Tang City Food Court, City Centre, Kuala Lumpur (KL), Malaysia

Address:
21-27, Jalan Hang Lekir, City Centre, 50000 Kuala Lumpur (KL), Malaysia

Opening Hours:
Daily, 6am - 10pm (Most likely)

Time Visited:
10am, Sunday Morning

Attire worn:
Casual

Item(s) Ordered (Photos taken as inconspicuous as possible with my phone):
Roasted Pork and Chicken Rice and Kopi Peng (Iced Coffee)

I didn't realized that I've been here before until I stepped inside. After going inside the food court, only then did all the memories started flooding back.

I remembered this used to be my alternative lunch location. The place that I most frequent which only did I remember after stepping in here was the wan tan mee (noodles) located beside this food court which is just an alleyway. Whenever the wan tan mee stall is closed, I would go in here as an alternative. The guy who mans the wan tan mee stall in the alleyway runs the stall with his wife. The guy is really hot tempered and sometimes has his temper flaring while his wife who bears the brunt just tolerates it. But the guy merely scolds when he's under pressure. Never once did he lay his hands on her. But somehow, the guy always treats me really nicely and with respect, even when he's under pressure and am angry. Whenever he's that way, he may scold his wife and some customers who irritates him, but to me, he'll just keep quiet and will just acknowledge what I say, most of the time with a nod. And he's Wan Tan Mee is cheap since he's just operating in an alleyway. LOL. He's the last stall in the alleyway. There's also one more stall before him which is most closest to the main road walkway of the Petaling Street tourists. I guess that's why I became a regular customer of his when I was working nearby there. Since he's stall is further in the alleyway, most people will not manage to see it. Well, he don't open on Sundays so this day, he wasn't open. I wonder if he's still operating there?

Anyway, I walked in Tang City Food Court full of nostalgia with a tear trickling down my cheek when I remembered about the Wan Tan Mee fella in the side alleyway. Over here at Tang City Food Court, nothings changed. Everythings just the same as I can remember even the stalls. The price has increased and it's still dearer than market price. Well, that's what you get from eateries around the city centre.

So I went for the chicken rice stall that day. This time I called for the roasted pork and chicken. It's still as oily and greasy as before and the roasted pork tasted floury. The rice tasted dry and it's expensive. I should've just went nearby and try the famous porridge stall instead. Can you believe all my years of even working nearby I have never once eaten that famous porridge stall at all? LOL. Because it's usually crowded with people. Anyway, I should've went for it that day since there's place to sit that day though it will be really hot in there. Anyway, the chicken rice wasn't satisfactory but that's the way it has been all these years. The kopi peng may potentially save this place as it's thick and kao enough and much more than other kopitiams. If you want variety, this place offers you many different food of choice but expect a less than average food for an above average pricing. You're better off just going opposite to Lai Foong for the beef noodles. At least that's guaranteed to taste good and satisfactory if you eat beef.

Total Wallet Damage:
RM8 for the Roasted Pork and Chicken Rice and RM2.40 for the Kopi Peng.

Final Verdict:
5/10. The only thing good about this place is the variety they offer. Other than that, if you're willing to spend, go opposite the main road to Lai Foong instead and taste the beef noodles.

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Restoran Golden Kim Wah, Damansara Kim, Petaling Jaya (PJ), Selangor, Malaysia

Address:
Jalan SS 20/10, Damansara Kim, 47400 Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia

Opening Hours:
Daily, 6am - 11:30pm, I think

Time Visited:
10:45am, Sunday

Attire worn:
Casual

Item(s) Ordered (Photos taken as inconspicuous as possible with my phone):
Chee Cheong Fun with 4 ingredients to go with it, a stuffed chili, 2 stuffed bean curd and a fried bean curd and Kopi Peng

I'm not sure where to eat while I was in Sungai Buloh because I couldn't spot any Chinese kopitiam when I was there. In fact, inside the kampung area, I don't even see any Chinese at all. Some Indonesians intro me to the morning market way inside the kampung there. Got really lost inside that area with it's awfully narrow roads. LOL. Eventually, I just followed the bigger roads and when I saw a bus coming out and heading towards straight of me, I followed along because since it's a bus, it's bound to take me back to the familiar big roads, right? I was right and it led me towards the road I'm familiar with and so I headed back towards Damansara Perdana but the kopitiams I know there weren't opened today. I guess I could've headed to Kepong but I didn't want to face the jam over there so I ended up back to familiar territory, Damansara Kim.

