Sumptuous 4 course dinner at SkyBar and buffet breakfast at Traders Hotel Puteri Harbour, Johor.

Having dinner at SkyBar Traders Hotel Puteri Harbour - Johor was one of the most enjoyable and unforgettable dinner for our family! We had our dinner on one of the Saturday evening sometime November 2013 during our 2 days 1 night city escape holiday. I appreciated that Ms Aidah and the Executive Chef of SkyBar for the dinner arrangement.

We specifically chose the table situated next to the baby pool and had a breathtaking view for the Puteri Harbour night view. While waiting for the dinner to serve, the Chef presented a nice bread with 3 different sauce on our table.

There were 2 types of bread and we like the 3 different sauce very much! Garlic, Rosemary and butter. Before we can finish the bread, the starter served...The Caesar Check-mate! Salad.

Caesar Check-mate! Salad

The appetizer was unique and creative! Nice presentation on the piece of tile and this was the most creative salad I ever have!

Next appetizer was the 'SHE Lobster Bisque'.

SHE Lobster Bisque

"Bisque is a smooth, creamy, highly seasoned soup of French origin, classically based on a strained broth of crustaceans. It can be made from lobster, crab, shrimp or crayfish." Souce from Wiki.

The rich flavored soup was yummy with the fresh female lobster meat. The highly seasoned savory appetizer made our conversation pause awhile, everyone just enjoyed very much. The empty plates tell it all...

The next dish was the main course of the night. The Herb-Crusted Roasted Rack of Lamb.

The Herb-Crusted Roasted Rack of Lamb

I was looking at the Rack of Lamb for at least 5-10 minutes just to admired the presentation by the Chef. Well done!

The portion was big and the lamb served on the medium doneness. Every bite of the juicy and tender lamb provided the satisfaction of the meal, it was sometime back I haven't have a chance to taste the rack of lamb with the mint sauce, excellent! Well, I took the longest time to enjoyed this delicious Roasted Rack of Lamb among all of us...

The dessert served after the main course, it was the 'Combination of Screw pine Creme Brulee and Tiramisu with home-made Vanilla ice cream'. Again! Another well presentation of the dessert from the Chef of SkyBar - Traders Hotel.
*  Apologies from me that my memory card having some problem that I can't retrieve the photos.

Thanks for the humble Chef who came to explained on the dishes, and very much appreciated on the surprised chocolate birthday cake from the management of Traders Hotel. Ms Aidah and the team, thanks you very much on the arrangements and warm hospitality.

That was a wonderful dinner for us especially company by the breathtaking view from the surrounding of SkyBar and Puteri Harbour, the dining experience was totally cannot describe by words! You have to try it yourself to feel the different!

Our buffet breakfast on the next day was prepared at the Harbour Cafe of Traders Hotel. It was full house during we stepped in, nice and polite cafe's staff arrange our table in about 10 minutes...

Harbour Cafe during the morning session

The Cafe provided more than 50 types of breakfast for their guests to choose from. It was a nice breakfast with full of varieties, appetizers, main course and dessert from local and international. Photos below...

The salad corner

The local food session

The noodles area...

The American breakfast counter

I like the sausages, hash brown and baked beans very much!

And also the bread, donuts and croissant corner...

And last not the least...the dessert island.

The dessert island of Harbour Cafe

And you can find even the local Nyonya kueh at the dessert island...

The local kuehs...

It was a very enjoyable moment for our family having the buffet breakfast in the Harbour Cafe. The full varieties of foods really wake up my morning appetite and I like the sausages very much!

It can be very crowded during the weekend morning session at the Harbour Cafe, so please make a reservation from the hotel management if you wish to having the breakfast during the weekend to avoid any disappointment.

We will be back again on our next city escape!

Related post :-
*  The Traders Hotel at Puteri Harbour Nusajaya, Johor.
*  Deluxe Harbour View Room in Traders Hotel Puteru Harbour, Johor.

Traders Hotel, Puteri Harbour, Johor.

