O&S Coffee Shop

If you are craving for Penang hawker food, head to O&S coffee shop at Paramount Garden. For those of you who live in Klang Valley, you will be very familiar with this coffee shop. It has been open for a very long time (under different names and owners) but has managed to survive until today.

My parents love this place so much, and have been buying from the same hawkers since the 80s.  The hawkers know my parents very well and now I’m buying from them too.

This coffee shop is at a corner of the Paramount shops. You won’t miss it. They serve all types of hawker food; chicken rice, wan tan mee, char kuey teow, assam laksa, prawn noodles, chee cheong fun, etc.  Basically anything and everything you want except for Mee Jawa (that was recently closed as the uncle decided to retire for good). 

So what is good? Everything is good here. Here are some of my favourites:-

Siew Yoke Fun (Roast Pork Rice) – RM10.00 for roast pork and RM1.50 for rice. The roast pork is super crunchy and tasty. I always take away and surprisingly when eating much later at 3.30pm, it’s still very crunchy. It comes with dark soya sauce for the roast pork and chili sauce.  A must to have.

Seafood noodles – RM6.00. I know the lady who cooks this, so well that she always gives me more soup, more lalas, sotong (squids), fish and 3 prawns. The soup is definitely a bit salty with MSG but the mixture of seafood in the soup goes well with the noodles. This is my favourite food here.

Assam Laksa – RM6.90. The most important thing about Assam Laksa is the soup. Once you take away this, your whole car smells of Assam Laksa. The soup is so rich and full of fish for you. Normally other hawker stores are pretty stingy with the fish, but not this store as it gives you as much fish as you could ask for.

Goreng Pisang (Banana Fritters), Fried Potatoes, Fried “Nee Ko” – RM1.00 each. The price is on the high side but still lots of people love these fried items.  This hawker uses good bananas and makes sure that they're sweet. He fries it to perfection and it's super crunchy. Be there early to get his fried food as it will run out pretty early; especially the fried bananas.

Chee Cheong Fun (Penang style) – RM2.40 @ 1 Chee Cheong Fun costs RM1.20. This is Penang style Chee Cheong Fun with only the “Ha Ko”, i.e. prawn paste, mixed with chili sauce and topped with sesame and fried onions. The paste is very creamy and salty. Not sure why my dad loves this so much and he will "clean his plate".   

Nyonya kuih – RM6.90 for 3 packets. The nyonya kuih came to the hawker store quite recently. This man said he starts selling at 6.30am and most of the time, the ang ku will run out before lunch. I managed to buy some ang ku this time round, together with white flour peanut ball (so difficult to get these days) and onde onde (gula Melaka, i.e. brown liquid sugar inside the little flour ball covered with desiccated coconut).

Other hawkers' stores below:-

I wouldn't say this is Penang hawker food. A variety for the customers to choose.

 Inside and outside of the coffee shop, only ceiling fan. Guaranteed to sweat............Be prepared!!

The price for the hawkers' food is reasonable. You can't compare with the price in Penang, which is much cheaper than PJ and KL. Of course, the downside is the portion that they serve you in Penang is smaller. If you are going to O & S for lunch, make sure you go there early, about 11.30am as it gets extremely crowded by 12.30pm and you will have to share a table with strangers. Some hawkers will run out of food by 1.30pm. Also, be there early to get a parking space. Parking is horrible and you may have to go a few rounds.  

  

The details of the coffee shop:

O&S Restaurant   

39, Jalan 20/14

Taman Paramount

46300 Petaling Jaya

Selangor Darul Ehsan

Opens daily but closed twice a month (either Tuesday or Wednesday)

Unable to tell you when they close as it’s been set by the boss with other bosses around the coffee shops in Paramount.   

Just right opposite the coffee shop, there are an elderly couple selling "mua chi", flour cakes dipped into crushed peanuts and desserts. The dessert van will be there on every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. 

A mixed "mua chi" will only costs you RM5.00. There are original, black sesame, lycee and pandan flavours.

 

The red bean dessert

The dessert van

Menu of the desserts and the prices. My favourite green beans always not available as there is no demand for it. The sales person claimed that they only cooked the green bean on Saturday, but not always Saturday.