Welcome to Green Tomato Cafe, Kuala Lumpur

What a great weekend. I was so exciting to meet my good friend and her friend at some place where really gave us a warm feeling especially we chill out together for a great time. Want to take some relax or need a calm at the quiet place? Or relieve your mind to get rid of the noisy environment? In Kuala Lumpur, there was a place which was suitable for all people who want to have a relax while enjoy to have a great food and coffee around the garden. In addition, it was suitable for family who plan a simple picnic and could spend time with beloved family at the garden surrounding Kuala Lumpur. It would make us feel close to nature dining area like a backyard garden.

What a beautiful Batik painting fabrics

Curious where was the location? Let's going to explore this place. It was Green Tomato Cafe which was an urban oasis. No wonder, it was hidden place and so away from the hustle and bustle of city life in a beautiful views because this place was surrounding with the garden which was decorating with batik textiles and paintings. So it can give you a warm and calm feeling when step in this place. What a funny thing was my friends and I almost lost our way to Green Tomato Cafe however we managed to find the location. Surprised to see the environment there. Peace environment and garden style cafe. No worries, they provided a free wifi provided so that you enjoy to surf Internet anytime. So cool!

Want to learn the Batik? Come!

When we stepped in this place, we started to feel fresh and comfortable to see around the beautiful trees, flowers and grass. One more interesting thing was MyBatik workshop with the cony environment. It had a wide variety of art and crafts activities. Those people who love to learn Batik Art in the workshop.

A staff who is drawing...

They paint the Batik so beautifully

If you interested and curious, you can check on MyBatik website at http://www.myBatik.org.my . It would be more fun when you can plan a picnic with family or friends at same time, you can do activity of learning the Batik. It was very convenient and enjoyable when you are watching your children who love to play some games and walk or run around the garden with fresh atmosphere.

The kids can play around the garden

Wow! There was a cute playground around Green Tomato Cafe. We were hungry easily after we got sweat so much, The owner of Green Tomato Cafe welcomed us with a cheerful greeting. Quite friendly lady. While we waited for our meals, we walked and explored around Green Tomato Cafe and MyBatik workshop. In addition, there was Batik souvenir shop where was available. As we curious and love to see something. So it was exciting feeling. Really gave me a warm and calm feeling on weekend.

You can relax inside this cafe!

Besides that, Green Tomato Cafe got many compliments which was the best place that provide the cafe combined with MyBatik workshop which encouraged many people visited this place especially it attract the tourist so successfully. So that's why many people enjoyed to learn batik activities. It had a great outdoor such as go head, pluck the fruits from the rambutan tree. It was one of good method for the children who curious and like to learn about it which related to plants subject. it was good for them to gain their knowledge indirectly. Sounds interesting!

If you have your own pet, you can bring it to Green Tomato Cafe always welcome your pet to come. No worries. You can spend time with your pets around the garden. Some more, this place was pet friendly especially they had a special space allocated for dogs.

Wow! This place filled with batik decoration. As we could see a lot of batik decorated at everywhere around the garden. Once we ordered our beverages, there was 3 different drinks which was Ice Lemon Tea (RM10), Health Green Detox (RM12) and Hazenut Latte (RM11). We tried to drink it. So delicious. Quite Nice. Calm our throat!

Health Green Detox and Ice Lemon Tea

Mocha Coffee make you feel "Enjoy"!

Green Tomato Cafe provides healthy meals and halal foods. All meals was homemade which prepared by the staffs and owner of this cafe.

Eggs Benedict

One of the top meals served which was Eggs Benedict (RM18) that my friends and I really love to eat it. So poach after we bite eggs and enjoyed to eat it. It contains potatoes and poached egg on the toast with hollandaise sauce and cherry tomatoes. So drooling! Make us want to eat it more. Like to eat eggs? This dishes was highly recommendation.

