[Food Review] Cafe 9 - A Taste of Thai

Hello hello everyone! On a Saturday a couple of week ago, I was invited to a food tasting event by Food Ink, an awesome community made by food lovers, for food lovers. The idea behind this is to bring people together and since restaurants would always serve more than enough food in one event of food tasting, why not bring in more people to enjoy the food instead of wasting the food or stuffing ourselves to the max, right? This way, we would be able to know more people from the community as well, one stone can kill two birds, right? 

We were all invited to a Thai cafe located in SS17, called Cafe 9. I think I can speak for most of us when I say Thailand, especially Bangkok is a shopping heaven and of course, we would never miss out any chance to devour in the cheap and authentic Thai cuisine. 

9 members of a family decided to then bring Thai food to Malaysia, thus, Cafe 9 is established. Fun fact, '9' in Chinese actually means 'forever'. With that being said, the owners of Cafe 9 places customer service as the priority and to ensure continuous effort of great customer service.

A small, cheerful, cosy place for you to enjoy the food and spend time with your loved ones

Time for food! I might not be able to provide comments on all the food that I will be posting up as a lot were served that day, thanks to the generosity of the boss. 

First up, what is Thai food without a good bowl of Tomyum soup? Look at the generous amount of ingredients in that Tomyum soup. Cafe 9 understands how we can't take food as spicy as Thais do, so to suit our Malaysian tongue, they are thoughtful enough to tone down the spicy level of the soup. Despite it still being too spicy for me (I don't take spicy food), I can't stop myself from slurping the soup, yes, it was that good! 

For the Tomyum soup, you have a choice of either choosing the clear base soup, or the red (we had the red one).

Only Prawn          : RM25.90 (R) / RM45.90 (L)

Seafood               : RM25.90 (R) / RM45.90 (L)

Regular will be able to feed 2 to 4 people whereas a large will be enough for 5 to 8 people.

Thai Style Fried Chicken Wings (RM16.90)

     So much ingredients were stuffed into this deboned chicken wings. You can already feel the effort they've put into preparing this dish even before you take a bite off of it. It has a very complex yet unique taste from all the mixture of different ingredients and to be honest, you don't really taste the chicken in the chicken wing but don't get me wrong, it still taste good, uniquely good hehehe.

Fish Cake (RM18.90)

Chicken Fried Rice (RM10)

Dancing Fish

Small serves 4 person (RM44.90)

Large serves about 6 to 8 person (RM49.90)

     The fish looks like it's served as a whole fish but the servers have actually cut the meat to bite size and display it nicely for aesthetic purposes. I like how the fish is fried just right that they manage to maintain the softness of the flesh and yet has that crispy texture to the skin 

Thai Style Claypot Glass Noodle with Prawns (RM25.90)

Thai Otak Otak [Hor Mok] (RM23.90)

     I have always been a fan of Otak Otak so of course I was excited when this is served. What's more unique than it being a Thai Otak Otak is that it's actually served in a coconut, with the coconut flesh still intact! I remember taking spoonful after spoonful of this and enjoying the heavenly taste.

I have forgotten what is this dish called but this dish is lala cooked in a sauce that is usually used to cook crabs. However, as crabs are messy to eat and it's a lot to handle, the owner made some changes to the dish. It tasted great, especially with a bowl of white rice!

Broccoli Served in Signature Egg Sauce (RM15.90)

      Instead of the usual 'Kangkung Belacan', we were served with this lighter tasting brocolli dish as most of the dishes served are really heavy in ingredients. This is just right to cleanse your taste buds.

Thai Prawn Cakes (House Special) – RM18.90

     Last but not least, Cafe 9's special dish, Thai Prawn Cake. The prawn cake is crispy on the outside and moist on the inside. It's so good that I would have been able to finish this entirely on my own, would definitely go back for this!

Cafe 9 "A Taste of Thai"

Address: No 27, Jalan 17/45, 46400 Petaling Jaya, Selangor

Contact: 03 - 79322899

Opening Hours: 

Wednesday to Monday, 11am - 10pm 

(Closed on Tuesday)    

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Cafe9thai

Food Ink Listing: https://www.foodink.com.my/listing/cafe9

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