Some say, you don’t have to find a nice restaurant to get great food. This is the case to prove such claim.

A small pre-war corner two storey-house which has been turned into a coffee shop with little to none renovation from its original form. No fancy doors with tinted windows neither is there any sofa chairs nor an air-conditioner.

A closer look and one will be focused on the blue banner hanged just below the name of the coffee shop

"Guan Hiang Coffee Shop" - "Francis Western Food (Fusion Style)"
Business Hour: 5.00pm to 10.00pm (Closed on Monday)

Such small shop with such a simple publicity is enough to get people from far, even those from KL to come here and satisfy their craving for western food which can be found practically anywhere else??

That’s what you/we think until……we tried what the chef here has to offer.

There’s like 30-40 kinds of western dish you can order from and that’s not including the "Today’s Special" yet.

The specialty here is of course the Fusion Style which the chef tries to put into his cooking method. So, his main way of cooking is by Baking the dish. As we can see from the menu, most of the dish are baked instead of the usual deep fried.

So here’s the chef and his dependable big oven used for all the baking.

Moving on the the food….mind you, waiting time here is darn long as this is a one-man show(chef) with only one side kick who helps with preparing the garlic bread and garnishing the dish with salad.

My appetite just opens up once the I saw what was served to us. It was very special, looks colourful, and portion is worth the price paid for…and I haven’t even took a bite yet!!!

This was the "Today’s Special" - Chef’s Spicy Chicken (Baked)

Chef's Spicy Chicken - RM 11

Grilled chicken topped with rich and flavourful curry and then baked to bring out the aroma. There’s loads of pineapple, capsicium, tomatoes and even crab sticks in the curry. It does not taste very spicy but just enough to give a good blend to the chicken meat. The chicken meat on the other hand, is very tender and goes well with the unique gravy.

Next came the dish I ordered….Moroccan Fish (Baked)

Moroccan Fish (Baked) - RM 11.50

Pearl white dory fish topped with a special moroccan gravy and garnished with crab stick, tomatoes, capsicium, pineapples and even mangoes. The curly bits on top is grated cheese.

Look at the toppings…the chef is certainly very generous with the amount of ingredients put into each dish!!!

Not to forget the side-dish, the garlic bread which is soft and very tasty. The salad is just normal, while the parsley-garnished potatoes is sweet and soft.

Foils were used to bake the dish ingredients and transfered to plates when it comes out piping hot from the oven. All baked dish comes with steamed potatoes instead of french fries.

The chef serves pastas too and the carbonara we saw on another customer’s table looks very tempting and mouth-watering!!!

The western and fusion style of preparing the dishes is certainly unique and taste very good too. No wonder people just don’t mind sitting in that small and simple shop for a long period of time to savour the food.

The shop is at a corner of a traffic light junction in Pulau Tikus just a few blocks down after Bellisa Row. It is just opposite the Maxim Cake House which we had our nice and cheap gelato :)