客家小食馆 kejia cafe — Restaurant in Johor

Longest time didn’t eat Thunder Tea and decided to search out this cafe pn the way from JB to KL. 1) Portion was sufficient and tea was green too. Flavour is mild. Would prefer more basil taste. 2) Chicken egg with ginger cook in yellow rice wine well done! 3) Yam balls tasted rubbery gluten. First time trying this dish and will skip it altogether in future. 4) Lee’s pineapple can juice tasty 5) Barley drink is mild, and red dates less boiled. Winter melon absent from recipe (it was in the menu picture). A bit misleading. The whole menu 💯% in Chinese language. Luckily lady owner patient enough to explain, so we could avoid the pork dishes.

This route added another 1 1/2 hours to our travel time and ultimately a 5 hour journey became 10 hours driving on the road as timing coincided with a deluge of traffic coming from Malacca, towards KL. As such, a bit not worth our time to check out this cafe. Curious as to why it’s a cafe n not restaurant; coffee with lunch?!

All things said, the signature dish is Thunder Tea only. Cafe can take advantage of this dish and add a lot of other famous ( vegetarian) Hakka specialties ( non-pork preferably). Menu should be multi lingual ( at least Chinese-English). These can add (more profits) from Chinese &...

My Hakka gf finally got the chance to check out this place earlier for lunch.

We ordered thunder tea rice, counting beads, fried meat, and a bowl of noodles.

Thunder rice tea: it lacks the mint and basil flavor. But for those who like a gentle flavor, this is a good choice. Tea and rice mixed together, gives a hearty meal.

Noodles: came w fresh chilli tt packs a spicy punch but not much flavor, a piece of Yong tao fu with minced meat hidden at the bottom, and generous ‘mani’ veg tt we see at times in mee hoon kuay. No msg, not too heavy in taste.

Fried meat and counting beads: taken on its own, seems a bit heavy in taste. Balances nicely with thunder tea and noodles.

All the above, with two cups of red date and barley water. Total...

The food in general was tasty. The ginger wine noodle 🍜 was nice but only for those who like the taste of wine in the soup. The Suan Pan Zi was not as flavourful as I liked it... probably coz I've tasted better ones. The lei cha was okay. The 'niang' items were value for money and good. The cai ban was okay. A hit was the homemade barley drink... The hot one came with red dates and was generous with the ingredients. Did not need the extra sugar that they provided as the drink was already naturally sweet with...