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If there’s one thing that Chef KoRN loves very much, besides preparing awesome Thai food, it’s orchids.  Preferably Thai ones, of course.  The moment you step into Erawan, you will be blessed with a visual feast of glorious colourful orchids – they are everywhere… held by huge vases and placed on table tops, mantel tops, [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

What are your plans for the coming festivities?  Christmas is just round the corner and before you know it, we’ll be ushering in the New Year! The Christmas spread Hilton Petaling Jaya is one hotel that’s close to my heart as we have been going there for many many years, whether it’s for functions, events [...]

The latest outlet in the Delicious stable – Delicious @ St Mary Place may not be easy to locate, for some, as it’s inside a block of residential condominium. However, once you drive into Jalan Tengah (which is off the busy Jalan Sultan Ismail, the road where The Lodge is) and you spot the conglomerate [...]

The holy month of Ramadhan has just started last weekend and we are now in the first week of the fasting month.  Even before the dawning of Ramadhan, many hotels have already launched their special Buka Puasa buffets.  The earliest invitation I received was from Empire Hotel Subang to check out their special buffet spread [...]

The Rice Dumplings Festival or Dragon Boat Festival falls on the 5th day of the 5th lunar month and this year, it happens on 23 June 2012. It is widely celebrated by Chinese all over the world and according to legends,  it originated from a popular story to honour the famous Qu Yuan, a famous [...]

My first encounter with Rama V – that fine-dining Thai restaurant in Jalan U Thant, Kuala Lumpur, not the famous king of Siam, was when I had the privilege of being invited to their Loy Krathong Festival Charity Dinner, sometime late last year. Prior to that, I had of course, heard and read so much [...]