johor bahru night food

When the night strikes but you are still staying awake due to your growling stomach?

For your information,KSL City Mall JB is just located at the centre of Jalan Keris, Jalan Harimau, Jalan Maju and also Jalan Doato Abdullah Tahir. These four streets do offer the Johoreans with both locals and western food throughout the years.

No worries, SGMYTRIPS is now ready to bring you on a supper trip near KSL City Mall. We have listed down some great eateries and their recommended food for you in order for you to complete this supper trip.

Night Time Eateries Near KSL City Mall

Pasar Malam Near KSL City Mall
Marmolada Food Court
Naughty Nuri’s Warung
Fa Ge Lok Lok
Mission Golf Bar & Grill
Carabao Thai Restaurant
Grill Bar Steakhouse
Union Fashion Bar Garden
Yit Foh Restaurant
New Lucky Seafood Restaurant
Chicken Up

1.Pasar Malam Near KSL City Mall

Exhausted from the whole day of working and also Monday Blue? Then, it’s time to pamper yourself with some great food and shopping at KSL Monday market.

KSL Night Market will surely take off your Monday blues away and make to be in love the Monday. Why? The reasons are simple. KSL Night Market do offers wide range of different food stalls that sell mouth watering food and also cheap goodies that are worth to buy.

To name a few, there are apam balik, mochis, fried processed food, chwee kueh, roasted poultry and also dim sums. The stalls even offer some local dishes like laksa, mee rebus, nasi lemak that are great as dinner as its generous portion will surely keep you full.

This night market is always crowded with people, both locals and also tourists. At the end of the night market, you are able to spot some stalls selling gold fishes and wide selections of pet fish in an affordable price too.

This market is opened on every Monday, from 5:00PM till late. Around 4:00PM, the roads around KSL City Mall will be closed to ease the mobile vendors to set up their stalls. Upon arriving, you will totally be amazed with the amount of stalls that stretches from the KSL City Mall to the Grand Paragon Hotel.

2.Marmolada Food Court

Located just several walking steps away from the KSL City Mall, Marmolada Food Court open their business from 5pm till late midnight, making it a great place for everyone to grab some supper during the midnight. Wide wide arrays of stalls selling different types of food and beverages, this food court will surely spoil every foodies.

Upon arriving at the food court, you are allowed to choose for your preferred seating under the breezy open space of the food court before ordering your food. Its centrally located venue consists of lots of spacious free parking slots too, easing every foodies in searching for their parking.

As a recommendation, it is a worth for a try at their Malay Style Grilled Fish. Prepared freshly upon order by grilling fish wrapped in banana leaves with spicy savory homemade sambal sauce, the Malay Style Grilled Fish of theirs still maintained its natural sweetness despite its spicy flavored skin.

Strong fragrance of the banana leaves are embedded in the flesh of the fish flesh also, providing it an additional aroma.

Besides that, the food court is a wonderful place to grab some light snacks like barbecued chicken wings, siham, rojak, satay, roasted chicken or meat and so on that taste delicious also. Offered with an affordable price, why not giving them a try?

Additional Information:
Address: 1, Jalan Harimau, Taman Abad, 80250 Johor Bahru, Johor
Operating Hours: 5pm till late

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3.Naughty Nuri’s Warung

Considered as one of the popular international franchise, Naughty Nuri’s Warung is a small warung type eatery located near Sutera Mall that offer every foodies with Halal food. Inspired by the legendary beach side’s barbecue pork ribs and martini stall in Ubud, Bali, every menu of Naughty Nuri’s Warung are a fusion of Balinese style grilled ribs and local style food.

This warung is proudly presented by a husband and wife team, Ibu Nuri and her American husband, Brian. Ibu Nuri specializes in the naughty ribs menu while Brian acts as a wicked martinis. This perfect match make a great combination in providing the best food menu to every of their customers.

One of Naughty Nuri Warung’s signature dish, the Charcoal Grilled Baby Back Ribs is a must order. Char grilled on a sizzling hot grill with some sweet honey sauce, the strong aroma of this dish would make you mouth watering.

Its meat is tender and juicy despite its crispy char grilled skin too, you may even feel that the meat do fell off easily from the bone in every bite. The coating of sweet savory and tangy glaze that wrap the baby ribs also levels up the deliciousness of the overall ribs.

Other Balinese fusion delicacies of theirs that are worth for a try would be the Traditional Indonesia Gado Gado, Balinese Mee Goreng, Jimbaran Seafood Rice, Fisherman Soup, and Porky Cheese Popiah. The generous amount of these food would totally keep you full throughout the day too.

