OO White Coffee Waterfall — Restaurant in George Town

This corner restaurant used to be part of the Waterfall hotel and for about four decades, it was D'Cottage Inn, which was a Western restaurant. In its hey days, it was pretty popular, but as time went by, it just got lost in time. It hadn't been updated, and everything just went downhill. Eventually, the place closed and was left empty for quite a while before OO took over.

Unlike it's other branch in Carnarvon Street, which is more a slightly more expensive coffee shop with different stalls operating on the premises, this outlet feels like a premium kopitiam, with air conditioning and no hawker stalls anywhere in sight.

Instead, the menu contains the dishes that are reputedly from different hawkers - eg. the hokkien mee was reputedly from a famous stall behind Penang Plaza. Other dishes include pan mee, Ipoh hor fun, nasi lemak and others.

Parking is available in front of the restaurant which is part of the hotel's private car park (RM3). Otherwise, you could just park about 10m down the road in the public car park which is much cheaper.

When I went to the restaurant, about 60% of the food items were sold out, leaving only the Ipoh Hor Fun and Pan Mee available, as well as their roti offerings.

The food and drinks are priced much higher than a regular coffee shop, but that didn't stop the crowds coming in. I managed to get the last seat in the house at 3:00pm, and that was a good sign of things to come. Since I didn't manage to get the famous Hokkien Mee, I settled for the Ipoh Hor Fun.

I must say that the bowl of noodles served was nothing special, except for the price. Don't get me wrong. It was a tasty bowl of noodles, but for RM11.90, it just felt overpriced for a normal bowl without anything extra as far as ingredients are concerned.

I shall be back again to savour the Hokkien Mee and the other dishes offered which were out of stock early. It's probably an indication of what's good...

a 2.0 - we are afraid we can't be positive about this place especially against it's signboard claim " Malaysia Best". Our experience was it is Not elderly friendly n rude arrogance.

Value-for-money? Taste? Perhaps for long time Penang hands, suffice to say for it's mainly hawker-centre type food, a so so. We were a party of seniors 70s n late 60s - we dropped in as we were in the vicinity and was seated on a smallish rectangular table abutting a wall. We had just only placed our order for about ten items, when an adjacent more spacious table was vacated. Naturally, with the number of items we had coming n elderly folks been less agile with movements when sharing food, we requested for a switch to this next table. Lo n behold, a man came around and proclaimed "CANNOT"!! - when we asked why not, he claimed his system cannot cope with a table switch. But our order was just seconds ago - not even prepared nor served. So RIGID? maybe some manual keystroke adjustment inconvenience but to systems people, albeit retired, this is Humbug!.

We said no worries if the concern is about billing ( as he claimed) - we will self check against the items we ordered. He then followed on with negative comments - this just made us more adament about not been intimidated. If it was a huge  table that he wants to keep for bigger business, we can understand but it was not. The place was also not full.  Not wishing to be brushed aside, we simply sat at the vacated table - but we can hear his criticism still mumbling on. The moment one of us finished an item, the plates was quickly taken away - Wow! so efficient ? or lack of plates ? or ?

At the checkout counter, we were able to get the correct billing afterall. However, we had to insist to be given the printout itemised bill to check - is this not an automatic given? Overall, disappointing...

I was at “Oo Coffee” at waterfall hotel, Penang, a reminiscent of KL’s familiar chains like Oriental Coffee, Oldtown and Hailam Town but this has a non-halal twist. I tried their Ipoh Hor Fun. The broth was just right, balanced in flavour, but the Koay Teow didn’t have the smoothness feel on my palate which I was expecting. Contrary to the juicy and moist texture of the flesh, the shredded chicken was a little fibrous for my taste and the sliced prawns were somewhat chewy. Overall it was a decent bowl of Hor Fun, but it doesn’t match up to the authentic quality of “Moon de Moon” from Ipoh. The Roti Bakar was savoury, with the scent of smokiness from the charcoal burnt. The Char Koay Teow was commendable, though it doesn’t top the best ones I have had in Penang. The standout was the Kopi. It was exceptional, rich, and aromatic bringing back a wave of nostalgia of my teenage “kopi-o” days.

I am eager to return to try their prawn “Hokkien mee” and “Nasi lemak “. Of course, not forgetting my...