Lorong Seratus Tahun, Scott's Gardens, Old Klang Road, Kuala Lumpur

Scott's Gardens on Old Klang Road looks like the odd place out in this crappy and dodgy part of town. Brand new shopping mall smacked in the middle of Old Klang Road that has nothing interesting other than Ah Beng watching. So I guess OKR is also changing finally after years of being in the slums. Scott's Gardens is home to Tesco and quite a few F&B outlets namely the crappy Overtime, Tom Dick & Harry's, another crappy one called Mongkok, a bakery called Bloom but will gloom soon and finally this one grandly named kopitiam called Lorong Seratus Tahun (One Hundred Years Lane).


I've been told by some aunties that the food at this place is not bad and that you should try the 22.90 Char Kueh Teow. Huh! Are you &^%#$# MAD? Anyway headed down with the folks, boss and maid in tow, we decided to try our luck.


The place seems packed. Good sign. (maybe not) Our orders were the curry noodles, nasi lemak, chee cheong fun in prawn paste, rojak, mango "crepes" (cannot remember what it's called) and another curry chicken nyonya rice.


Firstly, I apologize for the low quality photos as I was ill prepared for this. Photos taken using my crappy old dying iphone.

The only thing that tasted OK is the chee cheong fun in prawn paste. A little too light on the prawn paste for my liking but it was actually not too bad. 

Now this is the ARMAGEDDON of the "historical" Lorong Seratus Tahun. Just when it landed on my table, it just did not seem right. Picked up a spoon and scooped the soup. Bloody hell! It was so diluted, it looked like colored plain water. No need to try to know that THIS IS SHIT! STRIKE OUT! YOU'RE OUT!

The Penang Rojak was not too bad though after the horror we had with the curry noodles.  But I can get this from any pasar malam for half the price and be happier.

Nasi Lemak? Just like any other nasi lemak you get from the Kopi Tiams sprouting all over town. Nothing special and nothing interesting.

Nyonya rice? Check out the rice. Looks like a ball of over cooked rice. Sambal was not good, chicken was nothing special (Don't even want to remember what it tasted like!) and the lobak...it should be called Lo Chicken. Lobak without the bak (pork) is not LoBak! Don't try to bullshit us!

Mango crepes! Bad combination, Never order this nonsense again!

We came to the conclusion that water was added into the curry soup. It was just too diluted, too damn watery to be called curry and no sane minded cook can churn out crap like that. We reckoned that maybe the business was too good that day, they ran low on their curry so they decided just to top it up with water and maybe they'll get away with it. NONSENSE! You're a fucking restaurant, you serve food, you serve Penang food...have a little pride please! At least taste your food. If it cannot pass your own bloody tongue, don't serve it to us! (Mum said maybe it was the foreign workers but I said no. The blame is on the bosses of the place that do not train and monitor their own businesses.)


Anyway, this is one place I will not go back. They said maybe you should try our famous RM22.90 Char Kueh Teow! RM22.90 and get a couple of big prawns? No bloody way! If I wanted big prawns, I'll just go to a seafood restaurant and get fresher seafood right?


Another one bites the dust!

Ficelle, Taman Danau Desa, Kuala Lumpur - French Bakery

This is a very interesting place. A French themed bakery in the middle of crappy Taman Danau Desa. Nicely decorated corner lot place with tables outside under the cool shade of some old trees that have not been cut down yet. A bit of class in a somehow middle class Ah Beng suburb.
Was here for a quick lunch and I was surprised that they actually served Japanese Curry Rice here. ( I reckon they are like those French themed restaurants in Japan, where they try really hard to emulate the French in everything they do.) Ordered the Japanese Curry Karaage Rice (Chicken) and mushroom soup. Not cheap. The rice is like RM 12.90. It better be good.

The mushroom soup here is actually pretty good. Although the serving's a bit too small, the soup has a variety of mushrooms in it. Tastes a lot like a creamy wild mushroom soup. Sprinkled with some minced parsley on top and a little pepper, this soup is tummy warming and delicious. There must be at least four types of mushrooms in it. Button mushrooms, a Porcini looking one, white mushrooms and brown ones.
Good. 
Points - 2

The Japanese curry rice came and Boy! was I disappointed. It is really small. There were only 4 pieces of chicken "nuggets". Come on, it's 12 bucks. Fill me up ok! Points taken away.
They used pretty good quality rice for this and it was cooked right. Not too hard and not too soft. The curry on the other hand was very very normal. It tasted like the ones you get at any Japanese convenient store. Those packed curry - cooked in 5 minutes mini boxes. The limited fried chicken nuggets were not too bad but then the curry was nothing to shout about. Typical Japanese curry which is never spicy, more on the sweet side with a little curry spices in the mix. 


Points - 0.5 for the rice


Will I come back again? I might. Just to try the rest of the stuff they have and maybe to look cool sitting here, having a mocha and playing my ipad.