The irony of this cafe is that, it is really upstairs. It's situated next to SJMC hospital. It's a cafe for folks around to hang around with coffee and great gourmet food. This time, dinner calls and Upstairs cafe seems interesting.

Upon entering the doors to Upstairs cafe, there's a flight of stairs to climb.

The food counter is right next to the flight of stairs. It was so worth it to go upstairs (no puns intended). Orders are to be made at the counter. They have an abundant amount of food and drinks on the menu. It was so hard to choose on what to eat for dinner. Every dessert from the dessert counter looked very mouth watering. The desserts is perfect to have for tea time.

Decided to order their famous Spaghetti Bolognese and their all-day big-breakfast, with some orange juice and peach tea. The price for the meal is pretty affordable for gourmet food. The spaghetti bolognese is served with two slices of baguette. It goes really well as you have to scoop up some sauce on the bread. The portion is very filling and the flavour is different than other spaghetti bolognese, one of a kind pasta. For their all-day big breakfast, it was a little disappointing. It tasted like any other big breakfast (maybe not like McDonald's). The peach tea tastes like gummy bears in-a-cup. It's sweet yet, just nice.

Rating for Upstairs Cafe: 9/10
Price range: RM 10 - RM 49

By: Farina

Thai people used (well, still do) eat their meals on boats, mostly in Bangkok canal's. Their infamous boat noodle arrived in Malaysia not long ago.

A shop called Dope Alley in SS15, Subang Jaya, serves tasty boat noodle. They serve the noodles in small bowls with their mouth-watering strong flavoured broth. The broth really does complements the rice noodles with some vegetables. They have it in both chicken or beef flavour that you could choose from. The best part of this, each bowls only costs RM1.90. What a steal!

Other than boat noodle, they also serve fried chicken skin, chicken or beef balls, and others too (like Thai fried rice, Tom Yam and so on).

For dessert, they serve the famous Thai pancake. We wanted to order their Thai ice cream but sadly, the person in charge wasn't in. Thai pancakes it is then! In a nutshell, it's such a cheap and delectable street food meal. It's highly recommended.

Rating for Dope Alley: 9/10

Pricing rate: RM1.90 - RM 12

By: Farina

Citta Mall, situated in Ara Damansara, has a small petite cafe called +Wondermilk. Started from just selling cupcakes (it's called cuppacakes now) on a blog in 2000, they grew from success to open their first flagship cafe at Uptown, Damansara. They are famous for their unique design and flavours of cupcakes which what attracted most people to their cafe.

The +Wondermilk cafe in Ara Damansara (but in all their cafes too) are designed very modern and fresh, mostly to suit the youth who likes all things funky and colourful. They have a huge variety of cupcake flavours with both international flavours and also local.

Their Cuppacakes have quirky names like; Superainbow (vanilla), John Lemon (lemon), Foxy Red Velvet (red velvet), Carrot top (carrot), Salted Caramel and so many more! Cuppacakes are their best selling items and many people queue up for them.

Other than Cuppacakes, they also serve sandwiches, hot dogs and stuffed potato. Their savoury meals are amazingly delicious. The prices for their savoury meals are affordable (since we are on a student budget). They offer set meals that comes with a drink with different flavours to choose from.

For more information on +Wondermilk: ilovewondermilk.com

Rating for +Wondermilk: 8/10

Price range: RM3-20

By: Farina

Libby & Co., situated in the courtyard of Empire Subang. It is an individual building on it's own and it has glass windows all over to give the customers of natural sunlight or to see the stars at night while dining.

Here is a board on the exterior to inform customers of the opening hours. Also, they notify that they have an instagram account that customers could follow at @jibbynco on the board.

The picture above are meals from their breakfast menu. Their menu are pretty pricey, as they serve gourmet food with amazing view. After tasting some of their food, we could really tell that they use fresh and quality ingredients and their plating looks astonishing.

Their spaghetti bolognese with meatballs was scrumptious. It was around RM24 but it was worth every cents. The portion is pretty big so we had to share it for two persons.

 

They have several pasta dishes in their menu. For example (in the picture above), spaghetti pesto with mushrooms and seafood agile olio. Each and every pasta has their own distinctive flavours and it was a pretty unique gastronomic experience for our taste buds. We paired up the pasta with some local Teh Tarik and some Twinnings tea. All-in-all, Jibby & Co. is great place to dine for special occasions.

