Sichuan delicacies are getting popular over the world nowadays.
What appear in your mind when you think about Sichuan food? Is it extremely hot and spicy, making your taste buds to have kind of ‘tingly-numbing’? But do you know that there are also Sichuan cuisines that taste sport sweet and sour? Yes there are.
Originated from the Sichuan Province, Sichuan cuisines has bold flavors, particulary the spiciness and also the pungency resulted from heavy usage of Sichuan peppercorn, broad bean chilli paste, black pepper, shallots, and garlics. These must-have ingredients are the secret that brings out the intense flavors of the Sichuan delicacies.
When Sichuan cuisines are introduced in Malaysia, it had created a wave of Sichuan cuisine madness among every foodies and spicy lovers. It is not a wonder anymore that there are more and more Sichuan restaurants making their way to the heart of many.
For all the foodies who would like to challenge the taste buds with these extremely spicy food, here would be the Sichuan Restaurant list that you should try out. Perhaps these restaurants would be in your jb food list next time upon visiting Johor Bahru
Sichuan Restaurant in Johor Bahru
- Wu Han Restaurant (正宗武汉鸭脖子.川菜馆)
- Tiong Hua Restaurant (中华风味湘菜馆)
- Yi Ping Xiang (一品湘湖南香菜馆)
- Chuan & Xiang Village (川湘部落)
- Lao Xiang Hao (老湘好)
- Xiang La La Mala Hotpot (香辣辣麻辣香锅)
- Yu Xiang Shi Fu (渝香食府)
- Da Tang Shi Fu (大唐食府)
- Chi-Gui Mala Hotpot (赤鬼麻辣火锅)
- Meisan Szechuan Restaurant (眉山菜馆)
1.Wu Han Restaurant (正宗武汉鸭脖子.川菜馆)
You are recommended to pay a visit to Wu Han Restaurant in Johor Bahru if you’re a spicy lover. Wu Han Restaurant is a Chinese cuisine restaurant that serves customers with Sichuan cuisine which is the most popular among all the foodies nowadays.
By offers varieties of Sichuan cuisine in hot and spicy, Wu Han Restaurant is always crowded with customers who love to stimulate and challenge their taste buds with hot and spicy. When ordering, you are required to choose the level of spiciness you prefer, which is from light to extreme spice level. So, if you are a person who can take spicy food, you are welcomed to challenge their extreme spicy food to enjoy some ‘tingly-numbing’ moments.
Order their signature dishes such as Kung Pao Chicken that will probably make you satisfy! Their Kung Pao Chicken is prepared by frying the seasoned diced boneless chicken with lots of dried red pepper and golden peanuts. It is relatively spicy, but addictive as well. This Sichuan delicacy makes a great combination with white rice too, as the natural sweetness of the white rice would mild the spiciness of the Kung Pao Chicken.
One of the selling points of Wu Han Restaurant is that they are open until 4am daily, makes them a must-go place for supper for all the foodies during midnight. This good food in jb is worth for a try.
Additional Information:
Address: 149, Jalan Harimau, Taman Abad, 80250 Johor Bahru
Business Hours: 5pm to 4am daily. Closed every second Monday.
Contact: 019-6058881
2.Tiong Hua Restaurant (中华风味湘菜馆)
If you love Sichuan cuisine and Hunan cuisine at the same time, you should give yourself a try at Tiong Hua Restaurant which serving a combination of Sichuan cuisine and Hunan cuisine. Don’t worry, you can choose the level of spiciness you prefer upon ordering.
One of the must-order dish is the steamed fish flesh in chili sauce. This red, tasty gravy and steamed fish flesh is covered with more chili and garlic, making it more appetizing and boost its spiciness. The fish flesh’s texture is really smooth as Tiong Hua Restaurant only uses the freshest fish to prepare this spicy dish.
It also enable all of their guests to taste the natural sweetness of the fish flesh in every bite. This Sichuan cuisine can makes you finish a big bowl of plain white rice with just the fish flesh and the tasty gravy.
