Cafe Review: High Frequency (HF), a New Wave of Coffee Culture

Well, first time visiting this cafe in Brunei. This place is getting it’s wave in for sure in Brunei. Here’s my review over the coffee here, i have not personally tried other foods in this cafe other than their H.F Pan Bun, with asiana and mozzarella flavouring.
Ordered cappuccino, my favourite coffee as of now. Um…sad to say…it’s not coordinated well enough to make it a good coffee. To tell the truth, coffee drinking really depends on each individual. I like my coffee to be 50-50 or 60-40 in the ration of milk over coffee.
Coffee in HF is said to be from Wellington, New Zealand, who have the greatest coffee scenes in the world. However, the cappuccino in HF taste more towards the bitter taste of their brew rather than the perfect mixture (to me personally) of milk and coffee. Thus, covering up the fragrance of coffee upon first drink, as the bitter taste will catch your attention more than the fragrance itself. If you prefer your coffee to have a more sour-ish and bitter taste, then this is the place for your! I have to complement on it’s coffee art though, as compared to the standards in Malaysia, i would say the barista did a fine job here, which surprised me in fact!!
It’s a simple coffee art of love but finely crafted to say the least.
 
Seeeee~~~ i got a cute teddy bear!!! How nice of the barista, sure do have some privileges when you visit late a.k.a closing time ><








As for the menu, there are plenty of choice for you to choose, ranging from dinner, all day breakfast, sandwiches to sides. So you wouldn’t be lacking of choices here. As mentioned earlier we ordered H.F Pan Bun. My god!! It’s a big portion though, with plenty of cheese for cheese lovers. Not overly cheezy but the cheese portion is just right. Their bun is fluffy and filling too. To me it’s garlic bread but in the form and taste of bun. Interesting as i have not tried garlic bun as yet. The top of the bun is baked with cheese too, making it crispy once bitten. I believe you will like the crunchy cheezy texture of it. But this is recommended for 3 pax, i’m not too sure of the appetite of the people here, but for me it definitely is a big portion! But isn’t sharing is caring?? LOL!! so please share and try more of the varieties here.
 
My friend on the other hand, had this Peach Moji Berries Tea. Wowww….it sure smells nice!!! It’s quite a thing to have if you feel like having something sweet yet not sweet…*i know it sounds weird* as sugar can be added freely by yourself to your own sweetness level. =D It’s nice!!
I also have a try on it’s HF breakfast (set for 2) but found that it’s a little too oily for my taste, it’s very filling but as for the taste it’s just..so so i would say. I had also given their mentaiko fries, wow the portion is huge! We and my other two friends could not even finish it up, so if you’re bored of the normal fries or cheezy fries, have a go for it’s mentaiko fries.

To my surprise, the tiramisu in HP is super duper awesome!!! It’s on the best tiramisu I have had in Brunei. I tried the tiramisu in Picollo, Grazi Mauri but HF is still the best to say the least! I would say it’s the best! It’s not too sweet, as I don’t have a sweet tooth and the smell of espresso mixed in was just so superb! You should definitely give their tiramisu a try if you give here a visit, i bet it’s worth it! *wink wink
 
The other thing that surprised me was the service provided, I could say we are the last customers to be in HP on a Saturday night, while we were packing to go home, the sky just have to rain typhoon on us…=_=llllll The extremely kind waiter offered to show us to our car in his umbrella, it was soooo kind of him!! Felt so grateful~~ Thank you to whoever it was, as I didn’t manage to get his name. LOL!! And thus, my review on some of the recommended cafe in Brunei.

Summary:
Ambiance: 6/10 (it isn’t a good place to take photos as sunlight screening through is way to bright while the interior is dim, thus classes together)
Food: Not gonna rate it this time as yet as i haven’t tried any real food. LOL!
Coffee: 4/10 Improvements is surely needed here for the price paid, i would expect a better coffee served
Price: 5/10 reasonable i guess for a cafe though it’s pricy for the other foods available in Brunei.
Information:
Address: 1st Floor, Unit 5, Blk B Sempurna Complex, Brunei, Brunei
Tel: +6732428262
Operating Hours: Monday to Sunday @ 8am to 10pm
Website: https://www.facebook.com/highfrequencycafe

Mituo Vegetarian Restaurant @ Seri

‘Are you a vegetarian or someone looking for meat-free food in Brunei? Well, Mituo Vegetarian Restaurant is just the place that you will be looking forward to on your first and forth-coming visits. Mituo Vegetarian Restaurant is the longest surviving vegetarian restaurant in Brunei i would stay, with history running for more than 10 years.

  

I have personally been visiting this restaurant for more than 5 years myself and am still not bored with it’s mouth-watering food that they served. Most of all, I loved the concept of the restaurant. It is a non-profit restaurant who’s main aim is encouraging people to dive into meat-free food. Mituo Restaurant is not an organic restaurant, they still sell meat-free fried foods.  This restaurant is set up by a group of committee, aiming at encouraging people to savour various meat-free products ( as we ourselves have heard of weird stories of chicken meat or meatball (made from portion of horse meat) leading to unhealthy eating by most consumer).

