Lorong Seratus Tahun

In the middle of discovery - or rediscovering The Mall, or now called Sunway Putra Mall - we found out that the old eatery on the top floor was preserved. It used to be one of my favourite eatery and it was themed around the A Famosa. Food was good and reasonably priced. A nice place to meet up with friends.

The place is now different and not all of the cafes were opened yet. The one we tried was surprisingly good however. It was a Penang Peranakan cafe called Lorong Seratus Tahun.

I had the asam laksa and Anita had some curry mee. I must say that the asam laksa was superb. Almost authentic Penang.

Definitely worth another try in the future should we landed at the mall again ...

Cake at Jaslyn's

I had to do some errands around Bangsar Village after work on Friday, and after that was done we went straight for a spot of tea. Walking back from the bank, we passed by a cute little cafe called Jaslyn Cakes along Jalan Telawi.

Just a small little shop, mainly selling cakes and coffee as the name suggested. Small seating area but cosy enough.

Not many seats inside

Not many items on the menu, variety of coffee but when it came to food, only what was on the counter was available.

The tea was served in nice little teapots. And the cake was nice enough. But to be honest, it wasn't as nice as I was hoping for. Pretty basic and the price - more than RM30 for a pot of tea, a cup of latte and a slice of cake, it was certainly excessive. I could understand it if the coffee blew my mind, but not this time.

Not coming to visit anytime soon unfortunately. ‎

Kaffeinette

No, this wasn't a typo. That's the name of the cafe my cousin, Shari and his partner, just opened at SS15, a traffic jam hub not far from my clinic. Yes, traffic was an issue there but hey, this is Subang Jaya!

Last Wednesday evening, he held a doa selamat and opened the cafe for relatives and cousins. It rained heavily in the preceding hours and even I got stuck driving from the apartment with parts of the road leading out of KL was closed due to flash flooding. It took Anita and my Mum an hour and a half to get there from Gombak and all of us missed the doa.

But we reached there in time for the food.

Suri, and the owner, Shari

A typical cafe, it served great coffee, comfort food and of course, cakes and desserts. I didn't have time to explore the menu, but one of the main attraction was ironically nasi lemak.

The place was packed when we arrived, and since I had yet to take dinner, I was starving. The nasi lemak definitely took care of that.

Creative wiring

A nice chat ensued as another cousin of mine had just returned from Haj the week before. Time to catch up.

Talking about traffic jam, it was certainly a challenge around this part of SS15. This was made worst by roadworks and building as part of the MRT round the corner from there. Hopefully the traffic would improve as the building was completed. Otherwise, the location of the cafe would've been perfect.

Awaiting for the signage to be erected

A single visit would not give a real idea of how the place would take off. I would give it another visit traffic and work permitting in the coming weeks.

Three Little Birds Coffee

During my series of meetings last week, I ended up having breakfast at this cute cafe on two consecutive morning. A highly rated cafe from what I heard, where they ground their imported coffee beans themselves and share them among their three branches. The branch at d& was their main, and the warehouse where they do the grounding sat right behind this shop.

Surprisingly, they open very early by KL standard at 8 am. They had some bagel and croissant, but the early breakfast choices in terms of food was pretty limited. But what ever on offer did not disappoint.

The thing I like most about the cafe was the ambiance. The quiet early morning, with water features all around brought tranquility despite the early morning traffic barely 50 meters away. You soon forget the time of the morning, and the next thing you know, it was already time for the meeting.

The coffee? Nothing special. The mocha was quite nice, but I have tasted better. Certainly of a higher quality than your average chain cafe. As mentioned, food choices was rather limited - not the place to have a hearty breakfast, and certainly no roti canai!

A nice place to drop by during busy schedule but certainly I would not go out of my way here just for the coffee. But in terms of tranquility, it was great .....

New Kid on the Block

Let's be honest. One don't normally expect to find chic cafe in Melawati. This being a rather middle-class, predominantly Muslim neighbourhood, people there tended to be conservative. The demography was also on the older side, mainly a place for the retiree. The neighbourhood had been around for more than 40 years, which explained it.

It was a surprise when we bumped into a newly opened branch of Espressolab when we went there the other day - and when we bumped into the food truck parked right in front of it.

Free wifi, decent ambiance, but the coffee was not really that great unfortunately. It may be our bad luck that the evening's brew just was not up to scratch. Or at least we hoped so. Still a nice place to hand around. Didn't sample the free wifi though as I had LTE.

The location was nice enough that I might be coming back for another look. The outlet did not offer much cooked food though from looking at the menu, unlike the branch at Great Eastern Mall.