Literally, lok lok means ‘boil boil’ in Cantonese that is obtained from the way of consuming the food, which is by boiling the skewed food ingredients in hot boiling broth. Lok lok has not much differences from a steamboat. The only differences are lok lok food ingredients are skewed with satay stick before boiling them in hot broth while steamboat’s food ingredients will be cooked directly in hot pot without the satay stick.
Besides that, lok lok has more awesome varieties which are customized by every lok lok stalls according to their creativity. To name a few, there are ham wrapped enoki mushrooms, bacon wrapped hard-boiled quail eggs, mini bbq skewers and many more. Every of these special lok lok might be different in every lok lok stalls too.
Considered as one of the most favourite Johor Bahru food by the locals and tourists at all times, the most common way of preparing lok lok would be boiling them in hot broth, deep frying or grilled on a hot plate. Dipping sauces with different flavors are available too, and these sauces can be freely refilled by the diners while enjoying their lok lok.
So, how about having Lok Lok for dinner? Just imagine the huge varieties of luscious sticks of veggies, meat, steamboat ingredients, and many more that you can dip into the hot boiling broth or deep fried them. These delicious and convenient food sure will appease everyone’s grumbling tummy without hurting the budget.
Below are the lok lok vans and also places that serves great lok lok recommended by SGMYTRIPS. We hope that this lok lok list would be able to help you on your food hunting in Johor Bahru.
Late Night Lok Lok In Johor Bahru (JB)
- Dacheng Lok Lok
- Fa Ge Lok Lok (发哥渌渌 Lok Lok) – Outside KSL Mall
- 娘娘驾到
- ODB FOOD TRUCK (一块巴碌碌)
- Dora Lok Lok (哆啦 Lok Lok)
- 101 Seafood (Restoran See Hai)
- Restoran 59 Abalone Noodles
- Ah Sheng Lok Lok (阿胜碌碌)
- 红火枪碌碌
- KK Lok Lok
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1. Dacheng Lok Lok
When you feel hungry at night and you’re lazy to cook what can you eat? Then you should not missed the midnight lok-lok at Johor Bahru.These lok loks are served out of the lok lok van, with both of its sides opening up to become a display rack to ease the customers to select their favorite choices of lok lok.
Lok Lok is just like steamboat, every guests are required to either broil their choices of food ingredients in hot broth or deep fried them in hot oil placed at the rear of the lok lok van. For those who love to eat spicy food, Dacheng Lok Lok will be going to burn your tongue with luscious lok lok paired with their secret homemade spicy sauces such as the Thai chili, spicy chili and the classic satay sauce with peanut chunks.
Perhaps, Dacheng Lok Lok is the cheapest lok lok in Johor Bahru, with the price as cheap as RM0.80 per stick.
Additional Information:
Address:Kulai Indahputra: 251, 252 Jalan Kenanga 29/8 Indahputra Kulai
Nusa Bestari: Jalan Bestari 12/2, Taman Nusa Bestari
Mount Austin: Jalan Mutiara Emas 10/19 Mount Austin, 81100 Johor Bahru
Mutiara Rini: no 23, Jalan Mutiara 1/9, Taman Mutiara Mas, 81300 Skudai, Johor
Permas Jaya: 32, Jalan Permas 10, Bandar Baru Permas Jaya, 81750 Masai, Johor
Setia Tropika: No 24, 26 & 28, Jalan Tropika 1/1, Taman Setia Tropika, 81200 Johor Bahru
Business Hour: 7:30pm – 2amWebsite :Facebook
2.Fa Ge Lok Lok (发哥渌渌 Lok Lok) – Outside KSL Mall
This Lok Lok is just located outside the KSL city mall. This good food in Johor Bahru has got few of Lok Lok cars due to the popularity and do their business in the constant area in Johor Bahru.
Some of their most famous lok lok sticks would be the pickled duck stick, various types of mushrooms sticks and also the ham wrapped enoki mushroom stick. As an advise from the owner of the lol lok truck, it is highly recommended to eat all these food deep fried. These lok lok sticks would be battered with fresh egg wash and seasoned crispy fry flour before deep frying them in boiling hot oil, providing an additional flavour to the lok lok. You can even request the owner to sprinkle some chili or hot powder to the fried lok loks if you prefer something spicy.