Though I've been here a lot of times before, I've never tried the kopitiams here before. Today, I decided to head to Restoran Golden Kim Wah. It seems really big so it looks like less people than the other corner's kopitiam but it's just that it's big while the other corner is smaller. After parking my car, I saw a familiar face who seemed to recognize me. After seeing her reaction of knowing me and smiling to me, I knew it was someone I knew and my memory needed a little jog before I remembered it was Rachel. I said hi first and she said hi back and that was that. I didn't talk further because I'm afraid of human interaction with familiar ones. LOL. And she didn't make the effort to talk more anyway so best let sleeping dogs lie. I don't think anyone would wanna talk to me anyway.

So I walked over to Restoran Golden Kim Wah and surprise, surprise, a surprising sight greeted me. The familiar sign of Robert's Char Kuey Teow is there! And when I saw the old man there, I knew that had to be Robert. Hmm, I guess the one in Section 17 isn't really manned by him anymore after all since that was a younger chap over there. This guy fries the char kuey teow full of confidence and style. It's gotta be Robert. I didn't know that he was based in this restaurant. Always thought that it was the Section 17 one. Anyway, the Section 17 one is also very nice.

Well, I didn't eat his Char Kuey Teow though. All I did was went to the Chee Cheong Fun stall instead. A lone aunty mans the stall and while preparing some ingredients, she finally notices me approached at her stall and starts speaking to me. She said that all her ingredients were just freshly made just awhile ago while she continues arranging her ingredients. I told her I wanted Chee Cheong Fun, the curry version and she told me that the curry version is very nice too. And proceeded to hand me a bowl with some tongs and said choose whatever ingredients I 9like. After choosing 4, I decided to stop and gave it to her to prepare and proceeded to sit down.

After quite a long while, it finally came. Couldn't blame her since she's the only person manning her stall and she's still preparing her ingredients. LOL. She was so kind to ask me have I ordered drinks and I said that I have. The 4 ingredients with Chee Cheong Fun costs RM9.50 though. Well, Chee Cheong Fun does costs quite expensive with ingredients though it's not something that can eat really full unless you choose a lot of ingredients but that'll cost you a bomb. LOL. But I do agree with her that her Curry Chee Cheong Fun is really very tasty. It's not that soupy like Ipoh style that I'm used to. Oh no. The curry is actually quite a thick texture and you do feel some heat to it. It's actually spicy. LOL. I love the taste. It's one of the top Chee Cheong Fun I've ever tasted. Definitely a really unique taste. Spicy broth and not so soupy goes well with the Chee Cheong Fun very much and the yong tau fu ingredients were an enhancement to it. Definitely a nice eat if you don't mind the price and am not thinking of a really full meal. LOL.

After my break, I went back straight to work. I feel so tired these days. Got scratches of my car due to my carelessness twice today and I almost fell asleep while driving in the afternoon that day. So darn tired. But I just gotta push on. A few years left to endure and hopefully I'll be gone for good. :)

Total Wallet Damage:
RM2.40 for the Kopi Peng and RM9.50 for the Curry Chee Cheong Fun with 4 ingredients.

Final Verdict:
Well, I love the Chee Cheong Fun so much I'm gonna give it a 7/10.

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Restoran A'Tan Coffee Shop 阿旦私房菜, Taman Connaught, Cheras, Kuala Lumpur (KL), Malaysia

Address:
125, Jalan Sarjana, Taman Connaught, Cheras 56000 Kuala Lumpur (KL), Malaysia

Opening Hours:
Thurs - Tues: 11am - 10pm with 3-5pm break

Time Visited:
7pm, Saturday evening

Attire worn:
Casual

Item(s) Ordered (Photos taken as inconspicuous as possible with my phone):
Sausage Fried Rice with Egg and Lemon Tea Iced

While I was searching for this restaurant, I noticed that the parking at this place is fast and quickly disappearing and so I parked my car the moment I saw a parking spot. Unknown to me, it was just at the shop itself already.

