FIND THE RECOGNISED “CHENG KOPI” FAMILY KOPITIAM RUNNING ON THE SOUTHERN NATION @ JOHOR
“Family Kopitiam” or commonly known the Family-run Chinese Coffee Shop is all the while among the local’s favourite place of dining or eating restaurant which carrying the combination of chinese with local delicacy eateries on respective home recipes on the ground. Here on the southern nation, we found and being successfully recognised among the best recommended new established Family Kopitiam “Cheng Kopi” running by the Cheng family at Johor Bahru having great positive response from the market recently.
The Segamat, Johorean Ms. Cheng Yi Sen (born 2000), was the initial founder, together with her parents father Mr. Cheng Kok Yew (born 1963) and mother Madam Lee Siok Leng (born 1966) all are the recent immediate families owners of this best recognised Family Kopitiam “Cheng Kopi” right in the Johor Bahru territory presenting all their home-cooked recipes in signature menus to the locals & visitors under a roof in an manner environmental dining condition on the southern ground at Johor.
The founder cum owner Cheng Yi Sen, who at her age of only 24 years old currently, all the while having interest in culinary & eatery been stepped into the field after her secondary education reached Selangor and spent about 2 years graduated in the culinary art field. Later-on being nearly 3 years practically experienced the career touched the chinese & japanese cuisine at hometown Segamat, Johor along her culinary journey to further her exposure in the industry with her patience.
With experiences & recipes on-hand, added with vision to have her very own eating house locally and foreseeing the market opportunity in the f&b industry especially the trendy chinese coffee shop (kopitiam). Also the encouragement & support from father Mr. Cheng (who was formerly a Banker, also a coffee lover) enabled Yi Sen decided then successfully established their (with parents) family’s very first owned Family Kopitiam officially named the “Cheng Kopi” (by YS 66 Cafe) in the second quarter of year 2024 at Taman Molek, Johor Bahru serving all their signatures to the public. And finally being recognised among the best in town by the Malaysian F&B E-Media for the year of 2024 on the southern nation at Johor.
In this Cheng Kopi (Kopitiam), the owners’ very first top recommended in menus surely will be the local delicacy “Nanyang Breakfast Set” with their home-toasted local daily fresh made hainanese bread with pandan kaya & margarine, complete sides with double half-boiled omega chicken eggs and a hot cup of their home-brewed coffee will always the best combination in taking your breakfast here when reached Johor Bahru.
Secondly will be their famous “Nasi Lemak with Curry Chicken”, also always among the kopitiam’s daily breakfast/main course selection most wanted by their regulars. Home-boiled coconut milk rice (nasi lemak), sided with their home-cooked sour salted sweet spicy ikan bilis sambal paste, peanuts, crispy ikan bilis, cucumber slices or somehow with boiled/fried chicken egg on customer’s preference, and finally served complete with their home-cooked wonderful authentic smooth curry chicken with potatoes (commonly chicken drumstick & thigh selected, cooked with homemade curry paste with coconut milk) will brings the best matching in taking their Nasi Lemak eatery here that you neither found the same elsewhere in town.
Another will be their signature “Curry Noodle”, which among the customer’s favourite in the noodle selections from the beginning. Noodle options on customer’s preference, boil-cooked then served in their home-boiled salted spicy curry soup broth (cooked with their homemade curry chili paste), toppings of fish ball, beansprout, dried beancurd, beancurd puff (taupok), beancurd sheet (taukee) & chicken shredded will brings their excellent nice curry’s spices swallowed kind of Curry Noodle eatery that you will never regret after tasted here.
Moreover, the owners also introduced their all time favourite recommended special “Kuey Teow Chap” which like by most of their customers here. Local-made flat rice noodle (kuey teow) prepared in deep wok-fried, then served with their home-cooked corn starched soup broth in mixture of chicken egg, fish cake, fish ball, pork slice (or chicken shredded) & veges will brings the unbelievable tasty-wok kind of their Kuey Teow Chap noodle eatery that you really cannot missed when stepped into this best recognised Family Kopitiam “Cheng Kopi” (by YS 66 Cafe) at Taman Molek, Johor Bahru on the southern nation at Johor.
CHENG KOPI
(YS 66 CAFE)
Address: No. 79,
Jalan Molek 1/29,
Taman Molek,
81100 Johor Bahru,
Johor.
Business Hours: 7:30am to 4:00pm (Monday to Friday)
8:00am to 5:00pm (Saturday)
(Closed on Sunday)