Just like the common lok lok stalls and lok lok trucks, Fa Ge Lok Lok also offer their customers with the typical boiling hot chicken broth to braise their choices of lok loks. Also, it would be fun by enjoying sticks of hot lok loks during the cold night with beloved friends or family members.
Additional Information:
Address: Jalan Serigala, Taman Abad, 80250 Johor Bahru, Johor, Malaysia
Business Hour: After 9pmWebsite : Facebook
Also Read : Night Time Eateries Near KSL City Mall
3. 娘娘驾到
Throw away your mindset about the traditional lok lok food truck that parked along the street or restaurants nearby with娘娘驾到. Parked in a garden of housing area, 娘娘驾到 could be a great place for gatherings with beloved family and friends while fulfil the cravenness for delicious late night lok loks. Decorated with numerous number of dim yellow light bulbs and LEDs that lights up the garden where 娘娘驾到is parked, it does create a romantic and yet comfortable atmosphere to every diners.
Every lok lok prepared by 娘娘驾到 are creatively combined and uniquely presented. Here, you would be able to discover more than 60 types of lok loks that you never seen before at any lok lok stalls or lok lok vans. To name a few, there are fried ngo hiong lok lok, Thai-style bbq lok lok, herbal chicken lok lok and tangy Mexico-style lok lok.
All of these creative lok lok are prepared by the owner of 娘娘驾到 herself and she really enjoy doing it due to her passion for food.
Upgrade the flavor of 娘娘驾到’s special lok loks to a higher level with their own-inspired sauces. Each of these sauces do have their own level of spiciness and also flavors. If you prefer something spicy, then you should try out the red hot chili sauce made with lots of chili padi that might numb your tongue in just the first bite.
娘娘驾到’s classic satay sauce is mild in flavor, not overly spicy or oily and it contains of generous amount of crushed toasted peanuts which offer a coarse texture to the sauce. Other types of sauces would just taste similarly as the common sauces in lok lok vans or stalls which are available in 娘娘驾到 would be the sweet sauce, Thai-style chili sauce and sweet chili sauce.
Enjoy the night with a can of icy cold beer too. The lok lok party would not be completed without this little can of happiness.
Additional Information:
Address: No.1,Jalan Indah 5/11,Taman Bukit Indah,Johor Bahru
Business Hours: 7PM-1AM (Close on Mondays)
Contact o.:+60 17-777 0085
4. ODB FOOD TRUCK (一块巴碌碌)
You might heard of lok lok van selling sticks of lok loks during the midnight to fulfil the cravenness for food of every foodie, but have you heard of a lok lok bus? Yes, there is!!! There is a lok lok bus named as ODB Food Truck in Johor Bahru that offers luscious sticks of lok loks inside its retro style bus with palatable lok lok with just only RM1 per stick.
This lok lok bus will start operating their business sharp at nine o’clock in the night till late or finished selling all their lok lok. It could easily be found in front of the shoplots of 1 on 1 Tuition centre and also Jaja Laundry.
What make ODB Food Truck that popular would be their Instagrammable retro style school bus which are great for taking pictures. If being observed carefully, you might be able to notice that the seats available in the retro bus are welly retained, intimidating the school bus during the good old times.
However, to be honest, all of the ODB Foodtruck’s lok lok are quite common and have lesser options of food ingredients to be chosen from. Just like the common type of lok lok vans, the ODB Foodtruck do serves only hot chicken broth for their guests to braise their lok lok. Option of deep frying these lok lok are available too, but you may request the owner to help you to fried these lok lok.
Additional Information:
Address: 132, Jalan NB2 ¼, Taman Nusa Bestari 2
Business Hour: 9pm – 1:30am
Contact: 018-668 0019
5. Dora Lok Lok (哆啦 Lok Lok)
Imagination Time!!!
What would you imagine when Doraemon and Lok Lok are combined? It’s Doraemon Lok Lok. Why is Doraemon and Lok Lok cannot be other cartoon cast? This is because the owner of this Lok Lok truck is a true Doraemon lover and he even redesigned his lok lok truck with Doraemon theme.
Unlike the typical lok lok truck, the Dora Lok Lok truck has an attractive blue colour appearance with lots of Doraemon vinvyl car stickers being ‘pasted’ on almost all of the truck’s body. More surprisingly, he even painted the rims of the truck wheels to match the Doraemon theme!!!
Dora Lok Lok food truck is quite famous among the Jalan Bentara street and it even attracted some of their guests to take some pictures with the lok lok truck to be keep as a memory or posting it on the social media accounts.
