After visiting Oriental Kopi and Hanyuan, Roast and Coffee outlets are more modestly decorated and furnished. The walls are mostly bare, safe for a few food posters, the floors are plain grey cement, the tables and chairs are hard utility types. The ambiance is more the kopitiam type but with air con comfort. There is no pipe in music but lots of banter in the usually fully packed outlets.
I usually try a kopi guyu (coffee with butter) during my first visits. R & C's kopi O is dark, and quite robustly bitter and acidic. The butter was a little thinly sliced so there wasn't really enough to smooth out the sharp bitter and sour edges. Good if you like your kopi taste, deep and strong.
I also had my usual kopi C kosong gao. The sweetener did a better job of smoothing out the bitter and sour taste, so the coffee ended up like a nice rendition of that familiar strong kopitiam brew. The kind we drink out of habit for the morning pick me up, caffeine kick.
R & C's kaya butter toast is great. The nicely browned toast is light and crisp. The kaya is smooth, not overly sweet and they are generous with the savoury butter. I enjoyed the kaya and butter toast a lot 👍
I tried R & C's signature curry laksa. The curry was good. It had the right richness and intensity of spice flavours for me. There's good umami savouriness and spicy heat from hae bee hiam in the sambal. The rest of the ingredients like noodle, fried fishball, fishcake, tau pok, cracker, etc were all generic but nice enough. There were no cockles but was available with top up of RM3.
Overall, R & C provides good coffee, breads, and local delights at very competitive prices in an air conditioned, comfortable space.
This is just a small sampling from their extensive menu. I shall be back to try other dishes at R & C and update this post. It's a relaxing, casual place I enjoy hanging out in.
Free parking, free wifi, wide open spaces, good coffee and food at competitive prices at Ecopalladium, my preferred R & C outlet.
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