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Dine-in Date: 29th November 2015 It has been at least 7 or 8 years since I last came to Taman Desa. If it's not because of cafe hunt, it's gonna take longer for me to realize how different this place had became compare to the last time I'm here. I'm totally surprise and amazed of how much Taman Desa had changed over the years. And I'm only visiting one part of the place which I used to hang around a lot when I was still a student there.

Especially Faber Tower, it's giving me a feeling like I walk into an unbelievable fantasy world because Faber Tower used to be a building that literally has nothing other than few shops open for some simple services like printing shops, groceries, and small restaurant. Other than that, the entire design, layout and environment is totally dull and all of us believe that the closing of Faber Tower is just a few years time back to year 2007/08. Although there are lots of empty shops now, but there are some nice cafes and super market, and it looks totally new and expandable.

Okay back to Sunconure Gateau Cafe. Today I just decided to visit this place that gave me so much of memories because I don't feel like going too far away like PJ area, and my intention was just to hang around and see what's new there. When I got really amazed of what's inside of Faber Tower, I passed by Sunconure Gateau Cafe and the colorful, simple yet comfortable environment attracted my cafe hunts senses. It doesn't took me long before I decided to add this cafe into my blogging list.

About SunConure Gateau Cafe

Sunconure Gateau Cafe is a new cafe. There isn't much info I could obtain about this cafe. I just found out that they open quite recently, around earlier November 2015.

Sunconure, or Sun Conure, is a type of parrot with bright color and beautiful appearance in South America. They also known as Sun Parakeet. You can see the Sunconure parrot as their symbol of the cafe before you enter the shop and in their menu.

Perhaps it's the owner's favorite type of bird due to their appearance. The owner of Sunconure Gateau Cafe is a designer who work on the design and environment of the cafe. Thus, you won't get the ordinary type of just-another-cafe feeling when you look at it from the outside and when you enter the place.

The entire place is mostly on wooden furniture but added with some greeny decoration and flowers. It's kind of like dining in a simple yet beautiful garden. I think one of the strong impact is the green bushes in random places and the greeny wall near to the seats that provide the comfy feeling. Sunconure Gateau Cafe serve western cuisines range from sandwich, waffle, muffin, cookies, burgers, as well as drinks such as coffee, tea, hot chocolate and etc. The only lacking is their tea, as they only serve English Tea and Early Gray. Their menu is just right beside the counter. You can grab the menu, get a seat and take your time deciding what you want. You gotta make your order at the counter upon deciding what you want. If you need recommendation, you can always ask the staff for recommendation and they are really friendly.

There isn't much customers when I was there. But I'm guessing if there are a few tables of customers there and their focus is to chit-chat, the place can be quite noisy. Other than that, it's a peaceful place with great lighting for reading and study/working purpose. There are variety of affordable desserts and light snacks to fill up your stomach too.

Sweet Delights

This is their home made cookies and some of the best cookies I had so far, although I don't have too much experience when comes to cookies and biscuit. And guess what? IT'S FREE!! Maybe because of promotion. But still happy as i didn't expect this. I did not manage to get the name of the two type of cookies, but apparently it's ginger bread man and raisin & nuts cookie. The ginger bread man is not the expected shape that we can see from other place but the taste is really nice. It has slightly soft and crunchy texture, unlike cookies that only allow you to taste the hardness of cookie. Does it contain ginger taste? I'm not sure but I could taste slight sweetness but not too much. There is a type of aroma that I couldn't explain as it's not really strong, but the overall taste is really great. And the raisin & nuts cookie is superb. Soft and crunchy texture as well and same goes to the contains, yet so full of different kind of nutty tastes mixed into one bite. i'm starting to miss the cookies already. The Chocolate Caramel Banana Waffle (RM11.50) is my adventurous decision, and I really want to say that it's worth much more than the price. The waffle itself is nothing too special other than soft and chewy, it's the ordinary waffle that has the standard quality. The real deal is the banana and sauce on top of the waffle.

The banana is just perfect. Fresh, soft, sweet, superb. I can't really taste the caramel, perhaps it's mixed into the sauce. But the sauce is extremely good. I love it when it's not over sweet, in the sense that I can't taste anything other than sweetness. It's the moderate type of sweet that give delectable sensation in your mouth as you eat along with the waffle but the sweetness does not overtake the whole chewing experience.