Chicken Burger

Other meal was Chicken Burger (RM18) topped with cheese sauce and Mayo included vegetables which added up with french fries and salad.So enjoyed to bite chicken and it was quite delicious. It was different taste from other burger because it was handmade burger. Imgained that we ate it at the garden of our house.

BBQ Rosemary Lemon Chicken Whole Leg

In addition, BBQ Menu Promotion from 1st January until 29th February. There was few choice of BBQ menu. We choose two meals to share. It was BBQ Rosemary Lemon Chicken Whole Leg (+-250g ) RM22. Wow. The big boneless Chicken make us almost full. It served with green salad and potatoes. Quite crunchy and delicious.

BBQ Black Pepper Chicken Sausages

Another dishes was BBQ Black Pepper Chicken Sausages RM18. Wow. The sausages was very long and big and green salad and potatoes. We like to eat the sausages so much. Despite we almost very full but we managed to finish it. Mouthwatering! Anyways, there was many kinds of meals that you could order and choose on the white board menu. Then you could enjoy to eat great foods and great drinks along.

Oreo Cheese cake

Velvet Cake

Chocolate muffins

Lastly, we had a dessert to eat 3 different slice of cakes which was Oreo Cheese cake, Velvet cake and Chocolate muffins. The price was RM10 for cake and RM5 for muffins. Really enjoyed to eat sweet cake. It was not too sweet but delicious. All cake and muffins was homemade foods! Make us happy and we also drink our beverages again.

Latte Coffee "Thank You"

Wow! A beautiful art on coffee which displayed "Thank You" for Mocha and Latte coffee (RM12 and 10 respectively). It makes us smile when saw the word. Really sweet! My friend love to drink tea named Infusion Morroccan Mint and it had a cool. Just priced Rm10.

Infusion Morroccan Mint

Thank you, Green Tomato Cafe where they gave us a warm feeling and served the great meals and coffee. We really enjoyed to dine at the natural environment and filled with green & fresh atmosphere. Anyways, a kid was really captured my heart because she was too cute. She was daughter of the owner of Green Tomato Cafe. Overall, I had a wonderful time with my friends. Thanks so much so much to them.

Do not miss the opportunity and grab your time to visit this place. It had a New Year BBQ Menu promotion from 1st January until 29th February 2016. Come and dine at Green Tomato Cafe. Not only that, MyBatik Workshop and Batik Shop welcome you as well.

Green Tomato Cafe
Yayasan Seni,
333, Persiaran Ritchie Off,
Jalan Ritchie,
55000 Kuala Lumpur.
Business Hour: 8.00am-5.00pm
Telephone: 03-42515154
Green Tomato Cafe: http://www.GreenTomatoCafe.com.my
Batik Website: http://www.myBatik.org.my
Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/MybatikVisitorCentre/?fref=ts

Time flied so quickly. Welcome to New Year 2016. Throwback, I had a lot of ups and downs and a plenty of obstacles during year 2015 however I blessed to have those people who really gave me a lot of their support and encouragement especially the sad moments I experienced. Really appreciated it so much for being at my side when I needed.

The Champ Kitchen

Anyways, thank so much for the invitation to Kakalina, her blogger friend and Mr Derrick who helped me and my good friend. As we knew that Kepong area, there was many variety of restaurants such as Bakuteh, Chinese Cuisine, Streamboat and many more. By the way, I just knew that there was a restaurant where provided and specialized in pork dishes. Finally, I had a chance to taste the delicious and best braised pork knuckle in Town. It was The Champ Kitchen which located at Taman Perindustrian KIP, Kepong. So it was very suitable for those people who really love to eat different types of Pork dishes. This restaurant was highly recommendation to try it out!

Feeling comfortable Inside this restaurant

When my good friend and I saw the Chinese Logo of the restaurant. I thought that it was an history about the pork cuisine. So my guessing was correct. This restaurant had a history about the Pork Knuckle recipes and the current owner of The Champ Kitchen who was 4th generations. So he had a passion to continue and spread his great-grandfather's recipes with the special and unique pork dishes to satisfy the customers in the restaurant.

