New series of Western Cuisine at Lazio Italian Restaurant and Bar, Danga Bay - Johor Bahru

There are new series of Western Cuisine available at Lazio Italian Restaurant (N1.47423 E103.72441) since months ago and we decided to try out on one of the evening. Lazio Restaurant is located at Danga Bay of Johor Bahru, you can relax and enjoy the meal along with the beautiful scenery of Straits of Johor. You can read through my previous blog post about the restaurant here.




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Lazio Italian Restaurant of Danga Bay



The decoration of the restaurant still remain the same as we visited a year ago...



The new Exeutive Chef - Mr Stanley Yim from the restaurant had launched the new series of delightful dishes which provide a different dining experience to their customers. At first he humbly presented 3 different type of pasta for us before the main dish...




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Pesto Di Funghi



The pasta above was served with mushroom and pesto sauce in spinach basil linguine pasta. It was tasty and special.




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Aragosta



The dish was served with half lobster, herbs tomato sauce in Fettuchini pasta. It was rich tomato flavor and went well with the cheese and lobster.




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Capesante



The dark colour pasta above was delicious! The squid ink fettuccine pasta was served with scallops on fetta cheese cream sauce. I like the taste very much!



Before we can finish the pastas on the table, the Main Attraction of the day - The Aussie Wagyu Tomahawk Chop Rip-eye Steak served on our table!

The weight was 2.11kg.




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The Grilled Wagyu Tomahawk Chop Rip-eye Steak from Lazio Italian Restaurant



"A tomahawk (also referred to as a hawk) is a type of axe from North America, traditionally resembling a hatchet with a straight shaft. You can read more here."



The Tomahawk Steak is a Bone-In Rib Steak with the entire rib bone intact. This long bone is frenched (trimmed of meat and fat), leaving a beautiful presentation piece. The Tomahawk, being a Rib Steak, has the largest amount of intermuscular fat, making it the most flavorful steak. The Tomahawk is cut based on the thickness of the bone and is typically two inches thick. One Tomahawk can easily feed two people. The Tomahawk is cut from the rib section. The primary muscle of the Tomahawk is the longissimus dorsi, which is also the primary muscle in the Porterhouse. Source from here.




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The Tomahawk was served together with mushroom sauce, steak sauce and garlic sauce.




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The rip-eye steak that we had was about 2-3 inches thick and serve up to 4 persons.



The Tomahawk steak had everyone full attention once it nicely presented on the table. Mr Stanley and his assistant gently cut the prime steak and served to each of us....




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Mr Stanley and his assistant



The big 2.11kg weight of Rib Eye Steak was cut into 7-8 pieces and it was about 200-250g each...




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The steak was grilled to perfect with a little of char on the outside...the medium rare doneness is a Must for a prime steak.




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The bone with the tender flesh and fat



The flesh was succulent together with the precious fat and meat juice. The steak was so nice untill we felt it really melt in our mouth!




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The slice of Wagyu Tomahawk Ribeye Steak



I like my steak with the original taste which is without any sauce, but I did tried out the 3 types of sauces provided. Among all, I like the garlic sauce very much (strongly recommended by Mr Stanley).



This was a total different dining experience enjoying the steak in Johor Bahru. And It was also my great pleasure to enjoyed this wonderful dinner together with Mr Tony from Johorkaki.



Thanks to Mr Stanley and his team who presented such a Fabulous dish from Lazio Restaurant.




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The Executive Chef of Lazio Restaurant - Mr Stanley Yim



For steak lover in JB, you must try out (at least once) this extraordinary steak from Lazio Italian Restaurant with your family and friends, I bet you will not regret! And I believe they are the Only restaurant serve the Aussie Wagyu Tomahawk Chop Ripeye Steak for the moment.



*  The Aussie Wagyu Tomahawk Chop Ripeye Steak above was 2.11kg with the cost of RM850++. Every Tomahawk steak serve with the minimum weight of 2kg. Please make your reservation for the particular dish in one week advance with the 50% deposit.




Lazio Italian Restaurant and Bar

Danga Bay, Johor Bahru.

Tel : +607-2217988/+607-2215688

Business hour : 12pm - 1am, 12pm - 2am for Fri, Sat & holiday eve



GPS coordinates : N1.47423 E103.72441




Location map of Lazio Italian Restaurant and Bar at Danga Bay





The SkyBar of Traders Hotel at Puteri Harbour - Nusajaya, Johor.

The SkyBar (N1.41768 E103.65640) is located at the Rooftop pool deck of Traders Hotel at Puteri Harbour, Nusajaya - Johor. We were invited to the SkyBar for their opening private party on Saturday evening 12th Oct 2013. SkyBar is the trademark of Traders Hotel, have you been to the SkyBar at Traders Hotel Kuala Lumpur?




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The SkyBar is totally different from day time and night time...it's a beautiful infinity swimming pool overlooking the Puteri Harbour and Straits of Johor during the day time, when the nights fall...the pool area is beautifully lighted up with the good company by your side, the feeling is simply magical!




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The Sky Bar of Trader Hotel, Johor.



It was about 7pm, the invited guests were walking into the SkyBar area one-by-one...foods and drinks were prepared much earlier to serve all the guests...




