KAJANG, July 27 — If you are a child of the 80s, you might remember gamebooks such as Lone Wolf or the aptly titled series, Choose Your Own Adventure.

How often does one get to relive one’s growing-up years with a similar "choose your own adventure” experience in a café?

That’s the somewhat nostalgic situation we found ourselves in when we visited BTW Coffee & Bites in Kajang. The two-level shop was hidden in a neighbourhood filled with manufacturing plants and car workshops; not exactly where you'd expect to find coffee, cake or adventure.

Yet that’s exactly what we discovered.

We picked up one menu card (more on what these are later): Sweet Potato Balls sounded safe and fun. What arrived minutes later (cooked to order) were the typical golden orbs of Taiwanese style dìguā qiú, albeit dusted liberally with "snow”.

A surprise, certainly.

Less of a surprise is how the shop is also home to a roastery called KYN Coffee Craft; a common theme with many coffee micro-roasters nowadays.

KYN Coffee Craft was founded by Gyn Koo and Ivyn Lim in 2018. The young couple positions their roastery in the affordable coffee category, which might explain a plethora of blends — a whimsical direction for a specialty coffee purveyor when the trend veers towards single origin beans.

Their café, BTW Coffee & Bites, serves food in addition to an expansive coffee menu. The fun part is how customers are invited to select from a hook board of menu cards. Each card is a different beverage or dish, ranging from small bites (hence the name) to mini donburi and pastas.

One might enjoy some Roasted Sesame Chicken Karaage or some Salted Egg Tempura Prawn Pasta — and still have space leftover for desserts (yes, plural).