Little Tree Cafe @ Kuchai Lama

Hadn’t met V for sometime and finally ‘negotiated’a suitable time for a meet-up, I wasn’t sure what was V’s inclination in food, but her simple pre requisite was ‘ anything, as long as it’s tasty’. Hmmm…should I suggest somewhere tried and tested ? or venture to the unknown ? Well, venture to the unknown won, hands down.

As we stepped into Little Tree Cafe, we found it  to be a cozy and comfortable, where you could yak in low voices for hours or get busy with  your laptop as they offer free wi-fi. The cafe occupies 2 shoplot, which must mean rather good business ?

We weren’t sure what to order and asked the waiter to recommend something. V was having Little Milan Chop, I wanted rice ( yeah, typical Asian) and asked for the  butter chicken lotus rice

For drinks, they have  health tea series, premium Italian coffee and fresh juices.  I ordered  the  Refresher – which was Celery + cucumber + sour plum. The strong taste of celery overpowered the other ingredients, very refreshing. Do not order this if you don’t like celery, duh !

V had Rainforest – which was a combination of guava + green apple + sour plum ( and maybe some other stuff), this was rather good. V was rather happy with her drink. (our drinks were RM7.50 each)

 

Butter chicken with lotus rice ( RM9.90), this was prettily presented. The rice topped with shredded dried seaweed came in a lotus leaf parcel, and a rather generous portion of bite sized chicken pieces drenched in some creamy gravy. The rice was fragrant, rather like chicken rice. and the chicken was interesting, the taste is not unlike  the taste of butter prawns complete with curry leaves and all. This was nice.

 

The Little Milan chop (RM15.90)  is a undercover chicken dish…hmmm…the chicken is sandwiched between 2 slices of ham and generous amount of cheese, the dish also came with a dollop of mash potato +cauliflower + broccoli  . this was creamy cheesy rich, the gravy was tasty, the combination of the ham+cheese+chicken was rather good. V was smiling ear to ear and will start to recommend Little Tree to her circle of contacts.

 

Overall, I would rate this as good , in terms of food , service and environment.

Thanks for the treat V !!

Location  :

 No 13 & 15 Jalan Kuchai Maju 8,

Jalan Kuchai Lama

56200 K.L

Tel 7983 1380

( Little Tree is at the next  block of shop lot behind Jojo’s kitchen, you can refer to the location map to JoJo here )

Biz hours : Mon- Fri 10am – 1 am

                   Sat – Sun 10 am – 2 am

Kafe Thai Pan Delights @ Kuchai Lama

We first saw Kafe Thai Pan Delights when we were having a meal at a cafe a few months back ( which sadly had closed down) and on that particular day , it was the opening day for Thai Pan, I made a mental note to try it out someday. Fast forward a few months -read a good  review in The Star ( click here for article)  and that hasten the trip.

We weren’t sure what to order, so we asked the person serving us to give us some recommendations , and from her list, we chose – Fried Pad Thai (RM6.80) ,Green Curry Chicken with rice (RM7.80),  Otak2 seafood (RM12) and Thai Cendol (RM2.50). Their other popular dishes : belacan fried rice, tom yam soup ( chicken/ seafood). Mango sticky rice, pineapple fried rice, beef ball noodle soup, papaya/mango salad and   chicken feet + pamelo.

Fried Pad Thai – the thinner version of  koay teow had a nice springy and smooth texture, It was slightly sweet with a tinge of spice. The dish came  with taugeh ( beansprouts), pieces of chicken, prawns, carrot shreds, egg and roasted peanut. Nice…

 

Green curry chicken with rice – you get rice, a bowl of green curry, egg shreds and a few pieces of fried dried fish ( not salted fish) plus slices of cucumber and tomato. The curry was rich , fragrant and so tasty-. the chicken slices were tender, the longbeans were crunchy , the gravy was yummy , oh boy, I can’t get enough of it. Aroy ChingChing (very delicious). Goes very well with rice . Perfecto !

