Fun Taipei Tea Café @ SS2, Petaling Jaya

There is another chain restaurant opened in SS2 around 6-7months ago. It located opposite McDonald, same row as Pelita Nasi Kandar. The restaurant is called Fun Taipei Tea Café and this eatery is specialized in Taiwanese cuisine. Their first outlet located at Pudu and a few others branches.

Based on the restaurant name, you should know that this café is also specialized with Taiwanese drinks. Bubble tea with pearl. Bubble tea is a tea beverage typically served cold. It originated in Taiwan in the 1980s, first spread to nearby East Asian countries, migrated to Canada before spreading to Chinatown in New York City, and then to various spots throughout the West Coast of the United States. There are many variants of the drink, depending on types of tea used and ingredients added. In the most common English usage, the name "bubble tea" is often associated with pearl milk tea, as it is the most popular variant of the drink. Pearl milk tea, also known as "boba milk tea", is traditionally made by adding boba balls (made from a mixture of tapioca and carrageenan powder), large or small, to shaken milk black tea. Some tea houses use pre-mixed milk tea to simplify the steps and reduce cost, thus removing the "shake" part from step and lessening its connection to the "bubble tea" name. here they have many types such as lemon, passion fruit, red plum, mango, honeydew, honey peach and many many more….


First of all, this is the Fried Salty Chicken. It’s quite nice actually. It’s crispy and tasty. They have garnish with some powder on top of it.

Looking at their menu, they offer a variety of set menus for easy ordering. According to the waitress, she highly recommended to take Fried pork chop with noodle set or braised pork chop noodle/rice set. The pork chop itself is very good. Delicious and crunchy. If you order the braised pork chop, it serve with sauce. Still, it’s good but not as good as the dry version. Then, comparing with their rice and noodle set, the rice (normal steam rice) garnished with minced pork which is good. The noodle set also served with minced pork but the noodle is quite tasty as it’s got the bouncy bites. Yum yum….. each set comes with soup (high with MSG), vegetables, braised tofu and braised egg or fried egg with sweet & sour chilies sauce.




Overall, this restaurant’s interior was decorated with posters on the wall. A lot of IKEA's stuff were used - lightings & chairs. And a book shelf filled with comic books. It’s a nice place for bubble teas and patrons that love reading comics while waiting for their food.

Food Review

Food Type: Taiwanese (Non-Halal)
Address: No. 9, Jalan SS2/64, 47300, Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia
Tel: +603-7877 2555
Price: Average RM15 per pax
Operating Hours: Daily (11am-3pm, 6pm-11pm)

Taste Rating: 7.5/10
Ambiance Rating: 7/10
Service Rating: 6.5/10
Value Rating: 7/10

Overall Rating: 7/10

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Asian Food House Restaurant @ Damansara Utama (Uptown), Petaling Jaya

This particular restaurant located in Uptown is quite hard to notice it if you’re not familiar with the area. As compare to other restaurant, you might opt for other well-known restaurants like the Village Park, Umai-Ya and many more…. But don’t judge the book by its cover; you might get some couple of surprises here.

Mainly this restaurant specialized in Taiwanese Cuisine and Bubble Tea, it is often associated with influences from mid to southern provinces of China, most notably from the province of Fujian (Hokkien), but influences from all of China can easily be found. A notable Japanese influence exists due to the period when Taiwan was under Japanese rule. Traditional Chinese food to be found in Taiwan, alongside Fujian and Hakka-style as well as native Taiwanese dishes, includes dishes from Guangdong, Jiangxi, Chaoshan, Shanghai, Hunan, Sichuan and Beijing. Also, serves Japanese, Korean and Thai dishes.

Firstly, they have a vast variety of Bubble Teas, is a tea beverage containing tapioca balls. The literal translation from Chinese is pearl milk tea. The word "bubble" refers to "bubbling", the process by which certain types of bubble tea are made, and not the actual tapioca balls (mixture of tapioca and carrageenan powder). The balls are often called boba or "pearls." Drinks with large pearls are consumed along with the beverage through wide straws; while drinks with small pearls are consumed through normal straws. For the below, there is the Honeydew Milk Tea (Regular Size and Large Size). It’s delightful, sweet and refreshing.

Then the following below is Honey Green Tea (it’s nice), Blueberry Milk Tea (Also nice and refreshing) and the Mother of Pearl (Original Taste).

