Kota Tinggi Eat: Laughing Canteen (啦枫食堂) Kopitiam @ Bandar Kota Tinggi

Rick
May 28
2 min read

Laughing Canteen (啦枫食堂) is a kopitiam-cafe, rather than a "canteen", serving traditional coffee and Malaysian local delights like a kopitiam and western food like a cafe, since 2018. The kopitiam is located along Jalan Mawar 2 in Kota Tinggi City. Its motto is "Good Food, Good People".

Laughing Canteen (啦枫食堂) @ Bandar Kota Tinggi

Laughing Canteen is quite spacey, cosy and with simple decorations on its walls. The kopitiam-cafe serves traditional coffee, and wide range of traditional toasts and sandwiches, a long list of local delights and also western main dishes, burgers, pasta, salads, croissant, etc. There are finger food, desserts and special beverages too. For surprises, check what's their Today's Special.

Laughing Canteen (啦枫食堂): Interior & Menu

The Wat Tan Crispy Noodle with Prawns (滑蛋鲜虾生面) is a Today’s Special item, which is not on the menu, and is similar to wat tan hor (滑蛋河粉) but using crispy fried thin yellow noodle instead of broad-flat rice noodle. The dish has tons of ingredients, including prawns, chicken meat, corns, dried beancurd, crab sticks, two types of mushrooms, carrots, broccoli, greens, etc. It has pleasant flavours, light tastes and with crispy texture from the fried noodle.

Laughing Canteen (啦枫食堂): Wat Tan Crispy Noodle with Prawns (滑蛋鲜虾生面)

The Kaya-Butter Toast — a version with plant butter is available too — is charcoal-grilled till nearly 90% crispy yet still retained a thin thread of softness. The kaya is not too thick and the savoury butter gives the toasts more buttery flavours. It is really crispy.

Laughing Canteen (啦枫食堂): Kaya-butter toast

The Ham & Egg Croissant has ham-omelette and lettuce sandwiched between toasted crispy croissant. Instead of stacking a separate piece of savoury ham on mellow-tasting omelette, pieces of ham are added to the egg when frying and gives the omelette a mellow savoury flavour. This is nice as a light meal.

Laughing Canteen (啦枫食堂): Ham & egg croissant

The Kopi Iced with Ice Cream (冰咖啡+冰淇淋) is very much like affogato or root beer float except that traditional kopi is used. The iced drink is not too sweet and enhanced with flavours of the vanilla ice-cream. This is super-welcoming on hot days.