Thursday, March 06, 2025

Roast & Coffee - Retro Garden 1968's, Jalan Tan Hiok Nee, Johor Bahru

Roast & Coffee - Retro Garden 1968's, Jalan Tan Hiok Nee

Roast & Coffee (62 & 63 Jalan Tan Hiok Nee, Bandar Johor Bahru, 80000 Johor Bahru, tel : +60 11-1895 6100) came up on our radar sometime late last year. They're a Nanyang cafe that isn't dissimilar to Oriental Kopi.

Roast & Coffee - Retro Garden 1968's, butter kopi
Roast & Coffee - Retro Garden 1968's, cham ice

Got a couple of drinks. Butter kopi's respectably robust and that ice cham was surprisingly good with a nice tea flavour.

Roast & Coffee - Retro Garden 1968's, curry lava egg

Curry lava egg - a couple of soft boiled eggs on toast soaked in curry. Nothing unexpected here and pretty good eat.

Roast & Coffee - Retro Garden 1968's, otah omelette sandwich
Roast & Coffee - Retro Garden 1968's, otah omelette sandwich

These guys use pretty good tasting otah that's filled with bits of fish. Enjoyed their otah omelette sandwich.

Roast & Coffee - Retro Garden 1968's, madam j seafood mihun

This was called Madam J seafood mihun. Seafood consisted of prawns and couple of squid rings. The former was nice - sweet and fresh tasting, filled with tomalley that was spilling out as you detached the heads. The broth was savoury, not exactly seafood-y and filled with evaporated milk and hua diao (花雕)? Appreciated how the home made fried shallots added to the broth. Delicious as a whole but the portion was kinda small. 

Roast & Coffee - Retro Garden 1968's, Jalan Tan Hiok Nee

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