懷舊雞扒菠蘿包 Chicken chop Polo Bun & 凍淋轉香港熱奶茶 Hong Kong Milk Tea @ 全日菠蘿包專賣店 All Day Polo Bun SS2

4 March.2022 Dinner

Day 720 since MCO1.0 行動管制領 Covid-19 

@ 全日菠蘿包專賣店 All Day Polo Bun SS2 (click here to Google Map)

20, Jalan SS2/10, Taman Bahagia, 47300 Petaling Jaya, Selangor

GPS Location: 3°06'56.0"N 101°37'00.2"E
懷舊雞扒菠蘿包 Chicken chop Polo Bun rm$16.90 👍👍😋😋 7/10

凍淋轉香港熱奶茶 Hong Kong Milk Tea rm$2 👍👍👍👍😋😋😋😋 9/10

Total bill: rm$18.90
Budget: rm$15 - rm$25++
Payment: Cash  
Cuisine: Hong Kong style 菠蘿包 Polo Bun with meat, 豬仔包 Egg GZai Bun, Rice and Noodles dishes

Pork free: Pork, Chicken, Ham

Alcohol free: No Beer in Menu

Air-Conditioning in Restaurant: Air-Conditioning

Internet Wifi speed: No idea

Digital Nomad Work-friendly Cafe: maybe (but with charged devices)

Electrical outlets for Digital Device: Yes

Free Drinking Water: No

Menu prices: Net 

Order & Delivery: Table Service

On-line Delivery Service: https://alldaypolobun.eatmol.com/, GrabFood

Indoor Seating tables: 12+ tables (2-4ppl/table)

Outdoor Seating: No 

Drive Through: No

Take away : Yes

Dine-in: Yes

Happy Hour: N/A

Parking: MBPJ

Photos taken using: Samsung Note 8
Thoughts: This is the 6th visit to USJ2's "All Day Polo Bun", and last visit was Oct 1, 2021. The Cafe's 香港熱奶茶 Hong Kong Milk Tea, in my opinion is always dependable when I need one. But "All Day Polo Bun" does not offer extensive menu choices as typical 香港茶餐廳 Hong Kong Char Chan Teng. Besides 菠蘿包  Polo Bun or 香港奶茶 Hong Kong Milk Tea, the Café also "豬仔包 Zhu Gzai Bun" as well as some Hong Kong style Rice and Noodle dishes. 

For a feel of the Hong Kong Char Chan Teng style food in SS2 and nearby in PJ can visit: 

全日菠蘿包專賣店 All Day Polo Bun (SS2/10)

香港仔冰室 SS2 Cafe HK Boy (SS2/67, Sunway Pyramids)

旺角茶餐廳 Wong Kok Char Chan Teng (SS2/67)

講飲講吃 Togather (SS2/65) 

錦選香港特極點心 Restoran Jin Xuang Hong Kong Dim Sum (SS21, SS22, PJ Old Town)

麥氏西池港式雲吞麵 Mak’s Chee Authentic Wonton (One Utama)

金粵軒 Canton-i (One Utama, Sunway Pyramids)

港都香港茶餐廰 KD Hongkong Restaurant (Paradigm Mall)

香港金加利茶餐廳 Kim Gary Restaurant (Sunway Pyramids)

佐敦冰室 Jordan Hong Kong Restaurant (Sunway Pyramids)

Fun Facts: Interestingly, 菠蘿包 Polo Bun may be related to the 墨西哥麵包 Mexico Bun called "Concha"! In 1946, the Ng family, who were expelled from 墨西哥 Mexico, opened a Hong Kong-style Café in 香港上海街 Hong Kong's Shanghai Street. There, they made the Mexico bun as a tribute to the 墨西哥"貝殼形"麵包 Mexican Concha. And from that, the pineapple bun was first introduced to Hong Kong food culture. The iconic Polo Bun is now a common breakfast choice and afternoon tea for Hong Kong people, where many 香港茶餐廳 Hong Kong Cafes even offers the Butter variant. This iconic pastry finally in 2014, that the Hong Kong government listed the process for making it as an “非物質文化遺產 intangible cultural heritage.”

