The First Asia Legoland Water Park at Nusajaya, Johor.

The Legoland Water Park (N1.42755 E103.63188) is officially open for public on 21st October 2013, we were invited for the media preview 2 days before the date.

The Water Park contains over 3 million litres of water and has more than 20 unique water based rides. There are also over 70 specially built LEGO models. It is the largest LEGOLAND Water Park in the world and the only one which can be enjoyed either on its own as a stand-alone attraction or in combination with the Theme Park.

The entrance to the Water Park is located at the left from the main entrance to the Theme Park, the direction signage is clearly display if you stand in front of the Legoland Theme Park.

The Legoland Water Park entrance

The day ticket is having promotion for RM95 (adult), RM75 (child 3-11 years) and both having a RM10 food voucher each for the moment. For more information, please visit the Legoland official website : www.legoland.com.my.

The invited International media were from everywhere around the regions, everyone stand-by for the welcome speech (once the preview started) from the General Manager - Mr Siegfried Boerst and Managing Director - Mr John Jakobsen beside one of the Water Park's highlights - Build-A-Raft River.

Mr John Jakobsen having the welcome speech to the media

After the speeches, once Mr Siegfried Boerst and Mr John Jakobsen threw the Lego bricks to the 'river', the party began at Build-A-Raft River!

Mr Siegfried Boerst and Mr John Jakobsen threw a net of Lego soft bricks to the lazy river and started the party!

Then the group walked over to the next Water Park's highlights - Joker Soaker.

The two gentlemen company with a group of junior life saver and waiting to the water pour down...once everyone and all the cameras ready, here come the Big Splash!

A giant bucket pours 350 gallons of water into the wade pool below that surprised everyone with the strong cooling breeze who stand beside and they were all wet! Again, we heard the happy shouting from the children who waited in the Joker Soaker and began their fun!

After a short rest, we were having the questions and answers session next to the rides...

The Tengku of Johor, Mr Siegfried Boerst and Mr John Jakobsen were professionally answer all the questions from the media. The session took about 30 minutes and the fun time began!

Let me show some of the attractive Water Park's rides one-by-one...

Build-A-Raft River
This is one of the popular ride where everyone relax sitting on the rubber tube (dinghy) and float through the lazy river. Along the way, you can collect many soft bricks on the water and built your own raft...

The entrance of Built-A-Raft River

Everyone was so enjoying on the float...

Life savers were stand-by every corner at every rides in the Water Park

We met the media filming from Hong Kong...

The sweet lady from Hong Kong's media

Just look at the face of children, they were so relax and enjoyed the ride...

Joker Soaker
The Joker Soaker is a fun interactive play structure where children can aim water cannons at one another. A fun, interactive playground with various lengths, heights and types of slides that offer something different for every member of the family. Guests can wade in the surrounding pool and be surprised with a torrential spill from a 300-gallon bucket.

Joker Soaker

I believe my daughter will stay in this fun area for at least 2 hours...

Another look of the Joker Soaker

LEGO Wave Pool
Families can catch a gentle wave or simply cool off in this perfectly sized wave pool where the waves are just big enough for all ages to enjoy.

This big pool is interesting and many peoples like to soak themselves into it.

LEGO Wave Pool

The Life guard on duty

I saw many kids happy and enjoyed themselves in the pool with full of laughter! That was a great moment!
The Beach 'N' Brick Grill is just located next to the Wave Pool, convenience for those who want to fill up the stomach and jump back to the pool...

Beach 'N' Brick Grill Cafe

Red Rush
A family tube slide where up to four people can ride together down a 312-foot-long curving track on an 11-foot in diameter half pipe.
This was fun and with a long queue...

The queue of the Red Rush

Some actions captured on the ride...

The fun within the Red Rush

I was impressed by the motorized automation which bring up the rubber tube from the bottom to the top...

Next to the Red Rush is the - Splash Out.
The thrill seekers of the family can ascend to the tallest point of the water park attraction and choose from one of three unique slides, then speed down a 60-foot drop and “splash out” into the water below.
"The following swimwear is not permitted: cotton t-shirts, exposed zippers, wet suits, water shoes, or any lose articles that may get damaged during the ride, such as hats or sunglasses."

