Vegetarian Restaurant Cafe Bookshop in SS2

 

Residents of SS2, PJ will be familiar with Murni Discovery, the value-for-money eatery that sees tables spilling onto sidewalks since 1999. Murni’s latest venture is something else entirely: up the stairs above Murni is M’Laboori, a modern, spacious nook with clean lines, books on wooden shelves, discreet overhead lighting and air-conditioning. It’s a bookshop cum vegetarian restaurant-café.

Where to Get your Sarawak Laksa fix

First published in Options, The Edge Malaysia, 27 November 2017

For Sarawak Laksa fans in the KL-PJ area, try one of these.

Sarawak Laksa enjoys a celebrity status among the many laksa varieties in the country. 

It’s available if you look hard enough – Alexi’s Bistro, MM Café, SRK Noodle House, Aloft Hotel, Antara and Kluang Station, among others, offer versions of Sarawak Laksa, besides independent stalls in some coffee shops.

Sarawak Laksa has always been street food, sold at small stalls and served for breakfast, in its native Kuching.  Among fans of Sarawak Laksa, these are the most highly-regarded versions in the KL-PJ area :

Aunty Christina has been operating a stall in a coffee shop in Lucky Gardens, Bangsar, for yonks.  Recently opened Aunty Christina Laksa in PJ is dedicated to Sarawak Laksa with a supporting panoply of East Malaysian dishes such as Kolo Mee, Kacang Ma and herbal soup noodles.   This is a basic coffee shop with tiled floor, plastic tables and chairs, and no air-conditioning. 

The star is Sarawak Laksa, upscaled and upgraded from the Bangsar days, with a King Prawn XL version at RM20, Regular at RM8, and the extra-noodles, extra-prawns Special at RM12.