Bello! Minions for Hello.
I'm so free today I feel so happy! Hahahaha Usually I'll wake up feeling stressed because I set deadlines for myself and so I'll get this anxiety attack in the morning thinking about what I have to strike off the list for the day. Today, I just have to transcribe a 30 minutes interview, wait for Reb's goods to arrive and cook dinner then that's a wrap!
Looking forward towards the weekend because I'll be back to my hometown conducting several interviews. After the weekend is over, I would have 90% of the data needed for my study! WOOT!! The last two interviews will be conducted in Kuching somewhere in June, double WOOT!
Talking about interviews, I would usually meet my interviewees in Starbucks because (1) Caffeine keeps them alert (2) Pleasant environment- actually not the best environment for interview because I realised that they always play this music that can be a little annoying when I transcribe my interviews (3) Nobody would turn down a Starbucks treat right?
But last Monday I had to travel to Bangi to meet this guy from Penang. Haven't been to Bangi before so I typed Bangi and "Bangi Kopitiam" came up in the Google recommended feed.
Apparently it's quite famous and it has branched out its business internationally! How come I didn't know of such kopitiam?
Bangi Kopitiam
Jalan Medan PB 1A, Pusat Bandar Bangi
Menu
Interior of shop, quite cool layout
Ahh, sorry. I forgot to take a picture of the exterior of the shop because I was just concern about parking my car and getting out of the afternoon heat. I arrived at Bangi Kopitiam an hour before the agreed meeting time so I manage to sample their food!
Branch at Bangi Kopitiam
I was going to cook butter chicken for dinner that day so I decided not to have nasi lemak. Damn! Really wanted to try their nasi lemak though, looks so appealing! Anyway, I settled for Tom Yam Meehoon. Still was a little skeptical about how delicious the food would be when I placed my order.
Fried Tom Yam Meehoon RM6.90 | Ice Tea with Herbal Jelly RM4.80
You know how usually chain- restaurant's food are? Very commercialised tasting right? So can't blame me if I was expecting my food to taste commercialised la. Having that preconception, I had my first bite of meehoon and I went...
How come so yummy one!
The tom yam flavour was soooo appetising! I think it makes a great starter (starter because I still wanted my nasi lemak LOL). The dish tasted like something you buy off from those side of the road stalls!!! I mean in a good way that is! I always though that great tasting food is found on the street! I'm a street food person so no matter how yummy the food served in restaurant, I'd usually opt for authentic street food.
For the drink, I ordered milk tea with cincau but I think they forgot my cincau (grass jelly). I didn't realised it until when I was sipping my drink while listening to the interviewee. Then I thought, eh where is my cincau???
But since the milk tea was good, as good as real kopitiam one and I already drank almost all of it I decided to not make a hoo haa. So I paid extra RM1 I think for nothing:(
Oh oh, I forgot to mention! Check this out:
Upon arrival, I simply picked a spot that I thought was conducive enough for my interview. Decided to go for the sofa cushion type.
When I was trying to get comfy in my seat, I was wondering why is this table's leg feel so weird? I looked down and I saw a sewing machine's paddle!!!!! Then I realised that they had transformed an old sewing machine to a dining table! How cool is THAT!
They only have two of these sewing machine table and I luckily got one!
The rest of the tables are the normal type BUT BUT BUT.... I spot one more unusual table! Don't know if you noticed but you see the small boy in rainbow stripes tshirt? He's siting on an old school looking bench like what they provide aeons ago in kopitiam (coffee shops)!!
Bench & Tables
So I was obviously very excited to jot this down in my food blog! They have a few outlets outside of Bangi too but I'm not sure if all of their deco is the same? Bangi surpirsingly has many cafe! I would want to try them someday when I'm motivated enough to drive 45 minutes for a new food experience. Funny that I'm easily 'ON!' when it comes to driving to Melaka for food :P
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