For the martinis, it is said that Naughty Nuri serves the best mocktails and martinis in Johor Bahru district. All of their mocktails and martinis menu are uniquely designed and created according to the preferences of the locals. To your surprise, they even own Anthony Bourdain’s favorite martini on their menu list.

Last but not least, Naughty Nuri Warung has two outlets in Johor Bahru. There is one in Taman Sutera Utama while another at Jalan Serampang. Both of these warungs serves the similar menus which are equally delicious too.So, if you are around Taman Sutera Utama or Jalan Serampang, do remember to have a visit to their restaurant for some ribs too.

Additional Information:
Address: 1, Jalan Serampang, Taman Sri Tebrau, 80050 Johor Bahru, Johor
Operating Hours:Daily, 12Noon – 1am
Contact No.: 016-717 4628

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4.Fa Ge Lok Lok

This Lok Lok is just located outside the KSL shopping mall. This Lok Lok 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 9pm

5.Mission Golf Bar & Grill

Mission Golf Bar & Grill is a combination of bar and grill house that is located at the seventh floor of KSL Hotel and Resort Johor Bahru.

Mission Golf Bar & Grill specialized in barbecue menu that might keep every of their guests craving for more. This is the place where you will be able to enjoy a wonderful barbecue dinner with an open bar. It is also the place where you can enjoy yourself by watching the professional chefs preparing your barbecue seafood or meat menu on their open charcoal fired grills on spot.

Not forgot to mention that Mission Golf Bar & Grill is also a great venue to hold private events like wedding dinner, birthday celebrations,anniversary celebration, company dinner and so on.

Their spacious elegantly decorated and air-conditioned dining area is able to fit 50 to 280 paxs per event too. They even offer a pool view with open air terrace with a capacity of 200 paxs per event. Do remember pre-booking are required.

Additional Information:
Address: 5/33 Jalan Seladang, Taman Abad,, 80250 Johor Bahru, Johor
Contact No.: 07-288 2666

6.Carabao Thai Restaurant

As shown in their logo, the restaurant’s name CARABAO is actually originated from a Tagolog word which means ‘Buffalo’.The owner convinced this idea during his inspiring trip to Chengmai during year 2002. They serve mouth-watering Thai food with generous amount of ingredients and you would be surprised by their right mix of spiciness and sourness in their food!

Their signature dishes would be their Thai Mango Salad and Spicy Fried Black Pepper Crab. The mango salad would be a perfect summer side dish and they guarantee that it could be your favorite side dish throughout the hot weather.

This refreshing dish is made of unriped mangoes and vegetables which are sliced thinly in noodle form and finished with refreshing cold Thai-style sauce. You would taste both the sourness of unriped mangoes and cold but spicy sauce once you take a bite of it.

On the other hand, their Spicy Fried Black Pepper Crab is served seasonally. Sautéed in a peppery sauce to provide a hot and spicy taste to amaze the taste bud, this dish could be a great choice for spicy food lover. This over-the-top delicious menu would defiantly worth for a try and you would not find any replacement for that at other restaurants.

For the dessert, you may have a try of their Thai Pumpkin Custard Dessert Recipe ,Sankaya or Thai pumpkin custard. It is a Thai-style inside out pumpkin pie with lightly sweetened coconut milk and egg custard is steamed inside of a hollowed out pumpkin.

Additional Information:
Address: 16, Jalan Dato Abdullah Tahir, Taman Abad, 80300 Johor Bahru, Johor
Operating Hours: Daily, 12Noon – 3pm ,6pm – 1am
Contact No.: 07-335 9333

7.Grill Bar Steakhouse

Grill Bar SteakHouse is located along Jalan Sri Pelangi, which is just several steps from the 7-Eleven convenient stores. Just as its name stated, this restaurant is popular for their steak menus that are prepared with premium quality food ingredients.

Upon entering the steak house, you would surely be amazed by Grill Bar SteakHouse’s American style decoration. If you are a photographer or biker, you would surely in love with this steak house as there are numerous number of photographs about bike rides and even famous bikers.

The owner (and also the head chef), Mr Gary was a biker and he had traveled a lot of places and joined numerous trips with his bikers team before. He is a friendly person and he is happy to share his experiences of the bike trips to the guests too.

Basically, Grill Bar SteakHouse’s dining session is divided into four different sessions to be chosen by the customer according to their preferences.

Western foods and steaks are mainly served in this café and no pork and alcohol are served here as Grillbar is Halal certified. Therefore, it has become the landmark of nice western food and good environment for the locals or even Singaporean. Steak Burgers, Braised New Zealand Lamb Shank, Rib Eye Steak are just some of the gratifying menu that Grillbar offers to their customers. The taste and texture of these mouth watering (and calories boosting) treats are hard to be describe until you try them yourself at Grillbar yourself.

