I had recently just started work at a German software company and one of the things that they do to ease your settling into the company is to assign an official buddy to you. Somehow I was assigned to a buddy who also has a keen appreciation of food and has sampled quite a wide and varied list as well. On hearing that we are fellow foodies, my buddy brought me to a place that is the essence of the original kopitiam.

 

Located in a quiet nook and cranny in the Taman Tasik Titiwangsa area (roll over the square boxes in wikimapia and find Wang's Kopitiam), it is a wooden house by the side of the road. Wang's must have been here for years and years and it attracts quite a following.

The food was not really that awesome but the environment was just so interesting. Looking out you can see the Jalan Pahang flyover and the hustle and bustle of what city life is all about but where you are sitting, it looks like you have somehow moved back in time to days where life was slower paced. As I write this, I am thinking that when I was younger I once visited Taiping and was complaining so much about the slow pace of life there that it made my host cry (yes, yes - I was an idiot) but now I am thinking that slowness is not bad. Maybe I am just getting old.

Wang's serve typical kopitiam food like toast bread, half boiled eggs, curry mee, etc. This is not your sanitized shopping mall kopitiam and inflated prices to boot - this is your genuine article kopitiam. A road side stall. We had curry noodles and wantan. The wantan was actually not too bad. A bit on the small side but quite good nevertheless. Perhaps the next trip here, we shall have wantan mee instead as we saw quite a number of people having it.

Wang's Koptiam
Jalan Maran (opposite house number 11A)

53200 Kuala Lumpur

 

non-halal

 

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