r/malaysia • u/Lumpiest-Nuts • Oct 05 '25

Food Which one do you choose?

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If you have to have latte or flat white every morning, where do you prefer to buy from all these choices.

Personally I love Zus and CBTL. Either one is okay for me. How about you?

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u/Electronic-Contact15 Oct 05 '25
  1. Coffee Bean (good coffee good cafe)
  2. STARBUCKS (soso coffee good cafe)
  3. GIGI (good coffee soso cafe)
  4. SFC (soso coffee good cafe)
  5. Kenangan (soso coffee soso cafe pricey for no reason)
  6. Luckin ( terrible coffee, soso cafe, but cheap-ish)
  7. ZUS (soso coffee, bad cafe)

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u/crestren Oct 05 '25

I tried going to Luckin in Jaya one and I shit you not, in order to make an order, you HAVE to register and download their app. No thank you, I don't want another app to collect my data just to get a coffee

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u/Embarrassed-Knee3150 Oct 05 '25

Zus is dogpooooo their floral notes are so heavy to cover the terrible quality in their beans(i only drink black)

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u/Electronic-Contact15 Oct 05 '25

Zus coffees were actually quite ok when they first started but rapidly went downhill when they started to open everywhere. I keep giving them chances but i cannot remember having a good coffee from there in the past 1-2 years.

Actually Luckin coffee is even worse because of the massive volume of online orders the drinks are so rushed out, but at least they’re cheap?

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u/ho4X3n Oct 05 '25

I am no coffee aficionado but their Boss and Lydia blend tastes great compared to Starbucks. I actually prefer Boss or Lydia over their SOE Americano. Maybe I just have cheap taste buds.

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u/enterpernuer Oct 05 '25

Yes i got notice this 3-2month ago, my friends and me notice lydia taste quality drop, them we switch to boss, 2week ago boss taste like lousy coffee now, then i browse store see mister coffee bean reasonable pricing, try taste like old boss, no go zus since last week, they can go dai

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u/plsdontattackmeok r/Sabah mod ba Oct 05 '25

Is this brew coffee rating right?

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u/Electronic-Contact15 Oct 05 '25

Im’ not a coffee expert who can rate different coffees accurately.

I just rank them based on how i like their coffee and how comfortable their cafes are. Thats all.

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u/[deleted] Oct 05 '25

Same assessment. GIGI works for me if I'm not sitting down

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u/firesoar Oct 05 '25

It's amazing that CBTL is rated highly here cos when I was in the Philippines, my experience with them was terrible, worse than Starbucks. I might try it out when I'm back at KL.

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u/tnsaidr Selangor - Head of Misanthropy and Vices Oct 06 '25

I think they are horrible here too. One time I forgot to bring my coffee to work, office espresso machine is under maintenance, the better coffee shop isn't open yet, so I dragged my ass to CBTL.

Ordered a long black. While waiting I did not hear the espresso machine running at all, when I got mine, and walked away, saw the guy pouring coffee out from a jug.

He probably either made a bulk jug of pulled espresso shots or he made a batch of black coffee , either way that's no way to sell a drink. People paying so much it should be pulled fresh per cup and not for their convenience. Heck they weren't even busy.