The owner’s inspired Doraemon Lok Lok car can let you feat luscious lok lok beside the street for only RM1. There are more than 50 types of lok lok ingredients available to be chosen by the customers such as the white fish balls, crabsticks, meatballs, smoked duck bacon, egg tofu pieces and so on. If you are a vegetarian, there are something for you too upon visiting the food truck. The owners do provide various types of freshly picked vegetables too.
Additional Information:
Address: Jalan Bentara 20, Taman Ungku Tun Aminah, 81300 Skudai, Johor
Business Hour: 8:30pm – 12:30am (Closed on Wednesdays)
6. 101 Seafood (Restoran See Hai)
What makes 101 Seafood’s lok lok special would be their grilled lok lok. Yes, GRILLED LOK LOK!!! THAT’S TRUE!!! By imitating the concept of charcoal grilled satay, there are several types of meaty lok lok specially offered by 101 Seafood to enable this unique experience. Before grilling, the owner will marinate these lok loks overnight with various types of spices and seasonings in order to make the lok lok flavorful although it is eaten alone without adding any sauce. If you are a clumsy little foodie, need not to be afraid of making yourself dirty while enjoying this grilled lok lok as these meaty lok loks are boneless.
Broiled lok loks are available too if you demand for something light. Another specialty lok lok of 101 seafood would be the grilled seafood lok lok like scallops and prawns. Dashes of sweet or spicy sauce would be brushed on these seafood lok loks upon request by the customers.
So, if you are the person who cannot take spicy food, do remember to tell the staff to replace the spicy sauce with the sweet sauce while grilling the seafood lok lok.
Besides that, the restaurant also receive many positive comments from their guests due to their fast and polite services. Lots of parking lots are available too, so it would be no problem in searching for parking place upon your visit there anytime.
Additional Information:
Address: 33, Jalan Sutera, Taman Sentosa, 80150 Johor Bahru, Johor, Malaysia
7. Restoran 59 Abalone Noodles
If you still feeling hungry after enjoying a bowl of hot abalone noodles in Restoran 59 Abaolne Noodles or would demand for some snacks to eat while chit chatting, then it could be your reason to proceed to the lok lok van parked near to the restaurant. The lok lok van do sells the typical and very basic kind of lok lok ranging from healthy green vegetables to raw processed meat products.
Upon arriving at the lok lok van, you are welcomed to choose your choices of lok lok and broil them in the hot boiling broth available in the heating tray placed beside of the lok lok van. Deep frying service of lok lok are provided too, you may request the owner of the lok lok van to fry your choices of lok lok and send them to your table at Restoran 59 Abalone Noodles. There are four different sauces that can be chosen from as dipping at the lok lok van, but it is advisable to take only the amount of sauce that you think enough to avoid any wastage.
Additional Information:
Address: 14, Jalan Kelewang, Taman Sri Tebrau 80050 Johor Bahru
Business Hours: 9PM-2PM
8. Ah Sheng Lok Lok (阿胜碌碌)
Ah Sheng Lok Lok is actually a small lok lok stall that is located at the entrance of Restoran Sing Lok Lok Steamboat. The owner of Ah Sheng Lok Lok owns two branches of lok lok stalls at every of his steamboat restaurants in Mount Austin and Bandar Baru Permas. However, it is recommended by the foodies who had visited both of the Ah Sheng’s lok lok stall that the lok lok stall in Bandar baru Permas is more delicious and provided with more options.
Although there are limited varieties of lok loks available in Ah Sheng Lok Lok, but every of these lok lok are guaranteed fresh as the owner would only sell an estimated amount of lok lok and replenish them a little by little once sold out.
They would not refreeze these lok lok again if these lok lok are exposed in the air for too long. The price range of Ah Sheng Lok Lok is considered reasonable as the most expensive lok lok is charged at RM4 per stick. Need not to worry for paying too much as Ah Sheng Lok Lok do not charge any taxes or service charges upon every of their lok loks and seafood cuisines.
Since it is a Steamboat Restaurant, you can also try out their seafood cuisines such as the fresh clam soup, lobster palate, steamed crabs and other types of seafood cuisines upon your visit there during the next time.