Persiaran Puteri Selatan, Puteri Harbour.

Nusajaya, Johor.

Tel : +607-560 8888    Fax : +607-560 8999

Email : thph@tradershotels.com

Website : www.tradershotels.com

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

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Deluxe Harbour View Room in Traders Hotel Puteri Harbour, Johor

"Traders Hotel, Puteri Harbour, Johor provided Malaysian's stylish guestrooms and suites range from 33 to 96 square metres in size, and each is outfitted with a spacious bathroom, 40-inch TV, IDD dual direct line with voice mail, motorised day and night curtains, iron and ironing board, in-room safe deposit, a mini-bar, hairdryer, and coffee and tea making facilities, among other practical features. There are also two rooms with special features designed for persons with disabilities."

There are total of 283 rooms in Traders Hotel Puteri Harbour, Johor. 129 of Deluxe rooms, 90 of Deluxe harbour view rooms, 14 of Premier rooms, 18 of Traders Club rooms, 23 of Traders Club harbour view rooms, 8 of Executives suites and 1 of Specialty suite.

We were having a 2 days 1 night city escape and enjoyed the comfortable Deluxe harbour view room. Let me show you in the photos below...

Nice fishes on the wall...

The view through the window was marvelous! Harbour view...

The room equipped with an extra sofa bed, and that was my comfort bed, let my wife and daughter enjoyed the King size bed...
There was a study table at the corner and provided with complete necessity like international power socket, wired network UTP port and even HDMI + audio jack to the TV.

The study table at the corner...

The power sockets and the ports...

There are total of 9 power sockets in the room, and it was really convenience for me and my family to charge our gadget during the night. No need to fight for it anymore! Haha! This was my first came across the hotel room provided so many power sockets at every corner in the room.

The bathroom is spacious and the tempered glass showering area is wide enough for a big size person.

All the bathroom necessity even a table clock was provided...

"A pampering stay on the Traders Club floor ensures the needs of savvy travellers are cared for the provides use of a *private lounge with breakfast, refreshments and evening cocktails; personalised check-in and check-out; meeting area and club concierge. Guests will also appreciate the complimentary suit pressing and shoe shine service, daily newspaper and fresh fruits. Shangri-La's Golden Circle members can enjoy special privileges and earn reward points while staying at the hotel."

Even the rooms in the hotel are fully covered with the good coverage WiFi signal, the network port still provided for those old model of notebook which is without the WiFi card built-in.

The reading LED light beside the bed

The rooms rate is not fixed for every booking, you can login to their website (URL below) and do your reservation early to get a better rate.

We enjoyed the comfort stayed in the room and being greeted by every staffs who passed by with a lovely smile.
We were really satisfied and my daughter said, she want to re-visit the hotel again! :)

Related post :-
*  The Traders Hotel at Puteri Harbour Nusajaya, Johor.
*  Sumptuous 4 course dinner at SkyBar and buffet breakfast at Traders Hotel Puteri Harbour, Johor.

Traders Hotel, Puteri Harbour, Johor.

Persiaran Puteri Selatan, Puteri Harbour.

Nusajaya, Johor.

Tel : +607-560 8888    Fax : +607-560 8999

Email : thph@tradershotels.com

Website : www.tradershotels.com

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

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The Traders Hotel at Puteri Harbour Nusajaya, Johor.

The Traders Hotel (N1.41773 E103.65641) is located next to the Puteri Harbour Family Theme Park at Nusajaya, Johor. The hotel was just started operation in the year 2013 which only few months ago...
There is a highway connected to the Second Link and North South Expressway to the location, so there shouldn't be any problem if you drive from the north or even coming from our neighbor country - Singapore. (you can refer from the G map below)

"The mid-market Traders brand, managed by Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts, cater to today's savvy and passionate traveler with brilliant simplicity and warm sincerity. They provide a friendly yet professional environment designed to complement guests at work, rest and play.

In 1989 the first Traders Hotel opened in Beijing to complement Shangri-La's China World Hotel. Building on Traders Hotel, Beijing's success, today there are 15 Traders hotels in operation, with a scheduled opening in Doha Qatar."

