Fried Chicken & Leek Dumpling (RM7.50)
While the skin has a mild crispy and chewy texture, encased
within was well seasoned chicken and leek mixture. Pretty decent snack or
appetizer to begin with. If you prefer non-fried version, you can opt for the
poached dumplings at the same price. Good thing the skin wasn’t cooked till too
mushy. Dip the dumplings with some vinegar provided by the side to provide
tangy flavor.
Poached Chicken & Leek Dumpling (RM7.50)
For spicy food lovers out there or like me, Life’s Spicy Wonton
(RM8.90) may tickle tastebuds easily. The sourish and adequately spicy sauce
was great for me, along with plump juicy wantons made from minced chicken. It
could be proper seasonings or ginger are added to eliminate the chicken taste
as I find chicken version was still pretty delicious, compared to the usual
pork wontons.
Traditional Homemade Meat Roll (RM7.50) was the star that it
was finished up within seconds. Flavourful meat fillings wrapped with beancurd
skin (fuchuk) and deep fried till golden brown- there is nothing not to like
here. But still I would have preferred
sweet spicy Thai sauce over normal bottled chilli sauce to go with this.
Moving on to soups- a café that serves boiled soup? Now I
know where to find affordable and reasonable variety of boiled soups whenever
I’m craving for one. It’s hard to find fault in the boiled soups here, which
means the flavours of ingredients have infused in the broth and cooked for
enough amount of time. Plus point- serving in a claypot that is essential to
keep the soup warm and comforting.
Black Bean Chicken Soup
(RM9.90)
Eight Treasure Chicken
Soup (RM9.90)
Mushroom Peanut Soup
(RM9.50) - generous amount of beans, red dates, wolfberries and
vegetarian flour doughs. One of the best vegetarian soups I’ve had.
Lotus Root Chicken Soup (RM9.50)
Traditional Chicken Soup
Chicken Soup with Bittergourd and
Pineapple (RM9.50). It has the flavourful beanpaste which my dining companions
believed the chef could have stir fried the bittergourd with beanpaste (taucu)
beforehand. And again I can hardly find this at other places.
In addition to the soup selections, we also had Stew Mutton with Medlar
Herbs (RM9.90) which the broth has gamey flavors which I think how it should be
which I liked it actually. Drinking this without lamb taste would be boring.
Plus there is no oily surface, imagine the layer of oil in Mamak style sup
kambing. The generous chunks of mutton were stewed till very soft yet
maintained slight succulent texture.
Fish Fillet with Mushroom Sauce Dry Noodle (RM14.90)
The vermicelli has a chewy texture to it and well coated
with the dry soy based sauce- lower calories and enjoyable. While I would have
preferred more crispy dory fillet, the mushroom sauce was tad too watery.
Lamb Special RM14.50- the lamb cubes were very tender and
flavourful just like the soup version introduced earlier. Worth ordering.
Curry Chicken RM14.50
Both lamb special and curry chicken had thick gravy texture and adequately rich with
spices, especially the lamb was strong in pepper taste.
Basically you can choose
to have spicy Noodle, vermicelli or rice to go with the chicken and lamb dishes
The noodle is similar to
ramen which has al-dente texture. Would prefer this over vermicelli as personal
preference and rice (it was too dry).
Black Sesame Toast
(RM3.90)- I can have this everyday. The fragrant black sesame spread was a lovely sweet
ending to our meal.
Honey Butter Toast
(RM3.90)- simplicity at its best
BBQ Honey Sweet Potato
(RM5.50)
Peanut Cookies (RM3.90)
Flower Tea (RM5.90)
Ginseng Chrysanthemum Tea
(RM6.90)- very prominent ginseng flavours that awakens the tired mind.
Life’s Milk Tea (RM5.90)-
contains no sugar. You will be provided with white sugar which is good for you
to control sugar intake. The tea flavours could have been richer though, as I
like my milk tea being quite strong.
Selection of bubble tea and fruit juices.
Sarawak Hot Cappuccino
(RM5)- my friend had this and commented it had too much milk in it.
Life Cafe
(right opposite Leisure Mall)
55 Jalan Manis 4
Taman Segar Cheras
56000 Kuala Lumpur
Contact Number: 03-9130 0777
Website: lifecafe.my
Facebook: Life Cafe Malaysia
