Awesome Canteen @ Taman Paramount, Petaling Jaya

Awesome Canteen. What a lovely name to a F&B outlet. The presence of this restaurant cum cafe had somehow lifted the image of the otherwise old looking shoplots at Taman Paramount. 

Ideal for photo opportunities 

The glass door and window used permit lots of natural sunlight into the cafe, whilst the lights that are hanging from the ceiling gave a more natural feeling and warmness to Awesome Canteen. 

Love the use of light boxes with artistic images, canteen like seating, especially the chairs, and lots of plants within. 

Inside Awesome Canteen 

Inside Awesome Canteen 

While waiting for all to reach, I had their Carrot Cake. It had a good balance of carrot and raisin, fluffy enough, with tinge of cinnamon smell, and completed well with cream cheese frosting. 

Carrot Cake. 

I liked their teabag tea that offered me just the right balance of taste and smell between the lemongrass and ginger. 

Lemongrass & Ginger Tea. Price-RM9.90 

Who wouldn't be a happy with a plate of fries for sharing? Love the thickness of the fries, dipped in the special sauce. 

Basket of Fries. Price-RM8.90 

The beef burger served with Rocky Blue cheese tasted absolutely delicious. Meat was so juicy and marinated so well, accompanied by fries and coleslaw gave my lunch mate a fulfilling meal,  

Beef - Rocky Blue Cheese Burger. Price-RM26.90 

I had their butterfish. Grilled to perfection, I could feel the firm texture of the fish. The fried sweet potatoes and grilled prawns were absolutely yummy, and the sauce that accompanied this dish definitely deserved a thumbs up.

Paleo Butterfish. Price-RM27.90 

My SIL highly recommended their Tofu Salad which was certainly something outside the norm. It was a delight to tried this salad. It was filled with sengkuang, tofu, lettuce, almond, pine nuts, purple cabbage, and cucumber. I perhaps missed out some ingredients too, but importantly, this was soo extremely good. The sauce striked a balance between sweetness and sourish. 

Tofu Salad. Price-RM19.90 

Verdict : Awesome place to chill with friends. Nice homemade cakes, and one of a kind Tofu Salad. 

Awesome Canteen 
19 Jalan 20/13, Taman Paramount, 
46300 Petaling Jaya
Tel : 03-7865 8048 

Business Hours : 11am-10pm (Tue-Sun) 
Kitchen Close : 3-6pm 

FB link, here

Cake Jalan Tiung @ Menara Naza TTDI, Section 13, Shah Alam

By chance, I became a follower of Cake Jalantiung on Instagram, and I more often than not, realized that I actually salivate when I looked at how tempting the cake that this cafe produces. I was also attracted to how passionate the team behind this cafe have towards what they are doing. 

Recently, I saw the news that they opened their second outlet, also within Shah Alam, and I 

after numerous failed attempt to be here, I finally did, today. Yay! Have a small sense of achievement, somewhat. Haha. 

Located at the corner lot below Menara Naza, I had some difficulty finding the right lift to get to the Ground Floor of this building. Apparently they have the office block lift that links to the cafe, and the one I went to was the Residences section of the building. 

I can't wait to check out the cakes that await us on this Friday afternoon. 

The simple cosy corner occupied by Cake Jalan Tiung 

Overall, I find that they have limited choices of drink, however, I feel that it is fine, as the focus of their existence is their yummylicious cakes.

Simple offering of drinks 

I love their use of simple blend of pastel colors, and the panels that matches hanging from the ceiling, and side panel of their counter. 

A colorful area that is their cashier and cake display area

We ordered their Salted Caramel Chocolate Cake, and their Chocolate Tart. Both deserved thumbs up. 

Lovely use of plates

Its highly tempting when I looked at this piece of cake. The chocolate cake, was insanely delectable. It has just the right level of texture which has the right balance of density, and extremely moist. It has a light coating of buttercream, and drizzled with lots of salted caramel on top of the cake. The salted caramel truly matches perfectly with the chocolate cake. The blend of saltiness, caramely taste, ooohh la la.... superb taste...

