AN IMPROMPTU PLAN TO MEET WHICH WAS EXECUTED WELL

It was Mr. Ridwan's impromptu plan to visit JPO but the timing was just right. So I rushed to JPO from home at 5.30 p.m. so as to avoid the heavy traffic on EDL Highway. Johor Premium Outlet seems to be an easy meeting place for me and my friends when they come to Johor.

After Maghrib prayer, we decided to hop to another nearby shopping mall, AEON Kulai, as there would be more choices of places for dinner.

Mr. Ridwan and family chose Mee Tarik Warisan Asli, and that was their very first visit to the Chinese Muslim Restaurant.

By 9:30 p.m., we had to part ways. They drove all the way from Melaka, spent a few hours in Kulai, and rushed back there right after.

Thanks a lot for the time and the company, and the noodles too. It is always my pleasure to meet up with friends of UPM TESL class of 1993.

"MEE TARIK WARISAN ASLI" IN KULAI

9th SEPTEMBER 2017 ~ I finally made it to "Mee Tarik Warisan Asli" Restaurant in AEON Kulaijaya. It is a restaurant serving halal Chinese dishes. So we tried this braised beef noodles soup which reminded me the noodles I had in Shanghai and Taipei.

the rejuvenating Ba Bao Tea

The eating place specialty should be its "lamen" noodles that were prepared by pulling the dough of flour and transforming it into strands of long noodles before throwing them in hot water. The visitors could watch the chef making the noodles live at the entrance of the restaurant.

bought Ba Bao Tea in packets to bring home

MY VERDICT: I will sure go back to this place some other time soon to try other halal Chinese food served here.

Read about my visit to a La Mien noodles shop in Shanghai HERE.

THURSDAY IS MEET-THE-FAN-SESSION DAY

SESSION #1

Thursday, 12th June ~ We had a plan to go for an outing and I had an urgent need to buy some things. There was a Member Card Sale at AEON Kulaijaya so we made our way there and managed to kill two birds with one stone. Surprisingly there were not many people at the mall but that should be good news. And this outing was in a way to bid goodbye to Mr. Syazwan who will be going away to continue his study at a polytechnic in Ipoh.

SESSION #2

The second session was much shorter. An old friend from college, Puan Anita Abdul Rahman, was here with her family for a holiday and I was always happy to meet my ex-UPM TESL coursemates when they were in town. We just met at the KSL Mall for coffee at The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf and managed to suggest a few eating places in Johor Bahru. I could not think of interesting places for them to go except JPO and Zoo Johor.

Thanks Anita for coming over to Johor (now I sound like a representative of Johor Tourism Department) and for the short chat.