Kluang Rail Coffee, Kluang, Johor

Kluang Rail Coffee (3 August, 2019)


Kluang Rail Coffee (GPS: 2.03363, 103.3175) is a famous coffee shop in Kluang, Johor. As its name probably indicates, the coffee shop started out within the Kluang Railway Station. Its history goes back to 1938, and it is as old as the present railway station itself.

Kluang Rail Coffee has remained in the family since then. It continues to serve patrons, a large number of which a locals along with rail passengers passing on their way somewhere.

I visited Kluang Rail Coffee on 3 August, 2019, on the food tour organized by Singapore cookbook author Evonne Lyn Lee. We were received by Pastor Lim Jit Pang, whose cousin continues to operate Kluang Rail Coffee. Pastor Lim provided us an insight into the history of Kluang Rail Coffee, snippets of which you can follow in the video below.

Pastor Lim Jit Pang explaining the history of Kluang Rail Coffee to us (4 August, 2019)

To give us a glimpse of the simple life in Kluang (and for that matter, in yesteryear Malaysia), our tour organiser Evonne had ordered for us to try the toasted bread and toasted bun with kaya and butter. I learned that the toasts were roasted over charcoal to give them their distinct aroma. Spread over them was kaya and generous dollops of butter - which for a moment I mistaken for banana slices!

Address

Kluang Rail Coffee
Kluang Railway Station,
86000 Kluang, Johor.

Toasted bun with kaya and butter. (3 August, 2019)


This is how the inside of the toasted bun looks like - delicious! (3 August, 2019)


Here I am standing outside Kluang Rail Coffee shop at the Kluang Railway Station. (3 August, 2019)


Business is so good at Kluang Rail Coffee that many of its diners have to sit in the porch area outside the coffee shop. (3 August, 2019)


All tables are filled at Kluang Rail Coffee. (3 August, 2019)


My wife and I standing outside Kluang Rail Coffee shop. (3 August, 2019)

Kluang Rail Coffee is on the Map of Kluang

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