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The Hone barber room seen through its open door at night, three green leather chairs under a bulb-lit mirror

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An appointment-only barber room on the first floor, above the kopitiam on Jalan Panggong. Two barbers. No walk-ins.

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Three chairs, two barbers, and a bell at the bottom of the stairs.

The door
23A Jalan Panggong, ChinatownAbove the kopitiam. Ring the bell.
Open
Tuesday to Sunday, from twelveLate on Friday and Saturday
The room
Two barbers, three chairsOne guest at a time, forty-five minutes each
Booking
On WhatsApp, RM 20 depositThe book opens fourteen days out
Guests say
4.8 out of 5, from 12 guestsEvery line on the word page is a real one

The board.

Prices are the whole price. No products pushed at the mirror, no surprise at the till, and the deposit comes off the bill on the day.

Three green leather chairs down the room, the mirror station lit by bulbs

Cuts

  • The Cut45 minRM 55
  • The Fade60 minRM 65
  • The Reset25 minRM 35

Shaves

  • The Hot Towel Shave45 minRM 60
  • The Head Shave45 minRM 55

Beard and combinations

  • The Beard Shape30 minRM 35
  • The Works100 minRM 105

Goods

  • House PomadeRM 45
What each service includes

What happens in the chair.

Hone is three chairs above a kopitiam on Jalan Panggong, run on a book rather than a queue. The standard appointment is forty-five minutes and none of it is rushed. Order a white coffee downstairs and bring it up.

A barber cutting a seated client's hair with scissors and comb at the middle chair

The Cut

Consultation, cut, wash and finish. The standard appointment.

45 minutes, RM 55

The Hot Towel Shave

Straight razor, two passes, hot towels before and after.

45 minutes, RM 60

A client reclined flat with a steaming hot towel over his face, a straight razor and lather bowl on the counter
A strop, an open straight razor, clippers, a shaving brush and two amber bottles on the counter under the mirror bulbs

The Works

The Cut and the Hot Towel Shave in one sitting.

100 minutes, RM 105

Every service and what it includes

Who holds the blade.

Chair One

Ariff Ramlan

Ariff started at nineteen in his uncle's kedai gunting in Klang and has held clippers for fourteen years since. He runs the fades.

Skin fades, Textured crops, Grey blending

Tuesday to Saturday

Chair Two

Leong Wai Kit

Wai Kit learned the straight razor from a Hainanese master barber in Pudu and still strops his own blades before every shift.

Straight razor shaves, Head shaves, Classic scissor work

Wednesday to Sunday

Chair Three, one weekend a month. Chair Three sits empty most weeks. Once a month it goes to a visiting barber, announced on Instagram a week before.

More about the barbers

Word gets around.

  • Rang the bell not sure I had the right door. Three chairs, no queue, no phones going off. Closest thing to a private club I've paid fifty-five ringgit for.

    Jason Teoh, Chair One, with Ariff

  • The deposit and the appointment-only rule sounded fussy until I realised it's the reason nobody is ever waiting when I arrive. Worth the RM 20.

    Farah Aziz, Chair Two, with Wai Kit

  • Wai Kit still strops his own razor before he starts. I watched him do it twice before I understood it wasn't for show.

    Dev Kumar Rajendran, The Hot Towel Shave

Every guest who’s said something, 12 in all

The work lives on Instagram.

@hone.kl

Every cut we post came out of this room. Scroll it before you pick a barber.

Finding the door.

We are on the first floor, above the kopitiam. Our door is the timber one beside it, the one with the small brass plate. Ring the bell at the bottom of the stairs and someone comes down to let you in.

23A Jalan Panggong
Chinatown, 50000 Kuala Lumpur

Street parking is scarce after dark. The REXKL lot on Jalan Sultan is a four-minute walk.

The five-foot-way outside, the kopitiam lit warm and the timber door to the barbershop stairs beside it