If you want to save some penny while having your meal at Publika, you should visit their eat food village because you can find the most affordable meals there. Besides their fish village yong tau fu, I’ve tried their pork organ soup with yam rice as well, which is not bad!With RM11.60, you will be able to enjoy the set meal as shown as picture above. Yam rice comes with pork organ soup, braised tofu and braised egg. For the pork organ soup, you can decide what to add into the soup. If pig inner organ is not your thing, then just go for pork meat slices and pork meat ball.
I’ve added pork blood, pork intestine, pork liver, meat ball and pork belly into this bowl of clear soup. Though it’s added with so many ingredients, but the soup is super light and it tastes a bit sour. Hence, it’s perfect to go with a bowl of hot steamed yam rice.

They clean the pork organs thoroughly so it’s actually really fresh and doesn’t taste weird at all.The braised tofu and egg taste average, it’s simmered and soaked inside the sauce to enhance the taste, it would be better if the flavor is stronger.You can see the real yam in the yam rice. The yam is cooked until super moist and basically you don’t have to chew much, it just melts in your mouth. It tasted a bit dry to my liking so I added some pork organ soup to make it more moistur-er. Overall, it tastes good and can be considered as a satisfying meal.

It’s slightly expensive than the pork organ soup from normal hawker center, but given its generous portion and the comfy environment of food village, I find it reasonable!

Publika is a truly hipster area given that so many unique cafes and restaurants located there. Besides cafes and restaurants, there’s one more place here that shouldn’t being underrated, which is their eat food village.

Their eat food village is what we often say food court or hawker centre, where different stalls different foods are available here. This food village is pretty “atas”, with air-conditioned and practices good hygiene. The prices are slightly more expensive than normal food court, but this is the most wallet-friendly meals here in Publika.

They offer quite a few selections including Pan Mee, Chicken Rice, Hokkien Mee, Bak kut teh and more.I have tried a few stalls and I would like to recommend this Fish village Yong Tau Fu. The selection of Yong tau fu ranging from fish balls, fu chok, brinjal, chili, fish paste and many more. Basically it’s more than enough to satisfy your yong tau fu cravings.

You can choose their set meal which costs Rm9.50, with any four pieces of ingredients plus mee or mee hoon. They offer different types of mee, such as mee pok, Maggie mee, spinach mee, yee mee and mee hoon. It took my attention immediately because I can hardly find a stall that offers so many choices and I’m totally spoilt for choice.I went for their normal mee pok, with lots of bean sprouts and scallions sprinkle on top. For the ingredients, I opted for brinjal, chilies, okra and fish cake. Their mee is really springy and it suits my liking very well. However, the portion might not be enough for a big eater. While for their Yong Tau Fu, everything taste average, and it’s stuffed with generous amount of fish meat inside.

I will not suggest you to choose their fritters though because the texture is so hard as if you are chewing a rock with your fragile teeth.They offer other set lunch as well, such as grill squid with petai, grill prawn with petai, grill seafood and more. Each set comes with a bowl of white steamed rice.

If you are tired of all the café foods or you want to save some penny, head over to their food village and explore yourself!

Happened to be at ss2 few days ago and I were introduced to try out the wan tan mee at restaurant Chan Meng Kee.

The place was crowded by people especially office workers during lunch hour. I opted for their char siew wan tan mee and frankly to say, their wan tan mee failed to meet my expectation.

The mee came with char siew slice, spring onion, pickled green chilies and a bowl of wan tan soup. The mee was too moist to my liking. They stick together as a huge chunk and I was having a hard time to eat. I would prefer the mee to be dry and chewy a bit. Thus, there’s nothing to shout out about their mee.

To be fair, their char siew was pretty good. They were juicy and had strong flavor. It was sweet and savory. People who prefer heavier taste will love the char siew.Their peanut lotus soup did surpass my expectation. Came with lotus slice, chicken feet and lots of peanuts. This clear soup had strong flavor of peanut, tasted super fresh, the lotus was being simmered perfectly, and the texture was soft and easy to chew on. It was indeed a bowl of comforting soup to go with your lunch.

Secret Loc, a brightly-lit and yet spacious restaurant located at Kuchai Lama, serves you western dishes such as pasta and breakfast set, as well as Hong Kong style cuisines such as dim sum and stir-fried hor fun.Hokkien style fried Udon. It’s served with fresh prawns, squid, fish paste, vegetables and a generous amount of pork lard sprinkle on top. Udon is stir-fried with black soy sauce, the saltiness is just right.

Initially, there’s nothing to shout about the udon, however if you eat them together with pork lards, it will give you an “oomph”, the dish becomes super flavorful and it will get you hooked. In another words, crispy and oily pork lard is the highlight of the dish. It might sounds unhealthy but once in awhile should be alright isn’t?Their prawn mee failed to meet our expectation though. The mee is kinda tasteless and we have no choice but to ask for a small plate of sambal to go with the mee. However, the portion is huge as it comes with fish pastes, hard-boiled egg, kangkung and prawns. The prawns are really fresh but fail to absorb the soup of the mee.Mushroom soup is really creamy and rich in flavor. You will be able to find a lot of mushrooms inside the soup. Their garlic bread tastes good as well. Even if you dip the bread into the soup, you can still taste the fragrance of the garlic. Every bite is really crispy and satisfying.

There are singers performing on the stage while people enjoying their food. If you want to have a nice catch up with friends, I would suggest you to sit outdoor so that your conversation wouldn’t be interrupted by the singing performance.

There’s a lot of café located at Kuchai Lama and if you are looking for a place to hang out with your friends, Food Talk will be your good choice as they open until midnight 2am.

The café occupies two shop houses so it’s really spacious; they have unique decorations such as inspiring quotes, doodles and pictures. Most importantly, besides food and beverage, they provide card games for you to play with your friends.Kam Hiong Fried Rice, the rice is fried to golden color and serves with spring onion, tomato slice and cucumber slice. The taste is average, nothing really special but the portion is enough to fill up your tummy.Nutella toast. The toast a bit failed to meet my expectation though, the picture shows it supposes to have Nutella chocolate sauce drizzle on the top of the toast, but it came out without the sauce.

The toast is served with butter cream, maple syrup, and Nutella sauce sandwiched inside the toast. First few bites are good but it gets sticky and greasy after that, you might need to consider sharing with your friends instead of finish it by yourself. Besides, it’s a little bit overpricing for a simple toast like this.

However, FoodTalk will be an ideal place to hang out if you are looking for a café to chit-chat with your friends during unearthly hour when most of the restaurant is closed.