De Centrum shuttle bus to IOI City Mall for RM1 per Ride

Today I just happen to be at the back of the IOI City Mall Shuttle Bus. The bus looked like it needs some washing but it was on its way to Uniten bus station in front of De Centrum Mall. The schedule to Uniten seem very limited, most of the trips end at Serdang KTM station.

De Centrum Music Video some IUKL student posted

Some very creative IUKL student created this video. It features De Centrum Mall and Residences in the video. It's definitely not easy to create such a video with so many scenes, even the KFC guy have to act inside. This guy should be from civil engineering faculty based on this profile and video.

Pasaraya Super Seven Supermarket opens in De Centrum Mall

Super Seven Supermarket is now opened in De Centrum Mall. On the first day of opening, for the first time, we see De Centrum Mall packed with people. The carpark was almost full.

Super Seven Supermarket

Super Seven Supermarket is believed to be a sister company of NSK Supermarket. In fact, the staff were still wearing the NSK Supermarket tag during the opening. The supermarket is located below 7-11 at Lower Ground.

Member Card

Super Seven is currently having promotion for their loyalty card program. Sign up for 3 years for a fee of RM 20 for an RM 10 gift voucher. Their loyalty card entitles members to have special discounts for selected items. Spending a total of RM 100 entitles you to spin a lucky draw wheel.

Watermelons

Seafood Section

Dry Goods

Opening hours seems quite long from 8AM to 12AM midnight. This is good news for people who go back late from work and also residents of De Centrum Residences and De Centrum Tower.

De Centrum Mall FB Page

I just found out that the De Centrum Mall's fb page is being constantly updated with the latest shop openings. The Mall's facebook page is at : 

https://www.facebook.com/decentrumMall/

One such info found was that MrDIY, a chain hardware store will be opening also in De Centrum Mall. That's good news for DIY people and contractors.

The other interesting part is they are opening up the back area of the mall to lease out smaller booths and kiosks for people wanting to start their small busineses. 

Half Moon Kitchen at De Centrum Mall Review

This restaurant resides at the 1st floor of De Centrum Mall. They serve middle eastern cuisine. I believe this restaurant is a sister restaurant called Half Moon Restaurant in Serdang Perdana. 

One difference I notice with middle eastern cuisine is they serve food on a large big plate the size of the table itself, then all the food like kebab, chicken, lamb, rice, condiments are all placed on top of the big plate and when served, everyone will dig in together to eat. Everyone on the table eats from the same big plate. I saw a lot of their middle eastern customers ate that way. This is unlike Chinese food where by each dish is put in a separate plate and everyone each picks up each separate dish on their own plate.

Chicken Royale

Lamb Royale

Their most popular dish is the chicken royal rice platter. This dish consists of their signature roast chicken  served on top of their aromatic long grain arab rice.  On top of that, they serve tomato paste sauce and hummus as condiments. Humus is something foreign to me, it's actually blended sesame seeds mixed with olive oil, the sauce's texture and consistency is something like the Japanese Kewpie sesame seed sauce used for salads. The roast chicken came out perfectly grilled and properly seasoned with middle eastern spices which were foreign to me. The long grain arab rice was also perfectly seasoned which I suspect is accomplished by  cooking basmati long grain rice with lamb soup stock.

Roast Grill in front of shop

The roast chicken are roasted on the premise itself and you can buy an individual bird for RM 20.

Minced beef dish with  hummus

The chefs are from the middle east, so I believe the food is as authentic as it can be. I tested their lamb dish and it also turned out to be perfectly tenderized and delicious.

RM20 for 1 whole roast chicken

One other dish I tested was their Roti, it is an enlarged version of our roti canai which is topped with black sesame seeds.

The restaurant serves complimentary lamb soup. For drinks, there are fruit juices, fruit yogurt drinks and middle east low alcoholic malt beer (Aujan Industries from Dubai).

Overall the food is highly recommended. Only complain is the portions are quite big, I was struggling to finish my portion. Service level for waiters needs improvement as we had to get the waiter's attention before we could order our food after being seated for 15 minutes.

De Centrum City in 2026 ?

This is what the developer's Master Plan for De Centrum City. It's probably going to take another 10 years to see this come to fruition. 

Taken from their website

De Centrum City components include:

• 20 storey, low density serviced apartments - Done
• 3 storey retail mall - Done
• 9 storey SOHO tower - Done
• Entertainment venues
• Floating park
• Stylish F&B outlets
• Building-to-building pedestrian links
• Underground parking & road connectivity
• Bicycle & motorcycle lanes
• Intelligent traffic planning
• Landscaped gardens & sky parks
• Office towers
• Convention centre
• Hotel

So far, 3 our of the 14 key points has been implemented over a span of 3 years.

Pizza Hut opens branch at De Centrum Mall

After seeing good response from KFC, QSR has opened their Pizza Hut chain at De Centrum Mall. Currently this place does not do delivery yet, deliveries will still come from their Putrajaya branch.

Pasaraya Super Seven (fomerly DC Grocer) opening at De Centrum

After a long wait, a grocer will be opening in De Centrum Mall on 28th December. This grocer is called Pasaraya Super Seven. This place was initially supposed to be called DC Grocer but not sure what happened with the name change. 

It currently occupies 4 shop lots so it's definitely going in big. This will draw more crowds to De Centrum mall. My gut feel is this grocer will be like Econsave Cash and Carry type where members will enjoy discounts for bulk purchases while normal customers will just get the standard store prices.

This grocer has got a few branches around Klang Valley. Checkout their website at : http://www.super7.com.my/

De Centrum 24 Hours Security Hotline

Hotline Number : 013-7440018

The Security head is Husein, he spots a cropped military hairstyle, a very jovial person. Often time you will see him doing the rounds himself on a bike. The security office is at the basement of the De Centrum Mall.

Double Decker Bed

Cheap and ugly double decker bed from Lazada, perfect for owners looking to rent to students.

Approval required from Majlis Perbandaran Sepang for renovation

The management office recently claimed that the municipal council of Sepang requires that all residents who plan to do any modifications to the existing units will require permission from the council at a permit fee of RM 110 plus stamp duty. This permit will allow the owner to perform any sort of modifications/renovations in their unit for 1 year. It seems that even minor renovations as small as kitchen cabinet and plaster ceiling will require this permit.

I believe a lot of owners complain about it and question about the authenticity of this change in ruling. As a result of this, the management office has put up a letter from the Sepang municipal council on the matter. However, in the letter nowhere does it mention what kind of renovation requires the municipal council permit. It only mention that the building owners have to follow some obscure Akta Jalan, Parit and Bangunan 1974 ruling. When asked further, the management office will just say that "This is a strata title unit, you have to follow some newly minted strata title act"

At the moment, the only way to avoid this is to just mention that your kitchen cabinet, plaster ceiling do not require wall plugs and wall drillings, they using 3M double sided tape to stick. As for grills, inform that the grills are bolt on grills. 

7-11 at De Centrum Mall Opens

After much waiting, 7-11 at De Centrum Mall finally opened its doors on 21 March. No need to walk all the way to IUKL canteen to buy drinks anymore.

SOHO ceiling fan

For SOHO owners, do take note the standard ceiling fan tube cannot be used because there is a pillar blocking here. A modified tube has to be purchased separately (around RM 20 from House of lighting Puchong). The tube has to clear 300cm length.

One Feng Shui tip, do not put your bed directly underneath the pillar, it's considered not so optimal Feng Shui.