It was early afternoon when a good friend rudely awaken me from my deep sleep and asked me out for lunch. No thanks to Sook Ying who made me deprived of sleep, lately. They came all the way down from KL to Malacca to collect their 200 slices (or maybe even more) of Mille Crepe. Tonnes of food places came running into my mind and most of them were non air conditioned, until Asian Havana Cafe popped into my mind.

My last trip to Asian Havana Cafe was 4 months ago and I had a rather so-so experience. Hence, instead of ordering dishes that have weird names and stirred up my curiosity, I decided to play safe and ordered dishes that are familiar to me. You can read the previous review and write up of Asian Havana Cafe by clicking here.

Now that I have written about the cafe before, I will just jump into the food and taste part. I didn’t jot down the names for the food we ordered. I ordered a glass of French soda that comes with lemon and orange zest juice. After stirring them up, it tasted like Sunkist orange juice. No shit! You know, the brand ‘Sunkist’, right? Although we always say “Don’t judge a book by its cover”, I am pretty sure that the beverages served in this cafe are pretty decent and you won’t go wrong with it.

This time, we ordered 3 plates of their specialty, pineapple fried rice. Chunks of pineapples, friend with cili padis and a taste of spiciness, definitely worth a try. There were a few prawns and chicken meat inside as well, topped with some shredded vegetables and served with a big piece of pineapple, which was for decoration purposes only. However, it would be even better if they could serve it steaming hot. It was freshly cooked from the wok, but somehow, the heat didn’t stay long enough. It got cold after halfway into finishing it.

Then, it was this fish fillet flat noodles in thick gravy. I don’t know what was that actually, but judging from it looks, it should taste somewhat like Wat Tan Hor 滑旦河. What surprised me was the amount of mushrooms they put inside. I mean, 3 big pieces of mushrooms, you don’t get that in any cafes, you know.

Up next was Havana Chicken Cordon Bleu, which was deep fried chicken breast meat wrapped with ham and served with macaroni, basil herbs and tomato sauce. I wasn’t sure whether have they improved the dish or not, compared to the last time I had it. I remembered it tasted rather dry.

Last was my fried glass noodles Thai style. I absolutely love this dish, fried glass noodles. Served with a generous amount of fried peanuts and anchovies, and garnished with lots of spring onions! I didn’t eat the vegetables though.

I also ordered a 5 spices Sha Tin chicken chick. It was a deep fried chick dish, served with butter sauce, stir friend vegetables and steamed mashed potatoes. The chicken chick wing is not even the length of my thumb. It was that small yet it tasted quite nice though. It didn’t have a lot of meat for you to chew on, but the meat was tender and fried till golden brown. However, there are lots of room for improvement for their steamed mash potatoes and butter sauce. The butter sauce was just melted butter, nothing else. Perhaps some flavouring could be added into it to make it less butter-ish and oily.

We also didn’t left out their infamous white chocolate cheese cake. Simply delicious.

The bill came up to RM136.02 with 10% discount if you can present an ID that states you as a student of any institution or university. It was rather a heavy lunch for the 6 of us, but I certainly enjoyed my lunch. Certainly, it was a better experience compared to my previous visit. As for my friends, I think they enjoyed it as well, that’s if they didn’t lie to me. They even generously paid my lunch. Heh, thanks guys!

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