KUALA LUMPUR, June 23 -- Before there was a second outlet, there was a first attempt that never happened.

Kenneth Lee, founder of RAYs, will tell you that Mont Kiara was not a new idea at all. It was the original one.

Years before the cafe first landed in PJ's Section 51A, Mont Kiara was the location he and his partners, Samantha Yeo and Jolene Goh, first scouted for what would become RAYs.

"At the time, it simply wasn't feasible and the opportunity didn't work out," Lee recalls.

So they went to PJ instead, into a modest shoplot with a kitchen the size of a small bedroom.

Today, RAYs has finally expanded with a second outlet at Steppes @ Mont Kiara. Here the menu offers cafe food classics - steak frites, burgers and milkshakes among ...