THE RECOGNISED “LEE RUSTIC KITCHEN” LOCAL DELIGHTS EATING HOUSE RUNNING ON THE SOUTHERN @ JOHOR
“Local Delights Eating House” is all the while among the local’s favourite place of dining or eating restaurant that carrying the combination of local recipes under a roof which being widely practised on our nations with respective home recipes on the ground. Here on the southern nation, we found and being successfully recognised among the best recommended new established Local Delights Eating House “Lee Rustic Kitchen” running at Johor Bahru having great positive response from the market recently.
The Pulau Pinang local originated Mr. James Lee Soon Kwan (born 1980), together with couple-partner Ms. Liu May Ting (Johorean, born 1976) both were the founders and also the recent immediate couple-owners of this best recognised Local Delights Eating House “Lee Rustic Kitchen” along the Johor Bahru territory presenting all their in-house chef’s home recipes in signature menus to the locals & visitors in manner on the southern ground at Johor.
The founder cum owner James Lee Soon Kwan, also the restaurant’s main chef who at his age of 46 years old currently, been initially touched the f&b field at his only 12th of age worked as a part-timer at hometown Penang later-on fully stepped into the industry at his 14th of age began as a kitchen helper in a chinese seafood restaurant at Penang where he practically experienced the career thoroughly. Then been reached Singapore at his about 22nd of age exposed from an assistant chef in the year of 2002 stayed more than 20 years running on the kitchen floor to be positioned as a chef all the while in the chinese cuisine field (and somehow touched the western cuisine) along his culinary journey with his patients.
With experiences and recipes on-hand, added wishing to further his exposure in the career and foreseeing the market opportunity in the f&b industry locally also encouragement & support from his couple-partner Liu May Ting (who all the while in the Trading Industry) enabled James Lee and May Ting decided then successfully established their very first owned Local Delights Eating House officially named the “Lee Rustic Kitchen” at Bandar Jaya Putra (Austin Crest), Johor Bahru in the mid of year 2026 introducing all their signatures to the public. And finally being recognised among the best in town by the Malaysian F&B E-Media for the year of 2026 on the southern nation at Johor.
In this Lee Rustic Kitchen, the owners’ very first top recommended in menus will be their signature “Braised Pork Trotter and Mee Shah” which most wanted by their regulars here. Local fresh pork trotter braised at least 1&half hours with their home seasonings mixture into herbals, mushroom, dried chili & hard boiled quail egg, served with their selected chinese fine flour noodle/mee suah (or noodle options on customer’s preference) will brings the wonderful pork trotter’s texturing soft bites comes with natural collagen from the long braised itself carrying the salted sweet fair spicy swallowed kind of braised pork trotter mee suah eatery that you must have a try when reached Johor Bahru.
Secondly will be their famous “Herbal Duck Leg Mee Suah”, also among the eating house’s daily soup noodle selection wanted by the locals here. Selected duck leg/drumstick cooked in their whole day long 24 hours home-boiled herbal soup base (with nearly 10 chinese herbals mixture), served complete with mee suah (or noodle options on customer’s preference), sides of fresh boiled veges & an sunny side-up chicken egg will brings the exotic smooth herbal soup’s swallowed with the soft duck meat’s bites itself into mouth that you will neither found the same elsewhere in town here.
Another will be their special “Pumpkin Soup with Seafood Mee Suah”, which also among their visitor’s favourite selection recently. Home-boiled chicken soup base cooked with their in-house fresh blended pumpkin paste, served with selected mee suah (or noodle options on customer’s preference) into mixture of mushroom, geizhi, fresh fish slice, sea prawn & squid will brings the best seafood’s & pumpkin’s freshness sweet kind of their pumpkin seafood noodle eatery that you will never regret after tasted here.
Moreover, the owners also introduced their all time favourite recommended “Spicy Chee Cheong Fun” which like by most of their customers here. Daily fresh local-made chinese rice rolls (chee cheong fun), wok-fried with their special homemade sweet spicy dried shrimp sambal paste, and finally served hot with crispy deep fried dried shrimp & chopped spring onions will brings the excellent rice roll/chee cheong fun’s soft chewing bites with rich tasty dried shrimp’s spices in combination that you really cannot missed when stepped into this best recognised Local Delights Eating House “Lee Rustic Kitchen” at Johor Bahru on the southern nation of Johor.
LEE RUSTIC KITCHEN
Address: No. 50,
Jalan Jaya Putra 7/1,
Bandar Jaya Putra,
81100 Johor Bahru,
Johor.
Business Hours: 8:00am to 5:00pm (Daily)