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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Laughing Canteen's long list of food items and Today's Special are sure to be able to satisfy the taste palettes of everyone.
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Address:
3A, Jalan Mawar 2, Bandar Kota Tinggi, 81900 Kota Tinggi, Johor, Malaysia
Opening Hours:
7:30am to 4:30pm (Sat & Sun: 7:45am to 4pm) | Daily
Getting There:
From JB Sentral or Larkin Sentral, take myBAS T10 to Kota Tinggi Bus Terminal and walk to the cafe.
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