Coca Restaurant has always been famous for its steamboat. Tried that couple of time many years ago. The last was back in year 2003. Wow, now that I recalled, it has indeed been a long time, and honestly can not really recall how it tasted like. Apart from steamboat, Coca offers other Asian cuisine including Thai. being my favourite cuisine, Adrian and I decided to try out the dishes for dinner.
Yum Mut Muang according to the menu was supposedly sour mango with peanuts, dried shrimps and spicy lime sauce but it turned out to be shredded sweet sour mango with cashew nuts, sliced onions in rojak sauce. Priced at RM15.80, it was mediocre and very localised to Malaysian tastebuds, and was not at all like any authentic Thai mango salad.
Tod Munn Pla, the thai fish cakes were good. For six pieces at RM12.80, they came with chillie sauce with chopped onions and cucumber and pounded peanuts.
Kui Teow Pad Thai was fried pad thai noodles with eggs, beancurds, minced chicken and served with prawns, grounded chillie, white sugar and pounded peanuts. Priced at RM14.90, this fried noodles was supposed to taste sweetish, hence the given white sugar.
Tom Yum Kung Kam Kam was vermicelli in Coca special tom yum soup served with four pieces of fresh large prawns, mushrooms and tomato wedges. Gravy was a lot thicker than the clear tom yum soup. This RM16.80-bowl-of-noodles was one of Coca's signatures, which I found reasonably tasty with the right level of spiciness, but it was not impressive. The fresh prawns however did some compensation.
For RM12.90, the Roselle flower juice was quite an interesting refreshing drink. Came with three pieces of the flowers, which were crunchy, the drink was sweet, salty with tinge of sourness. It was not something Adrian would enjoy as he disliked sour drinks (even just a tinge of it), so he settled for some hot chinese tea.
Roselle flower
The spoon that came with the Roselle flower juice was actually a long stainless steel piece with one end a spoon and the other a fork.
The restaurant in the weekends was packed with families and large groups of friends. The sound proofing was not good, hence it got a little too noisy to our liking. That was partially because we a were seated about 15 feet from a group of 10-12 friends getting together and they were unaware the volume they were making. Much to our dismay, we had to put up with almost every word in their conversations.
Simple Asian concept with minimal decors, the restaurant uses wooden tables and chairs, and a carved wooden panel separating the dining area from the main entrance of glass panels. Only a few tables can be seen as one enters the front.
CoCa Restaurant
1 Utama Shopping Centre (Old Wing)
Bandar Utama, PJ
Tel: 603-7727 3180
Fax: 603-7728 2151
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