Not to forget the ice cream and the cream. The cream is soft and really smooth, just not my preference to consume too much of it. The chocolate ice cream is less sweet, just enough for you to taste the chocolate flavor and add the cooling taste as you chew it with the waffle. The Signature Flat White (RM9.50) has a smooth texture and great flavor to spend some peaceful and quiet time in the rainy day. it would be great if I can have a view to the outside, staring at the rainy scene. I wasn't quite sure what was missing at that time when the staff ask how was the coffee. I think a stronger aroma and espresso taste in this Flat White would be great.

Contact & Location

Monday to Sunday: 10am - 10pm

Lot G1A, Ground Floor, Podium Block, Faber Towers, Jalan Desa Bahagia, 58100 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

SunConure Gateau Cafe's Facebook: Click Here
Phone Number: 010-220 7760
E-mail: sunconurecafe@gmail.com

Other Facility

Payment type: Cash only
Wifi: Yes
Power Cable Availability: One power supply available at almost every table.
Smoking Area: Not available

How great it is for widgets hipsters to have one power cable at end of the table without bending down or look at the bottom of tables for cable?
SunConure Gateau Cafe is located inside ground floor of Faber Tower. If you enter Faber Tower through the main entrance, you will find Macaroni food place on your left and a Japanese restaurant on your right; If you enter by the side door, you will find washroom either on your left or right, depending on which side you going in; Entering the backdoor is basically the entrance of De market.

Entering from the main entrance, turn to your left at the further walkway after passing by the escalator on your right. You will see SunConure Gateay Cafe really soon.

If you are entering from any of the side doors, check out the walkway on your left. If you are lucky, you will see SunConure Gateau Cafe very soon. Otherwise, do not worry too much as the place is not really big. Walk around a little and you will find them.

Look for the wooden board surrounded with greeny plants to find them.

Nearby Option

1. Within Faber Tower at the same floor:
   • BreadFruit
   • Coffee Box
   • LDG Brusseries
   • Macaroni
2. Bakeroni Cafe (200m away)
3. Doiffee Cafe (200m away)
4. Await Cafe (320m away)
5. Ficelle (380m away)
6. Le Lapin Cafe (480m away)

Rating

Quality

Good. The pastries is surprisingly good as it's hard to expect such standard in Faber Tower (probably because I'm still having the old Faber Tower in mind). Food range from sandwich, burger, waffle, muffin, and cookies. You get to choose if you want heavy or light snacks. Drinks range is not too much but quite sufficient. In overall, it's really satisfying and food quality comparable with other cafes that have good reviews. Gotta explore more on variety of foods to find out.

Portion

Good. The portion is unexpectedly good as I'm quite surprise that their food could fill me up, instead of leaving me some sweet taste in the mouth but feel nothing in the stomach. If you are looking for sweet delicacies for a second round meal, the food range here consist of medium size meal to light snacks, more than enough to fill up your sweets craving and appetite.

Cost

Highly Worthy. There are foods that charged at average price but there are also other foods that cost lower than other places while serve with great quality.

Service

Excellent. Fast serving speed especially coffee. Friendly and humble staffs that willing to provide recommendation to you and attentive to customers. Willing to serve you water without you asking is a great service too. The best thing? Free cookies~~

Environment

Excellent. Nothing too fancy other than some decorations at the counter based on green plants and gardening concept. But just right to demonstrate a bright and colorful concept with some plants and bushes at different corners. With the right lighting, the environment able to provide customers a peaceful and comfortable feeling like dining in a garden.

The layout of the tables and chairs are quite near to each other as the cafe isn't too big. It can be noisy when too many customers are around. But it's a great hiding place in the weekdays. What else to expect with a power cable available to you as you sit down?

Next Visit?

Quite relief and surprise to find a hideout in Taman Desa. Now I got a stable place to go whenever I'm at Taman Desa. Of course, definitely come back for their waffle again and some cookies.

Dine-in Date: 24th October 2015

This will be one of the most special blog post I ever had because so far, the focus of my food blog was all about the food and the place but this post focus aloooooooot about CATS~~~~

As you would have guess from my blog title, cat cafe will not escape from my hunting list especially when this is one of the easy-to-reach place. I'm quite surprise that not many people knew this place thou.

Before I go into the detail of Purradise, it's furry time~~~ Before I manage to get to a seating place, this cat come to me by himself and he really like to stick with me. See? When cat feel comfortable with you, they would lie down beside you and allow you to touch and cuddle them.

Guess what? His name is "Lembu", means Cow. The worker said it's because of his size. I think the color of his fur also contribute to reason for his name too.

Lembu is the one that stick with me for most of the time since I enter the place until I left. Customers from other tables like him a lot too, as they keep calling for him.

