Batu Pahat Old Street Commercial Centre (OSCC)

The Old Street Commercial Centre is latest popular attraction in Batu Pahat currently.

It is a 3-storey building with white color and lights as its theme. It looks spectacular during the daytime.

While during night time, it has numerous of lights will be lighted up brightly and glamorous.

The distinguish feature of the OSCC is the Skypark. However, pets are not allowed here.

Up there at the Skypark, people are able to enjoy natural wind while enjoying their food or drinks as it is an open air area. There are many spots around the Skypark that allow customers to take photos. They often change the design there so that people will not feel bored when they visit there repeatedly and at the same time they have new spots to take photos.

One of the significant drinks at the Skypark is the mocktail with candy floss on top of it. You should give it a try!

Besides, it has a few small shops that have their appearance in cartoon theme such as the Minion and Mickey Mouse. These small shops sell different things separately which includes Gelato ice cream, fresh fruit juice and toys store. There are tables and seats in front of those shops provided for customers to dine in as the small shops have no dining tables. Skypark is only available during the night time as it will be very hot and no one will visit here due to the open air concept.

However, there are many other shops available during daytime such as Subway, K Fry, Continue Café, boutiques, salon and many more. So there are no worries if you prefer to have meals or hangout with family and friends during the daytime. There are different kinds of options available for you to choose. If you are looking for health activities, there is a Zumba Dance Academy and even a gym studio at the rooftop! You won’t want to miss any of it.

Other than that, street arts are available here too! Although only few of it, but it is still keep on increasing.

OSCC is located at Jalan Parit Besar, 83000 Batu Pahat, Johor, Malaysia. It operates from 10am to 11pm every day however time will be different of each and every one of the shops there. While the contact number for OSCC is +60 13-666 5800.

Pantai Minyak Beku

Pantai Minyak Beku is also known as the Frozen Oil Village when translate it into English and it is the seaside of Minyak Beku. Minyak Beku is also part of Batu Pahat as mentioned at above where it is the place the well of Batu Pahat is located.

It is a nice place to go for a walk and you can feel the sea breeze. It makes people feel relaxed and temporary away from the hectic city life. There are some fishing enthusiasts love to go fishing at the Pantai Minyak Beku and all the enthusiasts there will interact with each other regardless their races and religions. This is where it shows the beauty side of people in Batu Pahat, Johor, Malaysia.

The seawater here is very clean and clear where you are able to get fresh air. The scenery and sea view here are very beautiful and you will be amazed by the boundless ocean that seems it is seamless between the sky and the sea. It is a great place to enjoy the view of sunrise and sunset.

Some families will have picnic beside the seaside and even go swimming at the shore as the seawater is really clean. While some of the children will cycling around or fly their kites here where there has larger wind at the seaside.

There are few Malay food stalls at the seaside, so you don’t need to worry if you are hungry when you reach here. It takes you about 20 minutes to travel from the town area of Batu Pahat to Pantai Minyak Beku.

Location: Jalan Minyak Beku, 83000 Batu Pahat, Johor, Malaysia.

Dataran Batu Pahat

Dataran Batu Pahat is the landmark of Batu Pahat. It is also known as the plaza of Batu Pahat. The symbol is the statue of the Batu and Pahat, where it has its meaning in Malay.

The name of Batu Pahat comes from the Malay language, where ‘batu’ means the rock and ‘pahat’ means the chisel. From the significant statue we can see a pair of hands using a chisel to tap on the rock. According to the history, the origin of the name of Batu Pahat comes from a well at the Minyak Beku, which is located in Batu Pahat. Simply, during the period where the Siamese attacked Malacca, the Siamese stopped over Minyak Beku after retreating and they chiseled a big rock to obtain fresh water. This forms the whole district named Batu Pahat.

