Joy Cafe, Jalan Riang 11 Happy Garden KL

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As I was having dinner with my friends, we mentioned about our lunch at Joy Cafe many months ago (10 months to be exact!) and said that we should make another trip back there again. Coming home, I look through my archives and found Joy Cafe's photos and decided to finally blog about it.

It was after church and the lot of us (in two cars) decided to heed CW's recommendation and try out a new place (new then, it's about 1 year plus by now!) in Happy Garden. Apparently CW was saying the the lady owner, Joyce, used to cook lovely food for the church group gatherings before she finally decided to go into the food business for real together with her husband.

We had a tough time going through the menu selection as they had quite a variety. In the end most of us ended up ordering the Braised Beef Brisket Noodles (RM8.50).

The noodles are handmade by themselves and were al dente; lovely QQ bite to it. The beef brisket was tender to the bite but wasn't that soft and I enjoyed chomping on the white radish cubes too while slurping up the delicious soup.

Joy's Nasi Lemak Special (with chicken rendang and sotong, RM8.50). While the chicken rendang and sotong came across as rather normal to me, I did however like the rice as it was very fragrant and the grains are separated and not mushy. The sambal was quite hot, the way I like it!




Apart from our main meals, we also ordered some side dishes like the Braised Lamb Brisket in Hot Wok (RM15). I love lamb and this was lovely, the lamb had no strong gamey taste to it and the gravy was simply yummy.


For pork ribs lovers, guess this is something that you should order - Braised Pork Ribs in Hot Wok (RM15) with gravy spicier than the Lamb Brisket. I may be a fan of char siew and roast meat but I'm rather picky when it comes to preparation style and I'm not that fond of braised pork (braised lamb, YES!). So, I can't be too subjective about it as I tried one and found it just alright but the rest of the pork lovers said that it was good!


One of us ended up just ordering plain noodles (dry style) as we had all these side dishes to go with it. She enjoyed the homemade noodles just like we did with our earlier Beef Brisket. Yup, we gotta go back soon again for the noodles and the lamb brisket :o)

Joy Cafe
540 Jalan Riang 11
Happy Garden
58200 Kuala Lumpur

H/P : 012-2681123
Closed on Mondays, Opens 11am-10pm Tues to Sun

Joke told at dinner table :
Maggi Mee beat up Char Siew Bao and Char Siew Bao decided to seek revenge by getting his friends, the Bao Brothers; Tau Sar Bao, Lin Yoong Bao and Tai Bao to ambush Maggi Mee. However on seeing Spaghetti, all the Baos came out from hiding and started beating up Spaghetti. Char Siew Bao said this to the injured Spaghetti just before he and the Bao Brothers ran away from the scene, "Maggi Mee! Don't think I don't recognize you just because you went to do rebonding!"