Asian restaurants in Malaysia
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Asian Heritage Row
As well as trendy bars, Asian Heritage Row - aka Jln Doraisamy - is lined with upmarket restaurants, perfect for a pre-party feast.
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Tho Yuen Restaurant
Our favourite place in town for dim sum. It's packed with newspaper-reading loners and chattering groups of locals all morning long, but you can usually squeeze in somewhere. Servers speak minimal English but do their best to explain the contents of their carts to the clueless round-eye. Do try the steamed sticky rice with mushrooms but remember not to take too much from the first cart that comes by, although you'll be tempted - save room because there's more to come.
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Food Courts
The shopping malls around town are littered with food courts. Try Kompleks Tun Abdul Razak (Komtar; Jln Wong Ah Fook) and the upper level of the Plaza (Jln Ungku Puan) shopping centre. The basement of Johor Bahru City Square (108 Jln Wong Ah Fook) is stuffed with Chinese, Japanese and Western restaurants and cafés; for coffee, Starbucks (wifi zone) and Coffee Bean are on the ground floor.
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Restoran Sup Hameed
With sprawling tables well beyond the actual restaurant like a trail of busy, dining ants down the sidewalk this ultrapopular smorgasbord at the north end of Jln Penang has everything from spicy sup (soup!) and nasi kandar to roti canai. Curried squid is the house speciality.
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Nyonya Secrets
This tiny place hidden down a nondescript side street offers a menu of spicy Nonya favourites such as otak-otak (fish wrapped in banana leaves) and sweet-and-spicy kerabu (flavoured with lemongrass, chillies and coconut) prawns. It does excellent-value set lunches.
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Taman Emas Coffee Shop
A complete pain to find (you'll need the help of a local or a particularly friendly taxi driver), but this is our choice for Penang's best laksa. There are also a few minivendors here selling popiah (spring rolls) and other treats.
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Nyonya Baba Cuisine
Located in a beautiful old Chinese household, this is a great place to sample authentic Nonya food – try the curry kapitan (chicken curry) or hong bak (pork in thick gravy).
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Liwagu Restaurant
In the visitors centre, this has a huge range of dishes, including noodles, rice and seafood standards. An ‘American breakfast’ is pretty ordinary here.
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Kek Seng Café
Other folks argue that this place serves the best laksa in town. It's between Jln Burma and Jln Macalister. You decide.
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Hong Kong Restaurant
Very popular seafood and dim sum restaurant with an extensive menu.
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Restoran Sup Hameed
With sprawling tables well beyond the actual restaurant like a trail of busy, dining ants down the sidewalk this ultrapopular smorgasbord at the north end of Jln Penang has everything from spicy sup (soup!) and nasi kandar to roti canai. Curried squid is the house speciality.
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Tho Yuen Restaurant
Our favourite place in town for dim sum. It's packed with newspaper-reading loners and chattering groups of locals all morning long, but you can usually squeeze in somewhere. Servers speak minimal English but do their best to explain the contents of their carts to the clueless round-eye. Do try the steamed sticky rice with mushrooms but remember not to take too much from the first cart that comes by, although you'll be tempted - save room because there's more to come.
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