Coconut Shake @ Kg. Alai, Melaka

Check out from hotel, and we hang out at lowyat plaza to seek for Ipad2 unfortunately same as in JB, sold out. On the way back to JB we stop by at Malacca, to search of something refreshing.  It was sweltering hot day in Malacca and we need something fast to ease our state of dehydration. We want to go to Klebang but idham drive to Tg Alai instead to taste the infamous coconut shake.  We saw so many people lining up patiently, make us even wondered what the fuss was all about.

Coconut Shake With Vanilla Ice Cream

We waited for about 30 minutes before we could sip this taste of heaven. Extremely refreshing, juicy and creamy all at the same time.  Imagine fresh coconut flesh and water, ice cube and scoop of vanilla ice cream crush together and mix into one blend of coconut shake. Put another scoop of vanilla ice cream…Wala, you’ll have coconut shake float. This is a simple and yet amazing beverage, make you craving for more. But if they can add ice cream soda into this beverage it would be totally awesome.

Many People Patiently Line Up

Coconut Shake Alai

Price : Coconut Shake -  RM2.00; Coconut Shake Special – RM2.20

Coconut Shake Alai,

KM 8, Alai,

75460 Melaka 

Avocado Shake @ Malay Village

Forget about Vanilla, Chocolate and Mocha shake or blended. Malay Village gives shakes and smoothies a twist using avocado a super healthy and rich fruit. This is very yummy, thick, creamy avocado shake. The perfect exotic drink for all occasions. Add drip of chocolate syrup for more kick to the shake.

Creamy & Thick Avocado Shake

Avocado Fruit

Hope you’ll try it….It’s really good, filling and healthy too

Malay Village, 

#9A, Jalan Kolam Air,

80100 Johor Bahru

+607-2211221

Maxim Mocha Coffee @ Korea

Beside soju, Korean people like to drink coffee. One of the popular and rated No1 in Korea is maxim mocha coffee. But the problem is the packing is so tiny, for Malaysian we need at least 3 to 4 packets equivalent to 1 packet of Ali café.  Even small, it still have strong & rich roast flavor and aroma that will give you immediate confidence to charge of the day. Really need to take some from training centre to bring back home.

Manufactured by Dongsuh Foods Corp.

Red Bean & Cendol Soya Freeze @ Old Town Kopitiam

Beside their White Coffee, Old Town also served great non-coffee drinks.  Just like Coffee Bean, Old Town also comes out with a drink which is solely made of red beans called Old Town Red Bean Freeze. It’s a ice blended red bean and milk with cream topping. The taste simply breathtaking, it’s almost like slurping red bean ice cream.

Red Bean Freeze

We also had Cendol but quite unique. It’s not a normal cendol but it’s a mixture with soya bean flavor. Taste weird at the beginning but subsequently sips are pure satisfying. This is one of good choice of beverage.

Gula Melaka Cendol Soya Freeze

Price: Read Bean Freeze Rm8.50 and GM Soya Cendol Freeze RM7.90

Old Town Kopitiam,

Tesco Seri Alam,

Jalan Seri Alam,

Masai, Jb

Cheese War @ Secret Recipe

My wife became irritated when she knew I had cheesecake at Secret Recipe. To cool her off, after bought her friend's wedding gift at Jusco Permas Jaya, we had another cheesecake round. This time we ordered Raspberry Cheesecake, Marble Cheesecake and Apple Crumble Cheesecake.

Apple Crumble Cheesecake

Marble Cheesecake

As usual, I love cheesecake, always have and always will. There’s an endless combination of flavors.  The taste of apple crumble and cheesy taste of cheese make this cheesecake so irresistible. Nevertheless, the award winning marble cheesecake was so marvelous. Even my 8 years old son could not have enough of it. For now, it will become one of my favourite. As I told in previous post, I will sample all the cheesecake on the house.

Great Combo - Iced Lemon Tea

So everybody say “Cheese”…then, everything will look happy and beautiful.


Slice – RM6.50, Whole – RM75

Secret Recipe,

Jusco Permas Jaya

Jalan Permas 9/5, Permas Jaya

Iced Jelly @ Gerai Yong Yong

It’s a delight to eat Ikan Bakar together with Iced Jelly. As mentioned this stall stays side by side with TIP TOP Ikan Bakar. This is their signature beverage, mixture of Soursop, fruit cocktail, sea coconut, sweet jelly and ice shaved with lime. The sweet and sour taste from fresh soursop and other fruits gave a cool tingling taste. 