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The small table in the pool was the fresh seafood like oysters and others...this was a special arrangement, nice!



About 120 guests from members of Singapore Sport Car Club, Exotic Car Club, AT Rider Superbikers from Johor Bahru and corporate guests attended the opening party.



The guests queue up for foods very soon just after 7pm, guess everyone can't wait to taste the delicious cuisine prepared by the Executive Chef - Alan Wong and Food and Beverage Manager - Avraam Koutsides, Traders Hotel.




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Everyone was queuing up for their favorite food which located at border of the SkyBar. There were plenty of varieties on that evening with the wide food range from local to international, from raw to cooked...




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The local popular food - Satay




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Packs of fried rice




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Grilled beef



There was a long queue for the above foods...especially the grilled beef! Yummy!



The seafood counter was specially presented in the children pool...yes, you heard me right! It was inside the pool.




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The seafood counter in the pool




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Fresh oysters and hors d'oeuvres topped with caviar served from the counter



The dessert and finger food corner was located just next to the children pool. I can't stop myself to took a small cube of dark chocolate, and it was nice!




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Finger foods




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Strawberry dessert




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The dining area was assigned in every corner, filled up the SkyBar...




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Outside the SkyBar




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The SkyBar of Traders Hotel, Johor.



I like this special sunken corner (below) very much! It's located next to the infinity pool, surrounded with tempered glass and the blue-lighted relax chair! Overlooking the Puteri Harbour and Straits of Johor...Awesome!




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The blue-lighted corner of SkyBar, Traders Hotel - Johor.



Once everyone filled up their stomach, the party began! The beer was serve without interval pause from Carlsberg's 4 pretty promoters. Followed by the music played by the DJ Herbs and Deeraj.




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One of the Carlsberg's promoters of the night




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We had a glass of the ice cold beer beside the pool and started our photo shooting session...

During the music played, there was a troupe of synchronized swimmers performing in the pool followed by 4 pretty colourful mermaids! That was a surprise! Everyone was busy triggering their shutter of the cameras crazily! Haha! It was a very nice scene with the mermaids swim across and the underwater lighting...




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The Mermaids at The SkyBar - Traders Hotel




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The mermaids by the pool




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Photo session with Mr Boon Aik Pang, Avraam Koustsides and the mermaids




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Photo session with Ms Aidah and the mermaids



The 2 colourful lions were performing their dance in the bar and presented the oranges to the Executive Chef - Mr Alan Wong and F & B Manager - Mr Avraam Koustsides.




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And the photo session continued...




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You can have a excellent view of Puteri Harbour and catch the spectacular sunset (if the weather is good) from the SkyBar of Traders Hotel.




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Puteri Harbour during the night




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Some high-rise buildings in Johor Bahru can be seen from the bar...



This is also a nice place for night photography lovers, you can enjoy the delightful dinner company with nice wine or cocktail while taking the shots of the beautiful surrounding night view...




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The SkyBar - Traders Hotel Puteri Harbour


Persiaran Puteri Selatan, Puteri Harbour, 


Nusajaya, Johor.


Tel : 07-560 8888

Operating hour : 12pm to 12am Sun - Thu, 12pm to 1am Fri & Sat.



GPS Coordinates : (N1.41768 E103.65640)




Location map of Trader Hotel at Nusajaya, Johor.





Restoran Yeen Lai 云来点心楼(古来) at Kulaijaya, Johor.


Yeen Lai Restaurant (云来点心楼) (N1.66189 E103.60180) is located along the main road of Kulai town. It's one of the oldest shop at Kulai and so do the history started since about 30 years ago...the name of 'Yeen Lai' is well known as 'Yun Lai (云来)' within Johor Bahru, because of their franchises flooded everywhere... even in Bukit Gambir, the upper north of Johor state.




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Yeen Lai Restaurant 云来点心楼



According to the local, this was where the famous Yun Lai (云来点心楼) originated and it's the first historical shop of the business...nowadays, the name of Yun Lai spread every corner of Johor Bahru...




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We visited the restaurant around noon time, it was not crowded...the dim sum business is handling by group of foreign workers except the cashier. We found out the production of the dim sum had moved to further up 21 miles at Kulai town, and the dim sum are transported every day to this 'old' shop to keep the freshness of the food.




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We ordered the chicken feet, Siew Mai (烧卖) and Char Siew Bao (叉烧包). Overall good!




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Chicken feet




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Siew Mai (烧卖)




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Char Siew Bao (叉烧包)



The chicken feet were a bit special on the springy skin, the tiny bones were not messy dropping...Siew Mai was average and the Char Siew Bao was tender on the outer side, juicy and tasty inside, it was one of the nice char siew bao I had within JB and Kulai.



Price was reasonable and worth the second visit.



The only disadvantage is the shop too close to the main road that makes you cannot enjoy the dim sum peacefully, but I guess it became the 'culture' of this dim sum restaurant where the customers won't bother about it anymore...




Restoran Yeen Lai 云来点心楼 (古来)


Jalan Kulai Besar (next to Kulai Centre Point)

Kulaijaya, Johor.

Business hour : 7am - 12am

Close on alternate Wednesday


GPS Coordinates : (N1.66189 E103.60180)





Location map of Yeen Lai Dim Sum Restaurant
























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