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Traditional Coffee shop in the heart of Low Yat

The Kopi Club
Lower Ground Plaza Low Yat
10am - 10pm daily
Asian cuisine

Was gonna go get some replacement parts for my house computer stuff (caused by stupid lightning the other day) at Plaza Low Yat (where all computer people / geeks / nerds like me call their second home).

Lunch time! I’m hungry…

Arrived at Low Yat at about 1pm with my brother and cousin in tow cause they were bored at home and wanted to get out of the house. Decided to have lunch first, we were initially planning on going for our usual at the vegetarian shop on the Lower Ground floor of Plaza Low Yat, but when we reached the place, the lot was covered with boards with a big "Under Renovation" sign. Lazy as I am, I just went to the nearest food source, next door. The Kopi Club

Getting There

The shop it self is located at the Lower Ground floor, directly facing the side of the escalator and pretty much 1 shop away from the doorway to the underground parking, so if you parked in lowyat, you can’t miss it walking out from the parking.

The Atmosphere and crowd

The decor has a pretty old style feel to it, but nice and clean. Small marble tables to accomodate 4 person just nice, wooden stools all round, the place even served hot typical hot beverages (coffee, milo, etc) in the old style white and blue print coffee cups and saucers. I like the setup, it’s nice and cozy and casual. Most of the patrons are related to IT in some way, either working or shopping in Low Yat.

The Food

I ordered the Mee Siam, where as both my cousin and brother ordered the Mee Goreng, then we decided to order some spring rolls, but they were out, so we took the yam cakes instead. Since the place is called The Kopi Club, i ordered Milo Ice (yes i know milo is not coffee, but i’m not that into coffee).

	Mee Siam A Mee Siam was basically thin noodles (cantonese : mee hoon) cooked into some sort of a salty soury kinda taste, kinda hard to descibe. Usually the dish would be accompanied with slices of some egg omelette, but mine was served with a lop sided bulls eye. No matter, an egg is an egg. The dish was topped with cucumber slices and some spring onions and matched with a slice of lime and served on a banana leaf on a plate. The taste was alright, nothing special there, but the dish did include a few tiny prawns (inset), which was pretty nice, just wished they chopped the tails off as well.
	Mee Goreng The Mee Goreng was pretty standard with all the usual suspects as ingredients: mee , some greens, slices of fresh chilly, and a slice of limejust like the Mee Siam. In case you’ve never eaten a Mee Goreng before, you’re supposed to squeeze the lime over the dish before digging in just like a salmon fillet. The taste was what a mee goreng is supposed to taste like, no surprises there. Mee was tender, not too hard not too soft or soggy. and the portion was just nice for an afternoon snack.
	Yam Cake Pronounced as "wu tau gou" in cantonese, this is made of yam into a form of cake with bitesized chunks of yam and other miscellaneous stuff like dried prawns, in some cases, pieces of meat. A Yam Cake is supposed to be a little salty and in most cases served with sweet chilly sauce and some sort of sweet sauce. It is also topped with crispy fried onion and green spring onions and other salty toppings (which i couldn’t identify )
	Milo Ice Rich with milo, a tad on the sweet side, but that’s how i like my milo ice overall i’d give the Milo Ice a thumbs up if you’ve got a sweet tooth.

Conclusion

It’s a quaint little coffee shop to have some typical malaysian dishes after a few hours of browsing the hardware and handphone shops in Plaza Low Yat.