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Setia Tropika is a township in Johor Bahru, Malaysia. Owned by the Setia Homes, this newly developed area might be new to some readers here, as you might be just thinking that this place consist of only boring looking residential buildings. Actually, there are some great restaurants and cafes available in Setia Tropika that serves delicious delicacies, both local and fusion.
Top 9 Setia Tropika Food You Must Not Miss
1.Let’s Eat Restaurant 3
2.Bartinder
3.Vivo Pizza
4.Restoran Warisan Kelate
5.Texas Tacos & Grill TTG
6.DaCheng Setia Tropika
7.Food Truck Street
8.Restoran Sup Tulang ZZ
9.Tea Garden Setia Tropika
1.Let’s Eat Restaurant 3
Missing out some Hainanese food whenever you are working or travelling in Johor? Need not to worry anymore, you now can enjoy these food at Let’s Eat Restaurant 3, which is a Hainanese style restaurant that serves delicious Hainanese, Western and Local delicacies. This is the place where you are able to fulfill your crave for fusion food at once.
What makes Let’s Eat Restaurant 3 even more perfect would be their All-Day Brunch menu offered. Imagine the hot peanut butter toast, chicken ham sandwiches, charcoal grill buttered toast and half boiled eggs, doesn’t these conjure up an awesome and yet irresistible image in your mind?
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If you can name it, Let’s Eat Restaurant 3 will have it. These hearty brunch menu do goes well with a hot cup of coffee or Milo, one of the Malaysian’s typical favorite chocolate drink at all times.
For something full, you may have a quick look at both of their Western and Asian’s menu. Let’s Eat Restaurant 3 will totally spoilt every foodies’ appetite with wide varieties of food like Pineapple Fried Rice, Fish Head Beehoon, Nasi Lemak, Big Breakfast and Baked Cheese Spaghetti.
If you are a spicy food taker, it is highly recommended for you to have a try on their Fiery Spicy Salt Pepper Chicken Chop. This menu of theirs usually comes in set, along with a bowl of rice, fried egg and soup which makes a great meal to keep the stomach full.
The spicy salt pepper chicken chop is crispy at its exterior, while retaining its juiciness and tenderness in its flesh. On the other hand, the fried chopped chilies are not overly spicy, but does provide the overall chicken chop its spiciness. Best eaten while still hot.
Additional Information:
Address: PTD163725, Lot G4, Jalan Setia Tropika 1/16, Taman Setia Tropika, Johor Bahru
Contact No.: 019-712 0023
Operating Hours: Daily, 10am – 10pm
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2.Bartinder
Opened since 18th January 2019, Bartinder is now ready to serve all foodies with delicious Western delicacies and snacks in their lounge. There are feedbacks that this bar and lounge do provide unique cocktails which really goes well with their food in their menu list too.
So, if you are looking for a relaxing place to have small gathering time with friends or family members while enjoying great food, Bartinder would be your first choice if you are at Setia Tropika.
The atmosphere of Bartinder is comfortable and you will realized that it is not busying with its fluorescent lighting and elevator music like the ordinary bar. Instead, Bartinder dimmed lights do helps in creating a warm glow which softens the time wrinkles in its interior design. The warm LED welcoming bar front do provide a sexy vibes to the bar too.
It is highly recommended to have a try on Bartinder’s handmade pizza menus. Bartinder offers three different pizzas in their menu list, which are the Mushroom Pizza,Tuna Pizza and Hawaiian Pizza.
All of their pizza menus are prepared freshly upon order with fresh food ingredients. These pizza’s crust are thin, not soggy, with crispy texture on its edge, making it easy to consume when compared to those chewy thick crusted pizza sold outside. Also, you may be surprised with the generous amount of mozzarella cheese scattered on the pizza too.
Besides that, Bartinder is currently promoting their Happy Hours Promotion where you would be able to get special discounts on beers from 11am to8pm, daily.