Cute Piggies!

When we stepped into the restaurant, we noticed few cute piggies where welcomed us and a huge wok inside the restaurant. Anyways, the environment was clean and comfortable to seat. The decoration was quite nice and many photos about the history of The Champ Kitchen's meals and the unique delicious pork knuckles which was hanging on the wall. Each of the photo had a meaningful explanation.

The Champ Kitchen's history about how the Pork Knuckle Claypot created...

Most of the dishes had a portion of pork for definitely as they used pork knuckle as their main ingredients. So that why every meal had an unique taste and handmade sauce. You would know how was the taste when you dine at The Champ Kitchen. We surprised to see the menu that they provided many kinds of pork dishes for the customers. Started to drooling? Lets going to see what was the meals that The Champ Kitchen served.

Crystal Knuckle

Wow! The dishes served already when we were coming and happy to meet other bloggers for the food tasting sessions. The new special dish , Crystal Knuckle, RM18. It was quite special menu as it needed a lot of time to make it out. I shocked after tried to eat and it was jelly taste and cold when bite it. It must be dipped with the homemade sauce which make jelly got its own uniqueness and taste. So that why it was cold in my mouth. By the way, it advised that we should eat it when it was cold.

Hong Kong Style Dried Oyster

Other meal introduced such as Hong Kong Style Dried Oyster, RM15. The dried oyster had wrapped by minced meat with the Hong Kong style sauce. Despite I was not really like oyster so much however, I love to try and eat it in order to know the taste how it look likes as I was very curious. As usually, oyster can be smell so strong when bite it slowly. It was delicious especially eat it with the sauce had been topped together.

Soft Boiled Century Egg

Soft Boiled Century Egg, RM6. This century egg had served in The Champ Kitchen. So maybe you were not surprise if saw the egg like this. If you never eat it, so wanted to eat this special one? Come and try! It was quite different than normal eggs I tasted. It was more soft and smoothier when bite it slowly. The taste was not bad at all. For those people love egg. Must give a try!

Fishy Golden Brick

Other new menu which introduced such as Fishy Golden Brick, RM8. It was the deep fried Tau Fu Bok with the shred pork and the fish roe and spring onion which was on the top of Tau Fu. It seemed that it was golden sushi but however it was not exactly sushi but the decoration of Fishy Golden Brick was attractive. Crispy and mouthwatering!

White Jade Garlic Mash

Besides that, White Jade Garlic Mash, RM28. it attracted me and make me wanted to eat it and curious how was the taste after eat it. Three layer of pork topped with a jelly. The handmade sauce would be served. Never expected that I felt spicy and hot after dip with the spicy sauce. Spicy! but still can felt the unique taste and delicious! 

Ginkgo Pepper Pork Tripe Soup

Love to drink soup? You may order different soup in the menu. Ginkgo Pepper Pork Tripe Soup, RM22. Obviously, I like to drink the soup and this soup had not a very strong pepper and can felt the sweetness of the pork inside the creamy soup.

Asam Choy

In addition, Asam Choy was the alternative dishes, RM12. I love eat Asam so much. Of course, I won't miss it out. Well, this dishes contained Chinese mustard cook with meat, asam and added with the chicken feet and pork hind and it was very delicious. As it was suitable for those people who really like Asam Choy. Just order this kind of meal. 

Minced Meat Omelette

Minced Meat Omelette, RM10. Actually, I thought that it was a golden taufu when it had been served on the table however I got it wrongly. So funny. Once I tried to bite it, I felt that the softness and sweetness of the minced meat omelette especially the sauce. Very delicious. It make me want to eat it more. If you like to eat the minced meat. Should give a try it out and order this dishes.

