Project Smoked Dōng — American BBQ smokehouse and highball bar in Mount Austin, Johor Bahru. 12-hour smoked Angus brisket and craft cocktails.

Project Smoked: Dōng · Mount Austin

Dōng · American Smokehouse & Craft Bar · A Project Smoked joint

Same pit. Louder room.

Dōng now runs the flagship’s pit: 12-hour smoked Angus brisket, Black Angus short ribs and Iberico burnt ends, kept alongside the crowd-favourite Angmo claypot rice. Behind it, Mount Austin’s highest-energy bar — Higherballs, craft cocktails and rotating draft. Pull up a chair.

12-hr Angus brisket Higherballs & craft cocktails Craft beer on tap
From the House

We are not here to play safe. We are here to cause a scene.

Welcome to 東 Dong. The smoker we grew up on at Project Smoked, opened to a pantry that grew up on togarashi, ponzu, five-spice, and chasiew syrup. It is not fusion for the sake of fusion. It is what we wanted to eat after service.

The Crossover Plates

What to order first.

Three things Mount Austin regulars come back for — one from the pit, one from the claypot, one from the highball bar. Order all three and let the taps catch up.

12-hour smoked Angus brisket sliced across the grain on a wooden board
From the pit

Smoked Angus Brisket · 12 Hours

Mangrove-smoked for twelve hours, sliced across the grain with a crisp black bark and a deep pink smoke ring. The dish the 80% pivot was built around. Weekends only.

Angmo claypot rice served in a black claypot on a wooden board
The carb everyone keeps

Angmo Claypot Rice

Calrose rice cooked down in a claypot with house-smoked bacon and oyster mushroom. The one Mount Austin regulars would riot over. Order it to soak up the pit.

A highball being poured at the Dong bar
From the bar

Matcha Yuzu Punch

Matcha, yuzu and Shui gin under a milk wash, carbonated hard. The Higherball that proves Dōng’s bar programme is not an afterthought.

Mount Austin, Johor Bahru

Find the crossover.

B5 & 6, Lot 120122, Jalan Austin Perdana 1 — ten minutes from the city centre. Long table downstairs, quieter four-tops upstairs. Beer-hall energy on weekends, bar running late.

Where
B5 & 6, Lot 120122,
Jalan Austin Perdana 1,
Mount Austin,
Johor Bahru, Malaysia.
Hours
WedClosed
Sun–Tue, Thu12:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Fri–Sat12:00 pm – 11:00 pm
The bar
Mount Austin's highest-energy craft programme. Higherballs are on the menu; the craft cocktail list, the taps and the chiller all run off the board — ask what just landed.