A Southern Getaway @ Johor Bahru (Part 1)

Discovering a new place is always our hobby. We like spending a short getaway whenever there is a celebration (eg. birthday, anniversary celebration :p). And for this year Be's birthday, we had decided to travel down South to this 3rd largest metropolitan city in Malaysia - Johor Bahru.

This is definitely not my first visit to Johor Bahru. I used to travel here very frequent when my sister was working here 14 years back. Haha, yes, that was 14 years ago. And I got to travel here due to business trip when I was with URC which HQ based in Pasir Gudang. But it was everytime a rush, and meant for meeting purpose that I have no chance to really discover this beautiful city.

We have our accommodation booked via our favourite accommodation booking site - Agoda. We decided to choose Doubletree Hilton Johor Bahru as this is one of the newest hotel in town, with good reputation and sleek design. However, this turned out to an unpleasant experience with Hilton. For full story, click here for the details.

Agoda
http://www.agoda.com/


On the way down to Johor Bahru, we stopped by at Yong Peng for the famous fish balls! We headed to Yuan Yean as it serves one of the better tasting fish balls and noodles. It operated since 1988, which is nearly 3 decades long. Probably it was a Monday, thus when we reached the shop at around 9am, there were only few tables occupied, and plenty of parking bays available right infront the shop. There's lot of newspaper cutting featuring about Yuan Yean, they seems to be quite famous :) Good choice we have made.

We both ordered the famous fishball noodles, with different types of noodle. I opted for Fu Zhou noodles, while Be choosed his all time favourite, Kueh Teow.

Dried Kueh Teow with fish balls RM6.50

Irresistible bouncy fish balls 

Fu Zhou soup noodles with fish balls RM6.00

We could taste the freshness of the fish balls and its fine texture. Yuan Yean fish balls are made from Ikan Parang, thus the bouncy and Q texture. Nice! We ordered the fried Tai Ping egg as well, but unfortunately the kitchen missed out the order and so we did not get to try this specialty of Yuan Yean.

It is easy to locate Yuan Yean as it is just a short distance from the toll. Yong Peng is basically a strip down, so Yuan Yean is just located at the main road, right beside a Caltex petrol station and few shops next to KFC. Customers parking bays available right in front of the shop thus no worries on parking issue :)

Environment: 4/ 5
Food: 4.5/ 5
Price: 3.5/ 5
Service: 2.5/ 5

Yuan Yean Fishball Eating House

123, Jalan Besar,
83700 Yong Peng, Johor

07- 467 4985

Opens daily from 8.30am - 7.30pm (close on alternate Wednesday)


Journey to be continued... ... Stay Tuned :)