Humble Review: Rendezvous Lounge & Cafe @ Kg Ulu Pauh, Perlis

Wallet-friendly lounge in the neighbourhood of Changlun and Arau.

An approximate of 20 minutes driving journey along the highway from my hostel, Rendezvous Lounge & Cafe is located at the area of Medan Universiti, walking distance from the main entrance of UNIMAP Perlis, Operating business right at the side corner occupying two slots of double storey shop lots, it is easily spotted once you made a left turn that is right opposite of the main entrance of Unimap.

Since its strategic location in the neighbourhood and variety choices of wallet-friendly halal food and beverages served, apparently, students are the main group of customers. Another attractions would be its differentiation from others, there are few facilities provided in the lounge, for instance, pool game (RM 3 per game), magnetic darts, a corner of CD playstation, table football (at second floor) that gives the patrons to have some leisure moment while dining in. In addition, diners would be hooked up and get cheered under the ambience as there is a long list of pop music that keeps playing with music videos played on tv.

Upon stepping in the lounge, this specially decorated staircase would caught into your sight. Not to mention, it has been the top hot spot to take photos in the lounge.

Below are the snapshots of menu for your references. A little drawback is the poor maintenance of the menu, some are already torn out a little. Besides, the font size is quite small and hardly read under the dim lighting in the lounge. During our visits, there are many cross-out items we see on the menu.

You could dine in the lounge as low as RM 4.90.
 The range of price of food is set within RM 25 by the way.

Ranging from starters, to main course including local, western and oriental delights, the pricing is relatively affordable.

The list of beverages are as followed.

Rendezvous Lounge and Cafe runs self-service in making the order. A saucer-shaped beeper is then given to customers to signal them when their food is ready.

If you wish to get 10% rebate on your bill, kindly take the dishes back to the counter and the cashier would automatically rebate for you on your payment.

By the way, it's an impromptu coursemates dinner date.

The waiting times takes around 15-20 minutes in the peak dinner hour, hence we played some games or UNO cards provided there to kill our times.

Chocolate Coco (RM6.90)

Receiving high response from customers, this generous portion of chocolate flavoured ice blended drinks seems to be the favourite choice if you do love chocolate flavoured drinks all the time.

 

The blended ice is quite fine and smooth, simply at average tasting. 

Personally, I would demand for a little bit more of chocolate chips that topped on the drinks.

Tom Yum Fried Rice (RM 5.90)

According to one of my friends who ordered this, this is the top choice of students who dine in here especially the guys. They think that the price is reasonable with its rice portion.

However, the taste is slightly disappointing during our visit. 

First, the rice alone is quite sticky which is not that appropriate to be served as fried rice.

Second, the tom yum flavour is not to my own liking as it tastes rather sweeter.

Tom Yum Noodle Soup (RM4.90)

Instant cooking of tom yum maggie soup that sided with few ingredients like poached eggs, sausage and selected vegetables like sliced onion (super generous amount) and sliced carrots.

Having a mild creamy taste, it tastes quite flavourful if you opt for sweet version of Tom Yum soup  

I would say it is a filling bowl to be satisfied especially during the rainy days. 

Rendezvous Fried Rice (RM6.90)

How could you say no to signature dish in the house?

Served on a moderate heat of sizzling hot plate, the fried rice is placed on a  round-bottomed thin layer of egg. It is topped with everyone's favourite, the bolognese sauce.

Another filling meal to go, I like the idea of shimmering some grated Parmesan cheese on the bolognese sauce, mix well with fried rice though.

Spaghetti Carbonara Ham and Mushroom (RM8.90)

Sliced mushrooms and ham are served along the pasta.

Nothing to be highlighted on it, fairly tasted, I would say. The pasta is a little bit dry, however

Personal Chicken Soup Hotpot (RM 7.90)

Diners who are tend to go light tasting, this is appropriate to fulfill your request.

White rice is served together with chicken soup which inside put a number of steamboat ingredients and sliced onions.

The soup taste is mild, not as salty as I thought.

Simply delicious and warm your tummy as having a bowl of rice at the same time.

Lemon Chicken Rice (RM 6.90)

Chicken fillet accompanied with lemon sauce and white rice served along.

Sliced cuts of steamed egg that placed on top of the rice as a source of protein

to balance your daily diet.

The lemon sauce is not too artificial, quite refreshing on its gentle level between sourness and sweetness. Despite it's a frozen food, the fillet is not too oily to be eaten after deep fried.

Moreover, it is still warm when it is served.

This is also another filling food you could consider if you are a big eater.

Walking around to take some photos of the surroundings.

Spot the pool game.

Dinner companions.

Shout out to Beatless's fans, come over to take photos with this huge background poster

MJ with his signature posture.

Here to show a panorama view of a corner of the lounge from our seats.

Unfortunately, it's inconvenient to go upstairs as there was a private function (birthday party) held. 

There are also private dining rooms, each with air-conditioner and flat screen TV, accommodates up to 6 persons in a room. 

Also, table football is placed at the upstairs for the diners' pleasure.

 If you happen to drop by around one day, I would strongly recommend you to have your own dining experience over there. Indeed, it's a great place not only for dining, also a space to have discussion among each others or simply a hangout spot to chill.


You can reach the destination by using Waze app.

Summary:(Scaling point: 0 - lowest; 5 - highest)
Price: 3.5/5 (Considered wallet-friendly to dine in at a lounge)
Taste: 3/5 ( Most of our orders are averagely delectable)
Dining Ambience: 3.5/5
Vehicle Parking: 3.5/5 (Most of the shop lots are yet to opened for business)
Business Hour: 12.00pm - 12.00am. Open everyday.
Address: NO 1&3, Jalan Mu Dua, Medan Universiti, 02600 Kampung Ulu Pauh, Perlis, Malaysia.
Contact No: 011-1300 2100
Facebook Page: Rendezvous
Thank you for reading.