Ox Croquette is highly recommended as an appetizer if you are having a meal here. With perfectly battered crispy exterior and the tender and warm moist beef rendang interior can definitely challenge your taste bud and I bet you will love to have one more. Not forgetting to level up this signature dish with their tomato salsa like dip which offer an additional tangy kick to the Ox Croquette.

Jack the Cheese is another highly recommended western dishes. It has a flavorful and tender home made meat patty, sandwiched between two fried cheese balls, bacons and bagels. This burger consist of four different type of cheese too, which is the fried cheese, cheddar cheese, parmesan and also the mozzarella cheese which might satisfy every cheese lovers’ cravings for cheese. You can choose among chicken and beef upon ordering, with the generous ingredients and the 4 cheeses that are being served in the burger, you will definitely feel satisfy!

If your stomach is still not fully occupied, you can have a try on the Waffle Rumble which is unique and hardly to be found in other café or restaurant. This waffle of Café Racer by Grillbar looks really cute with blobs of nacho cheese sauce and mayonnaise squeezed in the waffle drains and also encrusted with some toasted white sesame seeds.

This waffle is served along with vegetable salad, french fries, scrambled egg, cheddar cheese, ham and also a sausage, which will surely keep you stomach full.

Additional Information:
Address: 202, Jalan Sri Pelangi, Taman Pelangi, 80400 Johor Bahru, Johor
Operating Hours: Wednesday – Monday, 5pm – 11pm (Closed on every Tuesday)
Contact No.: 07-333 3400

8.Union Fashion Bar Garden

We strongly believe that you have been heard about 3 in 1 coffee, but have you heard of 3 in 1 restaurant/ cafe before? If no, then let us introduce you the Union Fashion Bar (UFB).

Union Fashion Bar (UFB) is a 3 in 1 restaurant which consist of bakery cafe, bar and full dining into one restaurant. This is one of the perfect place to enjoy some fine dining and desserts in one shot.

According to the founder of Union Fashion Bar (UFB), Mr. Yap Chern Chee, Food is an Art, they need unique packaging and presentations to satisfy the curiosity of each of the diners. So, they even focus on the appearance of their food menu beside its taste. Changes of their food theme would be available from time to time too.

First of all, Union Fashion Bar (UFB) is a Halal restaurant cafe that serves both halal western and local delicacies. There are a generous amount of choices of appetizers and main courses listed in their menu list to be chosen. You would be excited with these numerous selections.

Moving on to their bakery cafe, Mr Yap is the man behind it. He was a professional pastry chef trained in Paris. He has high passion in providing the best quality of food to every of the diners by using only premium natural ingredients. Its bakery cafe offers delicious handmade cakes, croissant, patisseries and also macaroons.

Not forgot to order their cups of coffee to wash down these sweet treats. All of their coffee menu are freshly brew from own milled coffee powder. The strong aroma and fragrance of their coffee will surely bring you back to their restaurant cafe again and again for more.

Getting bored of the noisiness of the common bar and bistros? Head to Union Fashion Bar (UFB) for some romantic moment with a glass of wine. The ambience atmosphere of Union Fashion Bar (UFB) created by Mr Yap is great to have beer and wine tasting. Not only that, he also intended to promote a healthy lifestyle by introducing their cold-pressed fruit juice made from fresh fruits and vegetables.

Union Fashion Bar (UFB)’s concept might be new for you but trust us, this unique creativity of Mr Yap do represent his personal character, where a middle aged man trying to walk into the life of youngsters nowadays. Upon arriving, you will notice a 1998 signboard near its entrance. This meaningful number is the year when Mr Yap taking his first step in the culinary industry.

Union Fashion Bar (UFB) is definitely a restaurant cafe that you must not miss out!!!

Additional Information:
Address: 8, Jalan Yahya Aldatar, Taman Pelangi, 80300 Johor Bahru, Johor
Operating Hours: 11:30am- 1am
Contact No.: 014-800 9981

9.Yit Foh Restaurant

Established since year 1970, Yit Foh Restaurant had been serving delicious wan tan mee to every of their guests, both from Singapore and Johor. Throughout the forty years, they successfully maintained all of their wantan mee menus. Every wantan mee of theirs are made handmade, with premium natural ingredients from scratch.

By using the most traditional wantan mee recipe passed down for generations, the whole egg noodles made by Yit Foh Restaurant are more elastic in texture and eggy than others. Their wantan mee noodles are freshly produced in their factory located in Permas Jaya daily too in orderto support the high demand of their guests towards their wantan mee.

Yit Foh Restaurant serves their wantan mee in two different variations, dried wantan mee and also soup wantan mee.Both of these wantan mee of theirs are equally delicious and served in a right portion that could make every foodies’ stomach happy. Side dishes such as char siew and broiled vegetables are served along with their bowl of wantan mee too.