With a faded sign and one below that's hidden at the inner sanction also a much plain signage on the top, despite the fact that there are 3 signs to tell you that there's the shop, it's still easy to miss to me. I find that the people within this vicinity take their dinner about this time around late 6pm to early 7pm. The dead giveaway indication would be the scarcity of the parking and the many people flocking to eateries; This place included. There were still some place left when I got there and so I plonk myself down to the nearest table where the menu was already present there. After browsing through it, I placed my order and await for it.

From what I gathered during my time there, most people who come here are already regulars who lived around the area and the staff there also recognize a lot of them. The waiting for the food was tiring because it was so slow to come out. I guess a lot of care in preparing the food has been done. LOL. The food eventually came and it seems rather eye-pleasing. The wonderful vibrant colors of the fried rice with the perfect fried egg on top just makes it easy to spot as the star when the redness from the table and the walls which I find it quite an unusual color to pick for a restaurant just seemed to dull off the surrounding view. The taste of the food was rather okay. Nothing of fantastic annotation but satisfactory enough for the tummy. The lemon tea was just your ordinary, nothing unusual lemon tea. Their drink signature is actually the A Tan White Coffee but I didn't try it that day. I was already full of 2 cans of coffee that day.

Though I'm not sure why the long wait for the food but I deduce that it could be because this is actually more of a restaurant where you order vegetables and meat to go with your rice rather than individual dishes. That could very well be the reason.

I went off feeling really tired and sleepy as I began my long journey home. I tried it out going home without the GPS and initially got really lost and got stuck in a jam instead. Eventually, I found familiar roads and managed to make my way home. Phew. What a very tiring day.

Total Wallet Damage:
Erm. I forgot what's the total price and I wasn't given a receipt. But in the menu, it's written that the fried rice costs RM7 and the Iced Lemon Tea is RM3.60.

Final Verdict:
6/10. Well, decent enough to eat but kind of a long wait for my food and it can get pretty full during peak time.

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Restoran Satu Tiga Satu Tiga 1313 茶餐室, Metro Prima, Taman Usahawan (Entrepreneur's Park), Kepong, Kuala Lumpur (KL), Malaysia

Address:
Jalan Metro Perdana 3, Metro Prima, Taman Usahawan (Entrepreneur's Park), Kepong,
56000 Kuala Lumpur (KL)
Malaysia

Opening Hours:
Unsure. 8am - 8pm maybe. Dependent on individual hawker stalls.

Time Visited:
10am on a Sunday

Attire worn:
Casual

Item(s) Ordered (Photos taken as inconspicuous as possible with my phone):
Teh Peng, Hakka Mee

One fine Sunday, I was roaming around the area of Kepong when I stumbled upon what seems to me is like a Kopitiam heaven. In this square around this place, there are 3 very large kopitiam shops and Restoran Satu Tiga Satu Tiga 1313 茶餐室 is one of them. The seating inside was quite moderate but due to their many customers flocking to them, they even put up chairs and tables opposite of their shop under big trees. It's buzzing with people and even though there's a lot of chairs and tables, it looks like it's almost full house.

I'm not sure where the name 1313 comes from but I think it may be related to it's address because I saw a similar name on the other kopitiam. LOL. So out of the three major kopitiam, I chose this one to eat at. There were quite a number of hawker stalls peddling their food to the consumers but it's not as much as SS2's Chow Yang and Restoran Tropikiri where their packed with very limited space for them. LOL. Yet, counting the seats that they setup under the big tree, I would say this rivals the number of seating place to Chow Yang's and looking at that humongous crowd that was eating here during peak time 10am, the crowd too rival's Chow Yang's.

I decided to go for the Hakka Mee at one of the stalls which I picked at random. By the way, the Teh Peng was quite fragrant and has a fragrant taste to it. I noticed they use the blue marigold condense milk to make their drinks and the pricing is average like any other kopitiam with the teh peng at RM2.20. But as for the Hakka Mee, it only costs RM6. Sure it's small in size but RM6 is considered quite cheap nowadays. However, taste-wise was just okay. It was a bit too oily for me and even though it's a small plate, I find the oily feeling overwhelming.

