Tae Gu Tang "Cod Fish Soup" @ Ki Hwa Jip Restaurant, Haeundae, Korea

We arrived at Gim Hae airport, Busan around 8:20am.Temperature about 12 °C. Cool and refreshing. After checked in our luggage at our accommodation in Haeundae Beach. The person in charge brought us for lunch at one of the popular restaurant for cod fish soup, in Korea they called Tae Gu Tang at Ki Hwa Jip Restaurant. The restaurant located at the hill of haeundae and you can see clearly the sea and haeundae beach. 

Hot Bowl of Tae Gu Tang

Tae Gu Tang is Cod fish stew with assortments of vegetables and bean curd in spicy broth. The fish soup boiled with red chilli pepper paste “kochujang”, red chilli pepper flakes “kochukaru” and various vegetables. I got a piece of codfish head and mix with other ingredients such as watercress, onion, white radish, chillies, garlic, bean curd and many more to absorbed the kochujang which is base flavor of this dish. You can add more kochujang to meet you own spicy taste. This soup really tasted great. The fish totally fresh because Korean always prefer fresh and live fish for their food otherwise it won’t taste delicious. 

Banchan

They served several cheop of banchan. It refers to small dishes of food and is served in small portions, meant to be finished at each meal. It will replenish during the meal if it not enough. Delightfully fresh and tasty. Truly Korean.

Most Wanted Kimchi

Kimchi is fermented vegetables, usually baechu ( Napa Cabbage ), seasoned with Chilli peppers and salt. This is the essential banchan of standard Korean meal. Some Korean do not consider a meal complete without Kimchi.

Kongnamul

  콩나물 is a cold boiled bean sprouts with sesame oil.

Ggakdugi or Cube White Radish

Radish Kimchi

Myulchi Bokkeum or Fried Anchovies

Cucumber with Shrimps

Visited by popular korean artist

Restaurant Front Entrance

Definitely will come again to this restaurant in the future.

Haeundae Ki Hwa Jip, 

999-3, Chung 1 Dong,  

Dalmaji Gil 104 beon gil

Haeundae Gu, Busan,

Korea

+051 7315020

Lontong @ Shida Cafe

This delicacy dish almost been forgotten, use to be my favourite food during breakfast.  It used rice cake or compressed rice that much or less same as ketupat but this one used banana leave and wrapped into cylindrical form. Then it accompanied with cooked vegetables in coconut milk soup called “Sayur Lodeh”. 

Normally when I want to sample this dish I would go to Shida Café. The owner used to sell at home in Taman Rinting then the business grew and she opened a restaurant just nearby Maybank at Bandar Seri Alam.

Lontong

This lontong really have a nice bite of rice cake, not too soft or hard and the yellowish soup tasted all the freshness of vegetables in coconut milk. Shida’s lontong sure make me recalled my childhood days. My family especially my late grandmother used to cook this dish occasionally, but now no more.  Luckily I still can sample this dish here. Shida’s lontong soup not that viscous and you can enhance spicier flavor by adding sambal tumis telur. 

Beside breakfast, I also went to Shida Café for Nasi Campur during lunch. All the dishes taste great. Good cooker produces good tasty food.

Ayam Masak Lemak, Sayur Kacang, Sambal Lokan, Sambal Belacan

Shida Cafe

Shida Café, 

Jalan Suria 7,

Bandar Seri Alam,

Masai, Jb

GearBox Soup @ Kg Pasir Puteh

Mostly recognized soup stall in Pasir Gudang,  It’s a corner lot terrace house. It’s very difficult nowadays to find good place for soup especially combination of Malay and Indian herbs and spices…sometime you only get bland soup, just taste only beef or chicken broth. 

I prefer thick soup with hot spicy spices…not to forget spicy soy sauce for enhance flavor.  We can have many choices of part to be taken with soup but my favorites are mutton, gearbox and cheek or combination of all.

Gearbox + Cheek Soup

I ordered gearbox soup plus cheek. Good first impression, the soup quite thick and can smell the fragrant of spices and herbs. Add a couple of spoonful of spicy chilli padi soy sauce. Splendid. One of the best soup in Pasir Gudang Area.

If you travel to Pasir Puteh, there are so many restaurants in that vicinity…don’t forget to try this soup during lunch hour. This stall also sell Chicken Rice...

Gearbox Soup @ Kg Pasir Puteh

Jalan Pangkalan 2,

Kg. Pasir Puteh,

Pasir Gudang, Jb

Mee Rebus Hj. Wahid @ Restoran N & Z, Taman Rinting

This afternoon, everything went quite well in factory. So decided to treat ourselves with so called Hj. Wahid’s Mee Rebus. Have operated since Pasar Bahru Market days ( Now, City Square ). The descendents of Hj Wahid open so many branches throughout  JB area. Larkin Bus Stop, Plaza Kotaraya, Plaza Angsana and etc.  We had our lunch at one the branches, Restoran N & Z in Taman Rinting, Masai. 

