Fascinating Isetan The Japan Store @ Lot 10, Bukit Bintang, Kuala Lumpur

Its quite exciting to see Isetan opening a real Japanese concept store in Malaysia. All the products and environment in this Isetan store does imported from Japan and make you feel like visiting a Japanese department store. Malaysian do like Japanese products very much. Although the exchange rate is not favourable to us, we still like to buy Japanese products. This can be seen when people flocking to The Isetan store in Lot 10 and the newly opened FamilyMart. I do admit that I attracted to the products over here. I spend almost half a day exploring this mall and tried the food at their food court. Here you can have authentic Japanese food. If you like soba noodles, they even have a Japanese chef making the soba noodles here. Fresh on the spot. If you like Japanese drinks, the selection is abundant from beer, wines, sake and Japanese non-alcoholic drinks. Isetan The Japan Store currently has five floors operating, with each floor has its own dedicated theme: The Market, The Museum, The Studio, The Room, and The Cube. The store does great for window shopping but not so friendly to your wallet. A broom imported from Japan, cost MYR500, Doob technology figure at MYR950 to MYR3200 and clothes mostly above MYR1000.


Isetan The Japan Store.

Time Out Cafe.

Sake containers - looks nice as decoration.

Home and lifestyle products.

Little Harajuku section.

Theather Products Handbags.

Doob technology figures.

Doob technology sample figures. Priced at MYR950 for 15 cm to MYR3250 for 35 cm figure. The Doob room will capture multiple pictures using high resolution DSLR camera on multiple angle of your body to produce the 3D model of your own.

First FamilyMart store in Malaysia - Wisma Lim Foo Yong, Kuala Lumpur

Finally FamilyMart opened its first store in Malaysia. Located in Wisma Lim Foo Yong at Jalan Raja Chulan, Kuala Lumpur. From my observation, FamilyMart does offers something more on top of existing convenience store chains that we have in Malaysia. With new player in place, it does provide more choices for the consumers and raise the standard of our convenience stores. In overseas, FamilyMart does provide many facilities to their customers such as toilet, free wifi, eating place, oden, bill payment, photocopy service, electronic payment options and even send parcel. The first FamilyMart in Malaysia does have those facilities but still need improvement. Since FamilyMart is new here, do expect to queue to get your stuff. Lets take a look on how does our first FamilyMart perform.


First FamilyMart in Malaysia. Distinctive green, blue and white signboard. Lack of welcome music when enter the store.

Located within the compound of Wisma Lim Foo Yong office building.

50% off green tea/French vanilla ice cream.

Wide selection of onigiri and bento sets. Good for quick lunch or dinner.

Onigiri selection is quite limited. Mostly chicken mayo flavour.

Bento set of nasi lemak, fried rice and biryani.

Imported ice-cream from Japan and Korea.

Ice-cream price at MYR6.90 each.

Wide selection of bakery products.

Long queue since the shop is still new. Many people queue for their oden including me.

Many would like to try their oden. This is first time that oden offered in convenience store. Its popular in Japan, Korea and Taiwan. Customer can choose either dashi broth or tom yam.

5 reasons why Japan convenience stores are so great

When you go to Japan, you can find convenience stores almost everywhere. These convenience stores are known as konbini. The strong competition between 3 major convenience store players (7-Eleven, Lawson and Family Mart) in Japan have created innovative products and services which makes Japanese convenience stores very convenient and reasonable price. These convenience stores opens 24 hours a day.

1. Premium unique flavour ice cream
When comes to ice-cream and confectionary, Japan have many amazing and unique flavours.

Haagen Dazs premium ice cream with variety of flavours which can't be found in other countries.


For example special flavour of Japonais. Thick strawberry sauce with chocolate chips ice-cream.