Folie-Folie Cafe & Grill @ Ipoh
March 26, 2010 | 28,823 viewsFriday lunches are the BEST I tell you. I am not going to gloat or anything, but how does a two and a half hour lunch period sounds to you? Music to your ears? Or got your blood boiling yet? 😉
Not to say this is an ideal situation. More like a catch-22 variant, when it’s not always possible to spend our lunch hours wailing away in the restaurant. To be seated for more than two hours during a simple meal sounds rather absurd, especially when it’s fast food we’re having. Not to mention the dagger stares from other patrons in those perpetually-packed eateries. (Foh San comes to mind again, naturally).
Freshly made cream soup, and a choice of iced lemon tea/Coke for the lunch sets @ Folie-Folie Cafe & Grill
After missing a slew of Friday lunches (since before Chinese New Year, I believe), today was the first time we had to struggle and brainstorm for another place for lunch. Ended up at Folie-Folie Cafe & Grill in town, opposite of UOB Bank near Greentown. If you’re one party animal (or maybe not), then you’d probably have heard of Summer Paradise, which opened its doors sometime back in last year. Do correct me if I’m wrong.
Anyway, Folie-Folie Cafe & Grill started operations about half a year ago, situated directly adjacent to the funky bungalow, serving a mix of Eastern and Western fares, from Lamb Chops, Grilled Chicken Chops and Fish & Chips to Katsudon, Japanese Curry, Fried Rice and pastas.
The interior of the outlet exudes a soothing, classy and modern ambience, complete with dim lighting (bane of indoor photography, no doubt), murals on the wall, and funky ornaments adorning the walls and surroundings. Chic and comfortable, you can imagine hordes of youngsters flocking to this cafe for a full meal, or a light banter over a glass of drink, or even a scoop or two of Haagen-Dazs ice-cream. (RM8 for a single scoop, RM15 for double scoops)
The lunch sets on offer are divided into three different segments; Western, Oriental and Japanese. A total of 29 choices, you’d be hard-pressed for choice if this is your first visit. Price from RM8.80-RM14.80 (USD2.50-USD4.20). Each set comes with a drink of iced lemon tea/Coke, a bowl of soup of the day, and a serving of fresh fruit.
The interesting thing is that, the soup served complements your choice rather well. If you choose any of the Western set, you’ll be served with a bowl of cream soup. For today, it was a vegetable cream soup, either asparagus, broccoli or of similar variety. Sorry, for I was not able to determine the exact ingredients blended into the soup, especially when the soup was not exactly thick in the first place. For the Oriental/Japanese sets, a bowl of seaweed soup was served.
Small gestures of attentiveness to garner higher level of satisfaction. Good start, indeed. I can’t stomach another watery soup from the can, after previous experiences at David’s Diner, Pizza Hut, and every other cafe serves those.
The Lamb Chop can be served with mushroom or black pepper sauce, and I chose the latter for I doubt mushroom sauce can go far to tamper the gamey taste of the lamb. Not a bad choice, for the RM14.80 set came with two medium slabs of lamb, grilled and doused generously with a slightly piquant black pepper sauce. Crinkle cut fries and a side serving of salad completed the ensemble, with a bowl of watermelon cubes. Especially loving those fatty portions, which melted in one’s mouth, and provided the cuts with much desired flavour. If you love your lamb, go for the fatter cuts, really.
The Honey Chicken was good as well, a sweet and sour sauce coating the fillets of deep-fried chicken. Butter Chicken Chop reminded me of Salted Egg Chicken more than the conventional “Nai Yau Gau”, while the Yakiniku Don was surprisingly good, with tender slivers of beef cooked with a runny omelette, and caramelized onions.
Minor gripe came in the form of extremely diluted drinks. Even the Coke was tasteless, probably owing to the addition of too many ice cubes. The watery iced lemon tea tasted too thin to be a tea in its own right. They could have improved on this aspect, for I prefer my set lunch to be capped with the conventional choice of coffee or tea instead.
All in all, still a satisfying meal. Comparable to a meal at Movenpeak, MP, or even Kon Shong (will write about that soon), all situated within stone’s throw away from each other in Greentown. Parking’s free, and the allocated spaces should be sufficient to cater to a rather large patronage volume.
Address & Contact Number
Folie-Folie Cafe & Grill
116, Jalan Raja Musa Aziz,
30300 Ipoh,
Perak, Malaysia.
Telephone : 605-255 3733
Here’s a GOOGLE MAP TO FOLIE-FOLIE CAFE & GRILL
Two and a half hours for lunch?? Wow, colour me envious… and my tastebuds a-droolin’! Hahaha.
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J2Kfm Reply:
March 27th, 2010 at 12:13 pm
Don’t be lah …… After the umpteenth Fridays, you’d be wishing the lunch period is shorten instead.
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wow I think I am going to have a treat this coming loneching Ming weekend in Ipoh
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J2Kfm Reply:
March 27th, 2010 at 12:14 pm
Eh, you’re back in Ipoh for the Qing Ming festival ah? Such filial son. 😉
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*sigh*. i never get to eat western food when i go back home….. T_T …. Yeah, 2 hour lunches…. sugoi-neh…
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J2Kfm Reply:
March 27th, 2010 at 12:17 pm
Totemo sugoi-desu!
