Baba Kuat Cafe at Menara PJ8, Petaling Jaya: Snapshot

Baba Kuat’s Seremban-born Peranakan founder Cheong Wai is flexing his culinary muscles with a sturdy selection of Asian-inflected rice bowl recipes at this likable little hideout – luscious salmon belly is combined with cucumbers, spring onions and a fried egg on a warm bed of sesame-sprinkled rice for a comfort-food lunch (RM20)…

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…while stir-fried clams come spiced up with a surreptitiously fiery chilli sauce, balanced with edamame and more egg for metabolism-moving fare (RM15).

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Take the bowl out to the leafy, contemplative second-floor courtyard of Menara PJ8 and savour this freshly prepared meal on one of the benches.

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Location & Details

Address: Level 2, PJ8, Jalan Barat, Petaling Jaya, Selangor.
Hours: Mon-Fri, 8am-12pm (kuih), 12pm-530pm (rice bowls).
Tel: +6017-797-1788
Find: View directory for Baba Kuat Cafe here.