The Cottage
The Cottage
The original room. Cream walls, glass windows, warm light. Two to six people, coffee through dinner.
Walk-in friendly
Sijangkang · Parlimen KL · UTC Selangor
The place you remember.
Birthdays, anniversaries, and the nights someone gets engaged. An English cottage cafe on the Banting road, with a room matched to the occasion and a kitchen that knows what tonight means to you.
2016Serving since
0Locations
0Seats, private room
HalalCertified kitchen
Three rooms, one cottage
We ask the occasion before we assign the room.
An anniversary should not land at a bistro table beside a birthday party. Tell us what tonight is when you book, and the room is ready before you arrive.
Iram Hall
Iram Hall
Black-and-white floor tiles, high light, room for the whole family. Where the cake comes out and nobody has to whisper.
Up to 60 paxThe Iram Room
The Iram Room
Private, seats 30, door closes. Booked for proposals, anniversaries and the dinners that need no audience.
Reserve ahead
From the kitchen
The plates people drive out for.
Grilled Lamb
Mashed potato, black pepper sauce. Served hot, or it goes back.
RM35Nasi Lemak Caribbean
Seafood and a sambal with a real edge. Our most-ordered plate on delivery.
RM24Prawn Carbonara
Cream, parmesan, prawns that arrived that morning.
RM19Hazelnut Latte
Hot or iced. The reason the regulars call it a cafe first.
RM12
The Qidot promise
Your celebration will be the memory you planned.
Opening checklists, closing audits, stock verified at 8pm, and staff who know which room belongs to which moment. The promise holds because the systems behind it do.
0Days complaint-freeTracked daily at Parlimen KL and UTC Selangor through the ops log.
RM12Kids mealChicken nuggets and real juice. Priced so parents feel respected.
0km delivery radiusFoodpanda across Klang, Banting and Shah Alam.
In their words
What people take home.
Come for the coffee, stay for the food.
Jehan Aquidah Jaafar · Co-founderWe wanted to give the locals the chance to experience something new that is more common in bigger cities.
Jeffiz Jaafar · Co-founderNasi lemak super delicious, packaging great, portion huge.
Delivery review · Foodpanda
Open daily, noon to 10pm
Forty kilometres is not far for the right table.
Families have driven from Klang, Shah Alam and KL since 2016. Tell us the occasion, we will have the room, the candles and the cake ready before you park.
Golden hour on the Sijangkang cottage
Our story
A cottage on the Banting road, built by a brother and a sister.
In 2016, Jeffiz and Jehan Aquidah Jaafar opened a cafe in Sijangkang that looked like England and felt like home. Flower beds out front. Glass windows. Cream walls and warm light. They wanted to put their town on the map, and families started driving forty kilometres for birthdays.
Batu 9, Sijangkang
Where it came from
Travel notes, turned into a building.
The design came out of the founders' travels through the UK, the US and Europe. A black-and-white colonial house. Lush plants and blooms at the door. A red telephone booth that half the town has now been photographed in front of.
Inside, the same idea in three sizes: an intimate cottage room, Iram Hall with its black-and-white floor tiles for the bigger groups, and the private Iram Room that seats thirty. In the evening the lights come on and the whole thing sparkles, which is why the photos travel further than we ever could.
Iram Hall floor tiles
The road so far
Ten years, three rooms, one idea.
2016
The cottage opens
Jeffiz and Jehan open Qidot at Batu 9, Sijangkang, under Jaqued Holdings. Flower beds, glass windows, and a menu built around brunch.
2018
The place people post
Instagram fills with photos of the building, not just the plates. Families book birthdays months ahead. The red telephone booth becomes a local landmark.
2022
The press finds it
Free Malaysia Today profiles the English-styled cafe and its brew. Iram Hall and the private Iram Room open the door to larger celebrations.
2023
Off-site catering begins
Qidot caters the Aina Abdul concert at KL Tower and the KUD programme, proving the kitchen travels as well as it plates.
2024
Government events become a business line
KEB 2024 and repeat ministry bookings turn event catering from a side revenue into a named arm with tiered packages.
2025
Two more rooms
Qidot Parlimen in Kuala Lumpur and Qidot UTC in Shah Alam open, along with INSKEN 2025. Ninety days complaint-free across both.
2026
Built to be repeated
Opening checklists, closing audits, stock logs and occasion-based seating written into a manual. The cottage is no longer a one-off.
What we are for
To turn ordinary days into memories worth keeping.
Every celebration in Malaysia — birthdays, anniversaries, the small victories — deserves a space that honours the moment, not just the meal. We build celebration-ready rooms where the aesthetic never embarrasses, the service never forgets, and the memory travels home with the guest.
PurposeTurn ordinary days into memories worth keeping.
VisionA space in every Malaysian town that honours the moment, not just the meal.
MissionCelebration-ready rooms, run on systems the guest never has to notice.
Celebrations
Tell us what tonight is.
Anniversaries do not get do-overs. Neither do seventh birthdays. Pick the occasion and see exactly which room you get, what we set up, and what it costs before you commit.
What we handle
The parts you would otherwise be doing yourself.
Cake and candles
Bring your own or order ours from the display. Lit and carried out on cue, not whenever a server remembers.
Room assignment
Anniversary and proposal go to the Iram Room. Family birthdays go to Iram Hall. Nobody is seated wrong.
