Day trip to Batu Pahat, Johor

Still on my Johor trips with the kids...... My dad drove us down to Batu Pahat, about 1.5 hours journey to visit a place called 'Moh Yu' literally means Touching the fishes. The place actual name is Segenting, Minyak Beku. It is located by the seaside but too bad, the sea water are badly polluted.

The entrance of the restaurant. It is in a shape of a Ship

Dad met up with an old friend who stayed in Batu Pahat and we went for lunch together. Uncle M treated us lunch that day and recommended this restaurant, The Ship Village.

Ahoy ! Captain XJ and Captain YX

The interior of the restaurant was decorated with steering wheel . Both kids couldn't help themselves to pose for photos.

The surrounding of the restaurant

Look at the dirty river water. Luckily during lunch that day, there were no stench which Unlce M said normally there will be if it is windy. Food that we had.........

Fried oyster omelette

I love this very much, but not the kids. They picked out the oyster and at the end, refuse to eat the egg.

Fried squid

This was nice too.

Steamed string-ray with ginger and cilli padi

This is the first time I ate string ray being cooked this way. It was really delicious as the fishes were very fresh and no ammonia smells. The soup were the best.

'Lat chi' crab

A bit dissapointed with this crab because the taste was not that great. It will be better if we had the salted egg crab. Nevertheless, both kids enjoyed eating the crabs until Uncle M was surprised to see them eating. Other than the above dishes, we had tofu and stir fried vege.

After lunch, Uncle M brought us to a Chinese temple located a few meters away from the restaurant. Once I stepped into the entrance of the road leading to the temple, I found my childhood keropok ! 

My childhood keropok with special soy sauce ! RM0.80 per piece

I quickly bought 1 piece to eat. Dad and mum doesn't fancy this snack. The sauce mixed with the keropok really give the ummpphhh taste....Ahhh...missing it already. Both kids loved it too.

Giant statues !

We then took a walked around the temple which was located just beside the sea. There were lots of giant statues and both kids love taking photos with them.

Both kids posing with the golden 'chi ling'

YX acted as the Monkey King while XJ acted cute behind him.

Aroppama. If you managed to touched it, they will bring you luck.

It was believed if we managed to touch these 2 giant fishes, we will have good luck. I spotted a few tourists (either Singaporean or Thai) were trying hard to touch the fishes but did not managed. There was even 1 woman wearing short skirt bended down to try her luck. Too immersed in trying to touch the fishes, she did not take note that her panty was exposed ! Oh dear !

Giant coin

Giant gold ingot

Fierce looking tiger

Both enjoying the keropok again

On the way out of the temple, I couldn't resist myself and bought another piece of keropok. I wanted to buy more but was afraid of heatiness. So, 2 pieces shared with the kids enough to make me feel contented. haha

We spent some time chit chatting with Uncle M before we drove to Batu Pahat town. In downtown, I requested to eat the famous wantan noodles which I've not been eating for so many years. This is dad's favourite stall too. I've actually blogged about this wantan noodle over here.

Wantan

The soup and the generous wantan fillings really make this bowl worth the price.

Cilli sauce wantan noodle

Dad loves the cilli sauce type, ............

White wantan noodle

while mum and I prefer the original type. Their soup wantan noodles is a must try too.

After fillings out stomach to the max, we took a slow drive back home again. For dinner, we ate out again as I surely can't give my favourite fried teochew kuey teow a miss. This shop which was located behind my parent's house fried the best kuey teow I ever had. Gonna have it during this coming CNY !

Teochew fried kuey teow