 

Otak2 seafood – this dish arrived wrapped in foil and as I always had the impression that otak2 should be solid, it was kinda surprising to see this dish was kinda wet and ‘loose’. And there seemed to be plenty of chili in it, which got me kinda worried. Looks can be deceiving though .. it wasn’t too spicy and had some tinge of sweet in it. The otak2 chunks/ flakes were creamy and rich. Other ingredients include : cabbage, sotong ( squid) and  prawns. Another dish that didn’t disappoint.

 

Thai Cendol – we ordered this because we expected it to be the type of chewy, springy ( and often colourful) cendol we get in Thailand, but this turn out to be our regular green cendol. The cendol was served with wedges of sweet potato. The santan and gula melaka wasn’t too heavy. I find the cendol ( which kinda melt in the mouth) a bit too soft for my liking So, when we were settling the bill, and after praising the delicious food, I commented about the cendol and was corrected by the cashier( looks like the owner) that, that is the specialty of their homemake cendol and their customers liked this so much (oh oh..but it was still too soft for my liking lah )

 

Overall, a very enjoyable meal. i would love to go back again and try the other dishes.

 

 Location :

Thai Pan Delights is at a corner lot opposite  JoJo’s Kitchen – refer to map here

Kafe Thai Pan Delights

28 Jalan Kuchai Maju 9,

Off Kuchai Lama

58200 KL

Tel :  79840778

Hailam Kopitiam @ Kuchai

We were at another food outlet at Kuchai area the week before and saw there were quite a large crowd dining  at Hailam Kopitiam, so, I made a mental note that this would be a  potential makan place to explore.

We were greeted and welcomed by uniformed waiters and waitresses as soon as we stepped on the kaki lima belonging to Hailam Kopitiam, and I tell you ah..there were really a large number of waiter and waitresses, we counted 14 of them..

We weren’t sure what to order, so we referred to the ratings / recommendation on the menu ( come to think of it, how trustworthy  do you think the self- ratings are at most of the eateries? are these really based on customers’ feedback ? )

 We decided to go for Hailam Chicken Chop with mushroom sauce- other variations of the gravy include original, black pepper or rending , Hailam fried mee hoon and otak-otak rolls and for drinks we ordered cincau (RM2.80).

The place was cosy, marble table tops, wooden chairs, wi-fi, the place was about 2/3 full at the time of the visit.

 You can view their menu by clicking here http://www.hailamkopitiam.com.my/menu.htm

 The otak-otak roll (RM 4.2) didn’t have any star ratings on the menu, but it sounded interesting and we like Otak-otak , so we had to order this. 4 (flat) spring rolls  piping hot, just scooped off the frying pan was my guess, arrived at our table . This was oozing with hot oil as we bite into it ..OUUcchh…the skin was too thick and floury and err..what’s this at the centre… it was a spicy-ish paste thingy err.. forgettable …maybe that was why there weren’t any star ratings guarr..

 

Hailam fried mee hoon (RM 6.80) came with prawns, chicken slices, fishpaste slices and some vegetable, this was pleasant, I especially like the gravy which had a strong fried onion smell…blends well with the mee hoon.

 

Hailam Chicken Chop ( RM6.60), I had high expectation of this ..didn’t the Hainanese ‘invented’ chicken chop ? firstly let me comment about the chicken,  the meat was tough, stringy and tasteless..umm.. and as for the mushroom sauce –..there were a lot of chopped button mushroom in the sauce ( good point), but the sauce itself was kinda tasteless  and one dimesional ( bad point). When I ate the chicken with the sauce, all I could taste was the fried batter and the saltiness of the button mushroom.. ..maybe I ordered the wrong sauce and got some tough ‘pencen-ed’ chicken.

 

Overall, a so-so meal lah…

 

 

Hailam Kopitiam Sdn Bhd

 No 20, Jalan Kuchai Maju 8,

Off Jalan Kuchai Lama

Taman Entrepreneurs Park

58200 KL

Tel : 79821563

www.hailamkopitiam.com.my