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KomPassion Thai Fusion Food, Damansara Kim, Petaling Jaya

KomPassion is the latest Thai baby in the quiet suburb of Damansara Kim and has been quite the talk of the town lately. We bumped into the owners, Desmond Wong and Tan Huat Jin (who are brothers-in-law) when we dined in KomPassion recently.  Desmond and Tan have teamed up with Chef Nikom Uatthong to set [...]

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Renoma Cafe Gallery @ Bukit Bintang, Kuala Lumpur

Is it a gallery? Is it a café? Is it a fashion lifestyle store? Those are usually the questions people ask when they step into Renoma Café Gallery – that spanking new establishment with the bright red Renoma sign along Jalan Bukit Bintang, diagonally across the Prince Court Medical Centre. Actually, the answer is: All [...]

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Sanook Bistro & Sports Bar’s New Menu

Tucked away in the heart of Kelana Jaya is this sprawling laidback place called Sanook Bistro & Sportz Bar overlooking the lake. When you are in Sanook, you totally leave behind the hustle bustle and horrific traffic fumes of the LDP and you can almost feel the stress eroding from your soul as you relax [...]

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Delicious Cafes – Brand New Dishes!

From 70 -> 45 -> 25. Now, if you are wondering what those numbers are all about, well, let me explain.  Remember Chef Steve Allen?  (just to recall, read about him here).  Steve Allen, who is the E&O Group Creative Chef, together with Chef Kasdi Dahari, the E&O Group Executive Chef went through months of [...]

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PLOY – Work@Clearwater, Damansara Heights, Kuala Lumpur

I like this line:  Be dazzled by Ploy.  No, I don’t mean “ploy” as in “a calculated action to frustrate an opponent”… but rather “Ploy” as in “gems” in the Thai language.  Yes, all that are glittery and dazzling are represented in Ploy… from the glitzy shimmering  cushions to the gem-cut facet motif on its [...]

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