So the presses boasted that our economy is growing, but from the civilians’ pov, it’s the opposite. The rent keeps going up ( I don’t understand why it would rise) and we’re seeing Malaysian businesses being sold or changing ownership, with several things seemingly happening around the same time this month. So these famous restaurants would even seem surprisingly empty most of the time, and until now I still don’t understand where penangites take their meals. Grocers are empty too. And obviously the sales industry is taking a hit during these months. Like what is going on? Nobody I know really talks about it, but I know they r trying to keep it to themselves, cuz my close friend’s father recently sold his restaurant to a new owner, and he didn’t talk much about it, so I didnt pressure him. Anyone also feels this way? U r anonymous on Reddit, so just be truthful lol. I hope that the government will work something out for us.

I was trying to find cafés to work from around KL.

I ended up mapping them and using AI to read a sample of their Google reviews. These are my maps and charts, from an October 2026 snapshot.

A few things that might help with your next café trip:

- Specialty cafés cluster around Bangsar: 491 of the 824 I found are within 10 km of it, measured in a straight line. The first map shows the places further out too.

- Parking comes up a lot in Bangsar and KLCC. Among cafés whose sampled reviews mention parking, about 7 in 10 in those two areas have complaints. That's 20 of 29 in Bangsar and 14 of 20 in KLCC.

- The median closing time for specialty cafés with listed Wednesday hours is 7 PM. Worth checking before planning an evening there; other cafés tend to stay open later.

- Reviews are surprisingly unhelpful about the work setup. Of the 8,490 cafés whose reviews I read, only 502 mention wifi and 506 mention plugs. No mention doesn't mean the café has neither.

- The median coffee price mentioned for 219 specialty cafés is RM12, with the middle half between RM10 and RM15. These are reviewers' prices, so check the current menu.

How I made it: I started with about 25,000 Google Maps listings around the Klang Valley, then filtered to 11,410 cafés. I read 119,942 reviews across 8,490 of those cafés, about 14 per place: the ones Google showed first, not every review. The map includes 824 cafés classified as specialty. The chain charts use the wider listing set; the search charts use Google's estimates for Malaysia as a whole.

It's a snapshot, not a complete census or a ranking of the best cafés. Small differences can be noise, and listed hours can change.

What's the one thing you wish you could know before choosing a café: parking, noise, plugs, or whether you can stay a while? And which café outside the usual Bangsar/PJ spots deserves a look?

As an Indonesian, i am truly sorry for the Haze that spread throughout Malaysia and Singapore even philippines.

this is entirely Prabowo's fault and ignorance that the fire went uncontrollable and spreading haze all over ASEAN countries. while the forest fire is still at large, Prabowo shrugs it off and went on a honeymoon with his assistant Teddy to russia and boasted all of his half-baked policies that brings more harm to the economy.

it is rumored that the forest fire was burned out of intentions from palm oil corporations and Kalimantan's oligarch Haji Isam who is under the heat for his scummy and evil practice in business. that is why prabowo won't bother on extinguishing the fire which is now spread to jakarta and other indonesian cities.

Prabowo, on the other hand, instead of declaring national emergency status, he goes on many events just to boast his free meal policies that poisoned ten thousand of school childrens.

To add more salt to the wound, whoever tries to post or critique the president anything about kalimantan fire, the minister of communications literally deletes it immediately. while influencers or anyone who criticize it will receive numerous phone calls from unknown number or even whatsapp chat threatening their families if their post is not deleted.

sorry for bad english

Basically, she had undergone sex-reassignment surgeries in Singapore's Kandang Kerbau Hospital by Dr. S.S. Ratnam in 1974, after encouragement from her first husband (then fiance). Before she met her first husband, she has been living as a female after her teenage years despite being born as a male. Before she undergone the surgery, she even seek religious opinion from Singapore's mufti, who certify she is a woman. In 1975, when she want to marry with her first husband in Johor, her father told the Johor deputy mufti about her background during her nikah ceremony, and after much deliberation with other religious scholars, the Johor deputy mufti concluded that Sari Kartina has in fact became a female and her marriage was legally solemnised and registered under Johor shariah law. After her marriage, she also successfully changed her gender marker in her IC with JPN, which now recognised her as a female.

Pinduoduo’s arrival has thrilled bargain hunters, but direct shipments from China are pricing out local firms and choking landfills

nurulazreen95

Rude grab driver! Just because my friend disable even if you dont want to take my friend we are 8 people we can swap people since we booked 2 cars. It happened to her a few times now. The discrimination towards disable people among grab drivers are real!

adillasabri

I was there, driver sampai and see wheelchair terus say no, refused to pickup other passenger. Both lady there want to explain that the lady with wheelchair will take another car. So, he can just pickup the rest. Tapiiii, the driver refused to listen the explanation and terus jalan as what u can see from the video.

Kalau ko taknak pickup wheelchair pun, apa masalah ko taknak pickup the others?? Rude!

deqwan_arjunaderta

Aku pernah kene masa berkerusi roda... order grab.. yg sampi teksi dah sampi depan pintu die.. die kunci tak nak bukak ye... lepas tue die terus bla mcm tue je... serius time tue aku punya sedih bukan biasa2 punya... padahal aku time tue berkerusi roda sementra je.. mcm mane lah perasaan yg guna kerusi roda seumur hidup... aku tak report kat grab...

tapi aku report kat tuhan... semoga ad balasan yg setimpal2 bye untuk uncle tue

The women was still holding the car handle, got dragged along more

Couple of drunktard this early morning. Location Pandan Indah in front of Petronas.

Tesla has yet to announce how much any of the three Roadster versions will cost, in Malaysia or elsewhere. The Malaysian amounts work out to roughly the same as the reservations in the US, where it’s US$50,000 for the Performance and US$250,000 for the Thrust.

IQAir | 17 Oct, 7 am

Jalan U Thant: AQI 219 | PM2.5 144 µg/m³

Bangsar: AQI 245 | PM2.5 170 µg/m³

TNB mengesahkan kejadian kebakaran di Pencawang Masuk Utama (PMU) Kangkar Tebrau di sini, yang menyebabkan gangguan bekalan elektrik di beberapa kawasan sekitar Johor Jaya.

Book sniffing anyone?