I love you…

This Taiwanese franchise has an outlet here for many years now but I hardly ever drop by as it is at a mega mall on another side of town and I seldom venture to those parts of the woods. I did stop by a couple of times on the rare occasions when I was at the mall and yes, I did like what I bought there.

Well, they have opened a new outlet here…

…a collaboration with Bao & Co and Umami Oden & Pop. They put up the sign sometime ago but it did not look like they were going to open and when I was in the vicinity early last Sunday morning, 7 something, I spotted some people there so I walked over to have a look.

Yes, it is now open for business…

…but not all, only the I love yoo! The other two have yet to start, it seems.

I spotted these…

…kept warm in these huge cauldrons…

…and of course, that got me all excited.

I love lek dou shuang/split mung bean soup (RM4.90)…

…but I do not know of any place where it is available here. That was why everytime I went to Kuching, I would make it a point to go for that and of course, I bought the yoo tiao (RM2.80) to go with it…

No, it did not come cheap, not at all but it…

…was so very nice, nicer than any that I had had in Kuching or anywhere else. I certainly would want to go back there again for more!

Yes, other than the yoo tiao, they have all the other deep-fried stuff in their glass display cabinets…

I bought their butterfly fritters (RM2.80)…

…and yes, they were very nice, just that the ones I bought here were just as nice or perhaps even nicer and they were only RM1.00 each and their yoo tiao (yew char koi) was only RM1.20 each..

I bought their curry puffs too…

…the potatoes set (RM7.30 for 3)…

…and their spiral curry puffs, also known as karipap pusing (螺旋咖喱角), chicken (RM8.80 for 3)…

…but the filling in the former was way too salty for my liking. The latter was all right but no, they did not sweep me off my feet. I prefer the ones here, nicer and cheaper too but I would much sooner go for the baked ones with the shortcrust pastry – my favourite is the one here and these not-very-nice-looking ones are actually pretty nice too.

Incidentally, to whom it may concern, if you are tapao-ing home or back to the office, it is best to bring your own containers and carrier bags because they will charge you 50 sen for each plastic tub and 20 sen for one plastic bag.

Yes, I shall go back there again, that’s for sure, for the lek dou shuang, if not for anything else and hopefully, when the other two sharing the premises open for business, there will be some other nice stuff available here.

I LOVE YOO!/BAO & Co/UMAMI ODEN & POP (2.292041, 111.826320) is located along Jalan Kai Peng, off Jalan Kpg Nyabor, right beside the HSBC (Hong Kong Bank) building, to the left, across the road from the PETRONAS (formerly ESSO) petrol station.