You can also have a try on the Stir-Fry Chicken Inner Part, which is fry with plenty of dried chilies and Sichuan peppercorn. The stir fried chicken inner part is quite chewy, and it is cooked into perfection where the spiciness of the sauce had been absorbed into the chicken inner part. You can grab yourself a can of cold beer and refresh yourself while enjoying this spicy and flavorful Sichuan cuisine.
Another recommended Sichuan cuisine of Tiong Hua Restaurant would be the Ma Po Tofu or ‘Pockmarked Granny’ Beancurd. Despite the bright fiery red appearance, their Ma Po Tofu is actually not overly spicy and oily as it is cooked in a chili and bean based sauce. Generous amount of minced meat and tofu are used in preparing this dish too, making it really worth for the price.
You also recommended to try on the potato slices and steam tofu which are definitely tasty and cheap. Majority of the dishes are not costs more than RM35 each, except some special dishes with beef, fish head and frog. If you love to cook Sichuan cuisine at home, at the same row there is a Tiong Hua minimart selling all the Sichuan cuisine ingredients which are hardly to be found in local supermarkets and grocery stores.
Additional Information:
Address: 8G&10G, Jalan Bestari 5/2, Taman Nusa Bestari, Nusajaya, Johor Bahru.
18, Jalan Serampang, Taman Pelangi, 80400 Johor Bahru. (Branch)
Business Hours: 10am to 11pm daily.
Contact: 07-2326642
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3.Yi Ping Xiang (一品湘湖南香菜馆)
Yi Ping Xiang in Taman Perling Johor Bahru is another place to go if you’re craving for Sichuan cuisine.
Challenge your taste buds with the signature Sichuan steamed fish with red glowing hot oil and you definitely won’t regret! Despiting the glowing red hot sauce of the steamed fish, you still would be able to taste the natural sweetness of the fish flesh in every bite. Also, you can choose the level of spiciness you prefer when ordering. I bet you will probably go for a second time!
Another recommended dish of Yi Ping Xiang would be their Sichuan Spicy Crustaceans. Crustaceans, also known as the little lobster in China has a cute nickname called ‘ma xiao’ (spicy little lobster) because they are usually cooked and served in an extremely hot and numbling Sichuan hot sauce.
It has a more chewy texture compared to prawns and shrimps, but they are relatively more cheaper. These little lobsters are best eaten by dipping them in a mixture of chilli and soy sauce after peeling away its skin. For additional satisfaction, you can enjoy this Sichuan delicacies with a can or icy cold beer.
A shout out for every foodie who demand for something spicy to chew during the midnight. Yi Ping Xiang is now operating late and they are offering midnight Sichuan Chuang Chuang Guo (Sichuan Hot Pot) and also BBQ in their menu.
But do remember there is a short break at Yi Ping Xiang from 3pm to 5pm.
Additional Information:
Address: 33&35 Jalan Rawa, Taman Perling, 81200 Johor Bahru Town
Business hours: 11am to 10pm. There is a short break from 3pm to 5pm.
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4.Chuan & Xiang Village (川湘部落)
Chuang & Xiang Village located in Taman Mount Austin is another to-go place if you are looking for tasty and spicy Chinese cuisine. Chuang & Xiang Village offer their customer with the combination of Sichuan cuisine and Hunan cuisine in different level of spiciness chosen by customer upon ordering.
Due to the higher demand and popular among the local and tourist, currently Chuang & Xiang Village extended their business hours until 4am daily. The restaurant serve their customer with dishes with duck neck, crayfish, frog, beef, chicken, mutton and so on, with different type of cooking.
Duck and duck neck is the selling point of Chuang & Xiang Village. A whole duck costs only RM35 and RM18 for a half. Chuan & Xiang Village’s Sichuan Hot and Spicy Duck Neck is highly recommended. This part of meat is tender and lean, as ducks usually move their necks around.
This cuisine is simmered in a hot Sichuan hot sauce for several hours, making the duck neck to absorb all the spiciness from the sauce. It is then cooled down before mixing with a mixture of Chilli oil, crushed Sichuan peppercorn, sugar, sesame oil and salt upon serving.