The Ginger Honey (Hot Tea), it’s good for cold and throat.

For the main course, you should try their Taiwanese Style Pork Spare Ribs Noodle. Once served, you can strongly smell the pork scent coming out from the dish. The portion is just nice and they provide quite an amount of pork which is very tender and juicy. And most of all, the soup is marvelous and stunning.

If you don’t feel like eating noodle, you can also opt for rice. The Taiwanese Style Pork Spare Ribs with rice. The soup/gravy compliment quite well with rice. Very nice!!!

The Taiwanese Fried Pork Chop Noodle Soup, the noodle is average and the soup is clear (not much of taste actually, quite bland). However, the Fried Pork Chop is very crispy and tangy. So good so nice.

Overall, the place is cozy and service is good. And most of all, the price is not very high.

Food Review

Food Type: Taiwanese, Japanese, Thai, Korean (Non-Halal)
Address: No. 38, Jalan SS21/58, Damansara Utama, 47400 Petaling Jaya, Malaysia
Tel: +603-7728 7719
Price: Average RM7-13 per pax
Operating Hours: Daily

Taste Rating: 8/10
Ambiance Rating: 7/10
Service Rating: 8/10
Value Rating: 7.5/10

Overall Rating: 7.6/10

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Taiwan Noodles House Restaurant @ SS2, Petaling Jaya

This particular restaurant looks exactly like what you would expect in any typical Chinese coffee shops here. In this area, they are the only one that serves Taiwanese styled noodle. It is a simple shop and the prices are (ok, ok) reasonable, they don’t have much varieties in their menu but it is believe that most people come here for the pork chop noodles (dry version). Every noodle dish on the menu comes in 2 versions; a soup based version and a dry version.


Although the presentation of the dish is just average, their noodles are fairly flat variety, bouncy and smooth, served with some dark sauce and topped with minced meat and some spring onions, complimenting some good chili paste and a very crispy pork chop (tender and served on the bone and sliced into bite sized pieces). The chili is good and not spicy (goes well with their pork chop).

Their Chicken Chop also not bad.

Taiwan Noodle House is not a bad place to go for some Taiwanese styled noodles. Price is fair. At night, they serve western food and curry fish head as well (will review next time….).

Food Review

Food Type: Taiwanese, Western and Malaysian (Non-Halal)
Address: No.20, Jln SS2/61, 47300 Petaling Jaya, Selangor
Tel: +603-7877 2375
Price: Average RM9 per pax
Operating Hours: Daily (8.30am-10pm), Monday Off

Taste Rating: 7/10
Ambiance Rating: 6/10
Service Rating: 5.5/10
Value Rating: 8/10

Overall Rating: 6.6/10

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Fong Lye Taiwan Restaurant @ The Gardens, Mid Valley City

Fong Lye is located on the 3rd floor of Mid Valley, The Gardens. The interior designs and the décor are not bad; they used a lot of glass and the fashionable designed white sofa, the ambience looking good. However, all the tables are placed so close to each other that there is no way to have a conversation without worrying others might hear what others are saying. It’s pretty difficult to have a conversation too when there are so much noise going on.
Fong Lye has diversification of food choices, especially the wide variety of snacks in Taiwan. First of all, the Taiwan Braised Beef Noodle (Aromatic and a little spicy) and the Three Varieties of Supreme Diced Chicken (can try lar), following by the Sweet Potatoes Balls (not bad), Taiwan Style Glutinous Rice Wrap-up Sausage, Baked Sausage and other snacks to filling the stomach. If you would like to have something more outstanding, Taiwan Steamed Boat Set Meal would be a good choice.

Overall, this restaurant offers some decent tasting food. However, the price isn’t too affordable so consider this restaurant to be quite pricey. As said earlier, the spacing in the restaurant is limited; moving around in the restaurant is difficult too with the narrow space. By the way, Fong Lye Taiwan Restaurant has two other branches, one in Jalan Imbi and the other in Desa Sri Hartamas.

Food Review

Food Type: Taiwanese (Non-Halal)
Address: T-208, Third Flr, The Gardens, Mid Valley City, Lingkaran Syed Putra, 59200 KL.
Tel: +603-2282 8699
Price: Average RM30 per pax
Operating Hours: Dairy (11am-10pm)

Taste Rating: 7.5/10
Ambiance Rating: 8.5/10
Service Rating: 6/10
Value Rating: 5.5/10

Overall Rating: 6.875/10

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