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You should write about the KS Boat cafe which serve decent set meal especially their grilled fish other
ala carte choices are pathethic though!
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J2Kfm Reply:
March 26th, 2010 at 9:47 pm
Hi Nick, yeah. That’s the Kon Shong I was mentioning about. We love the set lunch there, especially the thick slab of dory fish grilled and served with garlic sauce.
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so it’s in that Kelab Gemilang Perak, eh?
I pass that place almost everyday and I have no idea it’s in there. Only saw that sign and wondered.
Thought how weird to have a cafe and grill in a nightspot area and also an ‘exclusive kelab’. Will try this soon! Thanks!
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Folie-Folie Cafe & Grill @ Ipoh | Motormouth From Ipoh – A Malaysian Food Blog…
A place to hangout for the young ones, as well as serving decent meals for the hungry souls. Folie-Folie Cafe & Grill is a new addition to the Ipoh’s F&B scene….
The nasi goreng looks good …..
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2 1/2 hours for lunch is really luxury!!!
btw, like the name of this cafe 🙂
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J2Kfm Reply:
March 27th, 2010 at 12:32 pm
Hahaha, paiseh regarding the name of this cafe.
For a friend has been telling me it was Jolie Jolie, and somehow I mistakenly thought it was Bali Bali. 🙂
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I wish my lunch can be that long too. 😀
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I only can have zap fan aka mixed rice when lunch =.=”
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J2Kfm Reply:
March 27th, 2010 at 12:44 pm
Erm that’s what I usually have also lah …. of course, on Fridays, having chap fan for 2.5 hours sounds like a tough job.
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James, I dont know where this folie is.. raja musa aziz? cannot recall.. maybe with english road name, i will know..hahahaha.. nowadays all road names are changed… wanna go there and try one fine day during lunch.. (friday)
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J2Kfm Reply:
March 28th, 2010 at 8:42 pm
It’s called Anderson Road, claire. Just opposite of UOB Bank, and very near to the round about.
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Lots of professional like lawyers, bankers & even politicians hang out there quite often including me as its near my office. Well I kinda of like the place, where else can u eat at dim lite eatery during lunch & out the eatery with your eyes kinda blinded frm the sun rays. Food is decent & different.
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J2Kfm Reply:
March 28th, 2010 at 8:43 pm
So you’re one of the mentioned above? 🙂
Which one?
True also lah, the place is kinda dim, yet soothing.
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do they serve halal food here?
do we have to reserve first , seems like everyone is going here every evening
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Anonymous Reply:
July 7th, 2014 at 1:32 pm
its is halal
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Hey, does Folie-Folie operates at night? besides lunch?
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J2Kfm Reply:
December 21st, 2010 at 6:12 pm
Yup, lunch and dinner.
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Went there for dinner. Their V’s day dinner set is quite value for money. The set came with soup, main course, a scoop of haagen dazs ice-cream decorated with choco sauce and banana slices and either coke or ice lemon tea. We have a lamb shoulder which was well marinated and tender, and pasta with broccoli and pine nuts. The pasta was very dry but when eaten with the pine nuts it’s very tasty. the pine nuts is very aromatic. We also have an ala-carte of german sausages, there are 3 types of sausages but one is not nice. sausage is nothing special lah, how can anyone go wrong with sausage right. Snack we had grilled bacon with golden mushroom, taste nice but not cheap considering only 5 pcs@RM10.80.
The service and ambience is good with balloons decoration but music too loud for close up restaurant. will go again next time to try their other food.
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J2Kfm Reply:
February 16th, 2011 at 11:48 pm
Yeah… LiLian. Folie-Folie actually is a nice place to hangout and just to catch up with friends over a drink. They have live band too, I believe.
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Was there 2 days ago and the place was almost empty. We were seated inside and placed our orders. Before we manage to eat. The mosquitoes were already feeding on us. It was night time and the insects is very very annoying. They placed two. Yes two coils of those awful smelling mosquitoes repellent right under our table. The kids were complaining throughout the whole meal. And my wife was too busy scratching her leg instead of concentrating on the food.
Food is ok. Service is ok. But having to smells like an ashtray makes us lost our appetites. I don’t understand. With over hundreds ways of getting rid of the pests, they opt for the most unlikely way to do it! If you eat here, bring along your mom in law and ask her to wear shorts.
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J2Kfm Reply:
October 27th, 2011 at 9:37 pm
Seriously? We were seated inside on all occasions, though no problem of being pestered by mosquitoes though.
And yeah …. that’s kinda silly to be using mosquito coils under the table where you eat!!!!!
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May I know what is the business hour??
thank you
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J2Kfm Reply:
April 15th, 2012 at 10:05 pm
Hi Kelly, Folie-Folie opens for lunch until after dinner hours everyday.
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May I know if this cafe is HALAL certified? for the muslim citizens, of course… 🙂 tq friend..
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