Finally, about time I'd written about this favourite coffee place of mine.
Hmm, started visiting this place late last year, and before that, this place has been around for a while but I never got around to visiting it. But from one visit, I fell in love with this place and with subsequent visits, I got addicted to this cozy space in Taman Paramount, PJ. It's actually located beside Awesome Canteen and same row as the famous duck rice in Taman Paramount.
One Half started from a pop up store at BRATs, and they closed down after awhile. Subsequently opening two other stores, Random Food Store, beside Village Park Nasi Lemak in Uptown, and then this co-shared outlet with Ilaika Select Store, which sells locally curated items like dried flowers, cute plants, ceramic homeware, scented candles, leather card holders etc etc.
Didn't manage to take a picture of the bar area, but yeah, One Half is pretty much at the back of the shop, where there is ample natural lighting during the day. They have coffee, tea, kombucha, self made wine, orange juice, self made banana loaf, self made sourdough, tartines, sandwiches and a variety of cakes.
They do have the usual selection of milk coffee and black coffee. And also filter coffee, which I have never tried before in the past. For filter coffee, or your black coffee, you get to select the type of beans they are serving for the day, and somehow, there is really a difference where different coffee beans have different taste notes, as a result of the type of beans, all the way up to how the coffee is roasted. I don't really know how to explain it here, but do ask the friendly baristas if you are somehow interested in finding out what is the difference, haha.
Personally prefer visiting the Taman Paramount outlet because it has individual tables and a hipster ambience where it's a good place for people watching ie. checking out other people that dress up. But if you do visit the outlet in Uptown it is somehow a different concept where it serves hot food and the table is somehow a shared table where it encourages you to connect with other people.
So far I have been loving the long black (all time favourite order), cold brew coffee where they add a dehydrated grapefruit/lemon slice to it, cold brew tonic (cold brew + tonic water), black tonic (black coffee + tonic water), coffee lemonade (coffee + lemonade), sourdough (with brown sugar, with marmite), and the mushroom tartine.
As for milk coffee, at first, didn't fancy the latte at all because I find it too milky. Highlighted it to the barista and she recommended me to try flat white instead which is more balanced and that's my current favourite order for now.
If you don't know what to drink, just ask the barista for recommendations and they would be glad to help you make the right order, and they're usually up for a friendly conversation as well.
This place has minimal tables, so on certain days, it can get pretty crowded, but there are both indoor and outdoor seats. The indoor seats can get quite cold sometimes but the outdoor seating area are always full of smokers and can get pretty warm on a sunny day.
Besides that, I'd say this place isn't really suitable to work as the chairs aren't that comfortable for sitting long hours, and there are minimal plug points. It is more of a place to catch up with your friends, or where you want to have some quiet time alone.
Anyways. hope to be able to convince you to visit this cute place with good coffee (and hopefully not break your bank account).
Signing off for now.
One Half x Ilaika Select Store
Address:
17, Jalan 20/13, Taman Paramount,
46300, Petaling Jaya, Selangor.
Opening Hours:
Monday to Sunday
8am to 10.30pm
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