He is really friendly. I can touch his chin and the belly, and he really like it. My cat would bite my hand if I touch her belly.... See how comfortable he is with a stranger like me. Or perhaps I spreading some aura that cats love?

They can wander around and the staffs don't need to look after them all the time. But as usual, they are naughty once in awhile and would mess around. But we usually don't need to worry about them too much because they would either stick with you or sit anywhere. Hey.... now only I notice the cat take a sip on my coffee when I'm busy taking picture around. Leaving your seat for too long give them a chance to dominate your seat. It's the first time that I need to fight for my own seat with the fur kids. And they frequently put up a good pose for you to capture their cute and purrtiful moment too~ Purrfect moment overload. I do not know why, but they seems to like my bag a lot..... Maybe my bag has the smell of my own cat.

Other than that, all they usually do is

~keep

~on

~starring.... And sometimes stalk you from far away.

About Purradise

Purradise is a real cat cafe where you get to meet really cute, pretty and friendly cats when you enter the place. In fact, you won't really feel like it's a cafe due to the decorations, overall feeling of environment, and mostly because of so much of meows around. But it's still a cafe because they do serve food and nice coffee.

Nevertheless, you don't really feel like this is a cafe that you would get a cup of coffee/tea and buy yourself time and space to enjoy your day or do your stuff. The entire place is designated mostly for cats, and part of it is for the visitors to play with the cats. Basically, you can always sit on the floor or stick around with the cats anywhere you want because the floor is clean.

Even if it's for comfort, it's hard to find any cafe that offer beanie bag for the customers to sit. Of course, this is for you to get close to the cats because apparently, the cats love beanie bag too as they will stick around it and sit/sleep on it regardless if anyone is there or not.

And from the perspective of animals, they feel much more comfortable with people when they squat or sit down because standing up give a feeling of domination as our body size and heights seems bigger than them a lot.

There are even some tiny surface for cats t jump and down, and run around the cat's walkway near the ceiling and hide. Must be fun being a cat in this cafe eh? (Can you spot the ninja?)
All the cats in Purradise are strays that taken in by the owners. Apparently, the owner not only sprayed the cats, the cats are well trained, clean, and friendly, more like a household cat and much more friendly than my own cat (Don't get me wrong, my cat is still the best in my heart).

If you fall in love in any of the cats, you can request to take the cat back because they are open for adoption. I'm not sure about the procedure or any prerequisite if you want to adopt the cat, but I assume that you probably need to pay some fees because they take care of the cats really well.

How to Purrr?

Fees and Charges

This is the last thing you gonna do but the first thing you need to know. Here is how the fees and charges work:

Entrance fee: RM15 (compulsory) for first hour. Addition RM3 will be charged for subsequent 15 minutes.
Food & Drinks: RM12 or RM15 set meals

Yes, the entrance fee is RM15 when you enter the cafe and you can get a free drinks. Juice, coffee, or tea, it's up to you. For every additional 15 minutes staying there, you need to pay additional RM3. It's indeed not cheap as the price don't cover food, but spending time with the fur kids are really worthy as you will be surrounded with friendly and lovely cats. Here is how they label this as "Cat's Therapy", and it works really well as I enter into the place, they left no space for me to open my laptop to do any work. Even if I try to, they (the cats) will stick to me, leave me no chance to think about work.

If you want to order some foods, it would be either RM12 or RM15 meals and this will add on to your entrance fee, which means:

1. Choosing a RM12 meals = RM15 entrance fee + RM12 meals = RM27
2. Choosing a RM15 meals = RM15 entrance fee + RM15 meals = RM30
3. Without any meal = RM15 entrance fee = RM15

Most of their drinks are smoothies. They have very limited choices of coffee and tea.

Chicken with Melted Cheese (From RM15 set meal) doesn’t look special at first, but the following few bites will convince you that their sandwich is their specialty.

The wheat bread is not like some of the wheat bread I had out there that is very dry and hard to bite. This bread is soft and crunchy, it’s not dry at all and every single bite on the bread give a great aromatic taste of wheat.

I don’t really taste any cheese in the bread, maybe it’s mixed up with the chicken slice. Although the size of the chicken is small, but the taste is quite good and it’s a little salty, perhaps due to the cheese. No complaint to the veggie either, the chicken meat and veggie filling is not that huge but quite sufficient for this sandwich meal.

Side note, I suggest to eat something light first if you are planning to eat anything here. The sandwich here is not that big, but not that small either.

