Enjoy Cafe & Restaurant is a relatively new eating establishment that has been doing an advertising blitz at my workplace, with flyers on the windscreen wipers of all the cars parked around here. I’ve been there once but never got around to reviewing it. I went again last night to check out the place, since the first impression wasn’t strong enough to warrant a review.
Enjoy Cafe & Restaurant has a nice ambiance with mood lighting (which makes it a nightmare for photography). The place has a fixation with blue diffused down lights, which I kinda like. It somehow makes the place more calming.
There are also silk screens to act as a privacy buffer in between the booth type seating arrangements. The place is pretty empty due to hefty competition from Sushi Tie, Mitsu Tea House and other popular eating establishments within the same commercial complex. There were only two other tables of diners besides us.
I like the classic juicer and fruits on display at the bar counter. Enjoy Café & Restaurant serves a wide variety of fruit juices. I went with a group of friends the first time and we ordered:
Enjoy Cocktail, Egg Drop Noodles, Beef Noodle Soup, Hot & Spicy Beef
Hot Lemon, Stir-fried Mixed Vegetable, Mince Meat Rice, Hot & Spicy Squid
It didn’t particularly make a good impression on all of us, but I went again last night with Mary to do a second review. The service was great this time, perhaps due to the aesthetically pleasing waitress designated to our table…
…which inevitably led to an XX Chromosome post. I passed her my blogger name card to boot. I can’t resist! 😉
I asked the waitress for their flagship dish and she recommended Tie Ban Shuang Long (Steel Plate Double Dragon). It’s calamari and pork ribs mixed in a delicious sauce with an egg cracked into the hot plate. It’s priced at RM 20 and comes with a bowl of steamed rice. It’s delicious!
Mary recommended the Tien Chang Di Jiu (Forever and Ever – though it’s translated as Forever Happiness in the menu) dessert, which is priced at a very reasonable RM 4. It’s a sticky mass of extremely hot yam and sweet potato in starch. The dessert is served with a bowl of iced water filled with ice cubes and it’s supposed to be eaten like this:
You’re supposed to spear a piece of the sticky and piping hot pieces and then dip it into the bowl of ice water. This immediately cools down the dessert and “solidifies” it and it’s ready for consumption. I found it to be an interesting ritual, and quite a lot of fun too.
Enjoy Café & Restaurant is actually a pretty nice place to be chilling out at with a relaxing atmosphere and a laid back ambiance. The food is great too – it has improved by leaps and bounds since my first foray there. The place is lacking in the clientèle department though, due to the stiff competition from the other major eating establishments in that area, but it’s definitely worth a visit. Cheers!
Aiyo all the menu are so dark cannot see la. Hey your trademark hair style are back ;p
The name of the dishes (in Chinese) are very misleading. 😉 Tie Pan Shuang Long. Ha! Classic!
At dimsim session, I told Kian I want ‘Phoenix Claws”..and he said: chicken feet means chicken feet.. no such thing as Phoenix Claw.
Haha!
Anyhoo, Im proud with those Chinese(sy) names.They are literaturely cool after all! =)
reading ur post on those sinfully delicious looking food at night always make me crave for supper 😀 😀
anyway, keep it up;)
how come your lips so red ar? 🙂
I guess it not a place for family it seem dark inside. Food look delightfuly delicious. Which one is your favorite? Cost hope not too bad. For Girls night out not bad or with guys too.
It kind of dark so must not be for children but at night it dating place. Foods look great wonder which dishes is the best you try? How the price pretty reasonable? Enjoy your restaurants subjects it let readers know what Hit/Miss in these places.
I see you enjoyed your meal in Enjoy by the pictures how you were eating it. So this is a good place to go with date. Does it serve wines also?
lol… hb, not particularly… i was one of the customers there as well. was with another two friends of mine when ur in XD
Where exactly is this place
Roland: Really? It looks fine on my notebook but then I have gamma turned up really high.
That is my unstyled hair la. Haha! I didn’t have time to style it before I went out.
cynthia: Yeah, the Chinese have a fondness of giving interesting names to dishes, like Budhha Jumps Over the Wall. Some are euphemisms as well e.g. Bishops Nose. I always say chicken ass is chicken ass, not Bishop’s Nose too. 🙂
ai-ling: Thanks ai-ling! 🙂
Appreciate the kind comments.
annant: Red? Really? I don’t know, maybe coz my lips were chapped?
Shelly: It’s a family friendly place, it’s darker than it seems coz I want to take the ambient lighting in. The food is getting better, it wasn’t that good when it just opened. It’s not very expensive as well, worth a trip since Mitsu Tea House and Sushi Tie is always full.
Marilynn: No, I don’t think they have a kids menu there. It’s probably more for couples or groups of friends. The best dish will be the calamari and pork dish, that was really nice. It comes with an egg cracked into the hot plate too, to soak up the gravy.
Okay, will do. Evolve or die. 🙂
Richard: Haha! I wanted to title the XX Chomosome post as Enjoying the waitress in Enjoy but it was too long. 🙂
It serves beer, but not wine. Most restaurants here are receptive to BYO wine though, some with a corkage charge while most don’t even care.
eugene: Oh, you were with the Sacred Heart students? The large table having a birthday or something?
pnaka: It’s opposite Rajang Medical Center, at the same commercial complex as Sushi Tie (the original outlet) and Mitsu Tea House.
i was happened to be there too only last week for lunch….
No wonder u said it’s a nightmare for photographers, so hard to capture a good pic without using flash.
Never been there, but the one in the block behind – with some kind of ocean, underwater concept, cant remember the name- quite nice. Giant servings, one plate eg spaghetti more than enough for two!
ooh..would really love to try the lethal combination of calamari rings and pork ribs! *drooling*
Ooh…would really love to try the calamari rings with pork ribs. What a lethal combination! RM20 is quite reasonable.
hmmm.. HB. Did u ask the waitress for her name?
lol… wrong guess 😀
we’ll meet some time
janel: I wouldn’t go there for lunch, it’s just too far from my office. 🙂
Eh, you very mysterious la…why never go out with us on blogger meets?
Darren: Yeah, and I don’t have a dSLR or a tripod, or I might be able to take better photos.
suituapui: Hmm…interesting. I’ve never seen the place you’re talking about. I shall check it out. I didn’t know there were that many cafes around there. I see a couple of pubs though.
eiling: Yeah, it’s really delicious and I’ve already eaten lunch! 🙂
The place is pretty cheap, especially their lunch menu sets. Unfortunately, it’s too far from where I work to justify going.
goolooloo: Nope, I didn’t. Just passed her my card to increase readership since there’s WiFi there. 😉
eugene: Sure, gimme a holler when you see me next time buddy. Cheers!
Tried carrot milk once (mentioned 100% fruit). The drink not even 5% of carrot contain and no milk at all. Taste like plain water. Worst drink ever + not worth trying. Will never visit and waste my money @ Enjoy Cafe. Cost: Carrot RM5.90 + Milk RM1 = RM6.90. Damn! Macam kena rompak.