Muar

Have you seen a color-coded town before? Not me! And, I love it!

May I introduce this lil babe town named Muar, which is located in the state of Johor.  Muar has been in the historical since the 13th Century. It was said that Muar might be a part of the Majapahit empire back then. It was also written that this place was where Parameswara was in before he founded Malacca. Muar witnessed the birth of the Malacca Sultanate.

Muar was the royal town of Northern Johor back in the old days. Then somewhere around the 1850s, Chinese people from the Teochew origin began settling here. It is known as Bandar Maharani @ Empress Town, a name given by the late Sultan Sir Abu Bakar in 1884.

Muar's famous Glutton Street or Tam Chiak Kheh is most popular with crazy tasty food of a splendid variety. Food stalls lined up along this 100 metre stretch of Jalan Haji Abu. We were there at 9AM and only half of them were opened for business but the food courts were already opened. By 12 Noon, the street was super duper busy.

The famous Chwee Kueh; steamed rice cakes, minced preserved radish and chilli sauce for toppings.

Traditional cooking method is still practiced here; the charcoal stove is used to maintain the heat of the preserved radish "choi pou".

5 pieces of Chwee Kueh for RM4

Fried carrot cake stall

The carrot cake is made from ground radish, steamed and then fried with egg, spring onions, garlic and fish sauce. RM4

Muar is famous for her otak-otak; grilled fish cake made out of ground fish meat, tapioca starch and spices.

These are prawn otak-otak!

Wantan noodles

Lovely wantan noodles

Siew pau

Ho Chien or Oyster Omelette. The yummiest I have ever tasted.

RM10 oyster omelette.

Best Ngoh Hiang ever! These are 5-spiced pork rolls wrapped in beancurd skin. More popularly known as Loh Bak.

Fresh loaves of soft bread

Peanut kueh

The YELLOW street

The PINK street

The BLUE street

Tried Lily Tea.

Mural

Random shop that served economy rice. I was most curious that they served the rice (top right side) on a piece of paper on a plate!

Hindu temple downtown

Muar River

Raya stalls; rows and rows of cookies and chips under the tents downtown.

Hubs and I visited Muar on a Sunday. Whilst we were having our lunch (for the 3rd time!!!), I asked Hubs why there were so many cars around Glutton Street. I mean, this street was 3x busier than Ipoh! Hubs casually said, "Oh it is a working day here!" What? Sunday - working day? Ran to our car and found a blue colored summon on my car! Lucky it was written RM30 and not RM300. So we drove to the Municipal Council to pay the summon and instead of paying the RM30, they asked us to purchase these parking coupons. How kind of them.