Happy Hour Promotion:
(6 draught /set)
Tiger – RM60
Heineken – RM87.50
Guinnes – RM104.50
Additional Information:
Address: No. 56, Jalan Setia Tropika 1/14,Taman Setia Tropika,81200 Johor Bahru, Johor
Contact No.: 010-818 3311
Operating Hours: Daily, 3pm – 1am
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3.Vivo Pizza
Using the secret recipe from Horrigan family, Vivo Pizza offers every foodies with the best American style pizza made with freshest food ingredients in town. Through their sheer hard work and passion in deliver the real American pizza taste, now Vivo Pizza is expanding their business to Setia Tropika.
For your information, all of the Vivo Pizza’s pizza menus are 33% larger than the ordinary pizza. They take prides in their pizza texture which is crunchy outside and chewy inside. Besides Pizza, Vivo Pizza also serves salad, pastas, baked dishes and wide varieties of chops in their menu.
For a quick grab, you may have a try on their Paninis series. Paninis are grilled sandwiches made with Italian bread, filled with generous amount of fillings like cheese, hams, mozzarella and other food ingredients.
It is then pressed by a warming grill before being served. At Vivo Pizza, you are allowed to choose for your favorite type of bread among Parmesan Oregano, Oatmeal and Italian to go for your paninis. There are three different paninis menu offered by Vivo Pizza, the Crispy Chicken, Grilled Fish and Fried Fish Fillet. All of these paninis do come with complimentary french fries as side dish too.
Additional Information:
Address: G2 Tropika Welcome Centre, Jalan Setia Tropika 1/21, Setia Tropika, 81200 Johor Bahru, Johor
Contact No.: 07-244 6690
Operating Hours: Daily, 10am – 10pm
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4.Restoran Warisan Kelate
Whenever talks about Kelantan delicacies, what would be the first appeal in your mind? Perhaps would be the crispy keropok and blue Nasi Kerabu right? Yes, Restoran Warisan Kelate is serving both of these Kelantan unique delicacies in their restaurant. Restoran Warisan Kelate is one of the Halal certified restaurant that serves both Kelantan and Thailand fusion delicacies in Johor Bahru.
Restoran Warisan Kelate’s Nasi Kerabu is usually served with various type of side dishes like fried chicken or fried fish, salted egg, keropok and ulam, which is able to make you feeling full throughout the day.
For the fragrance rice, this blue coloured rice is actually gained its colour from the petals of butterfly pea juice used in preparing the rice, so need not to be overly worried that you will be getting any artificial coloring in your food. Just like Nasi Lemak, the Nasi Kerabu is rich and creamy, with soft texture and strong coconut milk aroma.
Best eaten while still warm. If you prefer some additional spicy kick, you may enjoy Nasi Kerabu with the solok lada that is served along the dish too.
One of their hot selling food, Khao Jam is a must try. Literally known as Mixed Rice in Thai, Khao Jam can be considered as fusion delicacies of Kelantan and Thailand that is hard to be found around Malaysia recently.
Every Khao Jam recipe are slightly different in every restaurant, but it is said that Restoran Warisan Kelate serves the best Khao Jam in Johor Bahru. They are using their own home recipe in their Khao Jam, making it unique and suit the taste of all locals.
Most of their recipes calls for rice, sambal chili, keropok, salted eggs, fried dried prawns, lemon grass, shallots, kerisik (grated and toasted coconut paste), water apple, turmeric powder, ginger leaves, turmeric leaves and kaffir lime leaves.
Upon serving, the rice and all the ingredients are firstly tossed and folded into a huge heap. If you are first attempt to this dish, you might be surprised with its surprising delightful aromas and flavors in every bite.
This dish is a perfect combination of crunchy vegetables, keropok and bean sprouts with fragrance rice boiled in mixed herbs and greens. To sum it up, every bite of this dish taste savory, sweet, spicy and tangy at once, making it taste complicating but delicious.
If you prefer something spicy, you may have a try on their Kelantan Laksam. Restoran Warisan Kelate only uses their homemade rice rolls prepared freshly everyday in every bowl of their laksam.
It is silky soft and smooth and does make a great combination with the soup base. For the soup base, it is a creamy soft gritty gravy with strong combined taste of spicy and savory, since it is prepared with sambal chili, coconut milk and fresh Ikan Selayang. Bean sprouts and green onions are also added into the bowl of laksam to provide it some crunchiness.
