Malaysia Food Blog – Apple Foodees

I start my day with a cup of coffee almost everyday. During my teenage years, Nescafe was my only choice but today, there are so many varieties in the market. Old Town White Coffee, Aik Cheong Coffee and Chek Hup Coffee pre-packed coffees are my favourites today and they are considerably cheap for my everyday coffee fix. But if you are looking for a top graded and better quality coffee and are willing to fork out extra, I would suggest you to try Espresso Lab.

For your information, Espresso Lab does not classify their coffee such as Mocha, Latte, Cappucino and etc. Here, every cup starts with espresso. If you like some milk in it, just specify whether you want one shot, two shots, three shots or more. The more shots you have in your espresso, the milkier your espresso gets.

The espresso that I love very much here at Espresso Lab is their Affogato. Affogato is a coffee-based beverage. It usually takes the form of a scoop of vanilla gelato or ice cream topped with a shot of hot espresso. The bitterness of the coffee mixed together with a scoop of sweet vanilla ice-cream makes a great combination. I love this very much.

Espresso Lab is a no-frills coffee place. So you are encouraged to bring your own snacks here. If you love their coffee and would like to purchase some of the coffee equipments, you may do so here too. Espresso Lab sells their coffee beans for retail and wholesale customers too. So if you are a coffee addict, head on to Espresso Lab at Publika today.

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I have heard about Typica Cafe from a friend of their siphon coffee and their homemade cakes a long time ago, but not until recently, only I have my chance to try them. Typica Cafe‘s homemade cakes are quite popular among the locals here, so it tends to be sold out most of the time. The only cake which we can order that evening is Typica’s Mango Delight Cake.

The Mango Delight is priced at RM10 a piece.

The other “cake” which are available that evening was their Tiramisu @ RM10. It was very average and the portion is too little.

If you notice, there are many new cafes cropping out around town. The Bee and Plan B are some of my favourite cafes for now. Comparing Typica Cafe with The Bee and Plan B, Typica Cafe’s cakes and coffee are much pricier. I ordered their Coffee with Chocolate Milk at a whopping price of RM15 a cup. It was again, very average. Not as good as the one I had in EspressoLab or Coffee Ritual. For RM15 I could buy a packet of 15 sachets of 40gms coffee in any supermarket.

If you think RM15 for a cup of coffee is expensive, let me tell you that there is another coffee, Typica Cafe’s Ice Drip coffee is priced even higher at RM28 a bottle. A tiny bottle. The reason why the bottle of coffee is placed in a huge cup with ices is to prevent the coffee from being diluted by the melting ice. So if you want it cold, this is how they would serve it.

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Its Labour Day. So where did you go today? I didn’t go anyway even though today is a public holiday. Since we will be working tomorrow we decided to go somewhere near for lunch. We took our lunch at Marmalade Cafe (which I will blog about it later) and had our coffee at The Bee in Publika. I knew about The Bee after getting some good comments from some friend. According to them, The Bee serves really good coffee which is very similar to the ones in Australia. I do not know much about Australian coffee, but decided to try them out anyway.

We ordered a cup of Coffee Latte and Capuccino. Both of which are equally good. The coffee isn’t acidic at all and is silky smooth. I enjoyed this cup of coffee very much compared to the other Malaysian franchise coffee shops around. Both the Coffee Latte and the Capuccino are priced at RM8.50 a cup. Quite expensive but if I were to compare The Bee’s coffee with Typica Cafe, the latter are far more expensive.

We knew that our coffee break wouldn’t be complete without any cakes. So we ordered The Bee’s Fat Boy Bakes Cakes. For some reason unknown to me, The Bee named their cakes “Fat Boy Bakes Cakes” on it’s receipt. Could it be that their cakes are supplied by a fat boy? Anyway, we ordered The Bee’s Cheese cake with Mars Chocolate Bar @ RM10.50. My first impression was “Oh boy, this fat boy can really bake!”. It was simply delicious. It was chessy creamy on top, and chunky and chocolatey at the bottom of the cake. I enjoyed every bite of it.

The Bee Tiramisu Cake is also priced at Rm10.50 a slice was good. The nuts on top were very crunchy and sweet. Although it the earlier cake outshine this slice of cake, we nevertheless enjoyed it very much.

The Bee also organises events from time to time for it’s customers. Events such as live comedy shows, coffee appreciation classes and others are organise to allow The Bee to engage it’s customers and to know them better. If I am not mistaken, they do have live band performance. So if you are interested in joining their event, do check their website out.

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