[Penang] Modern-Penang cuisine at Kota Express, 262 坊.

[klyeoh (Peter)]

@naf

Read the place was torn down due to illegal construction. But their FB is still there, so I’m confused.

Another cafe is now standing in its place in the old location - I’ll have to go check it out.

But the Kota Express team itself has moved across the road, about 30 yards away, and now operates in a much larger premises as Rempah:

[Penang, Malaysia] Modern-Nyonya cuisine at Rempah, Beach Street

Rempah is that rather tricky offshoot of the maverick Kota at Penang’s old Fort Cornwallis. In its previous incarnation as Kota Express, it used to occupy a fishbowl-like all-glass structure on the corner of Beach Street and tourist-central Armenian Street. Whilst Kota was (in)famous for its beautifully-plated but rather odd-tasting dishes, where the flavours were neither here nor there - almost as if the chefs, halfway through their cooking, just simply lost interest and let their dishwashers …