Brunch @ The Bee, Jaya One

One of my favourite things about blogging, and one of the reasons I began blogging in the first place, is because I love reading food blogs! This is one of the unique and special things about Malaysia, there is such a great food blogging community, which simply doesn't exist in Australia. I suppose it's our passion for great food, and the sharing and social aspect of eating which exists within Malaysian culture.

In some ways I consider it an honour to be able to contribute to this source of information. It makes me happy to know that someone may have had a great dinner because of my restaurant recommendation. Also, if I really love a place, I'm happy to help them out and spread the word, coz they deserve it (cept those places which start out good but go downhill...). I try to be honest and fair (but not too mean), because I also hate wasting money and time on places that don't respect their customers enough to maintain their standards.

Anyway...

To Bee or Not To Bee...

Jaya One has become a hotspot for entertainment and dining. I've seen heaps of restaurants, cafes and bars around there, but unfortunately have only actually tried a couple. Friday night, when heading to Kissaten for dinner (shall blog that next), I drove past a Melbourne Cafe looking place, packed with people; The Bee, I noted down the name so I could look into it later. I'm always on the look out here in Malaysia for Melbourne-ish cafes, maybe I should start one called Melbourne Cafe, if I did would you come? 

Note1: Keep in mind, they only serve from their Brunch Menu on weekends before 4pm.

Note2: Menu prices aren't inclusive of 10% service charge, but The Bee do no charge the 6% gov. tax!!

I checked out some food blogs, and found that this is a relatively new place with the relaxed coffee and light-meal kinda food I'm after. So come Sunday morning, I couldn't resist heading here for breakfast. 

The thing that first attracted me was the modern, Melbourne like decor; red brick, modern wooden furniture, posters advertising local events. There was a fair amount of outside and inside seating. I wish I had sat more inside instead of near the entrance, as one whole side of the shop is open to the outside, so it got pretty steamy hot.

Definitely more Melbourne-y with us in there

I love the relaxed ambiance they've got going on. On each table are cards telling us their special offers like; if it rains, you can get another coffee 50% off; buy 3 burgers and the 4th one is free (don't know if that's over multiple visits, or if you're with a group, or just really really hungry). BTW I've heard their home-made burgers are freakin good.

For the weekend daytime they were only serving the Brunch Menu, which was typical breakfasty stuff like toast, eggs, pancakes & stuff. Brunch Menu items come with free filtered coffee or tea (add RM10 to switch to orange juice or bottomless coffee).

 

I'm a longtime lover of the classic Big Breakfast (eggs, toast, bacon, mushrooms... that kinda stuff) and The Bee had their own variation, which the BF ordered.

Big Breakfast - RM24

The Bee Big Breakfast: toast, scrambled eggs, beef bacon, onion hash brown and salad. Wes said he really liked it, it tasted really nice. That's tomato relish there in the middle, nice for toast or dipping the hash brown. The only problem? It's not big enough! (as you can see from the picture) A real BIG Breakfast would have 2 slices of toast, more eggs, 2 hash browns (in my opinion, to fill me up).

I wasn't so hungry this morning, so opted for something smaller, which I've heard of on TV but never tried; Huevos Rancheros.

Huevos Rancheros - RM17

My first impression... it looked kinda small and naked there on the plate. The hash brown was nice, but could have used more flavour. I suspect this is because it is unsalted, which is a good thing, as we all have too much salt in our diets already. If you want more, add it yourself. For more flavour you can dip it in the supplied chili or tomato sauce.

The Huevos Rancheros contained beef ham, scrambled eggs, jalapeno peppers and beans. It could have had more beans, there were like 5 pieces in the whole thing. And the scrambled egg was a bit runny, which I know a lot of Malaysians love but I'm personally freaked out don't like runny eggs. Overall the taste was nice but I wouldn't order again due to the runny eggs. You would probably like it though.

I really enjoyed my breakfast here, and I definitely wanna head back soon for dinner.

P.S. WOW I just saw on their website they have an Australian Burger. Totally gunna go back and get that!

The Bee

2A-G, Block K, Jaya One
No.72 Jalan Universiti, Section 13
46200 Petaling Jaya
Selangor Darul Ehsan

http://www.thebee.com.my/