KUALA LUMPUR, June 27- Coliseum Cafe Kuala Lumpur is recognised in the Malaysia Book of Records as the ‘Longest Operating Western Colonial-Themed Restaurant’, established in 1921.
Malaysia Book of Records founder and managing director Datuk Danny Ooi handed over the certificate of recognition to the restaurant’s assistant manager Chris Wang Meng Yang recently.
Ooi said with a track record of over nine decades in the food and beverage
industry, the restaurant deserved to be acknowledged as among the ‘Best of the Nation’.
Coliseum Cafe has been operating in the same premises at 98-100, Jalan Tuanku Abdul Rahman for the past 92 years. During the British colonial rule of then Malaya, the restaurant and its 10-room hotel were popular among the British Government servants, army personnel, tin miners, planters and families, besides travellers passing through Kuala Lumpur.
Post-Malaya era until today, the restaurant remains popular with locals and foreign tourists.
Last year, the Malaysia Book of Records recognised Ho Seng Fong, a former captain with the restaurant, as being the longest serving employee in Malaysia.
– BERNAMA