Not forgot to mention that they even prepare their wan tan soup and char siew themselves. The char siew of Yit Foh Restaurant are prepared with shoulder cut of domestic pork, which has a balanced portion of fats and meat. Seasoned with a secret sauce consisted of honey, five spices powder, fermented bean curd, dark soy sauce and dark soy sauce,it does offer the char siew a mouth watering aroma on its char grilled red-brown meat.

Besides wantan mee, Yit Foh Noodle House also serves wide varieties of breakfast menus such as the charcoal grilled toast, curry noodles, wantan wrap and some light deep fried snacks. You may order some glasses/cups of traditionally brew beverages like kopi, milo, teh tarik to wash down your appetite after enjoying their delicious food.

The best part of Yit Foh Noodle House? Yes, this restaurant is opening 24 hours for every foodie to enjoy their bowl of hot, warm wantan mee whenever they are visiting Johor Bahru.

Additional Information:
Address: 153, Jalan Harimau, Taman Abad, 80250 Johor Bahru
Operating Hours: 24 Hours (Closed on every Tuesdays)

10.New Lucky Seafood Restaurant

For more than 40 years of experiences in culinary industry, New Lucky Seafood Restaurant do offers wide varieties of Chinese classic dishes along with great Chinese style seafood delicacies to every of their customers upon their visit. Sizes of dishes are available in different sizes – small, medium and large portion to be chosen according to number of diners and also preferences also.

If this is your first dining experience at New Lucky Seafood Restaurant, please be mentally prepared that this restaurant do not own a hardcopy menu list.Instead, you may have a quick look at their ‘menu’ displayed nearby the entrance, which are also their recommended dish for the day. The staffs at New Lucky Seafood Restaurant are friendly enough to assist you upon your food ordering if you have any inquiries.

Upon arriving at New Lucky Seafood Restaurant, you are welcome to have a look at their seafood display aquarium placed near to their kitchen. This is the place where you are allowed to choose for your favorite seafood to be cooked by the chef according to your cooking preference.

For something full, you may have a try on their Glutinous Rice In Lotus Leaf. This Cantonese style food is actually steamed glutinous rice wrapped in fresh lotus leaves along with savory food ingredients and seasonings.

Best eaten while still hot when the glutinous rice is still soft and not overly sticky, this dish will totally keep you full with its generous savory ingredients like dried shrimps, char siew, Chinese sausage, chicken or pork chunks and so on. The addition of spring onions and fried onions do provide the overall dish a nice fragrance and crispy texture too.

Additional Information:
Address: 1-5, Jalan Keris, Taman Sri Tebrau, 80050 Johor Bahru
Operating Hours: Daily, 11am -11:30pm

11.Chicken Up

Craving for some Korean Fried Chicken during the midnight? Then it is a must for you to have a visit to Chicken Up.

It is attached to the Holiday Villa building and located at its first floor , this Korean restaurant is just next to an Indian restaurant.It is famous for their Korean style fried chicken among the locals staying around there.

Sometimes, you may required to have a long queue form 30 minutes if you would like to have a taste of their fried chicken. Hence, it is really advisable that you to avoid going there during lunch and dinner time.

One of their signature fried chicken that is worth for a try would be the Crispy Up Mega Chic. This fried chicken is their original flavored fried chicken. Battered and deep fried in hot oil, these fried chicken is crispy on its exterior while still retain its tenderness and juiciness In its chicken meat. Surprisingly, Chicken Up also serves fried chicken wings in their menu too, rather than the half chicken.

If you are a spicy food lover, it is recommended for you to have a try on their Spicy Yangyum Mega Chick. Similar to the Crispy Up Mega Chic, these fried chicken are crispy, juicy and tender. But, these fried chicken are then coated with a layer of Korean hot sauce that is really addictive.

You will be craving for more after you have your first piece of it. The sesame seeds and spring onions added also provide the overall dish an additional texture and fragrance too.

Not only that, Chicken Up do specialize in other types of Korean delicacies. They are serving Ugly Tang Stew, Bibimbap, Kimchi Fried Rice, Topokki Cheese and Kimchi Soup in their menu. There is always something for everyone who visit Chicken Up. So, if you are a Korean food lover, then it is a must for you to have a visit there.

For hygiene purpose, you will be provided with a pair of plastic gloves if you prefer to enjoy the fried chicken with your hands. There is a small dustbin placed on the table that allow you to dispose the chicken bones to keep your table clean also.

Additional Information:
Address: Shop 12 and 15 First Floor Holiday Villa, Johor Bahru
Operating Hours: Daily, 12Noon -12am

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