✔. 6 Awesome food & place in Pontian

Hello, everyone !!! Welcome back to our blog this week !!! This will be the last blog for our post we hope you all can enjoy it. This week we will be introducing Pontian, Let us give you a simple briefing about Pontian:

• Pontian is a district in southwest Johor.
• Pontian in Malay language is called “Perhentian” means a stop
• Pontian Kecil is situated 1.5 hours away (via bus) from Johor Bahru.
• Pontian also is a seafood haven noted for its variety of seafood which is sold at a reasonable price.
• A fishing village about 20 km from Pontian Kecil.

1. Kedai Mee Sin Kee

Kedai Mee Sin Kee is one of the best representatives of Pontian style wonton noodles. Whether you like ketchup or chili sauce, I think you'll be impressed by the new and refreshing full egg noodles. If you visit Pontian, remember to go to Kedai Mee Sin Kee and try the wonton noodle in Jalan Bakek Jaya Utama in your itinerary.

- Pontian wanton noodles is usually eaten with otak-otak.  Because the mildly spicy otak-otak is nice though not exceptionally meaty.

The popular types of sauces include:

1. Tomato sauces 
2. Chili sauces
3. Black pepper sauces
4. Ketchup-chili sauces
5. Sweet sauce with a slight peppery taste
6. Char siew

The price list is as following as:

Take away: 

1. Small – RM 4.50
2. Regular – RM 6.00
3. Large – RM 8.00

Having Here:

1. Small – RM 5.00
2. Regular – RM 6.50
3. Large – RM 8.50

Address: Jalan Bakek Jaya Utama, Pontian, Johor.

Business hours: 10:00 a.m to 5:45 p.m 

Close on: Thursday

2. Shook Ice (Yao Yao Ice)

Are you feeling hot and want to drink some cool drink?! Want to drink some refreshing fruit drinks? Drop in at Shook Ice at Pontian to have a cup of delightful fruit shake to replenish your body.

This Shook Ice is open in Home-style that provides different flavors of fruit shake every day. The fruit shake you can choose between one flavor only or mix the flavors that you like, the price is the same for only RM 3.00 per cup. The seller is very friendly with the customers, he will promote the flavors one by one and how their make it. If you visit Pontian you must go this place and try it, it is a very nice drink!!!

Rm 3.00 per cup

Address: No 6163, Taman Damai, Pontian Kecil, 82000 Pontian, Johor.
Business Hours: 9.00 a.m - 4.00 p.m


3. 18°C tea café

                        

18ºC is container cafe, they uses the latest rapid cooling machine technology in tea making. 18ºC remains fresh even after the drink is left in the refrigerator on the next day which shows the quality of their products which are preservative-free healthy drinks. They uses fresh ingredients such as passion fruit, lemon, lime and etc in the making of their drinks as well. Besides drinks, 18ºC also sell Taiwanese snacks, such as Taiwanese chicken chop, Taiwanese fried chicken, Taiwanese sweet potatoes with plum powder. The headquarter of 18ºC is at Pontian, Johor which was founded in the year 2010.

Pearl milk tea 

Korean Topokki 

Korean chicken rice

More Details: https://www.facebook.com/18c.teacafe.hq/  &
                       http://18c.com.my/en/#

Address: 11G, Jalan Delima 7, Pusat Perdagangan Pontian, Pontian, Johor.

Business Hours: 12.30 p.m - 11.00 pm 

Tel: +607-6860175

4. Kheng Guan Hiong Kopitiam

Kheng Guan Hiong Kopitiam has already been operating for 3 generations, located on the opposite of Pontian Market. The restaurant initially started out serving traditional black coffee, ‘but after some improvement,’ said the owner, he discarded the traditional ways – frying coffee beans with butter, and invented a whole new method to fry coffee beans, turning traditional coffee into white coffee. Regardless hot or cold, the aromatic coffee scent remains and paired along with either the choice of the owner’s homemade kaya or 2 soft-boiled eggs on the charcoal toasted bread would make the most classical breakfast choice.

Kaya and butter toast - RM1.00

coffee black - RM1.00

Address: 15, JalanLimauKasturi, Taman Suraya Indah, Pontian, Johor (at the Pontian Fish Market)

Business hour: 5:00 a.m - 5:00 p.m 

closed on: Monday

5. Restaurant Mei Gui Seafood 

Mei Gui Restaurant opened with a history timeline of 30 years, the signature dish is Malaysian style Grilled Fish, and any kind of grilled seafood, the restaurant also provides with buffet service. The grilled fish must be eaten with their homemade special ‘Sambal'' and ’'Cincalok' sauces. However, it is advisable if you could make reservation first, because after 6.00 p.m the restaurant will be packed, you may need to expect to wait at least 30 minutes for your dishes to be served. 

-Recommend food such as:

1. Grilled frish
2. Grilled sotong
3. Grilled crab
4. Curry fish
5. Chicken wings

Address: 2002, Jalan Parit Mesjid, Taman Mawar 82000 Pontian Besar, Johor Malaysia.

Business Hours: 5:00 p.m-12:00 a.m 

Contact: +607 - 686 2484

More details: https://www.facebook.com/meiguiseafood/

6. Kukup Island

Kukup island is a small fishing village in Pontian District, the place is famous for its open-air seafood restaurants built on the stilts over the water. The place is best known as Kukup as it is the first place in Malaysia that houses are built above the sea. Moreover, the place is enveloped by mangrove forests and many creatures can be found that you never seen before. The most common occupations the villagers are as fishermen, seafood restaurants and homestay. Therefore, seafood lovers may want to come here to enjoy a nice seafood during the weekend.

Things to do in Kukup:

• Fishing 
• Must-try seafood restuarant
• Explore the wonderful fishing kelong in Johor
• Have a leisure walk to the largest mangrove island in Malaysia
• Stay a night at Kukup homestay to enjoy playing mah-jong, playing kong ming lantern and karaoke.

The Mangrove forests

More details: http://www.gotgpiai.com/cn/attraction/attraction/kukup-mangrove-national-park

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