It has been a long long time that I haven't tasted something this lip-smacking. 

Salted Caramel & Choc. Price-RM13

Upon feeling satisfied over the cakes, and the chocolate tart which was extremely chocolatey, we ordered their chocolate chips cookies. 

The cookies were heated up slightly, and served with small glass of milk, which we are to dip into with the cookies.  

Love the slightly soft cookies, and yet slightly crunchy but what kills it was the thick chocolate used within the cookies. It has the melted chocolate that tasted extremely tantalizing. 

Chocolate Chip Cookies. 5pcs - RM8

The soft melted effect of the chocolate within the cookies 

Cake Jalan Tiung also supply their cakes to quite a number of cafes around town, and the type of cake differs from time to time. Do check out their Instagram to find out more info. 

Their space is rather limited, but that definitely doesn't deter their fans from flocking to this cake to fulfill their craving for cakes. 

Food - 10/10, Price - 10/10, Service - 9/10, Ambiance - 7/10 

Cake Jalan Tiung 
Menara Naza TTDI, 
Section 13, 
40100 Shah Alam

Business Hours : 
Mon-Fri 10am-7pm

FB link, here 

Wondermilk @ Damansara Uptown, PJ

For anyone that appreciates artsy cafe, one would definitely heard or been to Wondermilk. A cafe that I perceived as one that is very well designed, from a team of people with a definite good taste. In all honesty, if its not for the location that is one of the busiest I've seen, this would have been a much more frequented spot for me. 

Art and design is apparent even before you enter Wondermilk 

Once one enter, be greeted with vibrant and colorful appearance of the cafe. Almost every corner of this cafe looks extremely attractive. All spots seemed to be good for picture opportunity. 

Nice & neat counter 

Ready cookies & cupcakes for purchase

Waiting area, for drinks 

Simply irresistible looking, cupcakes ! 

Mock cakes for ordering and ready made rainbow cakes 

Wondermilk's key products are their range of cupcakes and cakes. However, food and drinks are sold at the cafe, and not forgetting cookies. 

We ordered food for our brunch, and I like their usage of condensed milk can, as the 'waiting number' with instructions of collection. Good choice of item used, to relate it back to the name of the place, by using some form of milk to relate back to 'Wondermilk'.

Our waiting number 

I ordered their signature drink, bottled milk with flavours. I opted for the Caramel flavor. Milk really can taste this good. Milky, and creamy whilst balance off well with the caramel. Recommended for milk lovers. 

Caramel Milk. Price-RM10 

My friend, Cass, ordered their Creme Brulatte as we like the description of how this drink is made. It is freshly brewed Italian coffee, and on top of the coffee is made similar as how creme brulee is made, where they torch sugar on it. 

This is my first to try this version of coffee, and it tasted excellent. The torch sugar truly added much flavor to the coffee. A recommended drink for one that loves to taste a combination of creme brulee and coffee. 

Creme Brulatte. Price-RM10

I like that they price all their 3 options of salad the same. My order was the Mighty Ranch Salad which comprises of mixed of greens, raisins, grilled chicken breast, turkey bacon, parmesan cheese, tomato and creamy ranch dressing. 

I liked how my salad was presented, and how they arranged the 2 sheets of paper. Sauce was provided in a small cup separately, to ensure freshness, and salad doesn't turn soggy. 
Overall, the salad taste was good, despite the fact that my friend felt that the greens wasn't fresh enough (no soggy greens was spotted, just that it lacked the crisp freshness of how some greens should have). The turkey bacon added much taste and yumminess to the salad, as it has a real fragrant bacon taste. They were generous with their portion of parmesan cheese, and this plate of salad was very value for money. 

