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Adu Sugar, Bangsar
Adu Sugar hits the sweet spot for patrons seeking a soulful showcase of Southeast Asian inspirations in their meal, with a focus on classic Malaysian flavours lovingly laced with Indonesian touches....
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Maldivian Food Markets
Fish and fruits fill the food markets of the Maldives, with fishmongers slicing through tuna and fruit stall keepers serving up sweet coconut candy bundled in banana leaves and fresh coconut juice...
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Lisette's Cafe & Bakery, Bangsar
Inching near noon on a Tuesday, Lisette's is welling over with patrons, lured by a vegetarian-friendly buffet that crops up thrice a week. The cafe's namesake, Lisette Scheers (founder of Nala...
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Kanteen, Tropicana Avenue
No mere cafeteria, Kanteen serves up a cheerful spread of contemporary and classic crowd-pleasers. The soft-shell crab croissant promises plenty of crunch for your cash, made punchy with a salted egg...
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Whymsical Whisk, Damansara Kim
Keto comfort fare comes to the fore at Whymsical Whisk: Local favourites are reinterpreted through low-carb, high-fat philosophies, resulting in char kuey teow constructed with reduced-calorie konjac...
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The Ganga Cafe, Petaling Jaya
Nearly six years after wife-and-husband team Meeta and Prabodh Sheth took over The Ganga Cafe in Bangsar, turning it into the neighbourhood's hub for hearty, soulful South Asian vegetarian fare,...
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Okinii, Petaling Jaya
From the first slurp of the spoon to the final swoop of the chopsticks, a ramen meal at Okinii seeks to soothe and satiate. The effort poured into the Chicken Miso Ramen is exemplary, with eight hours...
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SeaHouse Cafe, Maldives
Perched atop the main ferry terminal of the Maldivian capital, SeaHouse Cafe offers a calm view of the waters, a lovely setting for savouring a meal of garudhiya fish broth with lonomirus chilli...
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Porkville, Petaling Jaya
Porkville's playful porcine riffs on crowd-rousing recipes might make for a fun meal: Babi penyet hogs the limelight as a twist on Indonesia's familiar chicken original, featuring tender deep-fried...
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The Heritage, Bukit Damansara
With a founder and a chef who are both Hainanese, the Hainanese chicken chop, Hainanese lamb stew and Hainanese fried noodles form the ideal introduction to The Heritage, which seeks to highlight the...
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The Botanist, Cyberjaya
Green thumbs, gravy-smeared fingers: This family-run cafe is well worth the trip to Cyberjaya, serving excellent bao burgers and selling eco-friendly products in a lush tropical setting.Three types of...
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Bulgogi, Seoul
A steaming-hot bowl of bulgogi, sweet and tender, makes for one of Seoul's most soulful, soothing lunches, perhaps best savoured in a nondescript alley away from the madding crowds.This post first...
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Brasserie Léon, Taman Tun Dr Ismail
Léon is a brasserie boiled down to its basics, specialising in steak-frites (steak partnered with fries) in the tradition of Parisian and Genevan institution L'Entrecôte. It's a fresh approach to what...
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Toriyoshi Yakitori Bar, Damansara Uptown
Toriyoshi stands out among the Klang Valley's kushiyaki bars by serving up specialities with Malaysian influences: Try the nasi lemak yakitori don, unmistakably aromatic, accompanied by all the...
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Ekkamai: Thai Set Lunches & Teh Time Treats
Plaza Batai's bastion of Thai cooking is bringing out a wave of new specialities that could keep us lingering here from noon till long past sunset: An expanded selection of set lunches that offer...
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Khorkhog, Mongolia
Khorkhog is Mongolia's traditional barbecue, prepared for primal pleasure - free-range meat like mutton and horse, sweetly gamy, cooked with hot stones and water in metal containers over fire. The fat...
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Guang, The 19 USJ City Mall
Japanese fusion fun makes for memorable meals at Guang: Crunchy-crusted pizzas come blanketed with thin slices of shabu-shabu-style pork, plus minced pork and lap cheong (RM33), Hokkien Mee is...
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AIM Cafe, Petaling Jaya
AIM Cafe is part of an autism therapy centre, run by five Malaysians who hope to use this space to provide vocational training for young individuals with autism - the initials AIM stand for Autism In...
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Helado Desserts Cafe, Plaza Arkadia
KL's first sweets stop to exclusively showcase New Zealand's Much Moore ice cream brand, Helado (Spanish for ice cream) is founded by a team of Malaysians who fell in love with the Kiwis' ice cream...
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Ger Lunch, Mongolia
Life is rustic in Mongolia's traditional ger tent dwellings, and so is lunch, with lovingly home-cooked meals of meat soups and salted milk tea as staples to warm both body and spirit.This post first...
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