THE RECOGNISED “JIRAN” LOCAL DELIGHTS KOPITIAM RUNNING ON THE MIDDLE NORTHERN NATION @ PERAK
“Local Delights Kopitiam” is all the while a kind of the local coffee shop or dining kopitiam which carrying the combination of local, chinese with fusion recipes under a roof that being famously & widely practised on our nations with respective home recipes on the ground. Here on the middle northern nation, we found and being successfully recognised among the best recommended new established Local Delights Kopitiam “Jiran” running at Taiping, Perak having great positive response from the market recently.
The Sabahan Mr. Pan Jia Jian (born 1988), together with his wife Ms. Shirlyn Song Kheng Leng (Taiping, born 1987) both were the initial founders and also the recent immediate couple-owners of this best recognised Local Delights Kopitiam “Jiran” along the rain town Taiping territory presenting all their very home recipes in signature menus to the locals & visitors all under a roof in an manner environmental dining condition on the middle northern ground at Perak.
The founder cum owner Pan Jia Jian, who at his age of 36 years old currently, been initially stepped into the f&b industry at his 18th of age reached Kota Kinabalu, Sabah touched the chinese cuisine field in the year of 2006. Then recruited himself into an culinary academy experienced the baking with culinary art at Selangor, then reached Singapore in the year of 2011 at his 23rd spent about 10 years there exposed in pastry, dessert, western & chinese field thoroughly with his patience. While Shirlyn Song who graduated from an culinary academy at Selangor as a pastries chef/baker practically worked as a cook at Kuala Lumpur in her twenties, later-on also further her exposure into Singapore in the year of 2012 spent another about 10 years there as commis chef along her culinary/baking journey before returned (with husband Jia Jian) to hometown Taiping, Perak in the year of 2021 for good.
With experiences & recipes on-hand, added vision to have their own eating house locally and wishing to expose further in the field enabled them (Jia Jian & Shirlyn Song) started their very first owned Pastries Cafeteria (Baking Khaki) at hometown Taiping in the year of 2022 introducing all their home-baked pastries to the locals. Then foreseeing the market opportunity in the f&b industry especially the recent trendy local kopitiam allowed them again successfully established their couple-run Local Delights Kopitiam officially named the “Jiran Kopitiam” right side-by-side with their pastries cafeteria along the Jalan Kamunting, Taiping in the mid of year 2024 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 middle northern nation at Perak.
In this Jiran Kopitiam, the owners’ very first top recommended in menus will be their signature “Jiran’s Nasi Lemak Rendang” which most wanted by their regulars in the local main course selections. Home-boiled blue pea coconut milk rice (santan rice/nasi lemak), served sides with their tasty salted sweet fair spicy ikan bilis sambal paste, cucumber, peanut, ikan bilis, boiled chicken egg, and finally complete with their nearly an hour home-cooked exotic tasteful rendang chicken thigh will always the wonderful Nasi Lemak combination of eatery that you must have a try when reached Taiping, Perak.
Secondly will be their famous “Jiran’s Special Chicken Chop”, also among the kopitiam’s daily selection wanted by their visitors from the beginning. Local chicken thigh commonly selected in boneless, in-house overnight marinated with home recipes mixture, followed by floured-up then served after deep fried, sides with potato wedges & mix vege salads, and finally dressing with their homemade Jiran’s special savoury brown sauce with green pea beans & onions will brings the excellent crispy chicken chop with juicy meat’s bites itself into mouth that you will neither found the same elsewhere in town here.
Another will be their special “Green Curry Chicken Rice”, which among their customer’s favourite in the local fusion selections. Home-boiled green curry sauce broth into fresh coconut milk (santan), then cooked with boneless chicken drumstick cube/dice pieces into long bean, eggplant, basil leaf, red chili, lemongrass & galangal (lengkuas) will brings the wonderful santan’s smooth curry fragrance swallowed with salted sweet fair spicy kind of their green curry that you will never regret after tasted here. Taken sides with a bowl of their hot boiled white rice always the perfect matching that cannot aside here.
Moreover, the couple-owners also introduced their all time favourite recommended local breakfast/tea time selection “Kaya Butter Yiu Tiao” which like by most of their customers here. Local daily fresh deep fried dough fritters served fillings with local-made hainanese kaya & butter spread, taken best sided with a hot cup of their local hand-brewed coffee will always the best combination that you really cannot missed when stepped into this best recognised Local Delights Kopitiam “Jiran Kopitiam” at Taiping, Perak.
JIRAN KOPITIAM
Address: No. 414,
Jalan Kamunting,
Medan Saujana,
34600 Taiping,
Perak.
Business Hours: 8:00am to 5:00pm (Daily)
(Closed on Wednesday)