Oh and, extra be careful of Mocha, the cat in brown, black and white, he love the chips very much.
(This is Mocha) And the small cup of coffee that looks like McDonald kind of coffee does not looks impressive at first, but taking the first sip of the coffee made me understand not to judge the coffee by its cup appearance.

Although this is not a cup of Cappuccino that could compete with other much famous cafe out there, but it’s also not the type of ordinary coffee anywhere.

It’s lacking some aroma that a coffee should have, smelling it at first doesn’t give you the great-aroma feeling. The texture of the Cappuccino is quite watery, I don’t find the type of feeling that I want to have this cup of Cappuccino with me while I work through my afternoon. Despite that, the taste is quite good, and I would say quite acceptable for many people because it’s coffee taste is not really strong.

Golden Rules To Purr

Rules #1: Secure the door

When you step into the cafe, the first place you would arrive is a tiny room with nothing but shoe rack. There are two doors in this room: one to the outside and one to the inside of the cafe where all the cats await. When you are in this tiny room, always make sure no cats got into the room before you open the door that lead to outside so that they won't escape.

If any of them run into this room when you open the door from the inside of the cafe, do carry them out and make sure the door is secure before opening the door to the outside.

Rules #2: Take off your shoe

So remember don't wear any sock that has hole on it.

Rules #3: Pick a magic wand

This is optional but give you a great chance to attract the fur kids when you have the charm. Do remember to put them back when you finish using them.

Rules #4: Attract The Fur Kids

Here is a few ways to attract the cats and make them likes you. You can Google a bit for more method to attract the cats.

1. Put Your Hand In Front of Their Face

Show your hand to them. Cats depends heavily on their smell. Let them smell your hand and be comfortable with you and they will eventually get closer to you.

This is not always effective thou. They only like your smell if they like it. If you wash your hand with soap and make sure your hand is clean, they might not like the taste of the soap. So this can only depend on luck.

2. Tap Table Lightly to Attract Them

Cats are also curious about sounds around them. One of the common ways to attract them is to create sound on the table, chair, or wall that near to them. It's more effective when the sound bounce back with larger reflection.

You can try tapping at the edge of the table when you see any cats near the table And voila~

3. Caress Between Their Neck and Chin

Cats always love it when you do this. I wish I'm a cat to know why.

4. Use the Magic Wand effectively

If you are using the soft toys with a string attached to it, drag it on the floor and in front of the cats to grab their attention. Imagine it as a mice that wanted to be chased by the cats.

If you are using the one with a straight plastic stick attached with it, you can hide that thing behind the table or on top of the table and produce some sound. The curiosity of cat will make them try to identify what is hiding around the place.

5. Sit On the Floor

The most effortless action is just sit on the floor. They feel much more comfortable when you sit down because we human are larger being to them. Sit down or lower your body make them feel like you are smaller and closer to their height level.

Rules #5: Lookout for Your Food (if any)

Guess this is pretty much self-explained. Although they don't usually stick to you knowing that you have food, unless you try to attract them.

Rules #6: Don't Disturb The cats When They Sleep

FYI, Cats spend most of them sleeping. When the customers are getting lesser and the place is more quiet, they will look for their comfortable zone and sleep. Let them sleep, they still need to serve customers now and then.

Contact & Location

Monday: Closed
Tuesday to Friday: 2pm - 10pm
Weekends & Public Holidays: 11am – 11pm

No. 24A (First Floor), Jalan Tun Mohd Fuad 2, Taman Tun Dr. Ismail, 60000 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Purradise's Main Site: Click Here
Purradise's Facebook: Click Here
Phone Number: 03-2389 0976
E-mail: meow@purradise.my

If you are going by public transport, you can take Rapid U82. If you are coming from KL, you can get the bus at KL Sentral (below the bridge of KL Sentral Monorail that head to direction of KL), follow by getting the bus at Pusat Damansara and Tropical City Mall. If you are going from Bandar Utama, you can get the bus at the entrance or bus hub of One Utama New Wing. Regardless if you are coming from KL Sentral or Bandar Utama, U82 will reach Jalan Tun Mohd Faud of TTDI after Jalan Damansara. When you see Domino Pizza on your left and Maxis Centre & Pizza Hut on your right, you need to press the bell to get off in front of Restoran Ismail. Once you get off from the bus, walk straight and go pass the narrow road beside Restoran Ismail until you reach the other side. Turn left to pass by few shop lots until you reach 99 Speedmart. You can find the entrance of Purradise just beside 99 speedmart.