Another recommended dish of theirs would be the Sichuan Hot Pot. As the ordinary Sichuan Hot Pot, it is numbling spicy and you can cook all the ingredients of your choices in it. You can request for creamy meat broth if you could not take spicy food, as they do offer it as well. Order this dish during gathering with friends and family members. It could be fun while chit chatting while waiting for the food to be cooked.
You can also have a try for a plate of dry cuttlefish for only RM5, which is the best to go with a cup of cold beer. They even offer China’s common cold beer which might be unavailable in any beer stores around Malaysia.
Additional Information:
Address: 18, Jalan Austin Heights 8/2, Taman Mount Austin, 81100 Johor Bahru.
Business hours: 11.30am to 11.30pm daily. There is a short break from 3pm to 5pm from Monday to Thursday.
Contact: 07-3588764
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5. Lao Xiang Hao (老湘好)
Lao Xiang Hao is another Sichuan cuisine restaurant that serves customer with hot and spicy dishes that stimulate the taster buds! They currently have a promotion of their signature dishes Hot and Spicy Crabs with only RM78.
Have you ever tried of Sichuan Chuang Chuang Xia (香辣串串虾)? If not, do remember to have a visit to Lao Xiang Hao to try some.
This Sichuan cuisine is served in a bamboo skewer just like Chuang Chuang, marinated with a lot of spices, minced garlic and also Sichuan peppercorns. It is then grilled on a hot plate with some white sesame to provide an additional flavor. Best eaten when it is still hot.
Chuang Wei Liang Fun (川味凉粉) of Lao Xiang Hao is also highly recommended as an appetizer. This cuisine might look simple, with stripped white translucent jelly like Sichuan leong fun mixed with a special spicy sauce but will totally make your taste buds numb once eaten. It is garnished with some crushed toasted peanuts to provide it with an additional texture.
Another selling point for Lao Xiang Hao is that they also serve their customers with Chong Qing Steamboat, the current trend for all the foodies when comes to steamboat. They serve their Chong Qing Steamboat with single soup base or double soup base, depends on your preference. And the most important is their soup base are totally free of charge!
Other dishes which are highly recommended include the Hot and Spicy Fried Lamb, Sichuan Teppanyaki Beef, Pork Rib Soup with corn and so on.
You can also book a room from them, enjoy your steamboat meanwhile enjoy the Karaoke facility inside the room with your friends and family. This karaoke jb won’t let you down.
Additional Information:
Address: No.83, Jalan Sentral 2, Taman Nusa Sentral, 79100 Nusajaya, Johor Bahru.
Business hours: 11am to 10pm daily. There is a short break from 3pm to 5pm.
Contact: 07-5099702
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6.Xiang La La Mala Hotpot (香辣辣麻辣香锅)
Xiang La La Mala Hotpot must in your must-go list if you’re a Chinese cuisine lover. This restaurant which is always crowded with customers during peak or non-peak hours, have at least 4 branches all over the state and other state.
Mala Xiang Guo(麻辣香锅), which is considered a newer dish in Sichuan is served here. Although it is not a traditional Sichuan dish, but it is still worth for a try. Honestly, this plate of food is legend in the making, where you can decide which ingredient you prefer to be used in preparing this cuisine. It could be a heaven for all the picky eaters as they can choose for the food ingredient they fancy.
Upon arriving, you would be given a menu list consisting of raw materials once you are seated. What you need to do is to choose the food ingredients according to your preference and choose the level of spiciness ranging from mild, medium to spicy that you would like to take.
There are a lot of food ingredients to be chosen from too, for example, different choices of meat, fresh vegetables, seafood and tofus. As a suggestion, it would be perfect to choose eight to ten types of ingredients if you are visiting Xiang La La Mala Hotpot along with four to six people.
Not to forget to grab yourself an icy cold Tsing Tao Beer to refresh your taste bud after enjoying Xiang La La Mala Hotpot’s Mala Xiang Guo. This type of beer is not really strong and it consist of dashes of malt flavor in every gulp. It is best paired with Xiang La La Mala Hotpot’s other types of mala Sichuan cuisines too.