Mighty Ranch Salad. Price-RM16.90 

The Howdy Folks breakfast set came with so much varieties. It consisted with 1 chicken sausage, toast, egg with your choice of style, turkey ham or beef bacon, potatoes, sauteed mushroom, cherry tomatoes and fruit salad. 

Somewhat, as much as the items should taste pretty standard, as they are supposed to be cooked lightly, for us to enjoy the original taste, we were not in too much favor of this plate of breakfast. The sunny side up egg that we requested turned out to be a fried egg which we joked that its too sunny that caused the yolk to cook fully. The sauteed mushroom tasted good, but it was soakin with oil.

Overall, this plate of breakfast may last one till dinner. Trust that it would tasted much better by the chef cutting the usage of oil. 

Howdy Folks. Price-RM19.90 

We ended our brunch with a carrot cupcake. It was extremely moist, and tasted good with cream cheese frosting. 

Carrot Cupcake. Price-RM4.50 

This is in fact a place that I would just like to 'park' myself, for any spare time that I have, or catch up with friends. As much as their menu offering is decent enough, their ambiance won me over, anytime. 

Wondermilk 
41 Jalan SS21/1A, 
Damansara Utama, 
47400 Petaling Jaya 
Tel : 03-7725 8930 

Business Hours : 9am-10pm 

FB link, here

Whisk @ Empire Shopping Gallery, Subang Jaya

Been many times to Empire Shopping, and many times wanted to have coffee at Whisk. However, it remained unsuccessful, until I was there during a weekday. Finally, some seats are available. 

Entrance to Whisk

Side seating, that best maximize their space 

Having heard much of their coffee, and macaroon, I can't wait to have my share of what they have to offer. 

Well, the more impressive part for me on how well their staff know about their products, and I love to see his passion to recommend me their macaroons, and cake, and sharing knowledge about their coffee served. 

The very passionate staff, Apit, despite he said he was a little shy for a photograph

Apit explained the different flavors of macaroons available, ranging from blackberry, passion fruit, chocolate, peanut butter and rose. He also explained that all the fillings are made of buttercream. 

Indeed very attractive display of macaroons

These were the 2 macaroons that I tried, being the Salted Caramel and Blackberry flavour. I find that they tasted average, which has slight crisp on the outside, and chewy on the inside, however lacking the wow factor. 

Salted Caramel  & Blackberry Macaroon. 

We were also recommended the carrot cake, and we agreed to give it a try. Its in fact a very light cake, fluffy and moist, filled with icing sugar frosting. It carried good taste of cinnamon, filled with sufficient walnut, but, wasn't too much of my liking as I find that there were insufficient use of carrot, as I'd appreciate a cake with richer and denser texture, should it be a carrot cake.
However, I would say that pricing wise, its fairly reasonable. 

Carrot Cake. Price-RM8.90 

A blissful afternoon with coffee, cake and macaroons 

Whisk uses coffee supplied by Oriole, a Singapore based company that supplies them Arabica roasted beans, and was informed that these beans are used within 1 month to ensure its freshness. Instead of just listing their coffee as the usual Latte, Cappuccino, or Flat White, they also highlight all them as Espresso with Milk in the different oz of liquid that makes up to this drink. In this way, customers will know exactly how much concentrated their coffee will be, based on amount of milk that will be added in, to the shot of espresso. 

I like the way they list their coffee

I was tempted to try coffee with Nutella, but as this was my first time to Whisk, the staff has asked me to take their non flavored coffee, so that I can enjoy the original flavor of the Arabica beans. I enjoyed taste of my Latte, which was so smooth, and creamy.

Latte. Price-RM11

Whisk 
Espresso Bar & Bake Shop 
LG 03A, Empire Shopping Gallery, 
Jalan SS16/1, 47500 Subang Jaya 

Tel : 03-5022 2060 

Business Hours : 10am-10pm daily 

Ministry Of Coffee @ Solaris Mont Kiara, KL

Having heard of Ministry of Coffee (MOC), I somewhat failed to check out the exact location of this cafe when I was at the neighbourhood. And one day, 'ta-dah', I spotted it. If one enters the SOHO car park, just look for the J exit, and MOC is facing the back road of the building. 