Other Facility

Payment type: Cash only
Wifi: Yes but password-protected
Power Cable Availability: Approximately two at the side with tables and chairs.
Smoking Area: Not available

Nearby Option

1. Pickle & Fig (Just right beside 99 speed mart): 26, Jalan Tun Mohd Fuad 2, Taman Tun Dr Ismail, 60000 Taman Tun Dr. Ismail, Wilayah Persekutuan Kuala Lumpur
2. The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf (170m away): Sinaran TTDI, 6-2, Jalan Tun Mohd Fuad, Taman Tun Dr Ismail, 60000 Kuala Lumpur, Wilayah Persekutuan Kuala Lumpur
3. Old Timer Kopi (190m away): 1, Jalan Tun Mohd Fuad 3, Taman Tun Dr Ismail, 60000 Kuala Lumpur, Wilayah Persekutuan Kuala Lumpur
4. Starbucks (200m away): 20, Jalan Tun Mohd Fuad 1, Taman Tun Dr Ismail, 60000 Kuala Lumpur, Wilayah Persekutuan Kuala Lumpur
5. Coffee Amo TTDI (200m away): 42, Persiaran Zaaba, Taman Tun Dr Ismail, 60000 Kuala Lumpur, Wilayah Persekutuan Kuala Lumpur
6. Wood & Steel Cafe (275m away): 56, Jalan Datuk Sulaiman, Taman Tun Dr Ismail, 60000 Kuala Lumpur, Wilayah Persekutuan Kuala Lumpur

Rating

Quality

Good. Don't be tricked by the appearance of the meal, the sandwich is actually pretty good especially the texture and taste of the bread, in which most sandwiches and breads out there don't really bother about it. The coffee is just nice, not bad but would be better if it contain of good aroma and better taste of coffee.

Portion

Nice. Somewhere more than a light snack and less than a main meal. If you had a main meal, then it's not advisable to go for their food. Else, you can take their sandwich and go for something light afterwards.

Cost

Less-Worthy. The entrance fee is quite costly. If you order food, it would double up if you order the food. The main concern is the RM15 fee is just for the first hour, staying longer means adding more cost for your expenses in this cafe. So it's not a good idea if you looking for a cafe to experience few hours of nice and relaxing session.

Service

Good. Staffs are friendly and talkative, and always take care of the cats with patient as expected. Food serving is a little slow. And sometimes they are not around when I need them.

Environment

Excellent. It's my first time getting into a cafe that doesn't make me feel like an ordinary cafe. Nice and colorful decoration that make me envy the cats so much. But at the same time, most of the designs are meant for both human and cat to enjoy human-cat's moment. Even putting all those factors aside, having the cats around already make the environment beyond excellent, and worthy to be known as a place of "Cat's Therapy".

Next Visit?

Yup. I'm quite eager to go back for the cats, just feeling hesitate and concern because of the entrance fee.

Commercialized coffee here referring to Starbucks, Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf, or whatever coffee shop that is famous that you can think of.

Starbucks has been an expensive place that I never attempt to enter during my college time. As I was a poor little fella that has no extra budget for those luxury time. As time flies, I had earn a job with moderate income, having Starbucks once or twice a week won't make me feel anything. At first I thought that this is the luxury coffee experience that everyone talking about. But later when I get to experience other option, I have to change my mind about this concept that I had for years.

The great thing about the commercialized coffee is the great overall feel and coffee that they can offer. Great environment with nice ambient, nice marketing strategy that make you feel you are paying the cost for something worth much more than that, well trained staff and good service, new and creative flavor once in awhile, nice and sweet taste of coffee..... Well, that's basically the main problem: Nice and sweet taste of coffee.

I had many friends who enjoy Starbucks, and Starbucks is basically the only coffee place they would go. You might or might not surprise it, they actually can't really drink coffee. If they happen to order an actual Cappuccino or Latte in other coffee shop, they would think that "Yucks... this coffee is terrible" and of course it's not, the problem is just that they are too adapt to the sweetness and modified commercialized coffee.

Commercialized coffee not only serve original coffee that most people couldn't accept, they also serve modified coffee with little bit of coffee taste like Nescafe type, additional sugar, and other special flavor like caramel, fruits, or other stuff that results in a sweet drinks. But coffee is not suppose to be sweet, most people consider the taste as "bitter" although it's not accurate. That's just the taste of actual coffee.