Mituo Restaurant sell Economy Rice from everday for lunch at the price of B$3 for three kind of dishes (in the case where you are a big eater, no worries, as you can ask for additional rice at no cost at all). What I personally like about their economy rice is that, the portion is BIG (as compared to other stalls selling economy rice), for dine in customers there are free flow of soup too, all at the cost of only B$3, where to get such good bargain for filling up your tummy? =D

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

They do have ‘Today’s Special’ Menu too, serving Nasi Lemak, Chicken Rice, Bak Kut Teh, Hakka Lou Shu Fan, Kuching Laksa, Dim Sum, etc seven days a week. So if you do not know what to eat and would like to be surprised, please do give this restaurant a visit when you feel like being a vegetarian for a few hours. LOL!! >.<

So…after so many years, is the menu still the same or…there are revolution in this restaurant too? Well…they CERTAINTLY do, as they are serving Vegetarian Dim Sum!! My favourite in this restaurant is 1) Dim Sum 2) Kolo Mee/ Kole Mee Pok @ B$2.00 (which ever I feel like eating on that day hehehe ><’’’) 3) Chai Ping a.k.a Cucur Sayur (B$0.60)

Now, let me make an introduction to their aweseomeee vegetarian dim sum, for a vegetarian like myself, having a vegetarian dim sum is like going up to heaven from hell (nah..just exaggerating..LOL!) Mituo only sells Dim Sum on every Sunday (except if it falls on the 1st and 15th of the lunar calendar, then it’s too bad, please come the next week) What’s most awesome is that…assorted dim sum is selling for only B$2.00 per plate!! Where do you except to find such good bargain?? Here of course!!

 

 

(From furthest left to right)

- Stem fried beancurd filled with mengkuang (don’t know what’s it’s called in english) and mushroom, this is just so a MUST MUST try!!! Everytime I go there I just have to eat it up!! But…an advance advice…don’t go too late, as it sell fast!

- Siew Mai (vegetarian of course), this taste gooooddd tooo!!! Please just go try and have a taste for yourself

- Seafood tofu for tofu freak…like me!

- Porridge which is selling only for B$1.20 per bowl, enough to fill you up if you’re feeling up for something light in the morning.

- Everyone’s favourite Chee Cheong Fan

 

      

- Fried wan tan (eaten with their homemade chilli…just the perfect matching couple)

- Bom filled with peanut or green bean (decided by the pastry maker at different day) and Wu Kok (Yam pastry). I have to say before I became a vegetarian myself, I’m a big fan of wu kok (filled with meat, yam and green pea) but I’m so depressed that I couldn’t eat this after I decided to become a vegetarian years ago…but finally my depression was uplifted by the creating if this superb vegetarian wu kok!! Life’s great!! While it’s eaten hot from the oven, damn…you could literally fly eating it~~

- Fried popiah for fried food lovers~

 

      

- Chai Kueh (served daily at B$1.20), I love the filling of mengkuang in this chai kueh~ pepper taste was just so right!

- Kelupis filled with vegetarian sambal shrimp

 

Thus, being a vegetarian myself, I feel the need to blog about this vegetarian restaurant to promote it’s good tasting food, good service and most importantly to tell people being a vegetarian it not that boring after all, with just vegetables in our life =D

Do find out more on other food served in Mituo Vegetarian Restaurant in my future post, as I believe i’m still gonna blog on their awesome food again! Hehehe~ Cheers everyone ^^v

 

Information:

Address: Seri Complex, Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei (Next to a photoshop or the building opposite Sui Heng Restaurant)
Tel: 2222821
Operating hours: Monday to Thursday, Saturday and Sunday @ 7am-9pm
                           Friday 7am-12pm, 2pm-9pm.

Brunei~~ I am Back!!

Hey yo there,

It’s been 4,5 or was it 6 years since i am going back to Brunei for more than 3 months?

It’s been a long long way from Malaysia and yea…Malaysia did really taught me a lot, not just about lifestyle and culture but also about COFFEE!! LOL!!

This time back, i’m going to do some review of the coffee, cafe, restaurant that i will be going around in my stay in Brunei.

Let me say this first, my post and comments is entirely of my own personal opinion, but…it’s logical right? As different people have different taste bud, feel free to explore on your own even after my blogging here.

So do stay tuned for what’s coming up next on my blog.

It’s really been years since i last updated my blog with my life in kl, so can you just imagine how busy i was in the past to not even have the time to blog about anything? other than my feelings? Mehhh….

So so well now, i personally am looking forward to what i’m going to blog about though. Some post might be a throwback post but still it’s something that happened in my life before and i am SOOO gonna blog about it!!

Regards,

Xindy