A Polo Bun (in Chinese 菠蘿包 or literally "Pineapple bun") is a kind of sweet bun predominantly popular in 香港 Hong Kong and 澳門 Macau, and also can be found in Chinatowns worldwide. Despite the name, the traditional version of the Polo bun does not contain pineapple; but rather, the name of Polo Bun originated from the fact that its sugary top crust is cooked to a golden-brown color, and because of its checkered top resembles the 菠蘿的外果皮 epicarp of a pineapple.

SS2's 全日菠蘿包專賣店 All Day Polo Bun offers not just the plain Polo Bun, but also their 招牌菠蘿包配黃油 Signature Polo Bun with butter, there are also the 午餐肉 Luncheon Meat or 火腿 Ham 配雞蛋 with Egg Polo Bun. And for the meaty option, there are also the 雞扒 Chicken Chop or 豬扒 Pork Chop Polo Bun. But if you want something different, there is also the 炸冬菇煎蛋菠蘿包 Fried Mushroom & Egg Polo Bun as well as 雪糕菠蘿包 Ice Cream Polo Bun (with a variety of ice cream flavors); starting from rm$7.50 to rm$16.90. 

Food today: 8 / 10 👍👍👍😋😋😋

Price: 4 / 10 😐😐
Value for Money: 6 / 10 👍
Service: 7 / 10 👍👍
Ambiance: 7 / 10 👍👍
Parking: 6.5 / 10 👍
LRT/MRT/BRT/MTR Transport:  3 / 10 😐😐😐 (1km+ from Kelana Jaya LRT station)

Website: https://www.mrseasy.com/alldaypolobun/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/alldaypolobun/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/CTzZufspvTU/
Telephone: +6016-333 8404
Operation hours: 08:00am - 06:00pm (Thursday closed)

懷舊雞扒菠蘿包 Chicken chop Polo Bun rm$16.90 & 凍淋轉香港熱奶茶 Hong Kong Milk Tea rm$2

The Menu

The Cafe

  

@ 全日菠蘿包專賣店 All Day Polo Bun SS2

 

蛋撻 Egg Tart & 香港絲襪奶茶 Hong Kong Milk Tea @ 全日菠蘿包專賣店 All Day Polo Bun SS2

1 October.2021 Tea time 下午茶

Day 566 MCO 行動管制領 Covid-19 (MCO#3.0 Day 150) 

@ 全日菠蘿包專賣店 All day Polo Bun Cafe SS2 (click here to Google Map)
20, Jalan SS2/10, Taman Bahagia, 47300 Petaling Jaya, Selangor
GPS Location: 3°06'56.1"N 101°37'00.2"E

蛋撻 Egg Tart rm$2.50 👍😋 6/10 

香港絲襪奶茶 Hong Kong Milk Tea rm$4.90 👍👍👍😋😋😋 8/10  

Total bill: rm$7.40
Budget: rm$10 - rm$20
Payment: Cash 
Cuisine: Hong Kong style

Meat: Pork, Chicken

Alcohol free: Yes

Air-Conditioning in Restaurant: Yes

Outdoor Seating: No

Internet Wifi speed: No  

Digital Nomad Work-friendly Café: Not really 

Electrical outlets: Yes

Free Drinking Water: No

Order & Delivery: Table service

Online Delivery: FromStore, FoodPanda, GrabFood

Tables: 12 tables (2-4 ppl/table)

Happy Hour: N/A

Parking: MBPJ

Photos taken using: Samsung Note 8
Thoughts: Today is the 150th day since MCO3.0 lock-down in May, but today is also Klang Valley to move from Phase 2 to Phase 3 of the "國家復蘇計劃 the National Recovery Plan". Phase 3 comes with further relaxation of SOPs as decided by the Special Committee on Pandemic Management. 私人活動和研討會 Private Events and Workshops are now allowed at 50% of the premises capacity, 培訓中心 Training centers and 工科類院校 Vocational colleges as well as Institute of 高等教育學院 Higher Learning will allow face-to-face classroom within this month. 觀眾性運動 Spectator sports are now allowed but no food nor beverages for the spectators! However, I believe Inter-State travel is still not allowed at the moment.  