Nowadays, the Dataran Batu Pahat has become a place where people spend their leisure time with family and friends. Several activities are organized at here annually such as the New Year countdown, the Lunar Chinese New Year procession, Malaysia Independence Day parade and many more. As it has a very wide open space and normally a temporary stage will be set up in the middle of the plaza.

It has a very nice view during night time where it is decorated with kinds of lightings and it was being beautified last month. Almost every night time, there are families bring along their children to gather and play around here.

The bubble activity is one the most popular games among the children here. They will compete among each other to form the biggest bubble. At the same time, these kids make new friends which are a lot precious where they know each other face-to-face and are away from electronic devices. As nowadays people rely on their smartphones or laptops almost all the time and their communication in reality is getting lesser and lesser. While this is a great opportunity where people gets to talk and communicate with each other without neglecting the human feelings around us.

Besides, there is a large field right beside the Dataran Batu Pahat. It is big enough for people to play football here. There are parents that like to play the mini football together with their children at here. It is a nice activity where parents are able to cultivate the parent-child relationships by spending time with their children after the whole working day.

As it is an open area so anyone can use the space around here as long as the activities are legal. Sometimes, you are able to see people with their music band having their practice session here to prepare for their upcoming shows. There are also people that take their hobby to provide volunteer performances to the audience here for entertainment purpose.

Music band performances

Furthermore, there is a big clock tower within the Dataran Batu Pahat. There are many street vendors along the roadside just beside the clock tower. They sell food and beverages, clothing, souvenirs and many more. There are lighting decorations along the road too.

Opposite of the street vendor is an official size football field which is also the Stadium of Batu Pahat. In the field sports are often organized at the stadium. Other than football games, some of the schools that have insufficient spaces within the school area will also run their sports day at the Stadium Batu Pahat.

The Dataran Batu Pahat is located at Jalan Rahmat, Kampung Bahagia, 83000 Batu Pahat, Johor, Malaysia. 

Keng Guan Hiang

Keng Guan Hiang is a Chinese tradition bakery shop in Batu Pahat where it sells self-made tradition cakes without any preservatives or colourings.

The most popular and delicious cake that you can get from Keng Guan Hiang is their pandan cake. ‘Pandan’ is a tropical plant which is also named as the screwpine. It is used as natural flavoring to produce cake with pandan flavor without any addition chemical flavorings and so the cake is in light green color. Therefore, the pandan cake will have faint pandan scent and it taste slightly sweet. You will desire to eat more once you have tried it.

Pandan Cake

Other than pandan cake, there are also some other significant cakes that you should try such as raisin cake and marble cake. Not only the pandan cake, the other hand-made cakes are also organic and have no preservatives or chemical substances.

Raisin Cake

Different type of cakes with different price tags

Besides the round cakes, they also provide tradition cupcakes where normally people will order from them in large quantity as their children’s full moon gift box. The cupcakes are mainly made from butter.

Cupcakes

All of their hand-made products are produces in small amount except for certain special orders. This is to make sure the freshness of their cakes and they never keep leftovers.

Other than their self-made cakes, they also sell some other Chinese tradition biscuits and pastries. For example, the red bean cakes which is also known as the Tau Sha Piah, toasted horse hoof cake, green bean pastry and so on.

It is located at 60, Jalan Sultanah, 83000 Batu Pahat, Johor Malaysia.

Contact number: +607-4316255

Akbar Cendol

Akbar Cendol is the most popular cendol in Batu Pahat and it is crowded and need to queue too especially during hot weather day. Cendol is an iced dessert served with green jelly, coconut milk and melted brown sugar as the main ingredients. While the feature of Akbar Cendol is where they use Gula Melaka or the Malacca Sugar in replace of the melted brown sugar. In results, their cendol is more fragrant and you will not easily feel bored of the taste.

People are queueing and waiting for seats

They make the cendol on the spot and it is open to customers where customers are able to observe the process they make cendol.

