Journal of a nutritionist mom : johor

Saturday, September 13, 2014

{Foodie Review} Nijyumaru Japanese Restaurant 二重丸， Taman Sutera (Johor Bahru)

This is a long belated post. But I told myself I must post it, cos' I really liked this place.

We came to Nijyumaru for dinner to celebrate (1) my hubby's birthday (ya.. we celebrated it over a few dinners) (2) my bro's studies advancement in Japan. This time we called ahead to book a table. There were about 10 of us. The first time we came here, which was my trip back to JB in CNY, we just walked in, and it was a bad idea, we were basically rejected entry, they didn't even have the option for us to wait cos they were that full.

This time, we were given a low table in a cosy room on the second floor, and that was good, especially that we have the little fella with us. He gets to roam around the room with all of us at his height (cos we were all seated at the low table).

Basically we were so busy chatting and when the food came (despite the almost packed restaurant, the food came quite fast) we were busy tucking in.. I forgot to snap photos afterwards. But all of us was quite happy with the food. The sashimi was good! And we loved the soft shell crab roll too.

There were actually a lot more on the menu. They do have a pretty extensive menu. But because the parents were not especially adventurous when comes to sashimi, we just chose the safer options. We'll probably be back again to try the other stuffs like urchin and others.

My lovely family in JB <3

Verdict: Good, worth a try.

Price: A good steal for the good food and extensive menu.

Ambience: Good. Request for a room if you have a crowd of about 10.

Address:

Nijyumaru Japanese Restaurant

94, Jalan Sutera Tanjung 8/4

Taman Sutera Utama

81300 Skudai, JB

Tel: 07 558 9818

Friday, September 12, 2014

{Foodie Review} My Liberica Coffee (Johor Bahru)

We were in JB earlier on this month. That day was my hubby's birthday. We were supposed to make a day trip to Singapore to check out Gardens by the Bay. Yet, maybe just maybe, we were 'fated' not to go, as we were heading out, my SIL's car tyre got punctured. It wasn't the usual easy stuff to get the tyre out (some complications there .. ) so we just cancelled our Singapore trip and stayed in JB and chilled out. Perhaps that was a blessing in disguise. It was a nice chill-out day for us as we checked out this cafe late afternoon and had our tummy fed well at night at a nice Japanese restaurant.

We got to know about 'My Liberica Coffee' from the internet. It has gotten quite good review, so far. And we weren't disappointed. The drinks and food did not fail to impress. They didn't have extensive menu, but good enough. The thing I like about their menu, they have a selection of sweet and savory food. Most of the cafe serves mostly sweet food but some of us aren't sweet-tooth.

Their croissant sandwich was nice. It was just a simple sandwich, but the croissant had that crusty bite which gives it a thumb up. We had an early brunch and was already hungry when we were here, about 2pm ish, so all 4 of us plus my lil' fella shared one croissant sandwich and we ordered a second helping cos we felt it was good.

If you're a fan of good coffee, you should check it out. It serves a few unique drinks that is worth a try. My sis in law had the iced drip coffee, which I saw them having the coffee dripped through the filter at the coffee bar. Windy had the Aromatic Rose Coffee. It has a layer of rose syrup at the bottom of the glass. Both myself and hubby were the ultra 'safe' type. We just go went for our usuals, I had an earl grey tea and he went for hot chocolate to share with the lil' fella.

They also serve some beautifully layered crepe cakes. We ordered Earl Grey Crepe Cake. As most of us were not big fans of sweet cakes, we thought it was okay. Not too sweet.