Additional Information:
Address: 12, Jalan Setia Tropika 1/14, Taman Setia Tropika, Johor Bahru
Contact No.: 011-1853 1616
Operating Hours:
Wednesday – Sunday, 8am -5pm
Closed on every Tuesday
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5. Texas Tacos & Grill TTG
Texas Tacos and Grill is a Mexican restaurant which run by a family. Here, you would be able to find the cheapest cocktail and candle light dinner in Johor Bahru. Just s its name stated, this is the restaurant where you can reward yourself with delicious tacos and grilled steak.
The Mexican Tacos are highly recommended when you choose to have your dining there. Texas Tacos and Grill’s Mexican Tacos has crispy and crunchy corn tortilla folded around generous amount of fillings like beef or chicken, diced vegetables and cheese which allowed great versatility and varieties.
Its deliciousness is then upgraded with some flavorful garnishes like homemade salsa, avocado guacamole and even chili pepper too, making it a great combination.
Another recommended dish of theirs would be the Grilled Mexican Steak. This Mexican style grilled steak of theirs is full of authentic Mexican flavor. Marinated in Texas Tacos and Grill’s secret sauce that offer the overall steak its indescribable flavor and grilled into perfection on a sizzling hot pan, every bite of this Grilled Mexican Steak is heaven to the meat lovers.
Juicy in its center while slightly char grilled on its surface, it is best enjoyed along with a glass of red wine.
If you are not a fan of grilled steak, you may go for other types of western cuisines such as Grilled Salmon, Beef Burger, Chicken Chop and Seafood Spaghetti. All of these Western Delicacies taste uniquely with dashes of Mexican flavors, which are highly seasoned, taste more spicy, savory or sweet in every bite.
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Currently they are having promotions on where you will be able to enjoy 5% discounts off your bill if you show their official Facebook page to them upon your visit.
Additional Information:
Address: 14, Jalan Setia Tropika, 1/.24, Taman Setia Tropika, Johor Bahru
Contact No.: 011-3963 5177
Operating Hours: Daily, 11am – 11pm
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6. DaCheng Setia Tropika
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. Good news for you, DaCheng Lok Lok is opening their sixth branch at Setia Tropika, serving the exactly similar lok lok menu as their outlets.
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.
For your information, Dacheng Lok Lok is the cheapest lok lok in Johor Bahru, with the price as cheap as RM0.80 per stick. It is the place where you can satisfy your midnight craving whenever you are at Setia Tropika.
Additional Information:
Address: Jalan Setia Tropika 1/1, Johor Bahru
Contact No.: 011-1617 5336
Operating Hours: 7:30pm – 1:00am
7. Food Truck Street
Food Truck is now a new trend among almost all Malaysian and even Singaporean. But do you know that there is a food truck street in Setia Tropika where you can find numerous delicious light snacks? If you are on what to eat there, them it is a must for you to have a quick look on this point.
The first food truck that you should have a try would be the Deongy Food Truck. This food truck serves every foodies with Korean and Japanese fusion style delicacies like Korean 2x Spicy Ramen, Korean style Fried Chicken and Kimchi Fried Rice.
It is highly recommended to try their Korean Style Chicken. These fried chicken will totally spoilt every foodies with selections of different types of coatings such as the Hot and Spicy, Barbeque sauce and Sweet and Sour sauce. Mixture of two sauces as coatings are available upon request too.
Move on to the next one, HY Snacks. The little food truck, provides customers with varieties of options, based on the customer preferences. Among the seafood ready to grilled and served, oyster is the most popular among the foodies, and also the signature of the little food truck.
The owner serves the fresh and huge oyster in varieties of flavors, such as special, cheese sauce, garlic explosion, teriyaki wasabi and mentai. The price of this dish is also really affordable at just Rm10 for two pieces.
If the oyster is not able to impress you, have a try with the scallop and you will totally satisfy. The fresh scallop also served with varieties of flavors which are same with the oyster. However, the price for two pieces of scallop costs RM15, which is slightly expensive than the oyster.
Quench your thirst at LikeTea. You are now able to grab yourself a refreshing and sweet beverage at this purple food truck. There are wide selections of cold beverages ranging from the common bubble tea, chocolaty milkshakes to the unique inspired menu like dirty milkshakes offered in their menu.