Traders Hotel, Nusajaya - Johor.

We were having our 2 days 1 night city escape trip in the hotel on one of the weekend during this school holiday.
The hotel provided 2 storey of basement parking and limited parking at the front of the hotel. The lobby is situated on the 1st floor and the whole lobby is decorated by the nature theme of ocean. You can see the shape of waves are decorated everywhere included the lighting, reception counter and the sofa for the guests. The carpet is pepper stone design in the wave shape too, and if you notice one of the wall paper is in blue color that represent the ocean...
This lobby is special!

The lobby of Traders Hotel

The comfort lighting in the shape of waves

The carpet at the lobby

Even the lift lobby also having the wave's shape wall light...

We were invited politely to the Lobby Lounge by the women at the counter while waiting for our room checking...impressed.

The Lobby Lounge
The lounge is just located next to the lobby and it was a relax and comfort place to have a drinks or enjoy your favorite coffee. The lounge is having a simple and yet relax design, it'll be a good area for a tea break with your friends or clients.

Photos of the Lobby Lounge :-

The old Johor map on the glass. This is the map where Johor was started.

I was surprised when the staff brought over their iPad for my signature to check in the room, and I found out later that the hotel is practice in the paperless concept to "Protect and save the Earth"! There will be no paper during your check-in and check-out, if you insist on the receipt while check out, the management will email it to you. Amazing and I like it very much!
This was the first hotel within Johor I came across practicing this 'green' concept. Excellent!

Let me bring you for a virtual tour around the hotel before the rooms...

The function rooms are located at the 4th floor (which also the top floor) of the building 1, and we walked passed the main ballroom...

The corridor access to the Main Ballroom

The decoration of the ballroom is mainly about wood, and we saw some interesting 'Batik' wood craft decor in the room...

 The Batik wood craft as a decor in the room

There's also a VIP waiting room situated at the lift lobby of the 4th floor, provided for those who are waiting for the event.

Walk across the sky-bridge to the building 2, the roof top garden is perfect relax area for guests and you can capture the breathtaking view of the Puteri Harbour.

Puteri Harbour of Nusajaya, Johor.

At the left side of the roof top garden, there's the Traders Club Lounge exclusive for VIP guests. It's the place for VIP guests to meet and dine their clients who visit them. There's also a meeting room in the Traders Club Lounge where the guests to held a discussion with their customers.

Once you step into the lounge, you'll see rows of comfort sitting area...where you can having a chat or reading your favorite books...

The lounge designed a full grass on the other side that makes a nice view of the Puteri Harbour.

The dining area is located next after the relax area...

All the decorations are based on nature and fishermen. If you notice the walls are decorated like the fishing net and the main attractive area is the foods area. There are many different type of fishes hanging on top and there are beautiful! Nice!

Awesome decor of the Traders Club Lounge

You will have a option to choose a privacy dining area which is separated. The fishing net deco are more clearer at this corner...

The harbour view meeting room has all the basic facility such as fax machine, printer, internet access and etc.

On the right of the Roof top garden is the health and fitness center.

The health and fitness center of Traders Hotel, Nusajaya

The GYM center

It's definitely a nice place for gym because it has a nice harbour view from the glasses...

The health center will be start operating soon in the months later...

After walk through the fitness center, another sky bridge connected from building 2 to 3. I like this well designed bridge very much! The Puteri Harbour Family Theme Park is on my right and the Puteri Harbour is on my left. I cross it many times...:)

On the other side of the bridge, we reached the infinity swimming pool and the SkyBar of Traders Hotel.

There are children pool, jacuzzi pool and a big pool overview the scenic view of the harbour, coastal of Johor, Straits of Johor and partial of Singapore.

Lazy chair are ready to serve in every corner of the pool...

You even can enjoy a few mugs of ice cold beer or your favorite cocktail in the SkyBar (just open not too long ago) just next to the swimming pool...the SkyBar is a total new concept that you can refer to my previous post.

