PETALING JAYA, Dec. 8 -- Squeezed by a rental hike, Restoran Ang Kee moved from Jalan SS2/10 to Restoran Times Kopitiam & Cafe in Damansara Jaya this year.

By day, the coffee shop has Ah Pei Char Siu and a variety of stalls selling different food.

As evening falls, Ang Kee takes over offering a variety of fried noodles and some dishes like sweet and sour pork and Guinness pork ribs for dinner or supper.

The eatery's origins are humble, starting back in the 1990s, when they operated a small shoplot in the basement of Pusat Bandar Damansara.

Amid a sea of Malay eateries, it was nice to find an eatery offering economy rice, chicken rice and siu chow dishes.

Around the 2000 era, they moved to SS2 and served the neighbourhood Hokkien mee,...