Ice Cream @ Johor Bahru "Kate N I Scream"

Another hangout place to go in Johor Bahru!

Ice Cream Specialty Store with an interesting name ” Kate N I Scream”! I scream I scream….~Ice Cream!

Frankly speaking, I am not a crazy fan of ice cream as I do not have a sweet tooth. So unlike other girls, I do not love chocolates, I will only have chocolates  once in a blue moon, and will only take those with bitter taste and higher content of cocoa. I do not love extremely sweet stuff,  Just somehow sometimes still love to taste a bit or a sip of sweet stuff.

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*When girls are in bad mood, a bit of sweet and cold ice cream will help lighten the mood! 

(This is my personal experience, haha! At first I will keep saying I dunwanna eat ice cream and I dun like sweet stuff and get irritated, but after eating, really I feel better in mood! So this is something like magic to cool your girlfriends down, hehe!)

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There are varieties of ice creams in Kate N I Scream, from light fruity ones like fruit sorbet, green apple to very rich ones like sticky chocolate and etc. There are several toppings for you to choose as well, my favourites are hazelnuts and super cute gummy bears! This is a self-service ice cream store, you have to choose the package you want such as 1 scoop, 2 scoops or 3 scoops and 2 or 3 toppings at the counter first. After paying, you have to select the ice cream flavours and toppings you would like to have. After your ice cream dish is completed, you gonna have to take it to your seat yourself.

The store is considered as quite spacious as it is divided into indoor and outdoor two sections. The decoration is simple but comfortable so you can sit down and chit chat with the girls or buddies for a long time while having the sweet sweet ice creams.

“Yeah! Gummy Bears!!!!!” I Scream! Lol! 

The display of the ice creams is very cute too! They are placed on a wooden plate with holes! Ice cream and toppings fit into the holes! 

And for all this visual entertainment and environment, the price is not that cheap given the taste and quality of ice cream. The one I had in the picture, 3 scoops plus 2 toppings costs about RM 30.00. The ice cream just taste very common, nothing special. Ice cream from Swensen’s taste generally good (and cheaper), well Baskin Robbin also tastes slightly better. It is noteworthy that there is a small store in City Square, JB on fifth floor next to Action City named XXX Gelato” tastes better than all the above (I cant remember the full name and the exact location, just remember it is somewhere there). Although the price might be similar and no service, no place to sit, no outstanding display, the ice cream really tastes very different especially there is one chocolate flavour which is so rich with a tinge of bitterness, just tastes superb! No seat but you can take your ice cream and wander around the shopping mall, eating while shopping, haha! (Take note that some shops do not allow food and drinks)

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Address:

Kate N I Scream:  G03, Plaza Mentari (Sun City), Jalan Kuning, Taman Pelangi, 80400 Johor Bahru.

Operating Hours: 1.00pm – 1.00am (A decent place you can hang out with friends until late night)

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XXX Gelato: Johor Bahru City Square, 106 & 108, Jalan Wong Ah Fook, 80000 Johor Bahru, Johor. (Fifth Floor, next to Action City)

Operating Hours: 10am-10.00pm

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Hopes everyday can be as sweet as ice cream! 

Love you!

 ~ Lots of Love from Olivia Ice. Yan

Seafood @ Pengerang

If you love lobsters, Pengerang is the place to go!

Had been to these place for quite some time ago, they serve very fresh and tasty lobsters and of cos, other seafood dishes! The lobsters are fresh, and cooked in many various ways, deep-fried, stir-fried, steam…no matter how the cooking method is, the flesh of lobster is very succulent and tasty. 

(1) Jade Garden Seafood Restaurant (翡翠园海鲜酒家）

Address: 54 Jalan Kerisi Sungai Rengit, 81620 Pengerang, Johor

(2) Good Luck Seafood Restaurant (泗湾幸运海鲜酒楼）

Address: 86, Jalan Telok Ramunia, Sungai Rengit, Pengerang, Johor.  Tel: 013-7753555

The dishes offered by these two restaurants are comparably similar. The environment and setting of the restaurants are slightly different. Jade Garden has a large parking space opposite its restaurant, they have more staff to serve customers (although during peak hours, they are still unable to cope with the huge in flow of customers), they have divider which can separate a private area for customers upon request), the shop floor is big. Good Luck looks like a normal kopitiam, not many staff to serve customers, no extra parking space. Both restaurants open for lunch and dinner. The food served by both restaurants are equivalently nice. However my personal opinion is that the price is slightly cheaper in Good Luck Seafood Restaurant. Both restaurants are super crowded during weekends, especially for lunch,  do expect it will be very hard to find a parking for your car and be prepared it’s gonna take you to wait for 1 hr or even more to just get a table to sit down.

1) Stir-fried Lala (Clams) with dried chili and spring onion. Very tasty and a bit spicy, smells good! Yet, I still prefer steam or cook Lala with a lil bit of HuaDiao Wine (Cooking wine which made of rice). The soup of steamed/cooked Lala is superb with a combination of the sweetness and freshness of the Lala, ginger and wine. I just cant help drinking until the bowl is empty.

2) Chili crab, remember to order some deep-friend bun(man tou, 馒头). The sauce of chili crab best matched with the deep-fried bun, just imagine when the bun fully absorb the aromatic, delicious sauce…~yummy!

3) Yam paste with pumpkin. This is my favourite for all the time! It is a traditional Teochew dessert, because the cooking process is quite time-consuming and troublesome, it is hard to find restaurants selling this dish nowadays. So happy to find it on the menu of Jade Garden!

Here comes the main attraction of Pengerang, lobsters! Some people like to order deep dried-lobsters with cereal, or stir-fried. I would strongly recommend not to try those first, cos the best and most famous lobster dish in Pengerang is this- cooked in thick stock (上汤龙虾）. The sauce is a lil bit creamy, with a bit of herbal taste. All the seasoning tastes light, so that you can taste the freshness of the lobsters. Best lobster dish that I have ever had!

 Good food is my only indulgence…hahaha!

As there is quite a distance between Johor Bahru and Pengerang, this can be a whole day relaxing trip rather than a mere food trip, Desaru is just nearby, next to Pengerang!

It was a sunny morning. A trip full of sunshine!!!! This is one of the bridge on Senai-Desaru highway.

It was about evening time after eating, the Desaru beach was full of people. There were people and kids playing kites, BBQ and picnic. It was very windy with sea breeze! blue blue sky with a lot of laughter!

Everybody deserves such a good weekend!

Olivia Ice@ I wanna go on diet, just cant resist to the temptation of good food. lol!