Humble Review: Kaffe Factory PLT @ Kuala Perlis, Perlis

Before proceeding to the food review, I would like to say that I'm once again pleasantly surprised on the cafes/coffee shops in Perlis. They are compatible with that of in Penang, I would say.
Perlis is the smallest state in Malaysia, and it takes around 20 minutes of driving distance from my university. There's a local university set up in Perlis which actually helps in boosting the development and economic of the state in overall.

Kuala Perlis is familiar to students here as there is a jetty where we get to take ferry service to Pulau Langkawi. Kaffe Factory PLT doesn't set up its business nearby the jetty yet in the town of Kuala Perlis.

Make sure you keep an eye to spot on Kaffe Factory PLT when you are about to reach. It is rather dim lighting and the word is rather small plus a long,thin and dark coloured
 metal roofing as background.   

As many do, Kaffe Factory PLT provides both al-fresco and indoor air-cond area for patrons. 

 There are 7 tables in indoor and around 3 at al-fresco area. The interior has a simple design. Due to the effect of light reflection, the silver big piece of metal roofing caught my sight when I first stepped into the cafe. It is actually the entrance to washroom anyway.

Besides, the tables and chairs are also the highlights where they are finished partly
 with the use of wood. 

Here's the menu of Kaffe Factory PLT.

Nasi Lemak set is recommended by my friends who had been here before, only available

 for brunch hour.

Good news for vegan! There are up to four choices of vegetarian meals to choose.

For caffeine drinks, the coffee is distributed by Roast to Perfection Sdn Bhd who claimed to be an expert of coffee distributor in Kuala Lumpur.

Apparently, Kaffe Factory PLT serves a variety of food, ranging from starters, main course to a variety of beverages. 

The food that stamped with little yellow crown indicates that they are highly rated and most favourable by the patrons.

My friends and I went to the cafe after our meal, thus we just ordered drinks and cakes.

Kiwi + Apple Smoothie ( RM 7.50 )
A blend of kiwi, green apple and ice cube.

Fruits smoothies is perfect for those who would like to have refreshing sips on their beverages.

The green apple has a rather stronger flavour that covers kiwi's which we hardly tasted it out. 

Perhaps this is a nice one for green apples lovers.

 From the photo above, I would say that the proportion of kiwi and apple does not equally prepared into the smoothie. However, we suppose that there was no additional syrup in the smoothie as we didn't get to taste it out, it is actually more healthy and natural in consuming.

Lotus Hot Tea ( RM 8.90 )
It is served with one pot with refillable hot water. 

Syrup is provided if you would like to add a little bit of sweetness into your cup of tea.

I am not able to describe exactly the taste but it is absolutely not to my own liking.

With its clean taste of the tea alone, we agreed that it has a similar taste
 with some kind of medicine syrup.
I prefer the common Chinese tea after all.

Chocolate Oreo Blended ( RM 8.90 )

A smoothie of  blended chocolate, crushed oreos and crushed ice cubes topped with fresh cream and chocolate syrup, sprinkled with a little amount of chocolate chip.

Since oreos alone are also finished with the use of chocolate, so this smoothie is just a chocolate smoothie with the helps of oreo flavour. Nice one for chocolate and oreo lovers.

Favourite Oreo Blended ( RM 8.90 )

A mixture of crushed oreos, coffee powder and crushed ice cubes. It is topped with fresh cream with the dressing of chocolate syrup and chocolate chip.

I didn't expect to have caffeine in my order of this smoothie until I asked the waitress after a few sipping. The caffeine had greatly covered up oreos which is not preferable but I guess the waitress understand my concern so she added some crushed oreos on top of the smoothie for me.

We initially planed to have drinks on our visits. Then, the waitress approached and informed us that the cake was on half price. There were only two flavours to choose from and we picked each one. Not sure if it's the happy hour but it was around 9.30pm that time.

 Blueberry Cheese sliced cake - RM 11.00 (usual price)

We had this slice of cake at only RM 5.50. The portion of the cake here is a little bit smaller.
I love this as the flavour of cheese is not too thick, very nice to have non-stop cuts on the sliced cake.

 Chocolate Mousse sliced cake - RM 8.90 (usual price)

We had this at only RM 4.45
It has too much cream which is not to my liking.

A view of the cafe from our table.

Despite it is a wooden table, it is paired with small wheels that allows it to be mobile.

Besides wooden chair, there are two sofa seating with couple of pillows, perfect for us to chill and discuss our things with some relaxation of body gesture as we lay on the sofa.

Students are granted to have 10% off on bill, just present only one student ID upon making payment for each table. The ambience of the cafe is comfortable with the aid of air-cond to keep the environment cool, not to forget, a playlist of mandarin pop songs were played during our visit. The staff are also friendly to provide service in our dining. In short, I'm looking forward for the second visit. I would try on waffle burger that is strongly recommended by my friend who had tried before.

You are welcomed to save the location for your convenience.

Summary: (Scaling point: 0 - lowest; 5-highest)
Price: 4/5 (Affordable pricing to students)
Taste:  3/5 (Mainly contributed by the cake in our visit)
Dining Ambience: 3/5
Vehicle Parking: 4/5 ( Ample of parking space )
Business Hour: 11.00a.m. to 11.00p.m. daily
Facebook Page: Kaffe Factory PLT