Brunch…

Last Sunday, after the morning church service, we dropped by here again, this time for brunch – unlike most places here, they open early, at 9.00 a.m. which is indeed quite convenient for those keen on having breakfast there.

I was glad to note that they had decided to do away with those cheap no-class-at-all fake flowers that they had on every table the last time we were here but they still had the same system though – you go to the counter, place your orders with the cashier and pay before you proceed to your table carrying this card holder…

…with a letter on it – ours was a T.

I thought the old-school telephone was kind of cute but too bad, the mouth piece had dropped off…

…and they did not bother to glue it back using Super Glue or whatever.

Incidentally, some sections of their menu on the wall had been blurred as those items, according to what was indicated across those sections, would only be available after 11.00 a.m…

It did not matter as what I wanted was in the Classic Breakfast section – the Benedict Egg & Bread (RM16.00) and this was what I got…

Oh dear! Was that a poached egg? Whatever happened to all the white? Swimming around in the boiling water? I can do eggs in various forms very well but I am still quite hopeless when it comes to poached eggs – now do not tell me to add salt or vinegar or cooking oil or whatever, I’ve tried all those…and even though my poached eggs aren’t really how I would like them to be, I do think mine looks a little nicer than this one here…

– it looked kind of under-done and of course, the yolk was runny – it was raw, almost! The Hollandaise sauce was fine, the bread in the middle was kind of hard – I would be quite happy with just the toast under the egg…and the salad, like the last time I had it, was very much to my liking.

My missus has their mee mamak (RM16.00)…

…and it was all right. I tried a bit and despite there being a whole lot of ingredients, really big prawns and all, I did not think it was anything exceptional, not something I would want to order for myself the next time we drop by here.

All our orders came with a complimentary drink and both of us had their black coffee…

…while my girl had their orange juice but no, it wasn’t freshly squeezed, just something out of those tetra pak cartons, Sunkist, to be exact.

She ordered their seafood hor fun (RM16.00)…

…which turned out to be wat tan hor actually and they were quite generous with those big prawns and sotong (squid) and yes, she thought it was pretty nice. She particularly loved the fact that they used hor fun for the dish – yes, they had the somewhat thinner and translucent hor fun and they were using that, not our thick and white local kway teow.

Service was great, the girl waiting at our table was very efficient and friendly…and while we were there, I spotted the people at the next table having their club sandwich and also their focaccia sandwich and both looked very good – perhaps I will go for those the next time I drop by here.

CAFFEINE CAFE is located on the ground floor of Wisma Liberty, Block 3, Lorong Pedada 7, off Jalan Pedada – on your left, past the Jalan Ulu Oya Road traffic lights if you are coming from town, just a few doors away from Nica Gelateria (2.302620, 111.842988), to the left at the end of that same block.