Rating for Jibby & Co. : 7/10

Pricing rate: RM 12 - RM 60

By: Farina

There are always a long queue in front of these stalls. Locals craves for the famous SS15 rojak. Situated next to KFC SS15, the small stall is famous for its different flavour in Rojak. Rojak is a traditional tea-time meal for Malaysians (as they do not have scones and tea for tea time!).

The famous Rojak Stall. There are types of rojak you can choose. Price range from RM3.50 to RM4.50. You can inform the Rojak man to customize your rojak if you needed too (cause we know we did). They have four types of Rojak; Egg with squid, Squid, Egg or just plain Rojak. Rojak is best served with egg and squid, because the both of the ingredients adds plentiful amount of flavour to the rojak. It is a must try street food!

The above picture is the yummy rojak. Rojak and cendol (RM1.20) which cost only RM 5.70 !!

It is better if you come before 4pm to avoid the long queue. Happy feasting with your eyes (cause you know you want some).

Rating for Rojak SS15: 9/10

By: Pei Shan

Are you a meat lover? Guess 798 Shabu Shabu which is located at Sunway Pyramid wouldn't sound strange to you then. It is a Japanese dish featuring thinly sliced meat boiled in water. It is considered to be more savoury and less sweet than Sukiyaki, which is another type of Japanese dish. Also, it is more expensive as well with finer vegetables ingredients and better cuts of meats such as pork, chicken, beef, venison, lamb, fish and abalone. If you wish to have some seafood such as fish and prawn, you could add RM1 for additional plate for it. The price range for having meal here is in the middle range which is RM 29.80 per person during the lunch time (until 4.30p.m.) and RM 39.80 per person for dinner time (after 4.30p.m.). 

Beside that, you can choose your flavor of soup for yourself. There are several choices for the soup such as pork bone soup, tomyam soup, pepper soup and herbal soup. If you have difficulty in choosing either one of them, you may also choose the soup of the day since they have designed different taste of soup for every weekday for you. By the way, their soup is tasting so good !! Meats that offered by them also very fresh as well, you just need to stir it inside the soup for few seconds and you can have them already as they have been cut into very thin slices. 

A healthy meal is always encouraged by people. So, except enjoying their meats, do not forget also to take some vegetables so you could have a balanced meal. They provide you a variety of vegetables, fish balls, pork balls, and other side dishes. You can just take as many as you wish to. But, do not waste the food, as there have a rule stating that you will be fine RM 10 for every 100 grams of foods wasted. Also, they only allow you to have your meals inside the restaurant for 100 minutes. You have to pay more if you stay over that time range set. Sounds so bad huh? Actually, 100 minutes is more than enough to get your stomach full. 

Besides, there are a number of sauces prepared there which you can take to use to dip meats and vegetables when eating shabu-shabu. For example, ponzu sauce and sesame sauce. Other condiment options such as spring onion and Japenese pickled carrots are provided by the restaurant as well so that customers can make the sauce according to their own preferences.

Recently, 798 Shabu-Shabu has offered a brand new range of meals which is the rice bucket. So if you are not interested in having shabu-shabu, you may try their rice bucket as well. Overall, the rating for this restaurant is 8/10 because they served very good food and provide quality service to their customers.

By: Cherry

Mouth-watering not? It is the typical Asian Chinese Cuisine. Traditionally, in China, people who go to restaurant will definitely order 8 types of dishes and 1 soup. As you can see above, there are 8 types of dishes and 1 soup of course, Normally, Chinese will be having this kind of dinner or meals during gatherings such as family gathering, teachers and students gathering to update one another's life. Photo shown above is a gathering between an art teacher and some of his graduated students. Everyone was smiling so happily.

First of all, they served the maw soup and then the rice is following after it. After that, they served other dishes which just looked exactly as the pictures shown above. Most of the dishes they served are the popular one such as salad prawn, minced pork taufu, sweet and sour fish and some chicken. Their taste is so nice that you will come back again and again. After the dinner, dessert sure will be coming along with it which is the longan taufu.

It is the chef recommended dessert in this restaurant. It is just so perfect as an ending for the dinner of the night. Yes, after eating so much, one will definitely feel very full but he or she must be very enjoying the dinner and all stuffs. After all, communicating and chit chatting of course will come before the food as it is a gathering. Anyway, I rated this for 9/10 as the dessert is my favourite!! Well, that's the end of the day. 

By: Cherry