{"id":19915,"date":"2026-04-14T18:47:03","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T10:47:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.malaysiabest.my\/?p=19915"},"modified":"2026-04-14T18:47:03","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T10:47:03","slug":"the-recognised-lee-xian-chinese-family-restaurant-running-on-the-southern-nation-johor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.malaysiabest.my\/?p=19915","title":{"rendered":"THE RECOGNISED &#8220;LEE XIAN&#8221; CHINESE FAMILY RESTAURANT RUNNING ON THE SOUTHERN NATION @ JOHOR"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start --><p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Chinese Family Restaurant&#8221; is all the while among the local chinese\u2019s favourite place of dining or eating restaurant that carrying the combination of local with chinese 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 Chinese Family Restaurant &#8220;Lee Xian&#8221; running at Johor Bahru having great positive response from the market recently.<\/p>\n<p>The local originated Johorean Mr. Lim Bee Hua (born 1966), together with his wife Madam Ting Hung Eng (Sarawak born 1966) both were the founders and also the recent immediate couple-owners of this best recognised Chinese Family Restaurant &#8220;Lee Xian&#8221; along the Johor Bahru territory presenting all their in-house home-cooked recipes in signature menus to the locals &amp; visitors in manner on the southern ground at Johor.<\/p>\n<p>The founder cum owner Lim Bee Hua, who at his age of 60 years old currently, been initially stepped into the f&amp;b industry at his only 16th of age reached Singapore in the year of 1982 began as a kitchen trainee touched the chinese cuisine field spent about 5 years to be positioned as a chef at his early twenties all the while experienced in the chinese cuisine field for decades with his patience along the journey. While Lim&#8217;s wife Ting Hung Eng who stepped into the field at her about thirties also been years running on the restaurant&#8217;s front floor somehow touched the kitchen floor along her career in the industry thoroughly.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.malaysiabest.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/62.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-19921\" alt=\"6\" src=\"http:\/\/www.malaysiabest.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/62-300x214.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"214\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.malaysiabest.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/62-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.malaysiabest.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/62-1024x730.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.malaysiabest.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/62.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>With experiences &amp; home recipes on-hand, added wishing to have their couple&#8217;s very own eating house locally with vision to further their exposure in the field enabled the couple decided then successfully established their very first couple-run Chinese Family Restaurant officially named the &#8220;Lee Xian Restaurant&#8221; at Taman Daya, Johor Bahru in the year of 2015 serving all their signatures to the public. And finally being recognised among the best in town by the Malaysian F&amp;B E-Media for the year of 2026 on the southern nation at Johor.<\/p>\n<p>In this Lee Xian Restaurant, the owners&#8217; very first top recommended in menus surely will be their signature &#8220;Claypot Curry Fish Head&#8221; which most wanted by their regulars here. Local fresh sea red snapper fish head on weight of about 500grams commonly selected, cooked with their homemade curry paste (made from more than 10 ingredients mixture) into coconut milk\/santan and fresh milk, complete with lady finger, eggplant, long bean, cabbage, tomato &amp; dried beancurd sheet (taukee), and finally served boiling hot in claypot will brings the excellent curry&#8217;s smoothness salted sweet fair spicy swallowed with fish&#8217;s freshness into mouth that you must have a try when reached Johor Bahru.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.malaysiabest.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/12.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-19920\" alt=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.malaysiabest.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/12-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.malaysiabest.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/12-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.malaysiabest.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/12-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.malaysiabest.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/12.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.malaysiabest.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/22.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-19916\" alt=\"2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.malaysiabest.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/22-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.malaysiabest.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/22-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.malaysiabest.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/22-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.malaysiabest.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/22.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Secondly will be their famous &#8220;Kam Heong Lala&#8221;, also always among their customer&#8217;s wanted selection in menus from the beginning. Imported fresh lala clams cooked with their home-mixed kam heong paste (salted sweet spicy paste) into mixture of lemongrass, ginger dice, onion, curry leaf &amp; chopped chili padi will brings the best appetising spices kind of tasty Kam Heong Lala eatery that you will neither found the same elsewhere in town here.<\/p>\n<p>Another will be their special &#8220;Deep Fried Chicken Wings with Shrimp Paste&#8221;, which also among the restaurant&#8217;s daily selection favourite by their visitors. Local fresh chicken wings selected, overnight-marinated with their seasonings mixture (into shrimp paste), served after minutes deep fried will brings the wonderful crispy with juicy chicken wing&#8217;s bites itself into mouth comes along the nice tasty salted shrimp paste kind of deep fried chicken wings eatery that you will never regret after tasted here.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.malaysiabest.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/32.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-19917\" alt=\"3\" src=\"http:\/\/www.malaysiabest.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/32-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.malaysiabest.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/32-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.malaysiabest.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/32-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.malaysiabest.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/32.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.malaysiabest.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/42.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-19918\" alt=\"4\" src=\"http:\/\/www.malaysiabest.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/42-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.malaysiabest.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/42-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.malaysiabest.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/42-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.malaysiabest.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/42.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nonetheless, the owners also introduced their all time favourite recommended &#8220;Oyster Hokkien Mee&#8221; which like by most of the locals among the noodles selection here. Local-made rough round yellow noodle (hokkien mee) selected, cooked with their in-house seasonings sauce broth into mixture of fresh oyster, lala clam, sea squid, prawn &amp; fish slice will brings the exotic smooth tasty noodles eatery with the seafood&#8217;s freshness (especially the oyster&#8217;s freshness) kind of noodle eatery that you really cannot missed when stepped into this best recognised Chinese Family Restaurant &#8220;Lee Xian Restaurant&#8221; at Taman Daya, Johor Bahru.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.malaysiabest.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/52.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-19919\" alt=\"5\" src=\"http:\/\/www.malaysiabest.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/52-300x231.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"231\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.malaysiabest.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/52-300x231.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.malaysiabest.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/52-1024x789.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.malaysiabest.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/52.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>LEE XIAN RESTAURANT<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Address: No. 43,<br \/>\nJalan Nibong 10,<br \/>\nTaman Daya,<br \/>\n81100 Johor Bahru,<br \/>\nJohor.<\/p>\n<p>Business Hours: 11:00am to 11:45pm (Daily)<br \/>\n(Closed on Alternate Monday)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &#8220;Chinese Family Restaurant&#8221; is all the while among the local chinese\u2019s favourite place of dining or eating restaurant that carrying the combination of local with chinese recipes under a roof which being widely practised on our nations with respective home recipes on the ground. 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