Cafe Old Town

This place has been a very popular venue to hang out, and even Starbucks or Coffee Bean can't rival its popularity. I've always wanted to come and check out the menu prepared for blog but this situation as seen here has been the same since it opened many many months back.

Better luck next time I suppose...

ANONYMOUS ROOTS OF CENTRAL

PHOTO EXHIBITON AND CHARITY SALES

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I'M BACK

YEP it's been too long... I've renewed the motivation to faithfully report the new brew and everything coffee in my town and yours... stay tuned, come back more often, sit down and relax...

? THE BEST COFFEE IN TOWN

Last night I wasn't really ouit to do coffee tasting, but what do you make of such claims you see on the wall? I had to come in and give it a try... there's no any other way about it...

The place is a well known destination amongst budget backpackers, and their coffeeshop opens almost all the time. It is also christened the Backpackers Museum, showcasing war and post war memorablias, what caught my attention most are the war poems posted along the stairs, under a big bright neon caption "Lest We Forget Your Sacrifice". Nice.

They seemingly have quite a good variety of food on the menu, but since last night I was quite single-minded to get some fried rice from another place, I ordered something light... and so surprisingly cheap...

Even Coffee Bean can't beat the decos they have here... authentic. Love it.

I had bottled coffee RM1.00 and charcoal toasted bread, also RM1.00. The coffee is just plain chilled sweetened americano presented in a green bottle, but the idea is really pleasing. I've not seen this done elsewhere.

Dim lighting and conducive ambiance for deep chat with friends (or date)... Definitely will be back.

Bread toasted on charcoal, then slapped on butter and sugar... nice.

Determined to come back for an interview with the Boss.

After that, I walked down to another cafe that I've discovered much much earlier, The Yesteryear Cafe. The first time I came they were playing jazz in the background. Quite crowded with locals and foreigners alike downing away sets of beer and stouts.

Lately the ambiance has been a little less than favourable for my liking, mostly because the last 3 visits they have been showing Wrestling on their 2 tvs. The plave is fast losing its attractiveness as an escapade for me to run away into a little world of my own.

But the main reason I come back is this, Lagi Aramaiti fried rice (with sausage, egg, pineapple and mixed vegetable), with sunny side up and a piece of chicken wing RM7.50. The iced coffee is just so-so. RM2.00.

IN DIRE NEED FOR A REVIVAL...

Yea, the coffee-blogger has been out for a while, but not in short of coffee... but the mood will return, come on guys, cheer him up, he will write... he will write again, soon....

PRODUCT REVIEW

NUTRIGEN LITE-YO
CAPPUCCINO VANILLA & NATA DE COCO
SUNNY SUPERMARKET, TG ARU
RM 2.50

This is something new, I've never thought that even yogurt can be flavoured with coffee. The smell is a little bit off, imagine a sour smell in your coffee, but the taste is good. Very good, if not for the nata de coco, which in my opinion is totally unnecessary and contributes little to the nutritional value of the whole product. For this I'm going to give it 7.8/10!

POWER ROOT ALICAFE
COFFEE WITH TONGKAT ALI
7-ELEVEN
RM 2.70

This didn't work for me. Generally I think there's too much hoo-haa given to everything tongkat ali, still I can tolerate the 3-in-1 type of the same brand, but the one in the can just did it badly. Yucks. 2.1/10

SUNDROP PREMIUM
MILK COFFEE
7-ELEVEN
RM 2.00

I like my coffee bold, and strong... which means it tend to be a tad bit more bitter than the usual cuppa ordinary people would consume, but I won't define this anything near to bold or strong. If you can imagine drinking charcoal with milk, that's what Sundrop Premium is. Doesn't work at all. 1.95/10

POKKA CAPPUCCINO
7-ELEVEN
RM 2.00

Again one of those that thinks that they'd up the class of their product by calling it cappuccino or espresso or something with coffee jargons... this can of capp tastes like leong-fun jelly, I can't really figure out either its the milk or the coffee actually that makes it taste like that. Just so-so... 5.3/10

POKKA MILK COFFEE
7-ELEVEN
RM 2.00

I can't really differentiate between this can of leong-fun tasting beverage and the one above. If the one before is a cappuccino, I suppose this is their version of latte. But still didn't work for me. 5.3/10

POKKA INSTANT COFFEE
7-ELEVEN
RM 2.00

Of all, this one I don't understand at all... were we not talking about instant coffee all this while? Is it trying to say that this is more time saving than the 3-in-1 type of instant coffee because they already mix it with water? This left me confused but I have to say, that the instant coffee type tastes slightly better than the other two, so I'll give it a 5.4/10.

NESCAFE MOCHA
7-ELEVEN
RM 2.00

Although I have a friend that swears that Nescafe is not coffee, but thank God for Nescafe after all the above. This mocha in a can is my favourite of all the three versions they have, but 7-eleven was out of stock that time. Maybe I'm bias in this, since it's my favourite drink, but hey, it's my rating system. This is a plain 8.9/10!

insomnia tonight...

PRODUCT REVIEW

NESTLE KIT KAT
CAFE LATTE FLAVOUR - LIMITED EDITION
CKS HYPERMART
RM 5.00
RATING 6/10

If you like Kit Kat, you'd probably like this, because it's Kit Kat.. but the faint coffee taste in it doesn't justify the price as compared to the ordinary version.