Good Old Place Restaurant @ Bandar Menjalara, Kuala Lumpur
Sunday, November 30, 2008
Good Old Place Restaurant is a nice cozy place with lots of bricks deco surrounding the restaurant which gives patrons a westernize feel. This restaurant situated in Bandar Menjalara, Kepong. They serve steamboat buffet, western and local cuisine. They have 3 shops combined together. The first two shops serve steamboat, with unique deco from each others to suit different taste of people. 
Referring to their menu, very impressively, they provide a wide range of selections from 10 choices of style to cook your chicken to lamb and steaks…… choices such as Sizzling Chicken (So so only)…
Their specialty Good Old Place Chicken Chop top with oven-baked cheese (the taste is nice and unique, can tahan)….if you add another RM1, you get additional pineapple on top of your chicken chop cover with yummy baked cheese…
Bolognaise Macaroni is something you don’t find in a luxury western restaurant… very creative and the taste is not bad for the price you are paying…
The Black Pepper Lamb Chop is tender & juicy and the sauce just blended well….
It is a good place though for patrons looking for good food and nice environment with reasonable price.
Food Review
Food Type: Western and Chinese (Halal)
Address: 49, 51, 53, Jalan 9/62A, Bandar Menjalara, 52100 Kuala Lumpur.
Tel: +603-6275 1798
Price: Average RM20 per pax
Operating Hours: Sunday-Thursday (12pm-1am), Friday, Saturday & Public Holiday (12pm-2am)
Taste Rating: 7.5/10
Ambiance Rating: 7/10
Service Rating: 3/10
Value Rating: 8.5/10
Overall Rating: 6.5/10
A little bit different from the others that Ka Fei Tiam offers additional choices of foods in mamak style such as mee goreng and etc. They also offered some western dishes like fish & chip, Cantonese fried noodle and etc. Their Nasi Lemak is ok and tasty with choices of chicken curry, chicken rendang and beef rendang (Taste is ok, but finds it average lar).
This particular branch in Jaya One provides good food and service (however, their waiters are not good in communicating in English, giving a bit difficult time to order food). The interior is quite normal, just like a very clean coffee-shop concept, complete with wood panels.
They don't serve the best dim sum around but their dim sum is above average. Every now and then, they add new creations to their dim sum, so you’ll never get bored of eating dim sum at their place. 
What makes them famous is their ‘Pau’ a.k.a bun, all their pau are 100% made fresh everyday. Their pau is really moist and soft and the inside is just nice. Most notable is the ‘Tai Pau’, it’s stuffed with a mixture of marinated lean pork, garlic, onions and half of a hard boiled egg tasted and sauce is real good. Compare to else where, it is toooo dry on the inside. 
Pricy wise, it is very affordable.
A very cozy place with some nice ambience and a nice view facing the 1U garden area. Their menu is so big, like the size of a wedding album. It’s so thick and over 100 items in the book and you can just keep on flipping for hours.
This particular kopitiam in Sri Hartamas located at a corner shoplot. Mostly cater people who are working around the area and come here for their breakfast before punching in for work.
However, their Egg Omelet Breakfast set is a total failure. Couple of toasts, a portion of Red Bean (Canned), slices of lettuce and Fried Beaten Egg (That’s all)……An omelet usually folded around a filling such as cheese, vegetable (tomato), meat (often ham), or some combination of the above. Their omelet so plain….worse than making in at home. 
Next, ‘Chinese Herbs Fish Maw Soup’ is quite nice. Rather than eating the usual shark-fins soup, you can opt for Fish Maw.
Quick glimpse on the ‘Palace Roasted Chicken’, very aromatic and color wise, it is a beauty. Well roasted, every piece of meat is tender and crispy. 
Following is the ‘Steamed Patin Fish’, the chef used their own home make sauce and spices, enhancing the freshness of the fish. 
As for the Prawn, they deep fried with Salt & Pepper and used fresh prawns. So far, no complain for this dish. 
Fried Mixed Vegetable, nothing special and nothing to brag about it. 
Lastly, instead of using the typical Chinese noodle, their chef used Udon Noodle cover with Bean Sauce. Creativity wise is interesting; however, the taste is quite disappointed. 
There are many egg tart bakeries in Malaysia and one has started since 1970 which is Tong Kee Brothers Confectionary. They have a number of branches within Klang Valley and their HQ is in Pudu. Tong Kee's egg custard is always well prepared, soft and not too sweet, it is rich with butter and the crust just melts the moment you put it in your mouth.
If you like Egg Tart, Tong Kee is where you can find the best egg tart within Klang Valley.
Their Nasi Lemak Ayam Goreng. It comes with the usual condiments like sambal, fried ikan bilis, chicken, cucumber slices and egg but it tastes unusually delicious. The rice is aggregated loosely together, instead of wet and clumpy. It also packed with heavy fragrance of the ginger with a little sweetness. Next, the Sambal is thick with onions, it numb your tongue and gullet on the way down, and finally settle into a nice warm burning sensation in the pit of your stomach. That’s a sure sign of good sambal. 
