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 Afogado. Afogado 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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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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SAMIRA RESTAURANT – If you are looking for a restaurant away from the busy streets of Kuala Lumpur, Samira is the place to be. Managed by Asian Terrace, Samira is located within the greeneries of Sentul Park surrounded with a koi fish populated lake. Although the Koi Garden is no longer operational, koi fishes are still visible around the lake.

To start off our lunch, we ordered Samira Thai’s Fish Cake @ RM16.00 for five pieces of fish cakes. It comes with a sweet and spicy sauce which goes really well with the fish cakes. The fish cakes were very flavourful but was a bit too dry. Samira’s chef is very skillful in decorating its’ dishes. I am amazed by the effort put by the chef to make each plate look beautiful. Look just how beautiful these carrot look.

Next up was Samira’s Thai Hor Mok. Hor Mok is nothing but Western-style fish mousse flavored with red curry paste, kaffir lime leaves, sugar and thickened with coconut cream. This dish goes really well with rice, and if you have not tried hor mok before, do order this. A plate of Samira Hor Mok is priced at RM23.00. This dish is loaded with squids, prawns and fish fleshes.

Samira’s Omellete Rolls is priced at RM16.00. It was loaded with seafood ingredients, green and red peppers and other unidentified ingredients. This is one of the most flavourful omelletes I have tried so far. The omellete was just yummy. I wish I can cook like this.

Then, came our Samira Yellow Curry Beef. The curry was cook just right. It wasn’t too think or too diluted. Even though the curry was not spicy but it was packed with flavours. This dish goes really well with the RM4.00 Jasmine rice that we’ve ordered. very recommended if you take beef.

As we wanted to try more items on the menu, we also ordered Samira’s Thai Chicken Tom Kha. Compared to the earlier Samira Yellow Curry Beef, this dish didn’t shine that day. The reason why it wasn’t our favourite because the chicken meat were a bit too tough. Samira’s Thai Chicken Tom Kha is priced at RM16.00.

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Kemaman Coffee is probably the reason why I went to Chawan Cafe at Publika that morning for breakfast. Other than that, everything else that we ordered is just pathetic. This is not the first time I I have been to Chawan Cafe, but this is the first time I have been to Chawan’s branch at Publika. And oh boy, I regret it the very moment I saw my cup of coffee.

My Kemaman coffee was served in the dirtiest cup ever. The stains around the coffee cup gave the impression as if it was not washed earlier before they made my coffee.

Then our Nasi Lemak with Curry Chicken arrived. The rice was alright, but the curry chicken meat was very tough.

The chicken was so tough that I told myself that I was so fortunate that I didn’t ordered it. VK ordered it, so he had to finish it all up. I just took a few bites, and that’s it.

Then came, the worst of the lot, my Roti Jala. There was nothing wrong with my roti jala, but everything was wrong with the curry chicken that comes with it. The curry was just too salty. I know, the curry was intentionally made this way, but it was too salty. After complaining to the restaurant operator, he also agreed with me that it was more salty than usual.

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We hear very often that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. Anything you eat during breakfast will be digested before the end of the day. So when I saw the black board listing the menu at Antipodean, the words “Big Breakfast” caught my eyes immediately. I was very tempted to order it at first, but I decided not to as I know very well that I won’t be able to finish it. For your information, Antipodeon’s Big Breakfast comes with a toast, mushrooms, scrambled egg, hash brown and choices of either bacon, chicken or beef sausages.

I ordered Antipodeon’s Croissant with Scrambled Egg with Bacon Sausage for RM18. It wasn’t the most awesome breakfast that I have ever had, but it was good. The croissant was soft, the sausage was very flavourful and the eggs were cooked to perfection but it was overpowered by the sausage making it taste bland.

Antipodeon’s Cheese Mushroom Omelette @ RM17 tasted a lot better. The mushrooms do make a lot of difference. It was more fragrant and more flavourful. As the portion was a little bit too big, we got tired of it towards the end.

We also ordered Antipodean’s Apple Pie. It was okay but I prefer the softer version of apple pie.

The breakfast doesn’t come in set, so we ordered Antipodean’s Cuppacino Coffee – The Merdeka Coffee which originates from Indonesia. The coffee was very fragrant – very recommended.

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What is your ideal breakfast meal? For me, an American Breakfast works for me every time. Eggs, toast, bacon, hash brown, baked beans coupled with a cup of coffee is just what I need. But unfortunately, you this type of breakfast do not come cheap. And even though it is considerably cheaper to prepare American breakfast myself, the effort and time you need to put into getting it all on a plate is just too time consuming if I were to do it every day.

So if you are like me, too lazy to do prepare it myself an American breakfast, my other option is to head over to Bangsar Village 1 for Plan B. Plan B is a modern Aussie meets New York coffee shop which serves hearty breakfasts, contemporary wholesome sandwiches made with freshly baked breads. They also serve pastas and a variety of rustic desserts.

Plan B Breakfast Platter is priced at RM24.00. It comes with two eggs cooked in any style (either sunny side up, omelette or scrambled), served on toast with grilled turkey bacon, golden hash brown, juicy breakfast sausages, baked beans, sautéed mushrooms & sautéed tomatoes.

Each serving comes with a small cup freshly squeezed orange juice & a choice of coffee or tea. I ordered their Cappuccino Coffee. It was very good. If you ordered this ala-carte, a cup of Plan B cappuccino coffee is priced at RM7.00.

If the breakfast portion is insufficient to fill your stomach, you may also order additional breakfast sides. I took some pictures of their menu for your easy reference.

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