It was not the first time I was misled by tripadvisor western reviewers with minimal knowledge about Malaysian food, but Old China Cafe beats all my other bad experiences by being both truly atrocious and expensive. Old china cafe was very dimly lit and the interior looked dark even with a hot blazing afternoon daylight outside. The service was nonchalant and the waiters avoided looking at the dining tables in case a diner needed service. The diners were all foreign except for a group of men looking like owners or shareholders. The fried chicken pieces in lemon sauce were small, over fried, tasteless, and the lemon sauce was watery and tasted diluted straight from a supermarket bottled sauce. The beef rendang was anything but. Tiny slivers of tasteless fatty beef served in Chinese stir-fried style, it was very dim but we could tell that the dish was off-coloured, and of course, tasteless. The coconut rice was served in Maleka-style bluish colour and it was ... you might have guessed ... tasteless.The menu is very expensive for a run-down setting in a tourist-trap area of KL, the lack of local diners was already a worrying sign at the outset. I'm not here to do anybody any favours, thus, its your money if you want to squander it here. I've done it so you don't have to.
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