Muar Temple : Parit Unas San Chai Temple

Kor Thiam Peng Memorial Hall

The temple was founded by late Dato Kor Thian Peng, he was said a foster son of late Johor Sultan. Dato Kor is a legendary person, the only temple medium conferred with a datukship for his role in curing illness of a member of the royal family.

According to legend, the temple divine god protected devotees who were chased by rioters during 513 racial riots. The story has attracted droves of devotees from local and Singapore flocking to the temple for prayers espcially during the birthday of divine god.

A Chinese primary school is attached to the temple, it also the only school directly sponsored by a Chinese temple in Malaysia.

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GPS Coordinates: 1° 59′ 5.64″N, 102° 36′ 2.52″E Show on map

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Merlin Restaurant (Assam Fish) at Muar, Johor.

After we explore the Town, Glutton Street & The Golden Cape....it's time for us to have a good dinner. We decided to try the restaurant that we haven't visit it for a decade - Merlin Restaurant (N02°02.788' E102°34.729'). The main intention is to try out the Signature Dish - Assam Fish.


It surprised us when we get there.....it's renovated with Air-Conenvironment. It's good that the area was clean and hygiene. Without wasting our time, we placed the order.

1) Vegetables
2) Sambal Squid with petai
3) Deep fried 'Dragon Tongue' (Fish)
4) Fried Fish Egg
5) Assam Fish

Sambal Squid, Dragon Tongue Fish, Fish Egg and Vege

Fried Fish Egg

The Main Dish - Assam Fish (our favorites)
The fish is cook together with a sour and spicy soup

The vege was above average, Squid & Dragon Tongue fish was good,Fried Fish Egg was very special & tasty! Assam Fish wasdelicious!!

The total damage was : MYR52.00 include drinks for 4 adults and 2 children. Cheap?! Wow! That's cheap!

We were very satisfied with the foods, price and the environment. This restaurant is strongly recommended by us if you wanna have aAssam Fish dinner.

I rated : 4.5/5

Merlin Restaurant
90, Lorong Dua,
Taman Orkid,
84000 Muar, Johor
Tel : 06-9526971
Mobile phone : 012-6385149 / 6023388

After the dinner, we finish our Muar trip for Oct 2008 with Lau's family.

Related post :-
* Another visit to Merlin Restaurant at Muar, Johor



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Famous Glutton Street (贪呷街) of Muar, Johor.

Glutton Street (贪呷街), which known as "T'am Cjia Kueh" in Hokkien.
It's located at the street of Jalan Hj Abu from junction Jalan Meriam until junction Jalan Ali, appoximately 100 meter. (N2°02.810' E102°34.125')


The street wake up (start operation) in the morning sleep until late evening. You can find all kind of Chinese foods within this less than 100 meter session along both side of the street!

Every car drive through this part with extra slow and caution, because peoples are standing everywhere as you can see from the pictures. Some are queuing, some are selling, some
are just for the sake of enjoying the environment....(like me!)

Traditional Herbal tea stall

Otak-otak stall - this particular foods is very famous around Muar

Pork Satay - I did try it, not bad!

"Yau-Char-Kuey" - a.k.a. Chinese Cruller

I don't know about this Glutton Street started in which year, basically I can't find any history about it. But I believe it started the culture at least 50 years from now......

I was wonder about this Long Queue around this stall, at last.....I found out it's a tasty 'Fried Oyster' stall (蚵煎)....(Claimed to be the BEST atMuar)

Wanton mee (云吞面) stall - Look at the noodle! It's stand by for good business! :)

The shops located along this small session also packed of peoples during weekday, and will be more crowded during
weekend......I love to walk by the stalls and buy some of each to cure myitchy mouth! Haha!


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Another visit to Merlin Restaurant at Muar, Johor

We had another visit to Merlin Restaurant (N02 02.788 E102 34.729) at Muar couple a months ago, this time we came for lunch and the dishes we ordered almost the same as the our first visit.

Our order as below :-

1) Kankong Belacan (Vegetable)

2) Oyster Omelette (instead of fried fish egg of first visit)

3) Deep fried 'Dragon Tongue' (Fish)

4) Sambal Squid with petai bean (sator bean)

5) Assam Fish (The signature dish)

Kangkong Belacan

Oyster Omelette

Deep Fried Dragon Tongue Fish

Sambal Sotong and Petai bean

Assam Fish (The signature dish)

Well, the food quality maintain perfectly! Every foods had their marvelous taste of it, that's one of the reason we like to visit this restaurant because it never let us down so far! The soup of the Assam Fish was sour and spicy as it's standard, that was also our main concern about theirSignature Dish - The Muar Assam Fish. Another good reason about the restaurant which was the price of the foods were very reasonable!

But please don't visit it during Chinese New Year, don't ask me why...just avoid it!

Related post :-
* Merlin Restaurant (Assam Fish) at Muar, Johor. (First visit)

Merlin Restaurant
90, Lorong Dua,
Taman Orkid,
84000 Muar, Johor
Tel : 06-9526971
Mobile phone : 012-6385149 / 6023388

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