Serving award-winning 128-layer egg tart & tangy mee siam

I keep in mind when Oriental Kopi first opened in Kuala Lumpur in 2021, the excitement was actual. There are actually 4 shops however even right now, the queue (particularly on the weekends) is solely infinite. What is it about this espresso store that has a whole bunch of consumers queuing up for hours for a desk? 

I visited the Bandar Puteri, Puchong outlet for lunch and even at 11am on a weekday, there was already a small queue. The second I stepped foot into the espresso store, I used to be greeted by a contemporary but conventional inside design with gentle old-school Chinese music taking part in within the background. 

On the precise, subsequent to the cashier, are infinite rows of show counters crammed with freshly-baked egg tarts. Just the view of the golden brown tops was sufficient to cease me lifeless in my tracks.

The egg tarts gleamed like sunflowers on a tray, the caramelised sugar kissing their edges brown. This is the delight and pleasure of Oriental Kopi and each desk on the espresso store had a plate of those golden goodies. 

What I attempted at Oriental Kopi

Oriental Kopi could also be identified for his or her egg tarts however their Oriental Fried Chicken Meat Mee Siam (RM14.90) was clearly the second hottest dish there. I seen that plates of their mee siam have been flying out of the kitchen, and I knew I needed to attempt a plate. 

There was a small rectangular sheet of banana leaf on the backside and on high have been slices of recent cucumber, lime, a beneficiant quantity of sambal, chunks of freshly fried rooster thigh, vermicelli noodles, and to high all of it off, a perfectly-poached egg. 

Hold on a minute, a poached egg on high of mee siam? This was undoubtedly new to me. 

I pierced my fork gently into the extraordinarily delicate egg white and out oozed the attractive golden yolk all around the vermicelli noodles— oh, how my mouth watered. I gave the noodles a beneficiant toss with the creamy egg yolk and took an enormous chew. 

The mee siam by itself hit all the precise notes— tangy, barely candy and deeply savoury. The poached egg gave the noodles a creamy style and the lime gave the noodles an additional tangy kick.The deep fried rooster thigh by itself was good, juicy and simply completely salted however when paired with the mee siam, it was luscious. 

I didn’t care a lot for the sambal. It wasn’t candy or spicy, it had a really gentle style— in the event you don’t like your sambal to be spicy, you then’ll take pleasure in it together with the noodles.

Mee siam devoured down, my consideration targeted in direction of the two of their Signature Egg Tarts (RM9.50) positioned in entrance of me. 

Just from their look, I deduced that these weren’t your common egg tarts— they suspiciously jogged my memory extra of Portugese egg tarts due to the caramelised crusts. 

Before I get into the style check, a bit of enjoyable reality about these golden sweets. Oriental Kopi’s egg tarts are so common that it’s made it to the Malaysian Book of Records for having the thickest crust, 128 layers or 6mm. 

I eagerly sliced the egg tart into half and it revealed a golden, custard-like filling—- it was like discovering a pot of gold on the finish of a rainbow. At first, I assumed the quantity of eggy filling would initially throw me off, however I used to be flawed. The filling was very gentle, not overly creamy and the egg wasn’t overpowering. Each mouthful was full of goodness and an fragrant trace of the egg custard style. 

I notably loved the flaky outer pastry. Oriental Kopi makes use of premium French butter and bakes their egg tart below actually excessive temperatures to make sure it turns into actually flaky and crispy.

Plus, the 128-layers separates Oriental Kopi’s egg tarts out of your ordinary egg tarts, it makes the egg tart extraordinarily crunchy. I most well-liked this crust over the often crumbly shell and regardless of having so many layers, it was very gentle tasting. Last however not least, the various layers additionally gave the egg tart its peak— no surprise it received into the Malaysian Book of Records!

But after devouring one complete tart, I couldn’t discover myself reaching for extra regardless that I had discovered it actually tasty. The measurement of 1 itself was large sufficient to fulfill my egg tart cravings. 

Final ideas

As I walked out of the restaurant, I couldn’t assist however discover that there was nonetheless a queue. Despite being in Malaysia for greater than a 12 months, I used to be impressed that the hype for Oriental Kopi was nonetheless very a lot there. But for my part, the hype was well-deserved.

If you ever go by Oriental Kopi, do cease and seize a field (or 2) of their Signature Egg Tarts for teatime. It’s that good.

Expected injury: RM20 – RM30 per pax

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