Out & About: Having Plan b.

Le Menu

I have been meaning to bring Weekend-GF (read: Mum!) over to Plan b. for a taste of their goodies here since I was first introduced to it months ago. My first taste was mostly for work, part of a Food Safari program to introduce new flavors and offerings for our company.

Brekky & Brunch Served till 6pm!

Back then I tried their Eggs Ben, which is a simple dish of poached eggs, mushrooms, hollandaise sauce on toast with roquette leaves. Thought this time I should revisit the dish again at their new outlet in Paradigm Mall.

Egggggggggggssssss, Shrooms and Roquettes!

The thing with simple dishes is that it is very easy to ruin it. Clean flavours have an annoying ability to announce to the world that the Cook may have been careless, heavy handed or inexperienced. Thankfully, this was not the case for my Ben.

The lightly toasted English Muffin (a less dense version, I must qualify) was topped with thickly sliced and sauteed mushrooms (tasted like Portobello). The mushrooms still retained its wonderful earthy aroma despite being seared in butter. Top if off with  poached egg and a generous spoonful of hollandaise emulsion.

I was secretly happy that my poached egg yellow was a wee bit cooked through, as am not a fan of overly runny yolks (I find the syrupy texture slightly icky). Their Hollandaise sauce also is a bit different as it is less unctuous than the classical version. There isn't a noticeable hit of acidity from a classical vinegar reduction and I guess that the recipe included a little milk as well.

However, I was let down by the wilted Roquette leaves and the overall temperature of the dish. It also took a good 23 minutes for our dishes to arrive!

Mak opted for the Nasi Lemak and it was a HUGE portion for her (all 26 Ringgit of it, yes!), but it was nicely done, each part of the dish was correctly prepared and the rice was rich. When taken with the spicy kick of the squid sambal and crispy fried chicken it was good. 

Boom! Yeahhhhh!

Nyot, who joined us for the Brunch chose for herself a large roast beef sandwich. I was very pleased with how the dish was presented. 

And one person can finish this? Yikes!

Her plate had all the makings of a great meal. Grilled baquette filled with roast beef slices piled on roquette leaves, with a side of garden salad drizzled with zingy vinaigrette and contrasted with a mini bucket of crunch oven-crisped yam, sweet potato and cassava chips. She paired this with lashings of mustard and it got devoured in no time.

Our food and drinks took a while to arrive and there is still a measure of inefficiency with the staff. Nothing annoyingly slow of course, staff were still on hand and they seemed like they wanted to please their customers. It could simply be a case of it being a new place where the staff haven't quite gotten fully into the swing of things. When compared with their sister outlet in Bangsar Village, this outlet still needs work of course, but they will get there soon enough.  

Madame's Cafe Latte

Side order of Shrooms

The bill came out to slightly over RM100 for a meal for 3 people and from the smiles on everyone's face I guess we could be repeat visitors. Apparently this place offers a mean Corned-Beef Hash. Gotta get that next time for brekkie.