Kuta Bali Cafe isn’t exactly a brand new food junction but I only recently stumble upon it and was pleasantly surprised at how huge it was and the wide offerings of food it has. The ambience is quite nice. You can choose to sit at the open area or under the sheltered area. There are also some huts that you can occupy for more privacy. Makes me feel that the proprietor is trying to mimic some Bali environment. I also feel it’s quite similar to Ming Tian food court in SS2, Petaling Jaya, KL.
All the stalls are nicely placed and well decorated to show the best of what they can offer. All of them are also very clean and well-lit (well, it should be since it’s quite new)
Among the stalls I can recall are Fatty Loh chicken rice, Tong Shui, Dim Sum, Fried Omelette, Chinese pancake, Chicken rice ball, Sizzling noodle, Economy rice, Assam laksa, Lok-lok, BBQ chicken, Wan tan mee, Hokkien Mee, Fried Rice, Herbal soup noodle, Western food. Some uncommon kind of food include Japanese rice, Philippine BBQ with rice/spaghetti, pizza and Thai food.
Drinks
One of the biggest stall occupying this food court is East Coast BBQ
I counted and there were at least 15 workers, busy as bees, trying to cope with the increasing order that was coming in!!
Seafood offerings and side dishes of vegetables.
This is the first time I see brinjal/eggplant been cut up and bbq-ed this way. Some spices were added on it and the whole brinjal is placed on the charcoal grill.
Now on to what I’ve tried on this first visit.
Sizzling Noodle @ RM 3.50
Didn’t impress at first look but the taste was alright, no complains.
Claypot Chicken Rice @ 4.00
Just normal, didn’t really taste any dried salty fish (kiam hu) inside though. The sauce was also not fragrant enough. But it was quite a big pot, enough to feed 2 small eaters.
Teppanyaki Chicken Don @ RM 7.50
I’ve seen this stall selling Japanese rice at the Pantai Timur (East Coast) coffeeshop, just less than half a kilometer away from here, opposite the Kong Min school in Paya Terubong.
The chicken and japanese soy sauce combined well. It was nice to see that they serve japanese rice too instead of local rice. However the miso soup is way below par, being too diluted.
Dim sum variety
This Dim Sum stall is very big, something like the Town Dim Sum/Steamboat sort of scale. They are open for business in the mornings and also evenings. I shall give it a try one morning to see if it’s dim sum is good.
I only took two items here and both are not bad, the round one is some sort of deep fried fish ball coated with almonds. I like the crunchiness of the almond.
Something which I find most surprising was that there’s a small stall at one corner, near the Dim Sum stall, selling roast pork. And it’s the whole roast pig that was been brought in, not in pieces.
As I’ve mentioned, there are more out-of-the-ordinary food sold here than those common ones like curry mee, hokkien mee. From a rough observation, about 50% are uncommon ones.
One of the interesting stall and food that I came across was this stall selling seafood fried chee cheong fun. Yes, chee cheong fun, FRIED!!
That was enough to ignite my curiosity to order it just before we left this place.
The chee cheong fun looked like any normal ones we usually have, but wait….
Can you see the golden sticks above the fryer, just behind this lady? Looks like you tiao (fried cruller), but it’s actually the aftermath of frying the chee cheong fun!!
Seafood Fried Chee Cheong Fun @ RM 2.50 with KL rojak sauce
They were wise adding the rojak sauce to the chee cheong fun as it gives some salty taste to it. Without the sauce, it’s just plain chee cheong fun with a crunchy bite. There’s some ingredients inside but I wasn’t able to guess what it was other than baby prawns.
BBQ Taufu @ RM 1.80 for 2 pieces, one with KL rojak sauce, one with mayonaise
There’s some strands of cucumber inside the taufu. I liked the fried chee cheong fun more that this. The taufu is just normal, nothing special. Impressed at how they can think of making such a simple dish and be able to market it well.
With a few stall bearing resemblance of what the is available in Kuta Bali Cafe and in East Coast Coffeeshop, I start to wonder if this is under the same management/proprietor. Anyway, that is not important. What’s good is that there’s yet another choice of place to go for some nice and reasonable hawker food!!
Next round when I go there would be to try out the items from the tong shui stall. The mango smoothie/ice blended looked so so good!!
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Kuta Bali Cafe
Lintang Paya Terubong 1, Air Itam
Direction:
This food court is inside Desa Permata Sports Complex. If you come from Air Itam market and going towards Relau, just head straight all the way. Before you reach a traffic light junction, you will see East Coast coffeeshop on your left and Kong Min school on your right. Turn left just after the traffic light and you will see the sports complex in front. To go to the parking area, turn right at the T-junction, then turn left into the parking area.
Map:
You might be interested to give this snack a try if you are around this area:
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