Kluang's Delicious Savoury Discovery (Part 2)

Warm slices of toasts would be simple yet tasty breakfast for each of us to kick-start the day. We had made our journey to one of Malaysia's institutional kopitiam to savour its famous charcoal toasted buns. Kluang Rail Coffee is located at the local railway station since year 1938. It was a pit stop for travelers arriving in Kluang and the railway canteen is one of the town's famous landmark. You would find different races having their breakfast here- truly 1 Malaysia style.

My loved ones.

Pretty Chia Pei and I

The subtle sweet iced-coffee and wholemeal roti bun 

You could see how delicious the roti bun from my friend's facial expression.

The crispy crusts with a thick slab of butter sandwiched between the toast (bun) and kaya filling satisfied our stomachs.

The cost of roti bun at (RM 1.10) each is definitely worth the pennies. The charcoal-grilled bun was layered with thick homemade kaya and thick slabs of butter. As simple as it may be, yet it was one of the tastiest traditional bun which I had eaten while another one was at Parit Raja.

The Kluang delicacies trail was continued with Botak Curry Noodles. Gerai Makan Botak was highly recommended by my course mate; Eng Ting who is a local here. We had been encouraged to visit the shop before 1pm as the curry noodles are sold faster than expected most of the time.

If you type " botak curry noodles" at Google search, you could find several results of foods reviews from other bloggers. The shop itself was full of decorations of old antiques, many liquor bottles,old teapots and etcetera.

The shop's decorative antiques, liquor bottles

The tasty and mildly spicy curry noodles which is rich of cockles, bean sprouts, roast pork (char siew) , tofu and light coconut milk.

You can opt for having pork skins as well.

If you couldn't taste spicy foods, you may choose to have dry egg noodles which tastes nice as well.

Me with my curry noodles.

Short review: The less spicy yet flavorful gravy makes the botak curry noodles unrivaled in Kluang town. It's hard to be compared to the curry noodles I had in Penang Island, but I could say that Kluang Botak Curry noodles is the best laksa I have had in Johor District. 

The Kluang's delicacies discovery was paused for shopping session at Kluang Mall. As usual, we shopped till the shopping mall almost closed. By the means of "shopping", we could be left with empty handed yet the shopping mall must be discovered or explored before we left :)

The supper that we had at 居鑾加冕河邊. It's like a row of mamak stalls and we just followed the crowds to order foods. Piang Kee was surprisingly having long queue of customers hence we decided to try the foods.

It's similar like the famous Ayer Hitam's Yong Tau Foo.

Various selection of fish balls, bean curd, eggplant, bitter gourd, bean curd sheets with handmade fish paste as the fillings.

Hmm, I would comment that the foods are just nice (not really "WOW").

Piang Kee sells 八宝冰 shaved ice too.

Rice flour rollchines 豬腸粉

Big tang yuan topped with peanuts

Not forget to mention the souvenir given from Wenny Lai as we met her at Kluang's Parade earlier.

Revisited Kedai Makan Mee Goreng for the 炒虾面。

Here's the fried shrimp noodles 炒虾面 tinged with a smoky, charred flavor called wok hei . 

The hot fried noodles was coated with salty and sweet soy sauce cooked with bean sprouts and eggs.

Simple yet delicious!

Kluang's Savory Discovery has come to the end.

It's definitely an outing that worth to be remembered.

It's not only about the local delicacies, but the people that you had be with during the savory discovery.

Kluang's Delicious Discovery (Part 1)

Apparently, my blog has become like a passionate eater's reviews of appetizing foods that had filled the big tummy of the owner. The accumulated food posts were mainly contributed by having a bunch of good friends who had ventured into the epicurean tour around the good foods places. If you asked me to define friends, I shall say that they are the people who gets fat together with me XD.

Tonight, we had headed to Kluang District which was about 30-45 minutes journey from Parit Raja. The end of university life had us treasuring and cherishing moments being together. It was a savory discovery as none of us knew much about the foods over Kluang District. All that we had heard about was Botak curry noodles and Kluang Rail Coffee. However, we seriously had no idea when it came to mouth-watering foods at night. We had come to Uncle Frog, Kluang to have our chatting session after some light foods.

Uncle Frog; Kluang- 小青蛙; the name of the shop itself had attracted us to drop by.

The vintage design of the shop with many old pictures of old Kluang.

I was attracted by this large picture hanging at the wall. 

We opted for some light snacks and drinks while spending our time here for cozy chat purpose.

Sour soup snow

Okay, I had forgotten what drink I had ordered.

I was shocked when saw the crunchy 

It wasn't a nice drink, however I was delighted when I saw the childhood decorations i.e. umbrella.

The small umbrella was rarely seen on cakes. I used to collect them when I had my birthday cake.

Salad You Tiao which was still crispy. I would prefer them to be served hot :)

Hot green bean dessert which had ordered by Chia Pei.

It was subtle sweet and rich with green beans. 

The botak curry noodles stall had closed when we headed for supper. It gave us another chance to have Kluang's savory.

The only option at that time was Kedai Makan Mee Goreng which was still opened. 加冕小販中心炒虾面 sounded great for filling our stomachs.

Due to the 炒虾面 had finished, we had fried kuay teow as our supper.

The appetizing kuay teow that I ever had in Johor. Thumbs up!

We went home with satisfied stomachs and we shall have an epicurean food trip to Kluang by next week again. Bye peeps!

You may click here for my subsequent Kluang's Delicacies Trail at Kluang's Railway Station Coffee, Botak Curry Noodles and etcetera.

A Visit to Kluang Coffee Powder Factory Sdn. Bhd. & Kluang's Foods Discovery

Kluang Coffee Powder Factory Sdn. Bhd. has been manufacturing various types of coffee powder for more than 40 years and it is now recognized as the most popular cocoa products manufacturer at Kluang, Johor. In fact, Kluang Coffee Powder Factory Sdn. Bhd is the main supplier of all types of coffee powder to the coffee shops at Kluang.The company produces coffee-based products ranging from pure coffee powder, coffee mixture, coffee bag without sugar, coffee bag with sugar (2 in 1), instant white coffee cappuccino, instant coffee mix (3 in 1), instant white coffee, and instant white coffee tarik. Notably, Kluang Rail Coffee Powder is hand-roasted by the owner of this company.The fragrance and aroma of the coffee have making it well-known around the country and the brand of the company has been well-recognized in Singapore as well. This is proven by the hall of fame at the main entrance of the company displaying numerous Singaporean artistes who have visited the company. The visitors are usually given a tour of the factory witnessing the different stages of production till final packing and have the opportunity to taste complimentary freshly brewed coffee.

We had famous tangkak beef noodles as lunch.

The flavorsome herbal broth with many big pieces of tender beef and beef meatballs was a bliss to my stomach. I am not a beef-eater yet my friends encouraged to take a try since I had come to Kluang. The bouncy beef meatballs was appetizing much, as well as the dark herbal broth. The most important thing was the beef meat was soft broiled and not hard and tasted too beefy :)

The first time of having beef noodles which was signature dish in Taiwan- well, now you could have tangkak beef noodles in Kluang (other branches in Malacca and Cheras; K.L.).