Hj Wahid's Mee Rebus at Taman Rinting

Hj. Wahid’s Mee Rebus was so popular that even aired in Majalah Tiga, TV3 programmed and published  in several newspaper.

Mee Rebus 

This dish among the oldest and original Mee Rebus that I’d ever tasted. The yellow noodles & taugeh are blanched nicely. Very thick gravy with rich aroma taste.  The gravy tasted sweetish and slight spicy and topped with fresh chillies, one hardboiled egg cut into half, fried shallots,  fried fritters and half fresh lime. You can add soy sauce for extra umphh...Totally awesome.

Somehow, still find it strange though, my friend told me that different branch got slightly different taste…will try to find the truth…

Chicken Rice

Beside, Mee Rebus, Chicken Rice selling here also not bad..it’s normal chicken rice with roasted chicken marinated with soy sauce, honey and extra other things…the chicken is tender and juicy, sweetish taste probably due to honey. Serve together with Chicken based soup, Special Chillies Sambal and some vegetables cucumber and salad. Not that authentic but still got good taste and worth a try.

Soto

My friend ordered Soto, simple one. Only problem that the soup doesn’t taste right…more like Bakso, Indonesian soup using beef broth as a based soup…simply cannot make it for me.

Satisfied Customer

If you drop by to JB, please try this Hj. Wahid’s Mee Rebus..they have so many branches, should be no problem to find one..

Price RM3.50 Mee Rebus & Soto, Rojak RM3.00

Restoran N & Z,

Jalan Sena 9,

Taman Rinting, Jb

Mee Rebus @ Pak Abu Kg Pasir Puteh

Yesterday, had a craving for Mee Bandung. I and my colleagues went to Tg. Langsat to devour ourselves with one of the best Mee Bandung that we ever taste..But bad luck,  shop closed , maybe one of our member not taking a bath this morning. That’s why no luck. So, turned back and decided to go to Kg Pasir Puteh and had lunch at one of the popular spot of Mee Rebus & Soto Ayam.

Pak Abu & His Wife

Luckily still have empty table, normally so damn crowded during the peak hour. This place already established more than 20 years. Don’t know exactly because never asked but already around since my school days. Should be long enough though. So, we ordered Mee Rebus, Soto and Rojak Tauhu. Mee Rebus Translated into English, this dish means simply “boiled noodle”. It just a simple noodles. Very popular in Southern Peninsular especially in Johor. Don’t know exactly where it’s origin, but mostly known as a Malay cuisine. But it is actually example of fusion cuisine. The egg noodles, bean curd and dark soy sauce are Chinese touch, while the gravy, spices and herbs influences from Indian and Malay. Everyone has their own favorite and Pak Abu’s Mee Rebus is favorite among the local. Simple look but got that distinctive taste compare to other famous Mee Rebus especially Hj. Wahid Mee Rebus. The yellow noodles and bean sprouts or taugeh are blanched just nice. The gravy not too thick and well worth a try. The gravy tasted sweetish and slight spicy and topped with fresh chillies,  one hardboiled egg, fried shallots, shredded  chicken pieces  and half fresh lime for you to squeeze out the juice for the extra kick. But this dish lack of fried fritters normally found from famous Mee Rebus. Overall  the taste is good, but still just above average. For health conscious, Mee Rebus carried around 555 calories. Soto Ayam Compared to Mee Rebus, I would prefer to eat Soto Ayam at this stall. From photo you can see it’s just plain dish. Lack of ingredients, don’t even have a bergedil and the Nasi Himpit or compressed rice is rough and hard.  Some people prefer noodle instead of Nasi Himpit. The secret only lies in the soup. The soup just not tastes like ordinary Soto. Try it then you will know. It tastes different yet nice.  But still far to compete with my mom’s Soto Ayam. Rojak Tauhu This is the side dish while eating Mee Rebus or Soto. Rojak Tauhu is made with deep fried tauhu and dressed with cucumber, bean sprout and full bodied drenched in chunky peanut sauce or sambal kacang. It is a mixture of sweet, spicy and savory flavors interspersed with many interesting textures. And we quite enjoyed it. Pak Abu's Stall Mee Rebus & Soto Ayam – RM3.50 Rojak Tauhu – RM2.00 Pak Abu Mee Rebus & Soto Ayam 26, Jalan Pantai, Kg. Pasir Puteh, Pasir Gudang, Jb