You can try a Special dish, Claypot Pork Knuckle

I was curious about what was the main dishes served for? In The Champ Kitchen, Claypot Pork Knuckle, which was a special dishes that you can choose which is the sizes; RM28 (Small), RM38 (Medium), RM45 (Large). According to the current owner of The Champ Kitchen, his great-grandparents who cooked a famous Pork Knuckle in a giant wok with used their special herbs recipes and it consumed 72 hours with the slow cook mode.

A Giant Wok in The Champ Kitchen Restaurant

First time I saw a giant wok prepared by the staff of The Champ Kitchen so I felt amazed because they were hardworking to cook more than 100-250+ pork knuckles in this wok. It was highly recommendation to eat this special dish. It was very delicious and it was full of the fragrant and aromatic of herbs.

Pork Knuckle Claypot

This Pork Knuckle Claypot was MUST try! If you want to add ons side dishes such as rice, just order either one for Garlic Fried Rice, Rm6.00 or Pork Lard Rice,RM3.00 or Egg, Mui Choy or Salt Vegetable, it just RM2.00.

Pork Lard Noodle

Pork Hind Rice

Like to eat noodle? There was Pork Lard Noodle, RM6.00 had been served for you. Other individual dishes also got to serve such as Pork Hind Rice, RM10.

Lamb Belly Pot

Lamb Belly Pot RM38, Slow Braised New Zealand Lamb Belly with Foo Zuk and Fermented Bean Curd Sauce was also quite delicious. The lamb absorbed the sauce so that's why it was very juicy and softness inside the lamb.

Pork Neck Skewer

Craving for a satay? Pork Neck Skewer just like a satay style but it was pork meat put in the satay. It just priced RM9.00(2 sticks). Worry about getting fat? No worries. Despite it had been grilled however it was not very oily. The taste of Neck Skewer was quite delicious. It was a good recommendation for those people who love to eat pork with less oily and fat level.

Fried Man Tao Bun

Fried Man Tao Bun, RM3.00 (2pcs) was the bun where fried very deeply till got a beautiful golden color of the bun. As we could see it clearly that the outside of the bun was not soft but inside bun had a softness but overall, it was crispy and crunchy. You can dip the bun with the braised pork knuckle sauce however if you do not want, just consume it directly. Depend on your desire.

Dang Gui Salted Chicken

Want to eat chicken? There was one meal named Dang Gui Salted Chicken (RM18 or EM33) based on the chicken size that you choose. So no boring to eat all pork dishes. Got other meat such as Chicken or Lamb would be served for you. Anyways, Dang Gui Salted Chicken was a popular dish in the Dang Gui Salted Chicken had a fragrance, aromatic and more healthy because it use good quality herbs for the ingredients. So that's why we could smell the herbs of Chicken which absorbed. Of course, it was suitable for those people who like to eat health dishes and like chicken so much.

Premium Truffle Bacon Ice Cream and Homemade Sea Salt Green Tea Ice Cream

Finally the dessert had been served for us. Yahoo! Happy when saw it and make my heart melt. However, what I expected was not exactly same as what the dessert's taste. Guess what? It was the ice cream named Premium Truffle Bacon Ice Cream and Homemade Sea Salt Green Tea Ice Cream. Thought that it was sweet? No, it was not sweet but salt ice cream as what I tasted. So different! It was special ice cream because it was handmade ice cream that prepared by The Champ Kitchen. It was my first time to eat salt ice cream. When I bite it, salt absorbed in my mouth. Believe or not?

Yummy! I love this Pork Knuckle Claypot! Next time you try it when you come to Kepong, ya!

Come and experience to eat it. Overall, we enjoyed to eat various of pork dishes at The Champ Kitchen. If interested to dine at The Champ Kitchen, the address would be given as below. Please visit their Facebook Page to get the latest updates.

The Champ Kitchen (猪多宝)
19, Jalan KIP 1,
Taman Perindustrian KIP,
Kepong, 52200 Kuala Lumpur.
Tel: +603-62751919

Business Hours:
Mon - Saturday 11:30am-9:30pm
Sunday 10.00am-9.30pm