They are not only offer their lovely customers with dishes in hot and spicy (mala), but also offer their customer with dishes in garlic flavour and salted egg flavour. They are currently offer their customers with a super value set meal, which is any dishes with chicken and a bowl of rice is only costs RM14.90 per set and RM26.90 for two sets.
For the set meal with pork, customers can choose any dishes with pork and a bowl of rice which is only costs RM16.90 per person and RM28.90 for two persons.
If you’re spending above RM50, you can get a free side dishes or soup.
Additional Information:
Address: 189, Jalan Sri Pelangi, Taman Pelangi, 80500 Johor Bahru
3 Jalan Permas 10/5, Bandar Baru Permas Jaya, 81750 Johor (Branch)
45, Jalan Austin Height 8/8, Taman Mount Austin, 81199 Jb (Branch)
28 Jalan Indah 15/3, Taman Bukit Indah, 81200 Nusajaya (Branch)Contact: 016-5905900 (Sri Pelangi)
07-3820242 (Permas)
07-3614988 (Austin Height)
07-2306467 (Bukit Indah)
7.Yu Xiang Shi Fu (渝香食府)
Yu Xiang Shi Fu is a huge Chinese cuisine restaurant located in Taman Nusa Bestari, which serve their customers with Chinese dishes, steamboat and grill. First and second floor is for serving Sichuan dishes, the third floor is serving steamboat and the 4th floor is serving grill dishes.
One of the selling point for this restaurant is their self-serving steamboat. With the unlimited supply of fresh meat, fresh vegetables and seafood supply for steamboat, and unlimited supply of drinks and varieties of special sauces, their steamboat is only costs around RM50-60 per person for single soup base, and around RM60-70 per person for double soup base.
One signature dish of Yu Xiang Shi Fu would be the Numbing Spicy Beef Cubes with Sichuan Peppercorn(魔鬼椒王牛肉粒). This beef cuisine of theirs is prepared with real Sichuan peppercorns and lots of dried chilies, but it doesn’t affect the taste of the diced beef cubes. These diced beef cubes are really tender and you even can taste the meat juice of it in every bite.
Other typical Sichuan cuisines of Yu Xiang Shi Fu are available too, but it is suggested that reservations should be made in order to secure a place as Yu Xiang Shi Fu is quite popular in that area.
Additional Information:
Address: 2, Jalan Bestari 7/2, Taman Nusa Bestari, 81200 Johor Bahru.
Business hours: 10.30am to 12am daily.
Contact: 07- 2075858
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8.Da Tang Shi Fu (大唐食府)
Da Tang Shi Fu located in Bandar Baru Permas Jaya is another destination for all the foodies who are looking for tasty Chinese cuisine. The air-conditioned restaurant, decorated with white and gold colour theme, always crowded with local and tourist who are craving for Chinese cuisine such as Sichuan cuisine, Hunan cuisine, Cantonese cuisine and so on.
Da Tang Shi Fu specialized in Sichuan cuisines of various types of proteins such as fish, chicken, beef, mutton and pork. One of the hot selling Sichuan dish of Da Tang Shi Fu would be the Spicy Braised Pig Ears with Mala Hot Sauce (凉拌猪耳朵).
It is really a great appetizer for a starter, with chewy but not rubbery texture and its spiciness would surely stimulate your appetite. For your information, pig ears do consist of collagen which are good for the skin.
Do try out the Fu Qi Fei Pian (夫妻肺片) of Da Tang Shi Fu as well. It is actually a popular Sichuan dish that is prepared by seasoning the thinly sliced beef, bovine lung or tongue with chili oil despite its name. These seasoned protein slices are tender and aromatic, Da Tang Shi Fu is sure that nobody would resist this Sichuan dish of theirs too.
They are sufficient supply of Chinese cold beer in the restaurant for customers who love to go for a beer meanwhile challenging their taste buds with the hot and spicy Chinese cuisine.
