Subang area guide

Discover the best restaurants, shops, cafés and things to do in Subang

Tuesday 2 August 2016

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If you cringe at the thought of Subang and the number of students swarming the area (by area, we mean SS15), just know that the small town offers more than its share of gimmicky dining establishments. Here’s a cheat sheet on what to do and places to eat.

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Best restaurants in Subang

Restaurants

Sumi-Ka

4 out of 5 stars

Sumika – what is one of the best yakitori restaurants in the Klang Valley – likes to play hard to get. Getting through their landline is a game of...

Restaurants

Kar Heong

3 out of 5 stars

Kar Heong is a likeable all rounder, offering not just excellent chicken and kai see hor fun, but also more than adequate pork balls, roast pork, bean sprouts...

Restaurants

Weiner

price 2 of 4

Sandwich specialists Sarnies have ventured into the business of frankfurters. If you’re up for some artisanal pimped out wieners, not only are the juicy...

Restaurants

Gold Chilli

There’s almost always a line at this popular SS15 eatery frequented mostly by students of the surrounding area. If you’re not sure what to order,...

Restaurants

Well Cook Gourmet

The fishy assam laksa takes an unusual route at Restoran Well Cook Gourmet. Penangite owner Chin Gok Ton fries thick laksa noodles with a spice paste of blue...

Restaurants

Ooi Noodle House

4 out of 5 stars

February 2012 I first stumbled across Ooi Noodle House on a search for weekend brunch in the maze of Subang Jaya Uptown. Amid closed shops and other cafes so...

Restaurants

Cor Blimey British Fish and Chips

price 2 of 4

You no longer have to go to Changkat (or to one of those British pubs) for a plate of fish and chips; in fact, you can have the quintessentially...

Restaurants

FIQ's Gastronomy

One of 2014’s more promising restaurants so far steers clear of café clichés – no sub-par sandwiches, carbonara or heaven forbid, red...

Best cafés in Subang

Restaurants

Analog

Tucked away in a quiet corner of SS17, Analog KL is one of Subang’s best-kept secrets. The menu at this cosy neighbourhood café is stripped down,...

Restaurants

Haikara-Style Café

price 2 of 4

Run by husband-and-wife team Kato-san and Yuko-san, this cosy café has been keeping Japanese expats in Subang Jaya well caffeinated since 2008....

Restaurants

WhupWhup

price 2 of 4

Once a factory churning out industrial yarn seals for more than three decades, the 10,000sq ft place in Subang is now WhupWhup, the spiffy restaurant-cum-event...

Restaurants

Big Mike Cafe

This café has all the staples like salmon dishes and coffee but come here for the ice cream burgers. The buns even come in colourful shades – green for pandan,...

Restaurants

greyskymorning

price 2 of 4

The raw, rough aesthetic of greyskymorning – in its mix of modern minimalist materials, especially exposed bricks, glass doors and windows as well as metal and...

Restaurants

AM/PM Café

price 2 of 4

Located right next to Main Place mall in USJ, cosy neighbourhood café AM/PM is where residents of USJ and Putra Heights go for coffee and cakes. The menu...

Best places for desserts and snacks in Subang

Restaurants

Fatbaby

Ice cream factory on weekdays, scoop shop on weekends. After nearly two years of supplying their cult favourite ice cream to cafés around town, Fatbaby...

Restaurants

Vadai SS15

price 1 of 4

Think of a savoury and slightly spicy doughnut, and you’ve got yourself a vadai. The vadai stall, sandwiched between the cendol and the rojak stalls,...

Restaurants

Rojak and cendol SS15

price 1 of 4

The cendol here is slithery green, and coconut milk, sweet corn, red beans and gula Melaka slosh around in a bowl of shaved ice as the stall owner churns out...

Restaurants

OW:L Espresso

price 2 of 4

Located next to Inti College, this owl-themed café serves Korean shaved ice (bingsu) in a variety of flavours including daring ones such as the Yogurt...

