Ali Baba…
…is here and Aladdin…
…is right next door.
We did drop by the former once for the nasi biryani but we were not all that impressed and I was put off by the poor service at the time. The drinks were awful and they were served a long time after I had finished eating my order…and other than that, we felt the prices were a bit on the high side, similar to what they had at their former place which was a lot nicer and classier whereas this one is nothing more than a regular coffee shop, a 24-hour one at that.
I was out early one morning and the place I was heading to had yet to open its doors for the day so I decided to drop by here for breakfast. The kopi-o-peng kao (RM1.70)…
…I had wasn’t anything great but at least, it was better than that first time we were here…and yes, it was a cut above those at many of the Malay eating places in town.
I did not try the roti canai…
…and whatever they had there. Perhaps I would do that some other time.
I decided to try the mee kampua sup sapi (RM5.00)…
…from this stall…
…thinking that I would get a plate of kampua mee kosong, dry and a bowl of beef soup but it turned out to be beef noodles soup using kampua mee instead of the usual yellow noodles…
I enjoyed the chili dip…
…a lot, very spicy, very nice but I did not bother with the white pepper and whatever black sauces provided.
The soup did not have any beef flavour – if it had, I could not taste it at all but that is not to say that it wasn’t nice. I thought it was pretty good, something like kampua mee soup or what we call chin th’ng mee (clear soup noodles) but of course, this being a halal place, they would not be using pork bones for the stock to make the soup.
I wouldn’t say they were very generous with the beef either…
…and I left that calamansi lime on the edge like that, untouched. The last time I squeezed that into my bakso soup, it absolutely ruined the taste so I would not want that to happen again.
I was early that morning but I have noticed that this place has its following – it seems mighty popular and is often somewhat crowded. I may or may not drop by again to try what else they may have to offer here, this much I would say at this point in time.
RESTORAN CHEF ALIBABA/SALAM ALIBABA KAFE (2.291138, 111.827302) is located at No. 4, Jalan Kampung Nyabor in the same building as Malaysia Hotel here, to the left of the hotel entrance.