Here is the Ministry

I somewhat did not expect the size of the cafe to be this big. It occupied up to 2 floors, and overall, it offers an absolutely comfortable environment for those who appreciates spending good relaxing time in cafes. 

A view from the upper floor 

Having read the story on Doi Chaang coffee, I felt that its a story worth telling. It began when villagers of this hill tribe of the Doi chang Village (located in Northern Thailand region of the Golden Triangle) united to create their own coffee company. Talk about team work! The effort resulted in their own unique taste of single-estate, organic Arabica coffee. It is in fact now recognized as the top 1% of coffee. And having received many accolades for its quality of bean, one would not need any other assurance of the coffee quality. 

Story on Doi Chaang coffee 

I like the whole deco of Ministry of Coffee. Spacious, high ceiling, with a feature area, where they hang many colorful cups and sauces turned upside down, incorporating them to lighting. A creative way of using such simple items. 

Look up, or look down (if you're from the upper floor) and once will be cheered looking at such colorful lights

I was pleasantly surprised by the selection of food made available by this cafe, where they offered pasta, pizza, sandwich, salad, which comes in variety of choices, apart from their specialty coffee. 

In future, I will not pretend to be a person that is able to take strong coffee. I ordered the Piccolo Latte at first, where it is made up of double shot of espresso, and very little milk. I could take really bitter Chinese medicine, but I wouldn't want my coffee to taste this bitter. I then had to request for additional milk to add on. Then it turned out to be Latte like drink, which I was very much comfortable with. The distinct rich taste of the coffee aroma was apparent. 

Piccolo Latte. Price-RM9.80 (added more milk, on my own)

Spotted Open Fish Pie on their menu. In fact, I didn't really have much clue of what I was ordering. But when I was presented the food, oh i see... This is an open style pie, whereby instead of closing it up as a pie, its actually exposed. Cooked with creamy sauce, which taste absolutely delicious, it came with pan fried seabass, sauteed vegetable, and creamy mashed potato. 

Open Fish Pie. Price-RM21.80

Just look at how beautiful is this dish. They gave generous portion of the fish, and the seabass does tasted very fresh and delicious. Within this plate of dish, there were so much of vegetables, which made up of capsicum, zucchini, carrot, and spring onions. 

The mashed potatoes was not too smashed up, and I could taste chunks of potatoes, which gave a different texture to the tastebud, and the portion was seriously a lot, and I definitely couldn't finish my meal. 
As for the the cream, it was indeed very creamy and tasty, with the right level of saltiness. Thumbs up to this dish. 

Beneath the dish 

I was indeed very pleased with the selection, quality of food and coffee served here. Definitely calls for a second visit, soon. 

Ministry of Coffee 
J-G-09, Soho KL, 
Solaris Mont Kiara, 
50480 Mont Kiara, KL 

Tel : 03-6211 5531 

Business Hours : Fri & Sat 8.30am - 12mn; all other days 8.30am-11pm 

Facebook link, here

Whimsical Cafe @ Publika, KL

Whimsical gives me a feeling of dreamy and happy. The set up of the cafe somewhat shares the similar impression that I got, from its name. 

Having first entered the F&B market though its Cielo Dolci gelato, it has now spanned to a full fledge cafe, serving food, and apart from some interesting gelato flavors, they have also infused selected flavors into their food offering. 

Logo that represents gelato 

The drink preparation and gelato section at the forefront of the cafe 

The gelato flavors are listed on the wall, and I thought, how would it be possible to have a Nasi Lemak gelato flavor. Upon sampling it, its indeed like I was eating Nasi Lemak, as the gelato was made with sambal. Overall, I see that their price is very reasonable, with only RM7.90 per scoop, RM13.90 for double, and RM18.90 for triple. 