Decoration and surprises
Balloons, table setting, a surprise entrance. Ask when you book and it is arranged, not improvised.
Confirmed in writing
A confirmation with your party size, room, occasion and setup, so nothing rests on somebody's memory.
Photography
The building does half the work.
Golden hour on the flower beds, evening lights through the glass, the red telephone booth for the group shot. You do not need a photographer to come away with something worth framing — though there is room for one if you bring them.
- Golden hour is roughly 6.30pm to 7.15pm at the cottage
- The telephone booth and the front beds are open to all guests
- Tag @qidotcafe and we will send the good ones back to you
Gallery
Ten years of other people's good nights.
The cottage, the plates, and the events we have catered off-site — from a concert at KL Tower to ministry programmes across Selangor.
Qidot Corporate Catering
Thirty to two hundred, on time, at the quoted price.
Ministry programmes, corporate functions and concerts. The buffet looks like the quote, the invoice matches the purchase order, and the food holds when the speeches run long.
KEB 2024
Packages
Three tiers. Move the slider, see the number.
Setup, service staff and clearing are included in every tier. Vegetarian options and halal certification come as standard, not as a surcharge.
Track record
Events already delivered.
2023
Aina Abdul concert
Catering at Menara Kuala Lumpur, backstage and guest service across the run of show.
2023
KUD programme
Multi-day government programme catering across Selangor.
2024
KEB 2024
Full-scale event service for a ministry programme, plated and buffet lines.
2025
INSKEN 2025
Entrepreneur institute programme, repeat booking across sessions.
Invoice clarity
Line-item breakdown, tax-ready, matched to your purchase order before the event, not after.
Dietary handled
Vegetarian lines and halal certification visible on site. Declared at quotation, not discovered on the day.
Setup before doors
Lines dressed and hot-held ahead of the published start. Late setup is the one failure we do not recover from.
Franchise & investment
We franchise the system, not the dream.
Qidot is a celebration cafe with three revenue lines — dine-in, delivery and corporate catering — running on a written operating manual. We open the next room when the current ones earn it, and not before.
Revenue mix, by line
Dine-inCateringDelivery
Why this works now
In a recession, customers do not stop spending. They stop gambling.
Malaysian households still dine out roughly twice a week, but the average spend has become a decision, not a habit. Special occasions consolidate rather than disappear — families skip three casual dinners to afford the one that matters. That concentrates demand on the operators people trust.
72%Dine out 2× weeklyMalaysian households, 2023 data.
RM25–35Main course bandBetween mamak and fine dining. The accessible splurge tier.
0Operating locationsSijangkang flagship, Parlimen KL, UTC Selangor.
0km delivery radiusRevenue that scales without real estate.
Expansion, gated
Each stage unlocks only when the one before it holds.
The sub-brands exist on paper and stay there until the numbers say otherwise. This is the sequence, with the gate that opens each one.
01
Live now
Core cottage — Sijangkang, Parlimen, UTC
Three rooms running the same manual: opening checklists, closing audits, stock verified at 8pm, occasion-based seating.
02
Gate: 180 days complaint-free
Qidot Mini — mall and high-street kiosks
Coffee, pastry and the cake counter in a footprint under 600 sq ft. Opens only once the flagship holds six months clean.
03
Gate: Mini profitable at unit level
Qidot Reserve — hotel and destination sites
The private-dining format on its own, sized for hotel partnerships and larger celebration bookings.
04
Gate: catering arm at scale
Qidot Pop — event and festival service
The catering kitchen packaged as a mobile line. Built on the event work already delivered at KL Tower, KEB and INSKEN.
05
Gate: manual complete and tested
Franchise partners
Territory licences with the operating manual, training programme and supply agreements. Partners buy a working system, not a logo.
What a partner gets
The manual is the product.
Written operations
Opening and closing checklists, stock logs, ticket-time targets and the daily manager note, in one binder.
Training programme
Occasion-based seating, celebration setup, complaint recovery and the service standards that hold at 8pm on a Saturday.
Three revenue lines
Dine-in, delivery and corporate catering from one kitchen. Catering and delivery carry the site when footfall dips.
Brand system
Full identity guidelines, photography direction, menu templates and the content calendar that fills the feed.
Site selection
The criteria that made Sijangkang work: parking, ground-floor access, a photographable frontage, forty-minute catchment.
Reporting
A shared dashboard: complaint days, ticket times, stock-outs and net promoter score, visible to partner and franchisor alike.
Next step
The investor pack, on request.
Unit economics per location, the catering pipeline, the operating manual index and the site criteria. Sent as a single PDF, usually within a working day.
Jaqued Holdings Sdn. Bhd. (1356394-H)
Visit
Book the room, not just the table.
Pick your date and party size, and reserve straight through Umai. Add the occasion and we will have the room set before you arrive.
Flagship
Qidot Sijangkang
Lot 1658, Batu 9, Jalan Klang–Banting, Kampung Medan, 42500 Telok Panglima Garang, Selangor.
Open Monday to Sunday, 12pm – 10pm
Hotline +6013-336 8688
Kuala Lumpur
Qidot Parlimen
Parliament precinct, Kuala Lumpur. Weekday service and corporate bookings.
Selangor
Qidot UTC
UTC Shah Alam. Daily service, walk-ins and small celebrations.
The counter at Sijangkang
Before you come