Rubbish on Bukit Bintang (review: First Cup Cafe, Bukit Bintang)

I have written before about Secret Recipe on Bukit Bintang (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia), and I suppose we should all be grateful for the fact they keep their recipes secret. This time however, it's a place right across the street that get the hammer - called First Cup Cafe.

First Cup Cafe is one of those places that attempt to rip off an American franchise concept but does so in a way that is even more "discount". While places like Starbucks and Coffee Bean isn't exactly culinary experiences you end up dreaming about at night, the food at these local rip of places are usually completely uneatable - if not downright dangerous.



In this particular case I decided on a sandwich.

A sandwich is after all pretty hard to fuck up completely. And yet they managed to do just that. Not so much the sandwich itself, which while definitely not good wasn't absolutely disgusting too. But in their wisdom they was serving it with a cold (and I mean straight from the fridge - they hadn't even tried to heat it) half (thank God for that) baked potato. Not only is a baked potato pretty darn bad when cold, but to tip it over the edge into the truly horrible it was covered in a substance which I can only assume was meant to resemble mayonnaise. Let me repeat that - cold baked potato covered in some mayo stuff out of a jar.

Seriously - how a shop serving that can be allowed on the most important shopping street of KL is beyond me and how they can have any customers whatsoever even more so.