The Splash Out

The smooth ride of Splash Out captured

The 3 unique rides from Splash Out

Next - Splash 'N' Swirl

The others ride of Brick Blaster, Wave Rider and Tidal Tube are also available from the same queue and same platform.

The queue on the platform from the 4 rides mentioned above...

The Splash 'N' Swirl and Brick Blaster

The action captured - Splash 'N' Swirl

The end ride of Brick Blaster

The end part of the other two rides Wave Rider and Tidal Tube are located at the same area...

LEGO Slide Racer
Race down the slides with 5 others on a mat and see who reached the fastest. A thrilling ride for the whole family.
"The following swimwear is not permitted: cotton t-shirts, exposed zippers, wet suits, water shoes, or any lose articles that may get damaged during the ride, such as hats or sunglasses."

LEGO Slide Racer

And...Yee-Haa!

The fun ride of LEGO Slide Racer

The LEGOLAND Water Park view from the highest ground, the LEGOLAND Hotel is at the back of the park which just soft opening on the 29th November 2013.

Some of my friends asked me how was fun the Water Park... well, I replied...it was a Great Family Theme Park and we shouldn't judge how fun it it, let the children do the talking and you will realize the joyful moment they have and I say that is "Priceless!"

Please bring your family and children to the LEGOLAND Theme Park and Water Park during this school holiday to enjoy your priceless family moment!

LEGOLAND Water park

Nusajaya, Johor.

http://www.legoland.com.my/en/Explore/Water-Park/

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Pun Heong Dim Sum Restaurant - 品香点心包点茶室 at Kulai Main Road, Kulaijaya - Johor.

Kedai Pun Heong 品香点心包点茶室 (N1.64570 E103.61609) is the local Malaysia name of the restaurant and if you notice there's a smaller signage before you walk in the restaurant stated 'Chop Pun Heong'. With the name of "Chop", it means the shop or restaurant is having a long history since the 60s or 70s, because during that era and most of the Chinese shop have the word "Chop". Pun Heong Dim Sum Restaurant had started their business since 60 years ago and this was the first dim sum restaurant I came across that operating in the evening session...

Pun Heong Dim Sum Restaurant at Kulaijaya

The restaurant is situated along the Kulaijaya town Main Road (Jalan Besar) which is quite easy to locate. As the local called that area is 19 miles of Kulai. It has the rustic ambience and we felt like walking into a time machine...simple and typical 'shop' with no different from the others in year 70s...I believe Pun Heong (品香) must be one of the pioneer Dim Sum restaurant running their business in Kulaijaya.

Typical Chinese type of restaurant

There was only another table occupied while we stepped in (around 7pm), that gave me a chance to had a little chat to the owner who is the grandson of the founder of the shop, he told me that all their dim sum and bao (stuffed bun) are make and process in their shop...that means all are freshly prepare and steam within the same area. And he politely recommended their popular big bao 大包 (pork bun), char siew bao 叉烧包 (bbq pork bun), plate of siew mai 烧卖 and pai-kuat 排骨 (ribs) to us.

My first grabbed was the Da Bao (big stuffed bun), reason was strongly recommended by friends!

Da bao 大包 from Pun Heong

The bao was juicy and tasty! It generously stuffed with plenty of pork, chicken and eggs. The outer flour skin was soft and not thick like others. I like it very much!

The Da Bao was generously stuffed with the ingredients

And surprisingly, the char siew bao 叉烧包 equally good! Filled with gravy and won't feel the dryness of it! Especially the flour skin was tender. Excellent!

Char siew bao 叉烧包 from Pun Heong Dim Sum Restaurant

Tasty pork in the bun

Beside the nice bao, we did tried out their siew mai 烧卖 (pork dumplings). It doesn't had the colourful deco as others but it was nice and not porky...

Siew mai 烧卖 from Pun Heong Restaurant

The pork ribs was above average and I remember that it was really hot when served on our table.

Small plate of pork ribs

Overall we were satisfied with the dim sum and the bao. The price of above were really reasonable and we can't enjoy the nice dim sum like this with their price at Johor Bahru at all.
Before we left the restaurant, I noticed the shop was full house! Well, realized that the customers mostly are regular here...

I'll definitely drop by again if I'm happen around Kulaijaya.

