PETALING JAYA, April 28 -- Earlier this week, I wrote about the pork noodles at a kopitiam close to the wet market in Section 17, PJ.

This kopitiam, and the block of shops surrounding said market, finds itself at an interesting point in time.

Like in many other neighbourhoods in PJ, the arrival of a shopping mall meant a notable shift in the kind of dining options that followed.

In the years since Seventeen Mall opened, new cafes and specialty coffee places like Pohutukawa Coffee have emerged, standing amidst familiar neighbourhood favourites like Wong Kee Chicken Rice, with the dichotomy between old and new symbolic of the change in the area.

In December last year, Mellow Wine entered the fray, courtesy of the team behind Superfine....