But it serves the purpose as my breakfast and I went on my merry way soon after. A word of warning in this area though. It's very hard to find parking and people even park on the side of the road which narrows the roads considerably. Ah, what people do for their breakfast. LOL.

Total Wallet Damage:
Altogether RM8.20 with the beverage at RM2.20 and the noodles at RM6.

Final Verdict:
6/10. I call this place Kopitiam heaven because you have the 3 major big kopitiam to choose from and there's loads of people flocking to this place like bees flocking to honey.

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Restoran Tropikiri, Taman Bukit Mayang Emas, Petaling Jaya (PJ), Selangor, Malaysia

Address:
2, Jalan BM 1/2, Taman Bukit Mayang Emas, 47301 Petaling Jaya (PJ), Selangor, Malaysia

Opening Hours:
Roughly, Daily, 7:30am - 3pm

Time Visited:
11am, Saturday Morning

Attire worn:
Casual

Item(s) Ordered (Photos taken as inconspicuous as possible with my phone):
Lam Mee and Teh Peng

I weirdly find myself coming back here again after once a person who knows the owner of the shop mistaken me and mentioned that I look familiar and have seen me here before and asked do I live around here. Well, actually, that night was my first time in a very very long time going there for dinner. LOL.

Anyway, today was the first time I went over there for breakfast where all the stalls were opened. Previous visits here were all past 3pm and the only shop that's opened till night time is the Chicken Rice Stall, the noodles stall beside it and the Nasi Lemak stall. But today was the first time I witness all of the shops opened and man, they have so many stalls here. No wonder everybody crowd to this place. It's almost a full house with a handful of tables left to occupy! So then, I decided to go for the Lam Mee today.

The uncle that mans the stall is a very jovial guy. He's so cheerful and cheeky when he response to you. I was there to order when suddenly a woman stepped beside me out of nowhere and started to order when the uncle was asking me what do I want to eat. I was a little shocked at first because this woman totally didn't see me at all and was almost standing on my spot! O_o The uncle acknowledged her order and then continue to ask me and said what do I wanna eat. That's when I ordered the Lam Mee.

The quirky uncle prepared it quite fast and it came to my place in quite a jiffy with the uncle in a spiffing manner said "Six dollar" with a Hong Kong accent. Well, the Lam Mee was mediocre but with just RM6, it's ok. The problem here is the drinks. My Teh Peng though has an aromatic taste to it costs RM2.40 which is a little dearer than quite a number of places. Anyway, I was a little strapped for time since it was already past 11am and I'm supposed to start working again already. So I hurriedly gobbled up my food and drink and started to go to work. Not that it's a must, but I've got nothing better to do anyway. LOL. And me with an idle mind, well, it's just torturous and agony because my mind will start wandering and remind me of a certain someone which will make me feel very sad. Oh well.

Total Wallet Damage:
As I mentioned above, RM6 for the Lam Mee, RM2.40 for the Iced Milk Tea.

Final Verdict:
6/10. Variety is great. Loads of choices and food is okay, Drinks a little expensive.

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Lai Foong Restaurant, City Centre, Kuala Lumpur (KL), Malaysia

Address:
No. 138, Jalan Tun H S Lee, City Centre, 50050 Kuala Lumpur (KL), Malaysia

Opening Hours:
Daily, 6:30am - 9:30pm I guess. According to google? LOL.

Time Visited:
11am, Friday morning

Attire worn:
Casual

Item(s) Ordered (Photos taken as inconspicuous as possible with my phone):
Pan Mee (tear), Teh Peng

This place I frequent back in 2008 till 2011 when I was working around here. I sometimes walk over here to have my lunch and the beef noodle is one of the famous stalls in KL where people flock to eat. They boast of their reputation and also charges a higher than normal rate. But on this day that I revisited the place again, I decided to try a pan mee stall which I have not seen before. Hence my curiosity to try it. I went for the tear version instead of the normal run through those pasta machine kneader. But I guess due to this, it took quite a while till my order came.

Although it's only 11am, it already has almost a full house and once it hit the lunch hour, the office crowd really thronged to this place and filled it up.

