Ampang Park is said to be the oldest shopping mall of such set up in the country. First opened its door in 1973, this place has been in existence since our current Prime Minister’s father was in office as the Prime Minster.
Recently, my office moved to Intermark, which is located just right across the road from Ampang Park, so naturally I went to check out some of the lunch options at this place since the two buildings are connected by a skybridge.
food court at Ampang Park, the oldest shopping mall in Malaysia
As it turns out, the oldest mall also has one of the oldest food courts at the top floor. There are a variety of hawker stalls at the area, but two that caught my eyes were the Korean and the Vietnamese food outlets.
Both of these places are pork free, and offers exceptional value.
Vietnamese beef, chicken or fish noodle at RM 5.00 to RM 6.00
The Vietnamese dishes are typically made from the same soup base, you can get beef noodle, beef stew noodle, beef ball noodle, chicken noodle, and like the example above, fish noodle for the price of RM 4.50 to RM 6.00.
There’s mint leaves, fish sauce, and a soup base that’s undoubtedly Vietnamese, but don’t expect great cut of beef or beef tendons in them. A pair of spring rolls here goes for RM 2.50 and they are rather decent too.
The Vietnamese lady who operate this place doesn’t speak much English, but can converse in Malay, and of course in Vietnamese.
kimchi soup ramen for RM 7.00
If you fancy some cheap Korean food, just look at the busiest stall in this food court.
The menu here includes Korean glass noodle with soup (RM 6.50), seafood noodle soup (RM 6.50), mixed vegetable rice (RM 6.50), kimchi rice roll (RM 6.50), bibimbap (RM 7), kimchi pancake (RM 6.50), kimchi soup rice (RM 7), kimchi fried rice (RM 6.50), and more.
Most of these dishes come with side dishes that includes kimchi, vegetable, bean sprout, and an omelette lookalike thingy.
the ramen noodle comes with a side dish of 4 too
My favourite dishes from the Korean food stall is the kimchi ramen noodle that also comes with side dishes that goes for RM 7. The soup isn’t very intense, but for the price you can’t really ask for more. There’s plenty of kimchi and overall taste is rather decent.
The only complain I have is that the portion is perhaps overly huge though.
If you work or happen to around the area and want something cheap and decent for lunch, here’s a food court to check out.
Address:
Ampang Park Food Court
Level 2
Ampang Park Shopping Centre
Jalan Ampang, 50450 Kuala Lumpur
GPS:Â 3.16054, 101.71947
Hours: weekday lunch
It’s a nice place. I used to attend meetings at Crown Princess and when I got sick of the hotel food, I would come over to look for something different for a change. There’s an overhead bridge linking City Square & Ampang Park, very convenient.
suituapui: yah, it’s now called Intermark and not city square any more tho.
KY, maybe you better take leftover home to eat for dinner. I always get huge burrito and eat half. The rest have at home.
Vickie: hhaha, ya that’s always an option.
Wah, so many holiao in a food court! Reasonably priced too!
Ken: true that.
hello, neighbor! my office recently moved too, so i’m in one of those buildings sandwiched in between troika and intercontinental. a bit further away for me to walk to ampang park, but i want some vietnamese noodles too! 😀
Sean: walk only Sean, walk!
How is that portion overly huge? 😛 I can easily finish that bowl of noodles.. hehe.. but it does remind me of those Korean instant noodles though. Over here, they also have that selling at around $10!
iamthewitch: you’re used to australian portion d!
There is on Korean bento in Sooka Sentral, around RM10, has beef/chic/fish/sotong combo.. Quite good and the Q is super long… few shops away same owner but selling noodles version and bibimbap!
nekohime: that’s very good prices too