Other flavors include cookies & cream, dark belgian chocolate, jackfruit, salted caramel, rum & raisin and coconut gula melaka. 

I suppose the brief to the person to come out with the gelato flavors, was "let your imagination run wild!"

Door to enter is below the guy. Cute! 

I was tempted to try their new offering, the Salmon Gelato & Rosti. A dish that totally led my  curiosity to tinkle. I can't imagine how would salmon gelato taste. 

When served, I was pleased with the presentation of a sunny side up egg and the salmon gelato on top of the rosti. The rosti tasted extremely good, with slight crust, while using loads of potatoes within. I'm a potato lover, thus, this would be the food to feed me. 

The salmon gelato totally took me by surprise. It has just enough taste of salmon, but not fishy in that context, and the texture of gelato was so creamy and yummy. 

Salmon Gelato & Rosti. Price-RM17.50

Working with Artisan Roastery, Whimsical created some specialty blend. They also inspire to come out with variety of intriguing pairings combining gelato and coffee. 

I went for the safe option by having Latte. It was indeed a good cup of coffee, with just the right amount of milk with espresso. 

Latte. Price-RM10

Whimsical Gelateria & Cafe 
(shoplots outside Publika, facing Namoo)
D2-G3-05, Solaris Dutamas, 
No 1 Jalan Dutamas 1, 
50480 Kuala Lumpur 

Tel : 03-6419 0966

Business Hours : 11am-11pm (Mon, Wed, Thu), 11am-12mn (Fri), 10am-12mn (Sat), 10am-11pm(Sun) 

Facebook page, here

The Curious Goat @ Damansara Perdana, PJ

Among all the cafes, its interesting that The Curious Goat is named after the Kaldi legend, where coffee is believed to have originated from the Ethiopian highlands. 

Its such a ideal work environment where one can work with their friends, and lucky them, The Curious Goat is run by 3 friends who were trained at Coffee Societe. A relaxed atmosphere was almost apparent when I stepped in to this cafe, and I liked it that they used industrial style cafe concept, where they used mainly wooden tables. A contrast of wall colors was used, where on one side is white, and black on the other. 

A view from the back of cafe

Different expressions on paper cups, on display 

Some items on display

The Curious Goat used Toraja coffee which is grown in Indonesia's Sulawesi region of Tana Taroja Highland, which is coffee that carries walnut and caramel-like sweetness, completed with hints of fruit and layer of dark chocolate. The coffee beans are of top grade, with 100% Arabica beans, which tight quality control implemented to the beans. The beans are roasted locally by Sprezzatura. 

I ordered their Honey Latte. The coffee taste does carried a light hint of fruits, with a light density of coffee.  Despite the coffee has a good balance of sweetness that came from honey, I still feel that coffee is best tasted without any additional flavoring. 

Honey Latte. Price-RM11

My friend ordered their Honey Lemon. This is a common drink that doesn't require much explanation on, however, yes, they are generous with their usage of lemon. True sourness that will open up one's appetite, for sure. 

Fresh Lemon With Honey. Price-RM10

We ordered a slice of tiramisu for sharing. Layers of sponge cakes filled and frosted with lots of creamy cheese, and topped with caramelized nut, it is a good choice for us. The wetness of the sponge cake was just nice. Definitely satisfied our craving for dessert. I trust that this cake taste could be alleviated further with more usage of coffee within the sponge cake. 

Tiramisu. Price-RM14

Apart from coffee and cakes, The Curious Goat also offer light pasta dishes. 

The Curious Goat 
20-1, Jalan PJU 8/3A, 
Damansara Perdana, 
47820 Petaling Jaya 

Tel : 03-7733 7383 

Business Hours : 
Mon-Thu 8am-10pm, Fri 8am-11pm, 
Sat 11am-11pm, Sun 11am-10pm 

FB link, here