There's nothing much to say about this place except that the pan mee is kind of tasteless I would have to say and the chili watery. I guess there's much improvement needed for the pan mee stall whose mee was thicker than the average stall and miles behind one of the best pan mee in Klang Valley, the Fatty Mee Hoon Kuih House in Klang.

As I was hanging around my break time here, I also noticed that the beef noodles has now raised it's price to double digits. Times really has changed. I know it's bad for me to long for the good old days and me heading to obsolete kingdom very very soon but that's how the way the world works. If you can't keep up with it's pace, pretty soon you'll be extinct.

Total Wallet Damage:
RM7 - Pan Mee which is pretty expensive. God knows why they charge such high pricing. Must be due to them being in a tourist district.
RM2.30 for the Teh Peng. Ok I guess. Considering that they're in the heart of KL.

Final Verdict:
6/10. Well, it's unfair to rate this shop with such crummy Pan Mee when the beef noodles is what attracts a lot of people to this place. Still, I didn't taste the beef noodles again so I'm not sure if they're still maintaining their excellent taste but one things for sure that's change for them and that is the pricing.

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Restoran Megah Good Luck, Taman Megah, Petaling Jaya (PJ), Selangor

Address:
1 Jalan SS24/11, Taman Megah, 47301 Petaling Jaya (PJ), Selangor, Malaysia

Opening Hours:
Daily, 7am - 9pm (?)

Time Visited:
10:20am, Sunday

Attire worn:
Casual

Item(s) Ordered (Photos taken as inconspicuous as possible with my phone):
Sabah Special Pork Noodles and Kopi Peng (Iced Coffee)

I've only eaten here once before and that was with my family and this seems to open during the 2nd day of Chinese New Year.

Another affiliation I had with this place is when the owner once called me to deliver to her shop raffia strings and so I just delivered it and receive a small amount of money in exchange for that. LOL. Yeah, that was totally random out of the blue but I somehow got roped into being a delivery boy for this restaurant on that particular day. Haha.

That Sunday, I wanted to start off early in my work, but then it started to rain and the weather became really cooling and so I couldn't help myself and went back to bed. It's been so long since I went back to bed and slept till 10am. That's when I woke up and decided to go for breakfast and decided to head over here to have a meal. It was really a bad idea to be here at 10am on a Sunday because this place was packed to the brim. Even with me just being a single person, It was so hard for me to even get a place. All the seats looked occupied and there's not a single table that seems to have space for me to share with a family. But eventually, I managed to squeeze into one where the family reluctantly gave the place to me.

I ordered the Sabah Special Pork Noodles to try while for my drink I went for the Kopi Peng. It didn't take long for the noodles to arrive. In fact, after I sat down they were already bringing it over to me. Maybe because I took a while before I managed to get my seat as well. Anyway, I felt that the drink was a little way too expensive here. RM2.50 for Kopi Peng? Even for KL standard it's a little bit pricey.

But thankfully the noodles were cheap and affordable with it being just RM6. Frankly speaking I have no idea why they called it Sabah Special Pork Noodles. Seems to me like it's just your ordinary pork noodles. The major difference that I probably saw in this noodle is that the pork were thin and delicate hence making it smooth in eating it. I like the garnishing of chu yau cha or crispy pork lard being sprinkled on top along with some spring onions which is always a welcoming enhancement material for me. There's also some pork intestines in there but they were small in size. Anyway, it's a decent enough bowl of noodles and for RM6, it's probably good enough for me to return to eat it again.

When it was close to 11am, the crowd seems to have dissipated down and although there's still a fair bit of crowd there, it's not as crowded as when I arrived. That one maybe came from after doing their morning marketing and also finished service from the church nearby? LOL. I don't know. Strange there's so many people crowding there to eat at that particular time.

Total Wallet Damage:
RM6 for the Pork Noodles and a whopping RM2.50 for just the Kopi Peng.

Final Verdict:
6/10. It's a decent enough place for some kopitiam hawker food but by golly the drink seems to be dearer than your usual kopitiam price. I'd understand if it's really famous kopitiams like Chow Yang in SS2 but this place? Pfft.

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