Yes, yes, yes…

…except that its name is in fact, not YES but YS…

…whatever the acronym stands for.

This coffee shop is located at the corner of a very nice block of shops at Wisma Hamimas, Kampung Nangka here (2.310715, 111.820735), right beside this cat café on the 1st floor…

It has been around for quite sometime now and I would drive past very often as my parents’ house is pretty close by and I would take this route home quite regularly after visiting them and spending some time with them every morning. We never bothered to stop by though as this place would always be packed with people, giving the impression that the food must be really great…but I am not all that fond of crowded places and long waits to be served.

The cat café is relatively new. I understand you can bring along your pets when you drop by to have dinner…but I’ve never been there to check it out. For one thing, I am not all that keen on going up staircases plus it only opens at 3, not for breakfast, brunch or lunch and besides, I don’t have a pussy. Hehehehehe!!!!

So what took us to this coffee shop that morning? Well, if you remember I went and tried the gula apong (nipah palm sugar) ice cream in Kuching that people seemed to be praising to the skies but I must say that I was quite disappointed – it wasn’t anything to shout about and definitely not anything I would want to have again. A friend who has tried it all told me that he likes the one here most of all and I did hear from some other people as well that it is very nice…and as the test of the pudding is in the eating, I took the trouble to stop by and ordered one (RM3.00)…

…to try and yes, it was indeed really very good!

The ice cream was so smooth, very rich and very creamy…

…and while the one here had vanilla ice cream with a drizzle of gula apong, in the case of this one, the ice cream itself was gula apong-flavoured and that certainly pushed it up a class above that other one that I went to try. I would say that I enjoyed it tremendously and I certainly would look forward to dropping by for more.

As for the food, I had their nasi lemak special (RM6.00)…

…and that, I must say, was very expensive for nothing more than the usual condiments and some rather badly-battered fried chicken…

…and a salted fish. The rice was not lemak (rich with santan/coconut milk) and they were somewhat stingy with the sambal…which wasn’t very nice, anyway. I’ve had others a lot nicer elsewhere and I am pretty sure I’ve had some that are cheaper as well.

My missus had the mee mamak (RM5.50)…

…with a special request for it to be extra pedas but it wasn’t. To be fair, it tasted all right but there was so little of it that it barely filled half the plate and RM5.50 is rather steep, I would think.

Based on what we had, I really could not fathom why this place would be packed every morning (except Mondays – that is their off day in the week), what it was that everyone seems to enjoy so much that it keeps them coming back for more. I looked around and saw a lot of them having kampua noodles with black soy sauce, the halal version, of course…but if I wanted that, I would go for one of my favourites in town – the real thing, non-halal.

Of course I would be back – not for the food and not at those prices but for the gula apong ice cream. It would be great on hot afternoons…and I probably would want more than just a serving – I wonder if they have a larger size.