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Last week when I stepped into New Formosa Restaurant, I realised that it had been exactly a year since I last visited this Taiwanese restaurant.  That realisation hit me straight in the guts and never had I felt the swiftness of time so intensively than at that moment.  As I glanced around this muchly-missed restaurant, [...]

It’s no secret that Restaurant Extra Super Tanker in Damansara Kim remains as one of the best restaurants I’ve discovered in the Year of the Dragon.  Well, actually we discovered it long before 2012 but let’s just say we have intensified our dining frequency there last year.  It’s just so fitting that this restaurant would [...]

You really can’t help holding your breath in awe the moment you step into Xin. I mean, just look at this gorgeous Grand Old Dame of Chinese Dining … Xin – the Chinese restaurant in Concorde Hotel Kuala Lumpur preserves its old-world charm of oriental grandeur in the form of its two centre-stage majestic dragon [...]

As early as 1 January 2013, Di Wei Chinese Cuisine Restaurant in the Empire Hotel has already started serving Yee Sang (a must-have for Chinese New Year) as well as “Treasure Pot” aka “Poon Choy”. Poon Choy originated from Hong Kong and it’s a traditional Hakka dish, composed of several layers of different ingredients cooked [...]

The Lunar New Year has always been a time of feasting and more feasting.  The usual meals will be mainly Chinese-style, served course by course and if you have read the past several reviews here, you would know that we’ve been eating a lot of such meals.  Chinese restaurants are promoting their special prosperity menus [...]

Ti Chen, which means “Palace of Emperor” is the iconic Chinese restaurant of The Saujana Hotel.  Tucked away on the 1st floor of the Golf Club building in a quiet enclave shaded by age-old trees, Ti Chen may be a bit elusive to one who has never been there.  But once you climb up the [...]

Having just opened its doors sometime last year, Five Sen5es at The Westin Kuala Lumpur is celebrating its first Chinese New Year in 2013.  And celebrate in style, it will – looking at the scrumptious special menus that are being offered. Yee Sang decorated in the shape of a Snake Available until 24 February 2013, [...]

Lai Po Heen, the elegant Chinese restaurant in Mandarin Oriental Kuala Lumpur is one of the few restaurants in town that leads the pack in offering Chinese New Year promotional menus.  Their auspicious scrumptious menus to celebrate the slithering-in of the Water Snake have been available as early as 3 January 2013 and will continue [...]

Like I’ve said earlier in a post before this, this week and next, I’ll be posting on my recent spate of feasting, Chinese New Year-style, as hotels and restaurants are gearing up with their festive menus to welcome the Year of The Snake! Toh Yuen, the Chinese restaurant in Hilton Petaling Jaya will be featuring [...]

The Water Snake is going to chase off the mighty Dragon soon and before we know it, it will be Chinese New Year.  This post marks the first of several that will focus on the special prosperity meals cooked up in many Chinese restaurants around town.  These special menus have been made available as early [...]

These days, regardless of race and religious inclinations, the year end festivities is celebrated by almost everyone here in Malaysia.  We are a nation of food lovers, that’s without a doubt and we take every festive occasion in our strides, munching and chomping our way through every festival, public holiday or just about any occasion. [...]

Isn’t this the most awesomely fearsome dragon you’ve ever seen? Today being the 2nd day of Chinese New Year is officially the “opening” of the lunar new year… known as “hoi leen” in Cantonese. It’s like, once you have “hoi leen”, the Chinese New Year celebration goes one gear up and into “full swing” mode. [...]

To usher in the Year of the Dragon, Sheraton Imperial’s Celestial Court has been all decked out in imperial red drapes with cherry blossoms and peonies decorating the walls and banisters – one can’t help but be totally engulfed in the Chinese New Year ambience and mood upon entering the restaurant. Executive Chinese Chef Ho [...]

It’s been quite some time since I stepped foot into the New Formosa Restaurant in SS2 Petaling Jaya. Since the last time I was there, the place has been given a new breath of air… new furniture, more mirrors but the warm welcome from Mrs Jeanie Lee and her long-serving service crew remains just as [...]

With just slightly more than a week to go before the Reunion Dinner for Chinese New Year, have you decided where to have that all-important dinner, if it’s not hosted in your home? I heard many restaurants around town are almost, if not already, fully booked! Well, if you hurry, you just may be able [...]