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Every cups of their cold beverages are prepared only upon ordering in order to ensure the taste and also freshness. Also, if you are looking for some quick bites, LikeTea do offer some too. To name a few, there are Crispy Fish Fillets, Breaded Chicken Chops, Fried Spring Rolls and Fried Homemade Meatballs.
Besides the food trucks listed above, there are still more food trucks to be discovered. So, what are you still waiting for, it’s time to grab along your foodie gang to discover this Food Truck Street at Setia Tropika whenever you are visiting there.
Additional Information:
Address: Jalan Setia Tropika 1/14, Setia Tropika, 81200 Johor Bahru, Johor (Behind Setia Tropika’s Hong Leong Bank branch)
Operating Hours:
Tuesday – Thursday, 6pm- 10pm
Closed on every Friday to Monday
8.Restoran Sup Tulang ZZ
Restoran Sup Tulang ZZ is a great place to sample wide selections of Johor specialties if your stomach is craving for some Johor local food.
Just as its name stated, Restoran Sup Tulang ZZ is popular for their Sup Tulang, or literally known as Bone Marrow Soup. This delightful recipe consists of minimum two to three chunky bones sticking out from the bowl of soup. The bowl of soup is murky, slurpilicious, with strong aroma of beef and spices added into it during the preparation process.
Straws are prepared upon serving of Sup Tulang in order to ease every foodie to extract the creamy bone marrow. For the meat, it is cooked into tender, where you will be able to see the meat falls off from the bone easily once lifted up.
Also, you may upgrade it to Mee Rebus with Sup Tulang with just RM9. Pretty reasonable isn’t it? This combination might be unusual, but trust us, it is really addictive and you would not stop after you have taken your first bite.
Another hot selling food of Restoran Sup Tulang ZZ would be their Laksa Johor. With just RM4, you would be able to get a bowl of curry based laksa and clear white rice noodles, topped with fine fish flesh. The soup base is not overly spicy nor creamy, it reaches the correct consistency where the soup attached finely on every noodles.
A spoonful of piquant spicy sambal is then added into this bowl of laksa to provide it an additional spicy kick. Besides that, Restoran Sup Tulang ZZ also serves their guests with delicious Thai style dishes, seafood, meats and vegetables which are best paired with their fragrance rice too.
Additional Information:
Address: 11, Jalan Setia Tropika 1/15, Taman Setia Tropika, 81200 Johor Bahru, Johor
Contact No.: 019-777 4397
Operating Hours: Daily, 7:30am – 1:00am
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9.Tea Garden Setia Tropika
Established by a team of youngster who have passions in traditional Nan Yang delicacies, Tea Garden Setia Tropika is one of the restaurants in Johor Bahru where you would be able to enjoy wonderful Nan Yang food and beverages. Of course, this restaurant is Halal, you can even bring along all your ethnic friends to enjoy the Nan Yang delicacies here.
Upon entering the restaurant, you will feel that you have been brought back to Nan Yang’s good old times by its ambience and comfortable atmosphere. The decoration here is simple, with wooden furniture and wooden window panel just like the golden times of Nan Yang.
Well, we can’t deny that breakfast is a part of life, which is also the source of energy for everyone to continue their entire day activities. At Tea Garden Setia Tropika, you will be amazed with their wide selections of breakfast menus ranging from toast, American breakfast, coffee tea and even Malaysian style local breakfast. To name a few, there are the classical Nasi Lemak, Curry Noodle, Asam Laksa and Mee Siam.
For the desserts, Tea Garden Setia Tropika offers the all times favorite desserts of almost all Malaysian and Singaporean. To name a few, there are the Soy Bean Pudding, Cendol and various types of Nyonya Kuihs. These sweet treats can be great desserts to be eaten after enjoying the savory dishes of theirs or just enjoy it with a cup of coffee as an afternoon tea.
Additional Information:
Address: No. 17, Jalan Tropika 1, Taman Tropika, 81000 Kulai, Johor
Contact No.: 07-863 0989
Operating Hours: 8am -10pm
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