Restaurants

Aboong

Bungeoppang, the Korean carp-shaped waffle snack with red bean filling, is essentially South Korea’s answer to the Japanese taiyaki. South Korean chain...

Restaurants

Inside Scoop

price 2 of 4

Inside Scoop churns out some of the best ice cream in the city. Owner and in-house ice cream churner Shiew Li uses gelato techniques to achieve full-bodied...

Best shops in Subang

Shopping

Teenage Head Records

Owned and operated by the husband-and-wife team of Radzi Jasni and Linda Hat, the cosy, small storefront leans towards more alternative, contemporary stuff:...

Shopping

Wheel Love Skateshop

Tricked out with all forms of inline skates, blades, bikes and skateboards, Wheel Love equips you with everything you need to survive KL’s harshest...

Shopping

Pott Glasses

Two words: Asian fit. Friends and founders Hau and Hoong’s Pott Glasses have discovered that there is a real, practical need for glasses that fit Asian...

Shopping

Amplitude

Amplitude is first and foremost a music store, even before the existence of the small barbershop space decked with music paraphernalia. Started a few years ago...

Shopping

Bookalicious!

This independent bookstore in The Summit has a collection like no other as owner and merchandising manager, Leon Ngai, carefully selects the books himself....

Shopping

I Am Lejen

Lejen Press's bookshop – and boutique, as it carries hoodies and T-shirts – brims with Malay literature, fiction or otherwise, by local independent...

Best things to do in Subang

Shopping

da:mén

You can’t miss da:mén – with a name that literally translates to ‘big doors’ in Mandarin, USJ’s da:mén boasts a big...

Shopping

Subang Jaya Book Exchange

The highly lauded initative by USJ residents hosts book exchanges on every first and third Sunday of the month, from 3pm to 5pm.

Restaurants

Meeples

Meeples is a small café with a cool concept. They stock over 900 European board games which customers can have a go at while sipping coffee, milkshakes...

Things to do

Ruang

Located in Subang's SS18, RUANG is a new modern event space for rent where you can host just about anything from fashion shows and product launches to gigs,...

Shopping

Empire Shopping Gallery

Having 600,000 sq ft of retail space, Empire has six floors worth of shops for mall-goers to explore under its clear domed roof and makes no false claims when...

Sport and fitness

Sports Planet

Good futsal and one of the better snooker centres in the Klang Valley. Also the largest indoor futsal centre in Malaysia, if that makes a difference. You...

Shopping

Subang Parade

Subang Parade’s recent refurbishment earned a Silver Award from ICSC Asia Pacific in the category of Development and Design so hop on over to see what...

Shopping

Main Place

From the ashes of an abandoned construction eyesore rises Main Place, the newest residence mall this side of Subang. Opened in early 2014, the management has...

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Things to do

Bangsar

Bangsar has gone through many phases – unobtrusive residential area, clubbing haven, arts and culture quarter, and now, café district. From the...

Things to do

Hartamas

Populated by expatriates and upper middle class families, Hartamas is fancy – even its name says so (‘harta’, treasure; ‘mas’,...

Things to do

Damansara

The wide land that is Damansara has the privilege of being both KL and Selangor. It can be confusing – Bukit Damansara for example, is not exactly near...

Things to do

KL City

Your cheat sheet to all the best restaurants, shops and things to do in the main areas of the city centre including Bukit Bintang, Petaling Street and Pudu.

Things to do

Damansara Utama

Damansara Utama is home to Damansara Uptown, the land of hard-to-find parking spots and more cafés than you can shake a stick at. We say park in the new...

Things to do

Sunway

Let’s not mask the fact that Sunway is an area dominated by students, which isn’t saying that it’s a bad thing. If you need help getting...

Things to do

Sri Petaling

Sri Petaling is a mixed bag of old eating establishments, massage parlours and cafés. You can get around most of the Jalan Radins by foot, although...

Things to do

Petaling Jaya

To say that Petaling Jaya (aka PJ) is huge is an understatement. Divided into several areas and neighbourhoods (better known as 'seksyen'), there are your...