Muar Things to Do

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Muar actually have several good coffee factories and Sai Kee 434 & Hwee Jian are two of the more famous ones. You can simply hop into any coffee shop and asking for Kopi-Kow (thick) and if the coffee shop is using Sai Kee's Coffee Powders, you will sure to like it.

Most coffee shops here also serve steam/toast bread. If you see loafs of bread displayed in the glass cupboard, coffee tasting probably the most memorable thing for your entire trip to Muar. The cost for the coffee, bread and half boiled eggs are close to nothing.


If you intent to buy some Sai Kee Coffee, please use the address listed below.

Sai Kee Kopi Serbok Sdn Bhd
34, Jalan Maharani, Muar, 84000
84000 Johor, Malaysia
Tel: 06-951 3828

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Sultan Ismail Bridge is the gateway to highway 5 which leads you towards Melaka.
The other direction will be back to Batu Pahat and Johor Bahru.

The bridge will bring you across the Sungai Muar and the Straits of Melaka.

We crossed the bridge in search of the famous Muar Mee Bandung.

Sultan Ismail Bridge is the gateway to highway 5 which leads you towards Melaka.
The other direction will be back to Batu Pahat and Johor Bahru.

The bridge will bring you across the Sungai Muar and the Straits of Melaka.

We crossed the bridge in search of the famous Muar Mee Bandung.

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It will be interesting to walk on foot around the town of Muar.

Green, Pink, Blue and Yellow Streets - The street of Muar is colour coded. We walk around the street of Muar in search for a recommended coffee place after lunch.

It will be a very useful reference if you need to find your way if you are not familiar with this town. You could just meet your friend at a shop in the Yellow street.

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Otak-otak is made by mixing fish paste (usually mackerel) with a mixture of spices including chillies, garlic, shallots, turmeric, lemon grass and coconut milk. The mixture is then wrapped in a leaf that has been softened by steaming, then grilled or steamed.

My birth place, Muar is particularly famous for it.


Long before my peer is consists of frequent travelers or valid drivers, nobody knows where my hometown (Tangkak) is and often time I need to identify myself as someone from Muar (at district level). Then every one of them will ask me to bring otak-otak whenever I visit my parents/family back home.

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Whenever I see yau char kwai, I sure cannot resist but to buy some and eat them right away. It's best for coffee break, you can dip the fried ghost into your thick hot coffee and it sure tastes nice.

Chinese can find so many usage for yau char kwai, coffee companion for one; we dipped them into congee, into bah-kut-teh. I even see yau char kwai being used for yong-tau-foo. It's like an all-star, good-to-eat-at-all-time junk for me.

My creation, is to stuff sambal belacan or chili padi into hollow part of the yau char kwai as you bite on them, the same way like you pour chilies into spring rolls. It tastes like....hmmmm.... (cannot describe)


Please click into extra pictures and look out for uncle making yau char kwai, and they are hardly the thickness and length of 2 fingers sticking together. See what they become after the frying process. POWERFUL stuffs aren’t they?

What???

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In Muar, the streets are all being color-coded. Doesn't matter what is your company trade mark color, so long your lot fall under green lane, you're green kind of thing. The advantage is if your friends are loss driving into the wrong street, you just have to ask them what color street they are at. Of course the tourist map must label the colors accordingly. May be i should propose that to Muar's authority. May be they already implemented the map. I don't know man.

Look at the old cinema building, since it fall into intersection for 2 different colors, it has to be painted like 2-face (in Batman comic/movie). The green color old Volvo however not falls into that color-coded order. It just parked there and I think it's funny with so many colors there.

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One of the things that really attract visitors to this simple town are rows of well preserved pre-war buildings that still dominate the town's architecture. The age of most buildings can be easily identified since the dates of completion were cast on the buildings' exterior (middle top panel).

These buildings are the magnets, the drawing powers (together with the popular otak-otak) that drawn visitors to Muar and ones can easily recall the memories of the nostalgic yesteryears.

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In the beginning ... (sorry, just want to stage my birth here)

Many of my friends laugh their heads off when they found out I was born in a car, trapped in traffic jam, then the car broke down at the toll booth on a newly completed bridge of Muar, namely Sultan Ismail Bridge. Some even compare my birth like Jesus in the manger, and me on the bridge. Well, at least I have an extraordinary birth.

Oh! The car is messy beyond description. If you ever seen someone vomit in the car, mine was worse than those. Since the car was wet and dirty and broke down, my mum and I together with my grandma were transferred into a taxi and continue to rush to hospital that is just 1km away from my birth place.

Next day, when everything was settle and my grandma took a pack of ang-pow to the neighbor (the one with the car broke down at jammed toll booth) who drove us to Muar. He was telling my grandma that he strike number the same day he sends us to Muar hospital. Luckily he won digits, else he will dislike me for dirty his car for very long time.

Note: The pictures are taken recently (except the b/w one), and being used to show the birth place. If you ever stand by the Tanjung and looking towards the bridge and the new mosque, you can visualize I was born there long...long.....long....time ago.