You can have it all…

My friend/ex-student told me about this place…

…which was once occupied by an outlet of this Singapore franchise but that eventually called it a day, including their other outlet in another part of town.

No, it did not get me all excited as this is one part of the town centre where parking can be a pain so I wasn’t in a hurry to go and check it out. However, it so happened that I spotted a vacant parking lot close by that day and I wasted no time at all in grabbing it and walking there. Besides, everytime I drove past, the place looked quite deserted and I was amazed that it managed to stay open this long.

They open at 8.00 a.m. and you can order what they have in their menu including these rice sets…

…and at night, opening hours from around 6.00 p.m. till 9.00 p.m., you can order dishes…

…like at any of those not-very-big chu char (cook & fry) restaurants.

Right now, probably in an effort to push their business a bit, they have this chap fan (mixed rice) promotion, Mondays to Fridays from 10.30 a.m. to 2.30 p.m. but it seemed that they do not stick rigidly to those hours. We were there past 11.00 a.m. and they only had these dishes…

…and these vegetables…

…in the food cabinet right beside the entrance…

…and two more came out after a while. What I was told was that for RM5.00, one would be able to have all 10 options available daily but these two came out…

…after we had started eating so we only had 8 to choose from, together with the complimentary chicken seaweed soup…

Unfortunately, we were not allowed to help ourselves – there was a lady there and we just had to tell her what we wanted and she would put them in our plates of rice. I must say that she was not very generous, far from it and the plate was rather small. I did not bother to ask whether we could have double servings or not as the lady did not seem very keen on chatting.

This was what I had…

…and my missus had this…

…and we both thought the food was all right, not over oily and no msg overdose unlike many of these Chinese chap fan places around town but we probably would not be dropping by again as I wouldn’t say it was anything that would get us rushing back for more and besides, my missus caught a glimpse of some guy in the kitchen with a cigarette in his mouth but she could not see if he was involved in the cooking or not. I guess there would be others elsewhere doing that same thing as well but as the saying goes, what one does not know/see would not hurt him or her.

MY HOME TOWN CAFE (2.292374, 111.826991) is located at No. 22, Jalan Bindang beside the SCR chicken rice outlet in the Tunku Osman area of shops, right behind the Hong Kong Bank building.