Discover the best restaurants, shops, cafés and things to do in Subang
If you cringe at the thought of Subang and the number of students swarming the area (by area, we mean SS15), just know that the small town offers more than its share of gimmicky dining establishments. Here’s a cheat sheet on what to do and places to eat.
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Sumika – what is one of the best yakitori restaurants in the Klang Valley – likes to play hard to get. Getting through their landline is a game of...
Kar Heong is a likeable all rounder, offering not just excellent chicken and kai see hor fun, but also more than adequate pork balls, roast pork, bean sprouts...
Sandwich specialists Sarnies have ventured into the business of frankfurters. If you’re up for some artisanal pimped out wieners, not only are the juicy...
There’s almost always a line at this popular SS15 eatery frequented mostly by students of the surrounding area. If you’re not sure what to order,...
The fishy assam laksa takes an unusual route at Restoran Well Cook Gourmet. Penangite owner Chin Gok Ton fries thick laksa noodles with a spice paste of blue...
February 2012 I first stumbled across Ooi Noodle House on a search for weekend brunch in the maze of Subang Jaya Uptown. Amid closed shops and other cafes so...
You no longer have to go to Changkat (or to one of those British pubs) for a plate of fish and chips; in fact, you can have the quintessentially...
One of 2014’s more promising restaurants so far steers clear of café clichés – no sub-par sandwiches, carbonara or heaven forbid, red...
Tucked away in a quiet corner of SS17, Analog KL is one of Subang’s best-kept secrets. The menu at this cosy neighbourhood café is stripped down,...
Run by husband-and-wife team Kato-san and Yuko-san, this cosy café has been keeping Japanese expats in Subang Jaya well caffeinated since 2008....
Once a factory churning out industrial yarn seals for more than three decades, the 10,000sq ft place in Subang is now WhupWhup, the spiffy restaurant-cum-event...
This café has all the staples like salmon dishes and coffee but come here for the ice cream burgers. The buns even come in colourful shades – green for pandan,...
The raw, rough aesthetic of greyskymorning – in its mix of modern minimalist materials, especially exposed bricks, glass doors and windows as well as metal and...
Located right next to Main Place mall in USJ, cosy neighbourhood café AM/PM is where residents of USJ and Putra Heights go for coffee and cakes. The menu...
Ice cream factory on weekdays, scoop shop on weekends. After nearly two years of supplying their cult favourite ice cream to cafés around town, Fatbaby...
Think of a savoury and slightly spicy doughnut, and you’ve got yourself a vadai. The vadai stall, sandwiched between the cendol and the rojak stalls,...
The cendol here is slithery green, and coconut milk, sweet corn, red beans and gula Melaka slosh around in a bowl of shaved ice as the stall owner churns out...
Located next to Inti College, this owl-themed café serves Korean shaved ice (bingsu) in a variety of flavours including daring ones such as the Yogurt...
Bungeoppang, the Korean carp-shaped waffle snack with red bean filling, is essentially South Korea’s answer to the Japanese taiyaki. South Korean chain...
Inside Scoop churns out some of the best ice cream in the city. Owner and in-house ice cream churner Shiew Li uses gelato techniques to achieve full-bodied...
Owned and operated by the husband-and-wife team of Radzi Jasni and Linda Hat, the cosy, small storefront leans towards more alternative, contemporary stuff:...
Tricked out with all forms of inline skates, blades, bikes and skateboards, Wheel Love equips you with everything you need to survive KL’s harshest...
Two words: Asian fit. Friends and founders Hau and Hoong’s Pott Glasses have discovered that there is a real, practical need for glasses that fit Asian...
Amplitude is first and foremost a music store, even before the existence of the small barbershop space decked with music paraphernalia. Started a few years ago...
This independent bookstore in The Summit has a collection like no other as owner and merchandising manager, Leon Ngai, carefully selects the books himself....
Lejen Press's bookshop – and boutique, as it carries hoodies and T-shirts – brims with Malay literature, fiction or otherwise, by local independent...
You can’t miss da:mén – with a name that literally translates to ‘big doors’ in Mandarin, USJ’s da:mén boasts a big...
The highly lauded initative by USJ residents hosts book exchanges on every first and third Sunday of the month, from 3pm to 5pm.
Meeples is a small café with a cool concept. They stock over 900 European board games which customers can have a go at while sipping coffee, milkshakes...
Located in Subang's SS18, RUANG is a new modern event space for rent where you can host just about anything from fashion shows and product launches to gigs,...
Having 600,000 sq ft of retail space, Empire has six floors worth of shops for mall-goers to explore under its clear domed roof and makes no false claims when...
Good futsal and one of the better snooker centres in the Klang Valley. Also the largest indoor futsal centre in Malaysia, if that makes a difference. You...
Subang Parade’s recent refurbishment earned a Silver Award from ICSC Asia Pacific in the category of Development and Design so hop on over to see what...
From the ashes of an abandoned construction eyesore rises Main Place, the newest residence mall this side of Subang. Opened in early 2014, the management has...
Bangsar has gone through many phases – unobtrusive residential area, clubbing haven, arts and culture quarter, and now, café district. From the...
Populated by expatriates and upper middle class families, Hartamas is fancy – even its name says so (‘harta’, treasure; ‘mas’,...
The wide land that is Damansara has the privilege of being both KL and Selangor. It can be confusing – Bukit Damansara for example, is not exactly near...
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Damansara Utama is home to Damansara Uptown, the land of hard-to-find parking spots and more cafés than you can shake a stick at. We say park in the new...
Let’s not mask the fact that Sunway is an area dominated by students, which isn’t saying that it’s a bad thing. If you need help getting...
Sri Petaling is a mixed bag of old eating establishments, massage parlours and cafés. You can get around most of the Jalan Radins by foot, although...
To say that Petaling Jaya (aka PJ) is huge is an understatement. Divided into several areas and neighbourhoods (better known as 'seksyen'), there are your...
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