Sausage KL Cafe & Deli, Jalan Ampang, Kuala Lumpur

Breakfast at Sausage KL Cafe & Deli (Ground Floor Holiday Place Hotel, Jalan Ampang, Taman U Thant, 55000 Kuala Lumpur). They're a non-Halal all day English breakfast shop sequestered at the back of Holiday Place Hotel. Think house made sausages and pastries that clog your arteries.

We had a Builder's Breakfast which was a variation of their breakfast plate with some oat-y tasting black pudding with the works - grilled tomatoes, house made pork sausage, some back bacon, fried eggs, hash brown and fried bread. Hearty and greasy like it looked.

Some Gammon steak and eggs. Ham's a little dry and chewy. Their hash browns were pretty good with a light crisp on the exterior.

A side of beans and Dark Hart Lorne which was a Lorne sausage with black pudding in the middle.

A little sugar with the grilled tomatoes was nice.

So was maple syrup with the Gammon, eggs and and grilled pineapple.

Pudu Pasar Wanton Mee, Jalan Pasar Baharu, Kuala Lumpur

This stall (at the wet market, Jalan Pasar Baharu, Pudu, Kuala Lumpur 55100) is apparently pretty well known. Folks come over for their wanton mee and curry noodles and they only operate from 7.30pm in the evening. Not open on Sundays and Mondays.

Carrot and kedondong juice. The former is also known in these parts as buah long long or ambarella - a sour fruit with a flavour similar to guava but a lot more astringent. Some milk was snuck into the carrot juice and it's pretty pleasant.

We were here for their wanton mee and curry noodles. But we weren't kidding ourselves about the real reason. It's the char siew which we were after.

Deserves another shot even though the photos didn't do the char siew justice.

Wanton mee's okay tasting. Curry noodle's gravy was pretty lemak, had a bit of heat from the sambal and yet pretty drinkable through the richness in my opinion. YMMV though.

The name for the style of char siew served at Pudu Pasar Wanton Mee is 'glass char siew' or 玻璃叉烧. These type of char siew is not unique to this stall. They're named that way from the glazed and glossy surface on the exterior of the barbequed pork. Typically honey sweet with a smokiness from the burnt/caramelized bits. The char siew was served slightly warm which made the fatty layers inside melty. I'm ranking this in the same leagues as Char Siew Yoong. 

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Together Nasi Lemak, Food Place @ Pavilion, Kuala Lumpur

Came across Together Nasi Lemak (Food Place, Lot 1.29.01 – Lot 1.29.04, Pavilion KL, 168 Jalan Bukit Bintang, 55100 Kuala Lumpur) from social media a couple of years back and have been curious about them. They have a few outposts around in KL. What they're known for is pork nasi lemak. Specifically one with pork belly berempah.

Fuck me the rice was spectacular! This was heart clogging santan infusion paired with adequate salting which resulted in a delicious lemak savouriness. Sambal's expectedly sweet and spicy with notes from onion and anchovies. Pork belly berempah tasted much like how it sounded. One can imagine the commonly found berempah flavouring on crisp pork belly instead of chicken. Pretty tasty and meaty.

This was dumpling season and there's currently a nasi lemak zhang which featured pork rendang and salted egg. Nice. 👍🏼 Not much of the coconut flavour coming through though because of the rendang, sambal and salted egg. 

Note that the stall is at Food Place and not Food Republic.

Muchas Muchachos (as transpired end June 2026)

Surprise update on Muchachos because we came back again.

To get the double cheeseburger before we can't get it anymore.

If anyone's wondering if it's juicy...

...wonder no more.

More of their country fried steak and buttery mash.

Trying their birria ramen for the first time. Sans cilantro.

Of places, Muchachos was definitely one of the last I'd expected to find an equivalent of a kickass 红烧牛肉面. I've never had a birria before and this was what it tasted like to me with that bovine depth, spicy greasiness and salt. A much better/more satisfying rendition of Chinese 红烧 beef noodle than what we've actually had in Taiwan. This was also just like how I remembered the beef noodle broth from Lai Lai back in the day when they were the Taiwanese beef noodle shop to be eating at.

Nong Geng Ji (农耕记), Great World

Nong Geng Ji is one of a few Hunan based restaurant that's mushroomed around the island in recent years. Like Xiang Xiang which we've had a few times before. This was from the branch at Great World (#01-115/116 Great World, 1 Kim Seng Promenade, tel : +65 6908 0347).

Metallic.

This bothered me. The block of solid fuel they used for their heaters was wrapped in plastic and they left the plastic wrapper and lit them up together. That's gotta be some level of residual toxicity if they keep doing that right?

Tried their big shrimp and vermicelli with garlic (蒜蓉大虾仁) which was steamed on serving. The server put a timer to return but that dude returned several times because he wasn't satisfied with the doneness. They need work on the SOP for the timing...hahaha.

A tad greasy and most of the flavour came from the garlic. Edible but not impressed. 

Their stir fried cauliflower (大碗有机花菜) was pretty good though. Those fragrant chunks of fried lard, sweet cloves of garlic and bits of chilli helped with that. Good with rice.

That's the stir fried beef with tea oil (茶油鲜炒牛肉). The dish had a flavour that we weren't familiar with and I'm guessing it's the tea oil. Dish packed a bit of heat and those green stuff tasted like celery. Meat wasn't fatty and was a little sinewy. Not impressed at all.

Bean curd skin & eggs (鲜腐皮焖鸡蛋) - not bad. Realized that we've had something similar at Xiang Xiang at Westgate so I'm kinda getting predictable with my choices.

Rice was much more enjoyable with the dishes than the vermicelli.

116 烧腊•麵, People's Park Food Centre

Chanced upon 116 烧腊•麵 (#01-1092 People’s Park Food Centre, 32 New Market Road) one evening and got a plate of triple roast rice. We were sure we've seen them almost every time we've been in this food centre and have never afforded them nothing more than a cursory glance.

Pretty decent plate of roast duck, roast pork and char siew. $10 for this one. Meats were arguably tender yet with a good bite to them with no melt in your mouth BS. I liked that the rice was moist and tender - unexpectedly great pairing with the garlicky chicken rice chilli which served as a counter to the richness of the proteins.