Malaysia Food Blog – Apple Foodees

I find it particularly hard to pick a meal whenever I dine in a fusion restaurant. Asian or western? Which do they cook better? And since it was our first time to Marmalade Cafe and not knowing what to expect, we decided to order a fusion of both cuisines.

We ordered their Rice Pilaf with Asian Green – Poached Salmon Fillet at RM26.00 from their Asian Menu. It is basically salmon cooked with creamy sauce served with chinese fried rice along with chinese “nai bak” and salad. Presentation wise, it looks really appetizing. Sad to say, the salmon and fried rice taste good individually but together, it just doesn’t blend well together. The salmon was very creamy and the starchiness of the rice just makes everything taste really “heavy”.

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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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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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