Hey guys! I’m expecting very busy weeks ahead so I might not have time to update this space so often. Anyway, here is the last part of my Bali trip. After admiring the beautiful springs of Tirta Empul, we went back to our hotel to freshen up and change before heading to Kuta Beach. The…
Here’s the next part of my Bali trip! After it started raining on the Kintamani Highlands, we had to drive back down for another hour. We stopped by the Tirta Empul temple springs on the way. Built in 962 AD, which makes this place over a thousand years old, it was built to honour the…
Hey guys! Here’s the next part of my Bali trip. We went to Kintamani, which is similar to Cameron Highlands here. Toto didn’t tell us the itinerary or I would’ve brought a jacket.. it was freezing up there. The journey took a good hour or so. The odd thing about ascending the mountains is that…
It’s been awhile since our last MT gathering, but we finally got together for dinner last weekend as a ‘farewell’ for Y: two years after I left the newspaper, she’s the second in our group to follow suit. :P We went to this chic little cafe in Jaya Shopping Mall called Good Food and Co, located…
Me mam has been pretty good at ferreting out hidden restaurants lately, thanks to her bunch of foodie colleagues. Last weekend, it was an authentic Thai restaurant called Krua Thai, hidden in a quiet back alley of Pusat Bandar Puchong. The place is run by Thai staff, but the lady bosses speak fluent Mandarin. Dining…
We Malaysians love our ‘food trends’. A couple of years back everyone was crazy about bubble milk tea, the likes of Chatime, Gongcha, etc. Then it was Taiwanese desserts ala Snowflake, the one with grass jelly and taro balls. Now, the in thing is Kakigori, a traditional Japanese summer treat of shaved ice, which comes with…
Stephen King may be known as the Master of the Macabre, but many people forget that he can be equally skilled when it comes to drama and crime fiction: I’m talking The Green Mile and The Shawshank Redemption (from his Four Seasons series). There have been a couple of hits and misses, like the lacklustre…
Moo was introduced to a restaurant in Bandar Bukit Puchong by her colleague. Tucked in a quiet corner is KP Tong Hong Restaurant, which apparently specialises in Kuala Pilah food from the central state of Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia. One of their signature dishes is the Park Far Chicken. Amusing name for an interesting dish. It’s…
It was a long weekend thanks to the Nuzul Al-Quran holiday (good thing about living in Malaysia – you get holidays for everything. Chinese New Year, Muslim holidays, Wesak, Deepavali, Christmas, etc. :D). C asked if I wanted to go to the Pet World Malaysia 2017 happening at Mid Valley Exhibition Center in KL, and…
C and I were at Mid Valley Megamall over the weekend for the Pet Expo! But, as usual, first order of the day was lunch. After walking around for a bit, we decided on Manhattan Fish Market. Despite the name, it’s a local chain that serves seafood with a fusion of flavours, from Malaysian to…
Hey guys! So I was recently invited to the opening night of Love Story: The Musical, happening from now til 18 June at the Kuala Lumpur Performing Arts Centre. Not my first time at a musical, but I thought it’d be a good idea to bring B along since he’s never been to one…
Back when I was a kid, school holidays = I get to mess around the house or go on a trip with the fam. Hooray! Now that I’m a working adult, school holidays = less traffic on the roads in the morning. So Hooray to that too! For those with kids, even better news: Sunway…
Hey guys! It’s the end of the month I’m all done with deadlines.. so it’s time to blog (while I’m feeling like it. It’s hard to find time + mood these days. :P) ! N and I were talking about indie music just recently; I shared a couple of songs with him and he was…
The first Sam Kan Cheong noodles were said to have been sold in a stall in KL – but now the term is generic to a specific style of pork noodle that features three items: minced pork and siew cheong (BBQ sausage – a mix of lard, liver and more minced pork) tossed in a…
Hey guys! I was invited to attend an event recently at Publika, but I left the office early to avoid the jam and allocated some time to find parking (parking is a bitch there). Lo and behold, someone was coming out of a spot just as I turned into the basement. The odds of that…
It’s not everyday that you get served by a celebrity chef – so I count myself lucky to be able to taste food prepared by the man himself, Chef Nik Imran! If the name sounds familiar, it’s probably coz you’ve seen the Australian-Malaysian chef on the Asian Food Channel, hosting shows like Cooking For Love…
Fans of Salvatore Ferragamo are in for a treat, as the Italian luxury brand celebrates a new chapter in its history with the debut of their Pre-Fall 2017/18 Women’s Footwear Collection – the first created by Paul Andrew, the category’s newly appointed design director. The new designs see Andrew putting to centerstage founder Salvatore Ferragamo’s…
