An Oriental-themed café located beside P&P Lintas has recently opened its doors and is currently in its soft opening phase. Originating from Miri, Sarawak by Hainanese siblings, this café has already captured the hearts of both Sarawakian and Bruneian.

I visited with Mr Hubby for a weekend brunch date. The place was bustling with customers when we reached, but I managed to get a table outside. It’s a self-service restaurant where customers place their orders and make payment at the counter.

Here’s what we’ve ordered…
🍜 Mee Siam with Hainan Chicken Curry
🐔 Curry Chicken Mee (Classic)
🧈 Kaya and Butter Toast
🧊 Hainanese Iced Cham Cincau

The Mee Siam have an unusual taste that leans more towards an odd tangy flavour rather than the familiar local taste profile. The housemade sambal belacan is also dominated by a strong garlic taste, overshadowing the flavour of the belacan.

I was intrigued by their housemade pandan kaya toast with butter. The butter was meant to be served cold, but mine was partially melted, blending into the pandan kaya and leaving it rather tasteless. The pandan kaya was also thinly spread. The toast itself, however, was decent.

Their Hainanese curry features a rich coconut milk base, offering a milder and creamier flavour with a subtle hint of spicy. It’s served with tender chicken thighs that have been slow-cooked for hours, making the meat effortlessly fall off the bone. Mr Hubby likes it.

The only disappointment was that my Mee Siam was served cold, while the curry was warm. Their ginger condiment didn’t taste fresh; it seemed like it had been left out for too long. The drink was okay; it started with the taste of milky tea, and the flavour coffee lingered.

Kthxbye.

Saw this place when I'm out hunting for food and decided to try. Here's what we ordered.

Fried Tang Hun
Tasted okay, a bit salty. It says that it is fried but it was quite wet.

Hainan Coffee Chicken w/Fried rice
Waited half an hour for this, and I gotta say I was disappointed. Expected it to taste balanced with the coffee taste, but it tasted too sweet and the fried rice tasted like rice with the sweet coffee sauce. Would not order this again as this costs RM26 🫠

Will give their menu another try as they have quite a big menu.

This Hainan Cafe is a branch from the ori cafe established in year 2014 at Kuching, Sarawak by Hainanese sibling.

Ada aircon, good ID, diverse menu

As a Sarawakian, the signature taro cake & curry gravy taste exactly the same as my hometown memory .

Taro cake: 1 RM4, 3 RM 10. U can see the taro strips clearly, but it was quite hard to chew, macam fried few times dy.

Curry gravy: RM 2. Sweet style, very santan, quite thick, not for me.

Suki chicken rice special: 13.90 Chicken drumstick big size, very tender, smooth, juicy, rice flavourful, gizzard & liver nice, can try try. Ginger sauce available

Gizzard RM 6: generous portion

Sukeebun 3pcs set meal: Apparently, this is a copy version of the popular Sugarbun rice, as Sugarbun is quite popular in Sarawak (especially the Sarikei branch). The rice ok, chicken fresh, big, well fried, but i still prefer Sugarbun rice & broasted chicken😆

Roti kahwin: RM5 - The bread very nice, ada the ori Oldtown WC punya standard. Butter ok, pandan kaya not sweet & light taste, so butter covered all the taste.

Hainan kopi C cold RM 5.50: Very very very the nice!!!!!!

Environment actually not bad, cozy, but ada flies coming in 😂

Staffs friendly

Many categories in the menu. Ada category of crossaint, polo bun, signature toast, steam bread, thick toast, American Breakfast, Noodle, Mee Siam, Fried Tanghun, Chicken Rice, Chicken Chop, Hainan Coffee Chicken, Rice, Claypot, Fried foods, butter kopi, cincau kopi, many many drinks......

Reasonable price

Can come & try try