Our hotel is just few streets away from Jalan Tan Hiok Nee. After we had checked-in to our hotel, Daddy just drove us around the city centre so that we can find a place to have our brunch. He parked somewhere near the parking lot, we just walked about to find some Chinese food.
The Tan Hiok Nee Walk was conceptualized and designed to be a pedestrian mall that is user friendly, in conjunction with the Johor Bahru City Council’s mission to make Johor Bahru a “Garden City” by the year of 2005.
The idea is to remind us the history of Tan Hiok Nee who was a cloth merchant in Singapore, and became a very successful pepper and clove trader in Johor Bahru. He became a wealthy leader of the Chinese community in the Johor.
Another important reason for this eye-pleasing pedestrian mall is to provide comfortable, clean and organized network of walkways linking the business district at Jalan Wong Ah Fook to Jalan Dato' Onn in front of the MBJB Building and Post Office.
This will revive business activities in the area as the Tan Hiok Nee Walk becomes a focus point for Johor Bahru citizens as well as visitors. Beside that, the street has been given a makeover with neat pavements, trees and painted shop houses.
We had our brunch at this very crowded restaurant – Triple K, which sells beef noodles. It looks so yummy and we were amazed by the crowds whom turned out.
We were thinking of, we should have a try in this restaurant, the food must be nice and delicious! And, it was so true, that we never regret of coming here!
Even though, we were sweat all way in and out, the shop was warm even with the air-conditioners were on.
In the afternoon, after our visit from the Chinese Heritage Museum, we visited one of the kopitiam – Kedai Makan Old Street Corner.
The kopitiam had enough ceiling fans to keep us cool in the middle of the day, and served several traditional Chinese delicacies which is really good. And, the drinks too ^^.
Daddy had been chit-chatting with the fruit stall uncle during we were there. We can see the shop just next to us caught our attention with a lot of people gathered outside the shop.
According to the uncle, the bakery is unique with the baking done by a big brick-made oven heated by firewood. As the bakery shop only bake the bread once in a day, so we will see the queue only when the bread is almost done during this hour.
In the evening, we came back around here to have our bites here. There are a lot of characteristic cafe, bar or bistro here during the night time, comparing to the day time, whereby most of the food stalls or restaurant are traditional and passed through generations.
If there is next time, we can have a slow walk and enjoy the trails…
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