Merchant's Lane Cafe @ Petaling Street 美真林茶馆

Hello August, please be nice to me as July looks not really that colorful to me. Anyhow, I do believe that sometimes you just need to force yourself to wake up from the bed and doing some adventure, don’t giving yourself too much of excuses at this age.

Few days ago, I had bringing along Ms. G exploring the café around KL area as usual. And this exploration end up in Petaling Street as she is wishing to catch “Magikarp” from Pasar Seni MRT Station hahaha (Pokemon hit still out there indeed). This place actually do familiar to me as here used to be Bus Hub (Apparently, now already functioning as Pudu UTC).

So, wouldn’t be any issue for us to walk over there, decide not to drive as Petaling Street will be crowded with people during weekend. And the café that we visit this round is Merchant’s Lane, a hit in Instagram after the launched (A Great place for photography).

Apparently, we’ve make the right choice as this old heritage building did giving us numerous place to shoot for photo J Owner must be very details-oriented as the inner part of the building is so well maintain!

Another part that we like the most would be the spaces within the place. Distance between table with another table are in fair range. Some famous café starting to utilized their place as much as they can by putting extra chair + table in order to fill in people. Trust me, please visit the café during the evening, the natural light coming in create such a nice environment that charming and inviting to having meal here. 

South China Sea, RM25

Interesting name and Signature dish here, Grilled salmon with two soft boil eggs, mango based salsa and Potato house-made hash. I’m a big fans with Fish compared with other meat, a little disappointed with the portion of fish they provided hahaha as Am big fans of Fish.

Hongkie Beef Stew, RM21

Personally I like this dish as compared with the above because the way they prepared the dish that having lots of gravy. No worry as the beef is tender and believes that their chef cooks it for few hours. Plus point would be their Mash potato beneath of the beef.

Rose Honey Milk, RM12

Personally don’t really like it as the taste doesn’t differ much with milk that I drink usually. It’s café’s signature beverage and on top of it are the flower petals that aims to adding the flower scent.

Caramel Latte, RM13

I strongly recommend you to order this instead, putting aside the nice artwork on top of the coffee itself. I seldom tried out latte that is so less bitter and finish it almost with few shots hahaha.  

Speaking further about the food, both of us will definitely visit for the 2^nd round as it worth for every dime you paid. And perhaps we may bring others buddies as well to enjoying the meal here in nearest future.

Merchant's Lane Café

150, Jalan Petaling, City Centre,

50000 Kuala Lumpur.

Tel: +603-2022 1736

Opening hours: Weekdays 11:30AM-10PM (Closed on Wed); Weekend 9:30AM – 10PM