Other than the original flavor cendol, there are many different flavors where you can choose according to your personal preference. For example, durian cendol, beans cendol, glutinous rice cendol and special cendol.

Original cendol

However, I still prefer the original flavor cendol and I’m in love with it! You can get yourself here with the following address: 12, Jalan Engan, Kampung Pegawai, 83000 Batu Pahat, Johor, Malaysia. It operates every day except for certain public holidays where their operating hours are:

Monday           -           9am – 6.30pm

Tuesday           -           9am – 6.30pm

Wednesday      -           9am – 6.30pm

Thursday         -           9am – 6.30pm

Friday              -           9am – 6.30pm

Saturday          -           9am – 6.30pm

Sunday            -           9am – 6.30pm

Contact number: +60 12-739 9054

Chinese Apam Balik (面煎糕)

‘Apam balik’ is the Malay term for this dessert called ‘面煎糕’ in Mandarin or local people will pronoun it as ‘Man Jian Kueh’. However, there are some differences between the Malay apam balik and the Chinese apam balik.

The particular stall

It is actually a Chinese tradition food where children last time get to take this as their favorite dessert because it is cheap and affordable. The ingredients required for the Chinese apam balik are simple but it is not easy to make it taste nice because of the duration and degree of cooking.

Steps in baking the Chinese apam balik

Firstly, baker who is also the boss, he pours in appropriate amount of flour paste onto the big pan. Then, he covers it with a cover and wait for it to be cooked. When the flour paste is ready, he starts to put in ingredients including sprinkle with crushed peanuts, spread some sugar and drain it with melted butter. That’s all.

The boss will cut the whole thing into pieces where one pan of it is cut into ten pieces.

It is often crowded and it is at a first come first serve basis. Every customer will be given a queue number and you will have to wait for your turn. While payments are made once you receive your apam balik.

It really tastes nice and you must give it a try! The stall is located in a shop named Kedai Kopi Dan Makanan Nam Wee which is located at Jalan Soga, Kampung Pegawai, 83000 Batu Pahat, Johor, Malaysia.

Kedai Kopi Dan Makanan Nam Wee

Westlife (妈妈面粉粿)

The Westlife has its Mandarin name 妈妈面粉粿 where ‘妈妈’ means ‘mother’ and ‘面粉粿’, also known as ‘Mee Hoon Kueh’ and it is a hand-made block noodles made from dough. By combining the whole term it means like the Mee Hoon Kueh made by mother. It is a family business where a small family runs the business together. Mee Hoon Kueh is a Chinese traditional food and it can be eaten with either soup or dry. It is nice to have Mee Hoon Kueh here, as you are able to find back our childhood taste and memories.

 

The Westlife

Westlife took the nature as its shop design theme where you can have your meal in a relax mood and feel fresh.

It is always crowded during lunchtime and might have to wait for your order. Although they are busy during their peak hours, but their food quality always maintain and still taste delicious.

Dry Mee Hoon Kueh

The common ingredients that should be included in the Mee Hoon Kueh are fishballs, vegetables, fried onion and anchovies.

Other than that, you can customize your preference noodles and cooking methods. There are several noodles such as the hand-made noodles, mee hoon, kuey teow and mee suah. While you can choose which cooking methods you prefer such as soup, dry, tomyam and curry. If you prefer not to take a too heavy meal for breakfast here, they provide breakfast menu too. For example, breads, sandwiches and eggs.

The menu

The Westlife is located at 17a, Jalan Flora Utama 4, Taman Sri Jaya, 83000 Batu Pahat, 83000, Malaysia. While their operating hours are as follows:

Monday           -           8.30am – 5.30pm

Tuesday           -           8.30am – 5.30pm

Wednesday     -           Closed

Thursday         -           8.30am – 5.30pm

Friday              -           8.30am – 5.30pm

Saturday          -           8.30am – 5.30pm

Sunday            -           8.30am – 5.30pm

Contact number: +60 7-433 8149