish maw was prepared from raw by the restaurant, and it was fresh.

Portuguese style steam sotong (squids)
- Another Portuguese dish that we tried out of Malacca town. The ingredients were unique, spicy and sour, provided a different taste from local Johor Bahru town. The squids were steamed to perfection.

Battered eggplants in sauce
-  One of the 'very special' dish we had! Eggplant prepared with bean paste, it was crispy on the skin and juicy inside. Unforgettable! All of us like it very much!

Itik Tim (duck)
- Another Nyonya signature dish, cooked with authentic Nyonya recipe as home dish during the old era, we were fortunate enough to taste it today. Appreciated.

Ikan sambal garing (Fried mackerel fish with Nyonya sambal)
-  The fried mackerel fish was different from those available in the nasi lemak stall, it was really crispy and fragrance on the skin and moist inside. The sambal served with the fishes was the best combination!

They served the plain rice in the antique basket (correct me if I'm wrong) with the feel of rich Nyonya touch.

All the dishes enough to ease our Nyonya temptation for the evening. Satisfied dinner in the comfort environment, not to forget the friendly owner (boss and lady boss) which remind me of the Nyonya culture.

Beside the new dishes, they also serve the Nyonya style breakfast in the morning session.

Breakfast menu :-

Curry chicken noodles

 

Roti Jala served with curry chicken (photo below)

 

Nyonya mee-suah (vermicelli)

 

Nyonya Lontong

They also serve nasi lemak and other noodles which I didn't take the photos.
Among all, I like the Nyonya mee-suah and Nyonya Lontong very much! This 2 dishes are really unique within Johor Bahru area.

As all of us rated, Mama Nyonya FOOD Restaurant is one of the worth visit restaurant in Johor Bahru.

* The above comments are based on individual taste bud, not related to any commercial purpose.

MaMa Nyonya FOOD Restaurant

8, Jalan Molek 1/28, 

Taman Molek, Johor Bahru 

(behind Alliance Bank Tmn Molek)

Tel : +6016-7167190 (Grace Lim)
Rest day - Sunday

https://www.facebook.com/pages/MaMa-Nyonya-FOOD/110292562374357

Location map of Mama Nyonya FOOD Restaurant at Taman Molek, Johor Bahru.

Fat Cow Burger at Sun City of Taman Pelangi, Johor Bahru.

Burger known as a fast food in most of the country, include in Malaysia. It is widely available at the street side stall of many of the fast food restaurant locally. Actually, it's nothing to shout about and even 3 years old kid also know the taste of burger...

Recently, there's a fast food restaurant which sell only burger as their main course started in Johor Bahru, and it catch my attention immediately. One of the day, company with few friends, we decided to have a try on their 'burger'.

Fat Cow Burger (N1.47653 E103.76856) is situated at the end of the ground floor of Sun City (as known as Plaza Mentari) in Taman Pelangi. The restaurant is easy to locate because it just diagonally opposite the CIMB Bank of Jalan Kuning, Taman Pelangi.

Entrance of Fat Cow Burger

The environment was cooling and 'green'. I like the artificial grass that they decorated on the wall...

It's quite and spacious too, unlike those popular fast food restaurant where always crowded during lunch time.

The spacious environment of Fat Cow Burger...(free Wi-Fi available)

Their menu was clearly 'written' on the wall...total of 15 different types of burger available. Mainly on chicken and beef.

Our foods served on table pretty fast, and all of us 'surprised' by the sizes and the portions of the burgers!

Moowaiian
- Spicy crispy chicken and cheese, serve with homemade thousand island sauce.

Moowaiian burger

Wagamama
- Grilled chicken patty with crispy sliced chicken and cheese.

Wagamama burger

Matado
- Crispy fried chicken, cheese, mayo and lettuce.

Matado burger

Fat moo moo
- Juicy beef patty, cheese, BBQ pulled beef, onion string.

Fat moo moo burger

Fat Cow Palace
- Double beef patties, crispy chicken, deep fried onion, Parmesan cheese.

Fat cow palace burger

All the burgers served with the very special charcoal bun, which look like normal on the outside and charcoal inside...

The taste was excellent! I tried all types of burgers on our table and I like their own recipe sauce and especially the fluffy bun! All the chicken and beef patties were really juicy, not too dry. By looking at the photos above, I believe you can feel the juiciness of every patty...
Among all, I love the Fat Cow Palace burger, suit my taste bud very much!

And not forgetting to enjoy the burger by your hands, that's the best way to savoring the yummy yet affordable burgers.The portion was tall and big, we were all overloaded, it definitely satisfy everyone even for those big eater.

According to the owner, they made their own patty, toasted bun and many other sauces. Totally a new experience for us by enjoying the perfect burger in town!

As for the standard serve, you can also option to add on like beef patty, mix forest mushroom, cheese, caramelised onion and others.

Beside their main course burgers, they do have 7 types of side dish. So we tried their chicken wings.

Fat Cow chicken wings

The sauce of the chicken wings had the unique taste, it was special! Another thumbs up!

Appreciated the creativeness by the chef who changed the 'public impression of the burger' and I will be going back for more to try out other burger available in the restaurant!

*  All burgers available in reasonable price.

Fat Cow Burger Taman Pelangi

G-09, Blok A, Plaza Mentari (Sun City), 

Jalan Kuning, Taman Pelangi, 80400 Johor Bahru

Tel : +607-3310934

Email : fcb2@tastebugs.com.my

Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/FatCowPelangi

GPS coordinates : (N1.47653 E103.76856)

Location map of Fat Cow burger at Sun City, Taman Pelangi - Johor Bahru.