Considering the Covid-19 Statistics above where the Peak cases of above 22,000+ per day cases somewhere around End of August; there has been steadily decline of Covid cases in the month of September. As of 30th September, not sure it is a good sign but the daily cases was below 13,000 per day. Among the 13 states in the country, Selangor still tops the number of daily cases at around 2000 per day in recent days. With these still daily high Covid cases, although many Chinese eateries have started to offer Dine-in choice, they aren't too many people opt for Dine-in in my recent Dine-in experiences; as can be seen today in PJ Seksyen 1's "Yi Poh Loh Si Fun" and SS2's "All Day Polo Bun"; most customer come for take-away. 

With daily vaccinations of new Doses at around 300,000 shots; and as of 30 September 2021, 62.9% of the Population is now Fully Vaccinated with 2 doses. 

For Tea today, this is the 5th visit to SS2's "全日菠蘿包專賣店 All Day Polo Bun", and last visit was 05.Jan.2021 (10 months ago). Today is the first venture to SS area since MCO3.0 that started in May, several months ago. And it is specially for the shops 香港絲襪奶茶 Hong Kong Milk Tea, and 蛋撻 Egg Tart (maybe not the best Hong Kong Egg Tart in town), but satisfied! 

"全日菠蘿包專賣店 All Day Polo Bun", located in SS2/10, opens every day except Thursday (Pasar Malam day). Anytime for a taste of Hong Kong, I'd say I will come back for the 香港絲襪奶茶 Hong Kong Milk Tea as well as the "冰鎮奶茶 Iced Milk Tea". Personally the 豬扒菠蘿包 Pork Polo Bun is a must try, which is available all-day-long! Some interesting items in the menu are several choices of 冰火菠蘿包 Ice Cream Polo Bun, including 榴蓮冰淇淋 Durian Ice Cream (at rm$8.90) as one of the variant. Also worth sampling are any of its 15 lunch sets of 豬扒 pork chop, 雞扒 chicken chop, 叉燒 char siew, 咖哩豬腩肉 curry pork belly, 午餐肉 luncheon meat etc. with 飯 rice or 麵 noodles from 11am to 3pm which also comes with a 菠蘿包 Polo Bun and 冷飲 cold beverage from rm$14.90 to rm$19.90. The Cafe is opens at 8:30am (most other Cafe maybe only starts business at 10am or 11am); this part of SS2 is 2 rows of shop lots surrounded residential houses, and to find a parking spot along SS 2/10 usually isn't a problem, so far! 

Was told by the staff that the same team also runs another Cafe called "港室八點鐘 Hong Kong 8am", with probably 2 locations in Penang and the Maclister location maybe started business 4 years ago in early 2017:

"港室八點鐘 Hong Kong 8am" Penang Goergetown (93, Lorong Macalister, 10400 George Town, Pulau Pinang) - this one (near WOW Hotel) looks active according to their facebook page

"港室八點鐘 Hong Kong 8am" Penang Bayan Baru (No. 70-1-58, D'Piazza, Jalan Mahsuri, 11900 Bayan Lepas, Penang)

With its Service Team fully inoculated, the SS2 shop reopen for Dine-in recently on 17th September (2 weeks ago). SS2's "全日菠蘿包專賣店 All Day Polo Bun" is air-conditioned, and so far don't mind the friendly service. The bright yellow themed walls decorated with Hong Kong destinations as well as photos of nostalgic Hong Kong movie starts (including a 周星馳 Stephen Chow wall painting), along with 全天播放粵語歌曲 all-day-long Cantonese songs. The corner shop lot was previously a steam boat restaurant which comes with electrical outlets for the tables; and therefore a little bit of 1-2 hours of working with your device during non-peak dining hours is probably possible. Fun facts, 全日菠蘿包專賣店 All Day Polo Bun is the creation of 李氏兄妹 Chester and Leena Lee. The sibling-founders travelled all the way to Hong Kong to study the art of preparing 菠蘿包 polo buns, and return to Klang Valley with a slight tweak in the recipe for the Malaysian palates. Initially, the siblings open a shop in Damansara Utama (SS21) somewhere maybe in January or February 2019 but have relocated to SS2/10 since 22 October 2020. 

