PAPPA KOPITIAM - Selayang Mall, KL

Over the last ten years, there are so many cafes mushrooming all over major cities of Malaysia. I remember during the good old days, upmarket coffee drinking places usually will be at the hotel lounge or coffee house. Then we were introduced to Coffee Bean, Starbucks etc. Later, the local entrepreneur came out with many localised cafes equipped with air-cond and wi-fi environment and the most successful so far I think is Oldtown Cafe.

Initially, I really like Oldtown Cafe as a change from the old, hot and not so hygienic 'kopitiam'. But nowadays, I don't like that place as the food is not tasty and the milk tea has too much milk added. The only reason I go there because they are almost everywhere and the price is still reasonable. Luckily, there are a few cafes nearby my place besides the Oldtown and Pappa Kopitiam is one of them. It is located at the lower ground floor of the Selayang Mall in Taman Utama Selayang.






These are our drinks. 1st son had Black Jelly Ice (Cincau Ais) - RM4.50, 2nd son had Iced Lemon Tea (RM4.50) and Kopi-O (RM2.60) for myself.

This Nasi Lemak (RM8.90) is very tasty and not as dry as the Oldtown's.

This Dried Koay Teow Prawn (RM8.90) is really yummy.

But this Chicken Chop (RM12.80) is really disappointing. I don't like my chop served with rice, I am not Jap/Korean although many people say I look like one if I keep my mouth shut. The Jap/Korean like to have everything served with rice. I prefer they serve with butter/bread or mashed potatoes instead.

This is Soy Milk with Glutinous Ball (RM4.90). Three type of filling ie red bean, groundnut and black sesame inside each one of the ball. This is good and definitely will order this whenever we come here.

Overall the food taste better than The Oldtown but the price is more expensive. But I find the place a bit dark and hope they will brighten up the place a little. Definitely will go back there again!

P/S : All views and opinions expressed here are based on my own personal opinion. Nobody pay or threaten me to say good or bad things about the food I eat!!

Late Afternoon Coffee Break

Instead of sipping tea and eating scones and sandwiches the English way, we Malaysian have many varieties of food to choose from when come to tea/coffee break such as Nasi Lemak, Roti Canai, Dim Sum, Roti Bakar, Tong Sui (eg red bean soup, bo bo cha cha), economy fried meehoon, yam cake and drinks we have Kopi-o, Teh Tarik, Milo and Barley.

Today's coffee break, I have my favourite childhood snack 'yu cha kueh' with hot kopi-o (black coffee) near my son's school.

My way of eating this is : dip the 'yu char kueh' into the black coffee first before eating........it is so yummyyyyyyyyyyy!

Mainland Chinese/Taiwanese eats 'yu char kueh' with Soy Milk; Hongkie eats with porridge; Malaysian eats 'yu char kueh' with coffee, tong sui, bak kut teh or kaya/jam whatever you can think of..... Yong Tau Foo even have 'yu char kueh' stuffed with fish paste.

My coffee break costs me less than RM2.....kopi-o is RM1.10 and the 'yu char kueh' RM0.60 per piece. These food is common everywhere in the street of Malaysia.

P/S : All views and opinions expressed here are based on my own personal opinion. Nobody pay or threaten me to say good or bad things about the food I eat!!

Coconut Drink - Kelapa Pandan

My mother and I love coconut drink a lot. I remember once we went to Thailand, we had the coconut drink from day till night whenever we passed by any coconut stall. They are selling cheap too, about 20baht per coconut. Thai coconut is smaller and very sweet.

In the street of KL especially around the housing area, small trucks selling coconut like the picture below are quite common. There is one around my son's school and I buy a few for my family as coconut has cooling effect like herbal tea.

The boss sells two type of coconut, they are Kelapa Mawar and Kelapa Pandan. Kelapa Mawar is bigger but not sweet. Kelapa Pandan is smaller, sweeter and it is more fragrant (like daun pandan smell).

Load of coconuts in his small truck.

One coconut is RM3 and four for RM10. I bought four. I ask the boss to cut the coconut in a way so I can easily open it at home. He applies some 'asam' on the surface of the coconut and according to him this will keep the coconut fresh for three days without refrigerated. Anyway, I chill all the coconut straight away upon reaching home because I prefer to drink it cold especially with the recent hot weather.

P/S : All views and opinions expressed here are based on my own personal opinion. Nobody pay or threaten me to say good or bad things about the food I eat!!