Pun Heong Dim Sum Restaurant 品香点心包点茶室

681-6, Jalan Raya Kulai Besar, 

81000 Kulaijaya, Johor

Tel : +607-6631279

Business hour : 6pm-10pm

Rest day : Sunday and first day of the month in Chinese Lunar calender

GPS Coordinates : N1.64570 E103.61609

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New series of Western Cuisine at Lazio Italian Restaurant and Bar, Danga Bay - Johor Bahru

There are new series of Western Cuisine available at Lazio Italian Restaurant (N1.47423 E103.72441) since months ago and we decided to try out on one of the evening. Lazio Restaurant is located at Danga Bay of Johor Bahru, you can relax and enjoy the meal along with the beautiful scenery of Straits of Johor. You can read through my previous blog post about the restaurant here.

Lazio Italian Restaurant of Danga Bay

The decoration of the restaurant still remain the same as we visited a year ago...

The new Exeutive Chef - Mr Stanley Yim from the restaurant had launched the new series of delightful dishes which provide a different dining experience to their customers. At first he humbly presented 3 different type of pasta for us before the main dish...

Pesto Di Funghi

The pasta above was served with mushroom and pesto sauce in spinach basil linguine pasta. It was tasty and special.

Aragosta

The dish was served with half lobster, herbs tomato sauce in Fettuchini pasta. It was rich tomato flavor and went well with the cheese and lobster.

Capesante

The dark colour pasta above was delicious! The squid ink fettuccine pasta was served with scallops on fetta cheese cream sauce. I like the taste very much!

Before we can finish the pastas on the table, the Main Attraction of the day - The Aussie Wagyu Tomahawk Chop Rip-eye Steak served on our table!
The weight was 2.11kg.

The Grilled Wagyu Tomahawk Chop Rip-eye Steak from Lazio Italian Restaurant

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The Tomahawk Steak is a Bone-In Rib Steak with the entire rib bone intact. This long bone is frenched (trimmed of meat and fat), leaving a beautiful presentation piece. The Tomahawk, being a Rib Steak, has the largest amount of intermuscular fat, making it the most flavorful steak. The Tomahawk is cut based on the thickness of the bone and is typically two inches thick. One Tomahawk can easily feed two people. The Tomahawk is cut from the rib section. The primary muscle of the Tomahawk is the longissimus dorsi, which is also the primary muscle in the Porterhouse. Source from here.

The Tomahawk was served together with mushroom sauce, steak sauce and garlic sauce.

The rip-eye steak that we had was about 2-3 inches thick and serve up to 4 persons.

The Tomahawk steak had everyone full attention once it nicely presented on the table. Mr Stanley and his assistant gently cut the prime steak and served to each of us....

Mr Stanley and his assistant

The big 2.11kg weight of Rib Eye Steak was cut into 7-8 pieces and it was about 200-250g each...

The steak was grilled to perfect with a little of char on the outside...the medium rare doneness is a Must for a prime steak.

The bone with the tender flesh and fat

The flesh was succulent together with the precious fat and meat juice. The steak was so nice untill we felt it really melt in our mouth!

The slice of Wagyu Tomahawk Ribeye Steak

I like my steak with the original taste which is without any sauce, but I did tried out the 3 types of sauces provided. Among all, I like the garlic sauce very much (strongly recommended by Mr Stanley).

This was a total different dining experience enjoying the steak in Johor Bahru. And It was also my great pleasure to enjoyed this wonderful dinner together with Mr Tony from Johorkaki.

Thanks to Mr Stanley and his team who presented such a Fabulous dish from Lazio Restaurant.

The Executive Chef of Lazio Restaurant - Mr Stanley Yim

For steak lover in JB, you must try out (at least once) this extraordinary steak from Lazio Italian Restaurant with your family and friends, I bet you will not regret! And I believe they are the Only restaurant serve the Aussie Wagyu Tomahawk Chop Ripeye Steak for the moment.

*  The Aussie Wagyu Tomahawk Chop Ripeye Steak above was 2.11kg with the cost of RM850++. Every Tomahawk steak serve with the minimum weight of 2kg. Please make your reservation for the particular dish in one week advance with the 50% deposit.

Lazio Italian Restaurant and Bar
Danga Bay, Johor Bahru.
Tel : +607-2217988/+607-2215688
Business hour : 12pm - 1am, 12pm - 2am for Fri, Sat & holiday eve

https://www.facebook.com/groups/laziodangabay/

GPS coordinates : N1.47423 E103.72441

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