The SkyBar of Traders Hotel Puteri Harbour, Johor.

Among all the area in Traders Hotel, I like this view (below) very much! Standing on the bridge connected building to building overview the Little Red Cube below...(I snapped more than 30 photos just about this view...)

Me and my family had awesome breakaway on the 2 days 1 night city escape! We all love the hotel and the surrounding very much! I over heard the conversation between my wife and my daughter said...they want to come here and stay always...:)

Below photo was one of the wood (tree) decor I like, it located at the forth floor of the building 2.

Please visit their official website (below) for the rooms rate. Their rates are different that depends on the earliest booking, means if you book early you'll get a better rate!

I'll continue the room that we stayed and other type of room available on my next post, that will also include the delicious meal that we enjoy in the hotel. Not to forget the Puteri Harbour Family Theme Park too. So stay tune!

Related post :-
*  Deluxe Harbour View Room in Traders Hotel Puteru Harbour, Johor.
*  Sumptuous 4 course dinner at SkyBar and buffet breakfast at Traders Hotel Puteri Harbour, Johor.

Traders Hotel, Puteri Harbour, Johor.

Persiaran Puteri Selatan, Puteri Harbour.

Nusajaya, Johor.

Tel : +607-560 8888    Fax : +607-560 8999

Email : thph@tradershotels.com

Website : www.tradershotels.com

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

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Freshly made Pineapple Cakes from Gartien @ 小田佳園 at Macalister Road, Penang Island.

Chinese New Year is around the corner, everyone is busy selecting their cakes and snacks for themselves and their love one during this festive season. This year, you will having an additional choice on the Gartien pineapples cakes 小田佳園 (N5.41620 E100.32844) from Penang which is made by 100% locally grown pineapples. No worries! you don't have to travel to Penang island if you staying out of the state, they are providing online purchase including door-step delivery. (please refer to the URL below)

The fresh and locally made pineapple cakes offering in 10 pcs in a well designed gift box with the red and gold color, and impressive ink painting of the 'Peony / Mudan' flower (牡丹花) design on each pack of the cake.

Their decor and design resembles the prosperity of the coming Chinese New Year.

The pineapple cake has a perfect balance of the sweetness and slight sourish tinge, excellent taste of the pineapple and not forget the nice aroma within. This pineapple cake is different from those available around us, not overly sweet and with a balance butter taste, it actually changed my usual impression.

If you're fans of the pineapple cake, you give should bite on it...but if you're not, I encourage you give a try. Taste the different!

You have three(3) options to purchase the Auspicious Gift Box of Gartien Pineapple Cakes...
1)  Calling their line at +604-2990068
2)  Email direct to them by the email address below
3)  Send them a private message through their Facebook page

The box of pineapple cake is selling for RM45. However, you will get a promotion price for RM38/box if you order before 31st Dec 2013.

Limited quantities available (Only 250 boxes per week) on the 4 weeks as stated :-
Week 1: 30th December 2013 to 5th of January 2014.
Week 2: 6th January 2014 to 12th of January 2014.
Week 3: 13th January 2014 to 19th of January 2014.
Week 4: 20th January 2014 to 26 of January 2014.

Beside the promotion price, there's also a bonus for all! For every 10 boxes ordered/bought, you can either opt for another box of pineapple cakes FREE if you collect them yourself or get your postage WAIVED if you are residing within Peninsular Malaysia. Last day for collection is on 26th January 2014. Hurry now to place your order to avoid any disappointment!

Gartien @ 小田佳園 is situated at Lorong Macalister, a small lane turn next to St Paul's Church along the Macalister Road of Penang, in case you need a self collection on the pineapple cakes.

GARTIEN @ 小田佳園
No.68, Lorong Macalister, 10400 Penang, Malaysia.
Contact: +604-229 0068
Website: www.gartien.com
Email: info@gartien.com
FaceBook page: www.fb.gartien.com

Business Hours: 10.00am-5.00pm (weekdays), 9.00am-6.00pm (weekends)

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