Where to Eat in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

This post is continue on our Kuala Lumpur trip but about the food trail. About flight info, prepaid sim card, move around in this city, hotel, can refer to previous post: Where to go in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
First day arrived, did not have a proper meal whole morning, after checked in, we headed to Coliseum Cafe. Established in 1921, this cafe is one of the oldest in Malaysia. I get to know this via some travel tv programs. They have few branches, but to experience the colonial atmosphere, the main branch (first cafe) is must go.

Coliseum Cafe & Grill Room
98-100 & 102
Jalan Tuanku Abdul Rahman
50100 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Tel No. 60 3 2692 6270
Business Hours: 10 am - 10 pm

First cafe of Coliseum Cafe opened in 1921 at Jalan Tungku Abdul Rahman.

In the olden days, their customers mainly were those colonial masters. 

 Oxtail Soup, RM19.90

Lovely soup, cooked with sufficient ingredient. Dipped with bread, nice!

Hainanese Chicken Chop, RM 24.90 

In the olden days, most chefs were Hainanese, worked for colonial masters thus picked up

the western cooking skills.

With different tomato source due to different region, the source was tasty and different with

those in Singapore.

Signature dish - Sizzling Aussie T Bone Steak, RM59.90 

Made it sizzling by chef in front of you.

Signature dish - Sizzling Aussie T Bone Steak, RM59.90

 Side dish - Coleslaw

Garlic Toast, RM6.50

Must have for my oxtail soup / mushroom soup. Heehee

Mushroom Soup, RM10.90

 The Bar

Next day morning, went for famous Hainanese coffee and local breakfast. Ah Weng Koh Hainan Tea & Coffee started since 1964 at Imbi Market. After Imbi Market closed for re-development, they shifted to ICC Pudu building together with other stalls from the market. Ah Weng Koh signature dishes just simply South East Asian style breakfast - Hainanese coffee & tea, soft boiled egg and toast with coconut jam (kaya jam) and butter. With few decades, no wonder they mastered the skills and made well-known.

See my previous post about South East Asian style breakfast, coffee, soft boiled egg and toast with kaya jam with butter. (1) At Batam (2) At Tanjung Pinang

Well, unfortunately that Sunday so crowded we skipped this Ah Weng Koh and went into the food court in the same building. Turned out the porridge also from a famous stall, still satisfied.

Address:

ICC Pudu

Jalan 1/77C Pudu

Kuala Lumpur 55100

ICC Pudu, photo courtesy:  timeout.com

 Crowded Ah Weng Koh, photo courtesy: Kentz Food Adventure

Smooth crispy pork intestine porridge, from Seng Kee (生记).

Chee cheong fun is KL style, different with those in Singapore. 

With fried stuffs, sweet source and curry. I liked it.

Chee cheong fun (猪肠粉) = rice noodle roll  

The Food Court

  

The same day dinner, we headed to Tower 'The Troika' for sky fine dining. With the same price, we cannot have it in Singapore like MBS, so is a good deal for me.

Troika Sky Dining has 4 restaurant named Fuego, Strato, Claret and Cantaloupe.

Fuego is a Spanish restaurant. Strato is Italian. Claret focus on various liquors. Cantaloupe headed by celebrity chef Christian Bauer. Recently at Channel New Asia, he hosted a series of tv program about travel to various countries to cook for the royal families. (tv program: Cooking for the Crown)

We selected Italian cuisine at Strato. With the view of Kuala Lumpur, nice food, enjoyable life.

Strato

Level 23A, Tower B, The Troika

19 Persiaran KLCC, 50450 Kuala Lumpur

Tel 60 3 2162 0886

Pizza Marghanita, RM 40

The Italian flag colour pizza. Crispy and nice ingredient, worth it.

Lobster Minestro, RM 35

Tasty Soup

Lobster Pasta, RM 85

I could taste the ingredients were top-notch. You have what you pay.

Had Italian bread and olive oil before the meal.

Fragrant olive oil paired with home made Italian bread, very nice.

Fresh Orange Juice, RM 18

     

Night view with KL twin tower.

The next day morning, we had breakfast at hotel (Oasia Suites Kuala Lumpur). Enough spread of breakfast, satisfied meal. 

Noon time, we headed to Kuala Lumpur's Orchard Road - Bukit Bintang area. A well-known shopping district in Kuala Lumpur. Wife wanted to continue to shop as many malls to walk, could not finish in previous day.

For lunch, we settled at Lot10 mall. The food court called Lot 10 Hutong. The owner gathered all old and famous KL stalls here to let customers can have them all under one roof.

Lot 10 Hutong (十号胡同)
Lot 10 Shopping Centre
LG Floor
50 Jalan Sultan Ismail
50250 Kuala Lumpur
Tel 60 3 2782 3500

KL style claypot loh shu fun / rice noodle. With fragrant lard and soy bean sauce, i liked this.

Cantonese style roasted duck and pork with rice.