Additional Information:
Address: 07, Jalan Permas 10/10, Bandar Baru Permas Jaya, 81750 Johor Bahru
Business hours: 11am to 11pm daily.
9.Chi-Gui Mala Hotpot (赤鬼麻辣火锅)
Now you don’t have to drive for a couple of hours to Singapore for the Hai Di Lao Steamboat, you can pay a visit to Chi-Gui Mala Hotpot located opposite to New York Hotel JB instead. The theme of modern beach style is fusion of spicy hot pot, with colorful paper lanterns and high-hanging embellishments, plus blue and white porcelain to create a unique atmosphere.
Chi-Gui Mala Hotpot offer their customers with more than 5 types of soup base. Mainly spicy hot pot soup base and ginseng black chicken soup, while having 6 other soup base taste choices: green pepper spicy soup, spicy milk soup, Korean kimchi soup, kumbu soup, tomato soup and mushroom soup. The hot pot here replaces the induction cooker with traditional coal and it is mixed with the soup that has been boiled for more than 4 hours.
Spicy soup base with green chili and tomato soup base are the most popular and highly recommended. It would suit the taste of people who cannot take spicy food as the taste of the broth is not overly spicy. Dashes of sourness from the tomatoes can be tasted too, making it quite appetizing.
The restaurant with good exhaust system, decorated with warmth and peace design and furnished with comfortable chairs and tables, always filled up with many customers from local and even from Singapore.
The selling points for Chi-Gui Mala Hotpot is that they provide more than 20 kinds of self-made special sauce which can enhance the taste of their food to the maximum. The restaurant even offers more than 123 kinds of meat, seafood, tofu, mushrooms, vegetables, fried snacks, pasta and desserts, including special proteins such as the snowflake beef, Australian beef, three-layer pork, pine black Pork cheek slices. If you demand for seafood, they do have some. To name a few, there are salmon meat, tiger prawns, Japanese oysters, Hokkaido belts, gold-eye squid slices and Japanese scallops. Each ingredient is calculated in unit price and the ingredients are normally in stock.
Additional Information:
Address: 01-03, 01-05, 01-06 Pangsapuri Dwi Galaksi, Jalan Dato Abdullah Tahir, 80300 Johor Bahru.
Business hours: 12pm to 12am daily.
Contact: 07-3821368
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10.Meisan Szechuan Restaurant (眉山菜馆)
This hidden Sichuan restaurant is located at Mutiara Hotel Johor Bahru is an long established restaurant that receive many positive reputations among Johoreans and also tourists from all over the world. Meisan Szechuan Restaurant is considered to be the classic Chinese style restaurant with the best ambience in Johor Bahru with their elegance interior design. They are using lots of wood panel, decorative beans, Chinese scroll paintings and also ornamental vases.
All of their Sichuan cuisines are professionally prepared by Chef Chan, the key man of Meisan Szechuan Restaurant who has over 30 years of experiences in this industry. He tweaked and refined the Sichuan cuisines to suit the local preferences, making it acceptable for everyone. This Sichuan restaurant in Hotel Mutiara Johor Bahru intend to bring out the natural flavors of every food ingredients with the Sichuan’s spiciness instead of just dominate them.
The signature Sichuan dish of theirs would be the Brinjal Braised with Minced Chicken. This Sichuan cuisine is relatively sweet, tangy and spicy, every bite of the melting tender brinjal do absorb this special sauce too.
The minced chicken is not overly cooked, retaining its tenderness in every bite. Other recommended signature dish of theirs are braised fish soup with pumpkin, twin delight chicken and also wok fried prawns with dried chilli and cashew nuts.
Meisan Szechuan Restaurant could be a great venue for dining and also organizing events such as wedding dinner, celebration parties, reunion dinner and many more as it has a large dining hall and also private dining rooms.
Additional Information:
Address: Mutiara Johor Bahru, 66 Jalan Harimau, Taman Abad, 80250 Taman Century Johor Bahru, Johor
Contact no:+607-332 3800
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