Refreshing Iced Jelly

Nothing is quite refreshing when the temperature and humidity are high. Totally delicious. The only downside is the price. Expensive. Not just for Iced Jelly but for other drinks too.

Iced Jelly – RM4.30

Gerai Yong Yong,

#1, Food/Hawker Stall,

Jalan Mohd. Amin,

Johor Bahru

Pink Guava Yakult @ Sushi King

At Sushi King I ordered Pink Guava Yakult. Combination of Fresh Pink Guava and Yakult cultured milk.  Nutritional drink and good for our digestion. Excellent combination after munched so many sushi.

Pink Guava Yakult

Also have Orange Yakult

Simply said it’s just Yakult with Guava flavored.

My friends ordered vanilla shake and Ice Cream Chocolate Tea….Creamy, tasted really good.

Ice Cream Chocolate Tea

Price : Pink Guava Yakult RM4.90; Vanilla Shake & Ice Cream Chocolate Tea RM 6.90

Sushi King Restaurant,

Jusco Permas Jaya

Jalan Permas 9/5, Permas Jaya

Bancau @ Chamek Kopitiam, Pasir Gudang

Weather was hot, need some good beverage to quench our thirst. Since we were still in Kompleks P.Bandar P.Gudang, we decided to take a break at Chamek Kopitiam.

Origin from Malay kampung in Kluang

Chamek Kopitiam, P.Gudang

So we ordered our special drinks, Chamek Signature…BANCAU.

3 Layers BANCAU

Bancau is combination of Sirap Bandung “consists of milk flavoured with rose cordial syrup” and Grass Jelly or normally we called cincau. So the name came from BANDUNG + CINCAU = BANCAU

Despite it’s novelty, the taste is pretty normal, only the cooling effects that counts..Especially black cincau that known to reduce body temperature, fever and prevent indigestion.

Chamek Kopitiam

Kompleks Pusat  Bandar Pasir Gudang,

Jalan Bandar, Pasir Gudang, Jb

Ayam Penyet @ Lina Dollah

Ayam Penyet or Smashed Chicken in English is one of the fantastic authentic Indonesian Food.  The taste of Ayam Penyet kept me remembered the nostalgic feeling when I ate my first Ayam Penyet about 4 years ago at Banafe, JB. The taste was so exquisite. Chicken pieces are fried to a crispy perfection before been smashed, and the superb highly spicy hot peri peri is a cannot-miss for spicy food lovers.

Nowadays, there are so many shops & stalls selling Ayam Penyet. So many variation and which one is the original? So popular, even have fast food restaurant called Ayam Penyet Ria in Indonesia, Already opened in KL at Sunway Pyramid last year but too far away, rather cross border to Singapore, way more convenient.

Today had a chance to have lunch at one of the popular kebayan spot at Taman Mawar (Hawker Centre) that sell Ayam Penyet.  We ordered Ayam Penyet and Air Katira

4 stalls in a row

Ayam Penyet

Soup & White Rice

This Ayam Penyet is a combination of smashed fried chicken , fried tempe, fried taufu, Cabbage, Slice Cucumber,  Long Bean, Daun Salam, half calamansi and belinjau crackers serve with hot boiled rice and soup. The chicken was fried with spices and was crispy on the outside and juicy on the inside, and we mopped up every last bit of the chicken batter dripping. This came with a kickass sambal chillies.

The sambal is super hot sometimes so I just did a little baby dip into it. But nevertheless, it was still hot for me. Always scratching my head.  Surprisingly, my friend’s plate of sambal was wiped dry…

Overall it tastes good and went well with Air katira. A green color drink with katira, selasih like tadpole, malva nut or kembang semangkuk and small pieces of dates. The taste was really exquisite especially to cool down the spicy heat. Fuhhhh…

Air Katira

The price is reasonable about RM5 for Ayam Penyet and RM1.50 for Air Katira. So hurry, must go and try..

Lina Dollah

Kebayan Taman Mawar

Jalan Mawar Putih

Pasir Gudang, Jb