Last station at Pavilion Mall, had a rest and tasted the local prawn noodle (生虾麵).

Grandmama's
Lot 6.01.02 & P6.01.06, Level 6
Pavilion Kuala Lumpur
No. 168, Jalan Bukit Bintang
55100 Kuala Lumpur
Tel 60 3 2143 9333

Dried Fried Sang Har Egg Noodle

干煎生虾滑蛋生麵

RM 42

Strong prawn flavor, suitable for those like prawn.  

 Local Dessert (八宝冰), RM 9

 

Where to go in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

This post is to talk about our July 2016 trip to Kuala Lumpur, the capital of Malaysia. Made a trip there, shopping and met friends. A nice trip.

Night of Kuala Lumpur, shoot from the roof top of hotel we stayed.

How to Go

They are couple of budget airlines fly from Singapore to this city. Among them: Air Asia, Scoot, Tiger Airway, Jetstar, Firefly, we selected Jetstar. Reason being is Jetstar and Tiger offered lowest fare, but Jetstar schedule is most suitable to us. Total cost us S$184 including 20 kgs baggage and return 30 kgs.

KLIA, Kuala Lumpur International Airport

How to Stay Connect

See my previous post about which Telco to choose for the prepaid card in Malaysia.

Where to Eat in Ipoh, Malaysia

Basically I selected this Telco is because it offered 'Super Long Life' option which my phone line can last for a year without top up. Convenient for those often travel North to Malaysia.

How to Go Around

Those with friend or relative there, borrow a car is an option. Rent a car also not a bad idea. This is because the public transport there is not really convenient as Singapore so besides these 2 options, then will be Uber. 

Heard about the taxi robbery cases there, dishonest taxi drivers, rude drivers, so the impression is not really good. Did some research and realized Uber is available there and quite good reviews too. 

Uber, this company has mobile app that allow consumers with smartphone to submit trip request to Uber drivers with their own car. A new business model that utilize technology to match the supply and demand, sharing of ordinary people resources. Download the app, sign in, then now you are ready to go. 

From the day we touched down at KLIA (Kuala Lumpur International Airport) till go back, all our trips were by Uber. Very convenient and cost is the lowest compare to taxi or even the Airport Express - the non stop high speed train travel between airport and city centre. Only one thing to take note is due to recent cases about Uber drivers and passengers being beaten by taxi driver gang, Uber passengers may be requested to drop at those entries that without taxi stand. Or passenger may be requested to sit front seat to pretend being given a ride by friend.     

Uber app: @Apple 

Where to Stay
Oasia Suites Kuala Lumpur offered me opening promotion with pay 1st night, second night free. After checked the reviews in TripAdvisor, not bad, so I booked it. Modern, clean room, friendly staffs, a good choice. The first night cost me RM309. It means per night only RM155, a good deal.

Oasia Suites Kuala Lumpur
No. 10 Lorong P Ramlee
50250 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Hotel Tel. 603 272 66788
Reservation Tel. 603 688 18888

Located opposite of Kuala Lumpur Tower. This shoot was taken at roof top swimming pool of hotel.

Deluxe room arrangement come with built-in kitchenette. With washing machine cum dryer. 

A tv at living room and one more at bedroom.

Living Room

Night view taken at roof top swimming pool.

Another night I selected Palace of the Golden Horses, a hotel looks like palace and decorated by all horse related. Like horse statue, paint, furniture, etc. It was famous in the 90s, hosted world's leaders, royal families, celebrities. I got to know this hotel via a MV below.

 
Palace of the Golden Horses
Jalan Kuda Emas
Mines Resort City
43300 Seri Kembangan
Selangor, Malaysia
Tel. 603 8946 4888
Email sales@pgh.mines.com.my

Cost: RM299/night (Deluxe Room)

 Golden Horses at the Entrance

 The Swimming Pool

Main Lobby

 Light with Horse

Horse Carpet

 The room we stayed.

Toiletries with horse shape.

Not a bad idea with affordable price and stayed in this palace style hotel. I viewed it as a theme park for me to take many photos, haha.

For places to visit, we went to shopping district, Bukit Bintang area. It is like our Orchard Road, shopping malls everywhere. You can go to Sungai Wang to hunt for good bargain, Starhill for luxury stuffs, and many more. (e.g. Time Square, Pavilion, Lot 10, etc)
We spent 2 days in Pavilion as the mall is big and main attraction for wife is the Korean fashion brands that unable to find in Singapore. They are Spao, Who. A. U. and Mixxo.

Pavilion Kuala Lumpur
168 Jalan Bukit Bintang, Bukit Bintang
55100 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Tel. 603 2118 8888
Opening: daily 1000hr - 2200hr

Pavilion Kuala Lumpur

Bukit Bintang Shopping District

This view taken from Strato Sky Dining Restaurant.

It is a good idea to visit there as we pay lower compare to

visit those sky dining restaurants in Singapore.

 Nice food and nice views.

This will be covered in later post.