THE RECOGNISED “NYONYA SPICE HOUSE” PERANAKAN RECIPE/CUISINE RUNNING ON THE SOUTHERN NATION @ JOHOR
“Nyonya Cuisine” is a kind of the local’s authentic Peranakan Recipe/Cuisine which carrying the combination of Malay’s & Chinese’s recipes being practised since a century ago, also among our Malaysia’s delicacy traditional eateries that favourite by not only the locals but also the visitors on the ground. Here on the southern nation, we found and being successfully recognised among the best recommended new established Nyonya Cuisine Restaurant “Nyonya Spice House” running at Kluang, Johor having great positive response from the market recently.
The Kluang local Johorean Madam Cindy Cheo Bee Yiong (born 1965), was the initial founder, together with her youngest son Mr. Roy Chong Yoong Qian (Johorean, born 1991) both are the recent immediate mother & son owners of this best recognised Nyonya Cuisine Restaurant “Nyonya Spice House” along the Kluang territory presenting all their family’s generation passed onto peranakan recipes in signature menus to the locals & visitors under a roof with their patience on the southern ground at Johor.
The founder cum first owner Cindy Cheo Bee Yiong, who at her age of 59 years old currently, was formerly a Bus Captain been stayed more than 20 years in the public transportation field since teenage having interest in culinary. Added with vision to have her very own peranakan eating house locally and holding her family’s 3-generations nyonya recipes on-hand, also foreseeing the market opportunity in the f&b industry enabled Cindy Cheo decided to step into the field then successfully established her very first owned Nyonya Cuisine Restaurant officially named the “Nyonya Spice House” at Taman Tasik Indah, Kluang in the early of year 2024 running with her son Roy Chong in a families team. And finally being recognised among the best in town by the Malaysian F&B E-Media for the year of 2024 on the southern nation at Johor.
In this Nyonya Spice House, the owners’ very first top recommended in menus will be their signature “Nyonya Chicken Rendang” with Nasi Lemak in a set which most wanted by their regulars here. Local fresh chicken drumstick commonly selected, home-cooked with their homemade fair sour sweet salted spices rendang paste, served in combination with home-boiled blue pea coconut milk rice (nasi lemak) toppings of sunny-side chicken egg, and finally complete sides with homemade sour spicy sambal paste, crispy ikan bilis, peanut, cucumber slice & fish cracker will always the wonderful Nyonya Chicken Rendang Blue Pea Nasi Lemak eatery that you must have a try when reached Kluang, Johor.
Secondly will be their famous “Nyonya Laksa”, also always among the eating house’s daily selection in the peranakan noodle menus wanted by the locals from the beginning. Home-cooked laksa soup broth from their homemade dried shrimp laksa paste into fresh coconut milk (santan), served commonly with rough rice noodle/laifun (or other noodle options on customer’s preference), furnished with boiled chicken egg, beancurd puff (taupok), fish cake, cucumber shredded, 5-spices fish cake slice, fresh cockles and finally toppings of ginger & laksa leaf flakes will brings the best nyonya laksa’s smooth swallowed itself into mouth that you will never regret after tasted here.
Another will be their special “Lontong Nyonya”, which also among the visitor’s favourite selection here. Homemade rice cake (ketupat) prepared in dice/cube pieces, served in their home-cooked soup broth/gravy (in mixture of lemongrass, turmeric, dried shrimp, chili, taukee, carrot, long bean, cabbage, vermicelli etc), and finally complete with fried beancurd, boiled chicken egg & their homemade delicious sambal belacan paste will brings another exotic veges freshness swallowed kind of their Lontong Nyonya eatery that you will neither found the same elsewhere in town here.
While in their ala carte or add-on selections, the owners also introduced their all time favourite recommended tasty soft bites “Mutton Rendang” which prepared in few hours home-cooked with imported mutton and their homemade rendang paste. And their regular’s favourite “Fried Chicken” (drumstick) marinated overnight in home seasonings, followed by floured-up then deep fried, finally served in hot & crispy with best juicy bites itself into mouth that you really cannot missed when stepped into this best recognised (Peranakan Recipe) Nyonya Cuisine Restaurant “Nyonya Spice House” at Kluang, Johor.
NYONYA SPICE HOUSE
Address: No. 75,
Tingkat Bawah,
Jalan Tasik Indah 1/4,
Taman Tasik Indah,
86000 Kluang,
Johor.
Business Hours: 7:30am to 3:00pm (Daily)
(Closed on Thursday)