One day, my friend sent me a FB link that introduce JB famous "Ikan Bakar" aka (barbecue fish) just nearby KSL city, we were both just dying to give it a try. “Ikan Bakar” which means barbecue fish or Char-grill fish in Malay, it was one of the famous food found in Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia. However, for Indonesia style "Ikan Bakar" usually serves with sweet soy sauce, but Malaysia and Singapore is using "sambal" (chili paste).
When we arrived there, we had a hard time to find a place to park the car, since it's residential area and it doesn't have much place to park the car and it seem pretty crowded. Well, this place was a landed house, the table and chair was set up at the front yard, the kitchen was at the side corner of the house and it's open concept, it seem very spacious. We found a place to sit, and we realized that we need to choose the seafood from the display table and place order there as well.
We had ordered their sambal noodle, aka stirred fried noodle with chili paste. the noodle seem like normal traditional fried noodle with dark soy sauce, but it's very tasty and slightly burning hot, it's very local style. like it.
They ran out of "sotong"(squid), so we took cray-fish instead. The cray fish was very fresh, the meat was firm and bouncy, it was fully cooked but still remains juicy, and the sambal was going very well with it.
we also order stirred fried bean sprout, it was just normal.
Finally, the stingray, the fish was fresh, it was firm and juicy. let talk about the sauce, the chili paste was kinda different from other Ikan Bakar that I had previously; usually the chili paste mostly taste sweet and spicy and a little bit of sour, some are too sweet, some are too spicy. But this one, my first bite, it was a little bit of bitter 甘苦, but it's not overpower, then the sweetness and spiciness kick in but in a balanced way; my friend would like it spicier, but I think it was just nice. The char-burned chunky fresh fish fully covered with flavorful sambal sauce, every single bite was a mouthful satisfaction. Yummy! The entire meal took us RM80.00+, pricey? maybe it is, but it definitely worth to try.
Address: 94, Jalan Dato Sulaiman , Taman Century, 80250 Johor Bahru, Johor Malaysia
Operating Hour: 5:00pm to 12:30am (Closed on Tuesday & Wednesday)