Additional Information:
Address:
Mount Austin Branch:
99,Jalan Mutiara Emas 2A, Taman Mount Austin, 81100 Johor BahruBandar Baru Permas Jaya Branch:
36, Jalan Permas 10/6, Bandar Baru Permas jaya, 81700 Masai, JohorBusiness Hours: 7PM-4AM
9. 红火枪碌碌
Whenever the glittering stars came out of their curious, then it is the time for红火枪碌碌 to lit up the dark street with their colorful LED sign informing that they are opening their lok lok business. 红火枪碌碌 is really easy to be recognized, with their own logo tinted on the trendy black color lok lok food truck.
The owner, and also the founder of 红火枪碌碌 who graduated with Bachelor of Business Administrations, leaves his office working life and established the lok lok food truck business along with five of his best friends. Six of them overcomes numerous barriers together during the start of business and now, 红火枪碌碌 business is getting well-known among the locals who are staying at Johor Bahru area.
They even expand their lok lok business by adding three more 红火枪碌碌 food trucks at Mount Austin, Sutera and Nusa Bestari where they think are able to maximize their net profits.
Undeniable, it would be quite hard to search for lok lok with price range from RM0.80 to RM1.80 if you are in Johor Bahru. But, these young entrepreneurs remain insists that they would not increase the price of lok lok by following the price range from the lok lok business available around them. Each of their lok lok food truck carries about 1800 skews of lok loks with different variations to be sold to their customers.
Besides just selling typical types of lok lok, 红火枪碌碌 also provided every of their customers with their own-inspired Blasting Cheesy Buns. The Blasting Cheesy Buns looks appetizing with its golden crunchy looking crust glazed with creamy cheese sauce at its surface. After tearing up the bun into half, you even can see the overwhelming cheesy fillings spilling out from the buns and cover up the plate in just few seconds. It is best consumed while it is still warm to ensure the molten cheese lava effect.
For the sauce, they even invented their own satay sauce, mozzarella cheese sauce, spicy hot sauce and ma la hot sauce. These sauces receive many positive comments from their customers too, especially the mozzarella cheese sauce that is rarely to be founded in any of the lok lok food truck. In order to ensure the freshness of their lok lok, 红火枪碌碌 will not sell any lok lok that are refrigerated for more than three times. They even change the oil used to deep fried the lok lok everyday, whenever they are open for their business.
As a small shoutout, you will receive a packet of drinks free, from the 红火枪碌碌 if you purchase more than 12 skews of RM0.80 lok lok of theirs in one serving.
Additional Information:
Address: 82, Jalan Sutera Tanjung 8/3, Taman Sutera Utama, 81300 Skudai, Johor
Business Hours: 8PM- 2AM (Closed on Mondays)
Contact no.:018-277 1668
10. KK Lok Lok
Situated strategically in Taman Pelangi, KK Lok Lok is a famous local lok lok food truck due to its loud hippy pop music and excellent choices of lok lok food ingredients. KK Lok Lok food truck migh look simple and plain, but it will amaze you with their innovative lok lok combinations ranging from fresh seafood combo, meats, fresh vegetables and assorted delicatessen lok lok.
The owner of KK Lok Lok is proud to say that KK Lok Lok is able to offer more than 360 different types of lok lok to the guests without repeating the menu. Different cooking methods and variety of dipping condiments are available too in order to suit every customers’ preferences. To your surprise, you might not able to imagine that KK Lok Lok even provide their guests with chilies from different level of spiciness and content mixtures.
Upon arriving at KK Lok Lok food truck, you would be provided with a clean tray to hold your choices of lok loks. Once you are done picking the lok loks, you can pass the tray to the friendly staffs of KK Lok Lok and request them to either boil or deep fry these lok loks for you.
Then, just let them know where you would be sitting and the staff will bring the cooked lok loks once done. Of course you can repeat this process again and again until you are full.
Their deep fried lok loks are executed to be perfection, as you can feel the crispiness of the deep fried battered lok loks in every bite. The deep fry batter used by KK Lok Lok are well seasoned with lots of seasoning powder such as the garlic powder, grounded white and black peppers, onion powder and much more, creating a strong flavor to the simple plain lok loks.
From the immense hygienic lok lok varieties to the ambient seating arrangement under the cool outdoor environment, it is really recommended for everyone of you who are reading this bog to have a try of these Lok Loks by KK Lok Lok food truck.
Additional Information:
Address:42,32, Jalan Pingai, Taman Pelangi, 80400 Johor Bahru, Johor
Business Hours: 10PM -4AM
Contact No:016-704 8583
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