A pleasant morning, just after mass at St Thomas More Church in Subang Jaya.

As usual, that question, that #1 question that always pops (almost spelt it wrong which would have meant a completely different meaning} up: “Where do you want to go for breakfast?”, Jeannie will ask.

My answer: “Anywhere, where ever you want to go”.

Jeannie: “What would you like to eat?”

“I am o.k. with anything.”

Then Jeannie will go through the “roll call”: “Shall we go for Tim Sim” and I will say “no”.

“What about the “Kaw-kaw kopitiam restaurant?”, she will ask.

“Too stuffy” will be my answer.

This roll cage, back and forth question and answer will go on until we come to some sort of an agreed place. For today, we finally chose New Apollos – planning to have non-oily, non-spicy food. Think of being more health conscious.

As we got into USJ4/5 area, Jeannie noticed the fruit seller’s van – he had langsat, the first we’ve seen this year. I said to her that we will definitely buy some, at least 2 kilograms, after our breakfast. This fruit seller is usually parked in a parking lot – in the same spot, daily.

We parked our car in the third empty spot, a few doors away from New Apollos. I wanted to park as close to New Apollos as possible. “New Apollos” is not a spinoff from NASA. In fact it does not deal with rockets or space programmes. (1)

While walking towards New Apollos, that sign, you know – the 4ft high attractive, colorful “A-board” showing “Jings SpecialtyCoffee” seemed to have sprung into our view. Haha!

“I was giving McD’s breakfast some initial thought”, I said to Jeannie. “Now, we are here…You’ve not tried Jings. Let’s have breakfast here.” Jeannie said ok.

We were greeted by the staff and Eugene, the co-owner of Jings; as we walked in through the door.

We soon ordered the sets that were on the menu. Jeannie went for the tuna and croissant (pronounced the French way “Cro saunt”, with the “t” being silent😉) and tea.

I went for the scrambled eggs and “cro saunt” and an Americano (Italian [eye-talian prnonounced by some Americans]) coffee.

Our orders soon arrived. It was a nice meal. I got Jeannie to try my Americano. “Very nice”. She liked it. She said it was the usual we get from other places. The coffee here, is not burnt. That is the secret to good coffee, I think.

We walked over to Eugene who was in the back of the room, to watch him cut one whole round cake into pieces. He had a special round marker tool, that marked the cake to be cut into equal slices.

I saw the Tiramisu cake they had on display and ordered a slice. Eugene said that it was without alcohol. That was fine with us. The cake was delicious…not too sweet, too.

We left about an hour later…to the fruit seller for dukang langsat. (2)

Jings is a nice place to hang out. They are still in the midst of placing everything in place…and rolling out more for the menu.

NOTES
1. I have to explain what New Apollos is, for the benefit of subscribers / followers readers from over 80 countries who are not familiar with Malaysia.
2. Dukang langsat is a seasonable, tropical fruit, commonly found in Malaysia and other South East Asian countries.