Of course, everyone has the right to get a coffee with any extra flavor they like. It's not like the old times when coffee drinkers only get to taste the original brewed coffee or adding some milk that results in Cappuccino, Latte, Macchiato, and other coffee that is about the same thing. And there is nothing wrong to drink commercialized coffee all the time as long as you like it. For serious coffee drinkers, it's a matter of people can only adapt to commercialized coffee and couldn't accept the real, original coffee.

For consumers, it's definitely a good thing because they can get to drink coffee without experiencing the true taste of coffee. But commercialized coffee is perhaps the end of journey for coffee drinkers, because their consumers are so adapt to the taste that they can't taste any real coffee. Unless they willing to get out from their comfort zone and start drinking any Cappuccino, Latte, or real coffee, instead of Caramel Frappuccino and other modified coffee.

Getting to taste real coffee is not only a matter of understanding the truth of coffee and spreading the greatness of coffee to your friends and family, coffee has been existed for over hundred of years with lots of evolution. There are over 5000+ type of coffee flavor throughout the world. Exploring the world of actual coffee is a pleasure experience to explore to the culture of other countries and get to know the world better.

Despite this post, I still visit Starbucks nowadays. Mainly because of their wifi and it's everywhere, I don't need to travel to a specific place just for them. I have nothing with Starbucks or any commercialized coffee shop out there. But just bear in mind that we need to remember how real coffee suppose to be and the world of coffee is far more wider than any coffee you can get in commercialized coffee shops.

Feeka located at a not so popular place that make it hard for people to find them at the first time if you are not familiar with the place. Usually, you won't expect a cafe hiding in such place and frankly, I don't see what business you would usually have in this area. But this also make them a special gem although Feeka is not that infamous. In fact, they are really famous and if you don't go earlier in the morning like reaching before 11am, you probably couldn't get any empty seats.

Around the street where Feeka located, the place seems more suitable for residential houses despite there are few restaurants and bars nearby. The outside and inside of Feeka is actually based on an ordinary house concept rather than shop lots. So Feeka is the type of relaxing place that doesn't give you the feeling of visiting a shop for food but feel like enjoying your own sweet time in a house.

About Feeka

The overall design of Feeka is nothing too special as most of the design is based on black and white concept, or just plain and dull colors, except for the layout and placement of their seats that provide comfortable sofa with a quiet and calm environment for eaters, chatters, and people who seek relaxing time. And at the outside, the environment and atmosphere is more like a place where you can enjoy some natural wind around the trees and nature. But of course, if the weather allows that.

One special element is the darker design and dim light that is much more obvious at night. While some of the restaurants demonstrate much relaxing atmosphere with dimmer lighting that allow people to feel less intense and calm, this also give people a hard time for those who read books and looking at their gadgets. Personally, I found that day time visit would be good. The lighting is just right, as the entire place is not too dark and not too bright. It's quite relaxing and peaceful with some light and energetic music. And for me who doesn't have a good eyesight and need to strain my eyes in darker environment, night time visit sometimes gave me headache. The seats is quite limited thou. Although there are two floors, but the seats are only available on the ground floor. You only go to the first floor for washroom or when they have exhibition or event up there. From the inside, there are roughly ten small tables, one big table and one long table in the corner; outside is about the same. This is more than enough on the week days, but not the weekend.

The inside of Feeka is a cooling and darker place with comfortable seats and relaxing ambience. Great for reading books during day time, using your laptop/gadgets for any purpose, and chit-chating. Outside of Feeka is smoking area. The seats near the door have fans on the ceiling, while outer side of the seats is more "near to nature". No matter you want to sit in the inside or outside, again, do come earlier, else you have to wait for empty seats. And there is not much alternative around if you are looking for alternative unless you go to Pavilion.

What's more, they provide free wifi. But, I only manage to connect to their wifi successfully once after so many visits. Not sure why. Anyway, the network coverage around that area is quite good for me. So using my own internet sharing is not a problem.

Feeka's Secret Recipe

One thing special about Feeka is their kitchen. I'm not 100% sure but Feeka do has their own recipe when comes to food. It's not just the ordinary western food you found out there. From the taste of it, there is an unique quality in their food that you will only taste it here.

