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.

Container Gardenstay (集裝箱花園客棧) at Bangkok Village, Jalan Kota Tinggi, Johor Bahru

The container concept is not a new concept today, I had seen it almost 8 years ago at Langkawi island, and of course through out the world. But this is the 'first' container garden stay in Johor Bahru! Where the containers are surrounded in the lush of green and I considered as a good place for weekend city escape!

Container Garden Stay (N1.55522 E103.80122) is located in the Bangkok Village of Johor Bahru. The area was a nice nursery and now converted into restaurant, garden and the above mentioned containers...

Container Gardenstay at Bangkok Village, Johor Bahru.

Large vehicles parking area and even for express buses are available. The surrounding is well ventilated even on the hot and humid weather.

The pathway to the reception

The check-in process was done in the minute by the friendly staffs, impressed. After we settled the rooms, I requested to walk-around the area for photography purpose...

There are lower and upper cabins for the rooms, and guests have a option for nice garden view or without view.

The staircase is on the left row of the cabins...

This was also part of the single bedrooms located...

On the right side, its the garden view cabins...

A relax and comfort tea area next to the rooms...they provide good imported Chinese tea for their guests, too bad I'm not a Chinese tea lover and can't comment much...

In the middle of the both side, there's a nice corridor for all the rooms. As for me, this was a colourful corridor for photography!

As you can see, some of the room's door are still the container original door which is solid and heavy...

The solid door for the guest room

They provide 3 types of rooms which are single bed, queen bed and king bed.
Let start from the single room...

Single room

The attached bathroom is just nice for 'one' person.

Queen's bedroom or double room

Options of garden view (below) or 'no view' (above)...

The King's bedroom with the garden view. The attached bathroom is slightly wider and we understand that it's all in the container, we won't ask for much more bigger room space. :)

The attached bathroom for the double room

The well maintained and nice garden just situated next to the containers...

There's a seafood Thai restaurant situated in the same area, where the Bangkok Village was named by the owner...

Walk way to the Bangkok Village restaurant

Facade of the restaurant

The dining area...

The dining area was transformed to a nice, comfort and relax area during the night fall...we had our dinner in the restaurant that evening and I'll blog about soon. Anyway, delicious food!

Beside that, they also serve local food for breakfast and lunch around the containers.

We had a pleasant stayed for 2 days 1 night weekend getaway! Experienced the container stay, which was just enough space for ourselves in the clean and comfortable environment! I will recommend to my friends who want to experience the relax and mind free staying!

Our package was breakfast included and car wash is provide if you drive.

It's a private area and whole Bangkok Village is lock after midnight, where the safety is concern. Please visit their facebook page for the latest promotion rate or visit the following online agents : expedia.com.my, booking.com and agoda.com

Container Gardenstay at Bangkok Village 

集裝箱花園客棧

Block 3,Bangkok Viilage, PTD 93547 Jln Harmonium 3, 

off Jln Kota Tinggi, Tmn Desa Tebrau, 81100 Johor Bahru.

Tel : +607-3518766

Facebook :  http://goo.gl/mpFPs0

Location map for Container Gardenstay @ Bangkok Village, Johor Bahru