Food today: 7.5 / 10 👍👍👍😋😋

Price: 6 / 10 👍 
Value for Money: 6 / 10 👍
Service: 8 / 10 👍👍👍
Ambiance: 6.5 / 10 👍
Parking: 8/ 10 👍👍👍 11am today

LRT/MRT/BRT/MTR Transport:  N/A
Website: https://alldaypolobun.eatmol.com/menu-all-day-polo-bun (SS2)
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/alldaypolobun/ (SS2)

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hongkong8am/ (Penang)

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/all_day_polobun/ (SS2)

Telephone: +6016-333 8404 (SS2), +6019-334 3588 (Penang)
Operation hours: 08:30am - 06:00pm (Thursday closed)

蛋撻 Egg Tart rm$2.50 & 香港絲襪奶茶 Hong Kong Milk Tea rm$4.90

  

The Menu

  

The Restaurant

 

@ 全日菠蘿包專賣店 All Day Polo Bun SS2

 

豬扒菠蘿包 Pork Chop Polo Bun & 香港絲襪奶茶 Hong Kong Milk Tea @ 全日菠蘿包專賣店 All Day Polo Bun SS2

05.Jan.2021 Tea time 下午茶

Day 296 MCO 行動管制領 Covid-19 Day 86 Conditional MCO Dine-in food

@ 全日菠蘿包專賣店 All day Polo Bun Cafe SS2 (click here to Google Map)
20, Jalan SS2/10, Taman Bahagia, 47300 Petaling Jaya, Selangor
GPS Location: 3°06'56.1"N 101°37'00.2"E

豬扒菠蘿包 Pork Chop Polo Bun rm$9.90 👍👍👍😋😋 7.5/10 

香港絲襪奶茶 Hong Kong Milk Tea rm$4.90 👍👍👍😋😋😋 8/10  

Total bill: rm$16.80
Budget: rm$10 - rm$20
Payment: Cash 
Cuisine: Hong Kong style

Meat: Pork, Chicken

Alcohol free: Yes

Air-Conditioning in Restaurant: Yes

Outdoor Seating: No

Internet Wifi speed: No  

Digital Nomad Work-friendly Café: Not really 

Electrical outlets: Yes

Free Drinking Water: No

Order & Delivery: Table service

Tables: 12 tables (2-4/table)

Happy Hour: N/A

Parking: MBPJ

Photos taken using: Samsung Note 8
Thoughts: 4th visit to SS2's "全日菠蘿包專賣店 All Day Polo Bun" since 1st visit last year November. And of course, in my opinion the main attraction will be their rm$4.90 "香港絲襪奶茶 Hong Kong Milk Tea" or maybe "Pantyhose Tea" or "Silk Stocking Tea"! Probably as close as you can get to the authentic "Xi Mut Nai Char" in Hong Kong, very smooth and creamy texture with a little evaporated milk and optional sugar for additional sweetness; highly recommended!

Today's late lunch is the rm$9.90 "豬扒菠蘿包 Pork Chop Polo Bun", comes with 2 pieces of good size Pork Chop sandwiched inside the Polo Bun, liked it.

Parking is fairly easy around 4 to 5pm (note the shop close at 6pm) here along SS2/10, and the shop is just a short walk from SS2 Chow Yang Kopitiam (therefore it is also also called the "Chow Yang Night Market"), and that is why the shop is closed for Thursday's where the Chow Yang Pasar Malam (Night Market) will be on from 5pm - 10pm; not to be mistaken with the SS2 Night Market which is only available on Mondays.

Food today: 7.5 / 10 👍👍👍😋😋

Price: 6 / 10 👍 
Value for Money: 6 / 10 👍
Service: 7 / 10 👍👍
Ambiance: 6 / 10 👍
Parking: 7 / 10 👍👍 8am today
LRT/MRT/BRT/MTR Transport:  N/A
Website: Not found
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/alldaypolobun/
Telephone: +6016-333 8404
Operation hours: 08:30am - 06:00pm (Thursday closed)

豬扒菠蘿包 Pork Chop Polo Bun rm$9.90 & 香港絲襪奶茶 Hong Kong Milk Tea rm$4.90

 

The Menu

   

The Restoran

 

@ 全日菠蘿包專賣店 All Day Polu Bun SS2