Feeka's kitchen is based on western style. Their food range from spaghetti, sandwich, burger, salad, meat savory, and breakfast. Although the available option is not too rare that you have no idea what food it is by looking at the name, but I would say you can give anything a try without worrying if they are good or not, because each meal I had so far gave me quite some surprises and they are not the average taste I would expect. As usual, my first cup of coffee for my first visit is Cappuccino. This cup of Cappuccino (RM10) looks really great, and the aroma is really nice when I get the cup near to my mouth. But the first sip make me think that I might not order Cappuccino again next time because this taste more like espresso with a slight additional of milky taste. If you prefer a Cappuccino that has stronger espresso taste than milk, you might like this. For me who prefer the wonderful combination of espresso and milk in a cup of Cappuccino, the espresso taste is too much. I think Feeka use a type of coffee bean that has stronger taste when they prepare the espresso. So some of the drinks might have much stronger espresso taste that cover up others. But for this cup of Mocha (RM12), I really like it because not only I can taste the chocolate, I can also taste the sweetness and the aroma of the coffee really well.

One of the tough part of making a good cup of Mocha is the chocolate. Chocolate has stronger taste that could cover up food and ingredient when it's being used in a dish or drinks. It could be they are using chocolate syrup that has lighter taste, mixing with their stronger taste of espresso make a good pair in one cup of Mocha.

I still couldn't taste much on the milk, but the combination taste of espresso and chocolate gave me an enjoyable pleasure on my sweet-caffeine craving. Another good thing is, the chocolate is not too mild, so you don't feel too thirsty or feeling "full of chocolate in the throat" after drinking this. Flat white (RM10) is a cup of coffee that I finally taste some milk after some coffee drinking experience in Feeka. Unlike Cappuccino and Mocha, this cup of Flat White provide much balance mixture of the espresso and milk. It somehow feels more like a latte as I was expecting much more coffee taste. But this Flat White has the good steady taste from the first sip until the last. It's adding lots of good feeling for some relaxing hours. Beef sandwich (RM18) is one of the recommended foods (or was it Beef Burger? Couldn't recall much) in the reviews at the time when I discovered Feeka on the global resources (a.k.a, internet). I will have to divide into several parts. One thing, I took the beef sandwich in less than 5 minutes after it was served, and it’s not even warm. Everything is quite cold…. I don’t think the air con is the cause of it.

For the bread, it's quite hard.... I've been cutting the bread into bite size until my finger sore. FYI, I perform exercise regularly so I don't consider myself weak. It’s basically tasteless and need to eat along with other ingredients. Seems like they had prepare the bread earlier and left aside to serve when needed. They really need to soften the bread before serving it.

For the Roast Beef, quite hard to cut too. I'm not sure if they have prepare the beef much earlier or it's overcooked. On the other hand, the beef is really good and tasty. Only if the roast beef's texture is much softer.

For the melted cheese on top of the roast beef, I really like this one. It taste a little salty, adding on top of the beef make it really nice. The melted cheese is not watery and not too sticky, seems to be prepare at the right temperature. And it’s not too cheesy taste. It's really make me wonder how they prepare it.

As for the veggie that scatted around the plate, the taste is superb. A small tomato that cut into half but it’s not the ordinary tomato you can find out there. The texture is a little hard, but the taste is super good and sweet. There isn't any dressing for the veggie, so all I could taste is the freshness of it. The only thing is, it’s too little… I wish I can have more.

Lastly, the french fries are not the ordinary french fries too. It’s quite soft and fried with some type of spices, which taste really good. Too bad they don't sell french fries in ala carte. I hardly take meatball pasta out there because many meatball pasta I had don’t taste good, but after tasting this Meatball Pasta (RM18) I found that I like this meatball pasta really much. The tomato sauce is not so salty, I don’t feel very thirsty after finishing the whole pasta including 90% of the tomato sauce. That is one impressive point compare to many meatball pasta I had so far. Actually the main great thing is the beef meatball, it's not really big but the beef is soft and tender, and really juicy while cooked at the right temperature. Lastly, the spaghetti is great too, soft and chewy. If we are talking about trying new things for salad, Beetroot Salad (RM17) may be a good option. But I got a feeling that, it's either you love it or you hate it. Yeah, kinda like Durian. As beetroot is not too common out there, you don't find it everywhere. It's sweet and full of watery yummy juice for every bite. And you can enjoy a lot of beetroot pieces in the entire plate. The green leaves is not just for decorating, they are arugula leaves or simply, rocket. Good for detox and add extra taste to any food.

The main reason why you hate it or love it is the sauce, or specifically the overall taste that this plate has. A slight portion of goat cheese is added for extra taste. Not exactly the taste that I prefer thou. The orange in the salad just taste perfect, not sour and quite sweet while maintaining it's citrus taste. What's more, this plate of salad is prepared with thyme flavor. The mixture of everything give a unique taste that I have not experience before.

The only issue I have with this beetroot salad is the portion. It's too little. Feeka Big Breakfast (RM20) is another meal newly added to my favorites list. Although it's not considered as the best big breakfast I had compare to Antipodean, Plan B and VCR, but this breakfast do has its own selling point.

The fried egg is nothing special, but it's fresh and delicious. The chicken sausage isn't too special either, a little salty and the meat is a little crumbled, taste a little overcooked. At least this time, the bread is not that hard, although it's taste a little plain, but eating with other stuff on the plate taste quite good, especially with the bacon and egg. The beef bacon is a little salty, it is cooked until medium rare if I'm not mistaken, as it's full of meaty flavor. For a sinful breakfast, this made a great choice. Another tasty one is the mushroom, freshly cooked, nice and chewy with buttery taste.

As for the potatoes, it has little bit of taste, and it comes with larger portion. Seems to me that they are there to make you full. Pesto Pasta (RM18), is an adventurous decision that I randomly order. But as I said, you do not need to worry about ordering anything here, as each meal give you surprises. The Pesto Pasta is cooked with coriander but good thing is the taste is lighter, not too heavy in the green veggie taste. Because some of the Pesto Pasta has stronger veggie taste that result in a slightly bitter taste. Almost every bite comes with crunchy and delicious nuts pieces. If you notice, there are some green leaves scatted around the plate. I'm not sure what are they, but taste quite "healthy" and consist of nice smell of greeny taste although it's a little bitter.

Despite it's delicious and healthy, the portion is too little and there is no meat. So it's not really fulling for me. In fact, I felt hungry 30 minutes later. If you are looking for something light and not too fulling, this could be a good choice. But if you are comparing for the cost and looking for something fulling, this might not be a good choice for you.

Contact & Location

Monday to Thursday - 9am to 10pm
Friday to Sunday - 9am to 11pm

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19, Jalan Mesui, Kuala Lumpur.

Phone Number: 03-2110 4599

If you are going by public transport, you can take Monorail to Raja Chulan station, get off and walk down at the platform that is nearer to the Menara KH building which is where the New INTI KL located. You can find a small restaurant name Paradise Poolside Coffee House where you can see swimming pool inside the place right near to the station where you walk down. As the Paradise Poolside Coffee House on your right, head to 12 o'clock direction to cross the road to the other side and turn right. Now Hotel Istana Kuala Lumpur will be on your left. Walk straight and turn left at the first turning point and you will reach Jalan Nagasari. Keep walking straight until you see Parkroyal Serviced Suites Kuala Lumpur on your right and some Mamak restaurants on your left. Follow the building of Parkroyal Serviced Suites and turn right, you will see an entrance with the sign "Lion Group" or "Lion Tower" on your right. Walk further a little and check on your left, you will see Feeka very soon.

Other Facility

Payment type: Cash and Credit Card
Wifi: Yes but password-protected, hardly able to successfully connect to it
Power Cable Availability: Approximately 5 tables, only in the inside of the cafe.
Smoking Area: Available

Nearby Option

1. Paper + Toast (less than 100m away): A-0-5 One Residency, 1 Jalan Nagasari, 50200 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
2. Pavilion (less than 1km away)

Note: Around Feeka, there are a lot of bars and restaurants. Some of them do serve coffee but the environment is more like places to chit-chat and enjoy beer instead of relaxing.

Rating

Quality

Good. The third time I said this: you do not need to worry about anything when you ordering something. The quality and taste is not the best that you could find but each meal has their own uniqueness, and this is the thing that you can't find out there. While some of the foods might has some stuff that doesn't taste that great, but they definitely has something that is good in every meal.

Coffee wise, the taste is stronger compare to out there. There are good and bad about it, but the important thing is their coffee is really good and special. Worthy to be cup of coffee that allow you to relax throughout the day.

Portion

Nice. Most of the foods does not has big portion, so you might need to order something extra to fill your stomach.

Cost

Worthy. The overall costs are quite normal compare to other places, but Feeka has their own strong selling point that make their foods and coffee great and worthy the price.

Service

Average. There is either staffs who take your order and perform your payment, or staffs that bring your food to your table. They don't usually talk much, but you can always ask for recommendation at the counter when you need, and they can recommend you well. Other than that, they don't really talk much to the customers.

Good thing is, they serve really fast despite having lots of customers, especially coffee. They are preparing it immediately upon order and serve to you shortly.

Environment

Nice. Simple and classic design. I'm not sure if the wall in the inside is a type of decoration, I think I'm seeing crack and looks old. Seating is quite limited, but there are high numbers of comfortable seats. Dim lighting could be their selling point but, it's really bad for the eyes.