The Mexican Fiesta @ InterContinental KL, 1st – 15th April 2013

Mexican food lovers, rejoice.. here comes the Mexican Fiesta! In the month of April, Intercontinental Kuala Lumpur together with KLM and the Embassy of Mexico in Malaysia will be bringing a unique food festival to you. From 1-15 April 2013 two extraordinary Mexican Chefs will be specially flown in from Presidente InterContinental Mexico to cook [...]

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The sons and daughters of the middle kingdom 2 – Suzhou

Only 120km away from Shanghai and a quick dash on the high speed train, is Suzhou. Suzhou is famous for its classical landscape gardens, ancient buildings, winding canals, chinese opera, silk museums, and had once been home to Sun Tzu, the great military strategist whose name is often mentioned on the History Channel, and by [...]

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Lip-smacking dishes at Di Wei, Empire Hotel Subang

We traipse over to Di Wei, Empire Hotel Subang.. because we caught the scent of an Apple Cider roast duck! What’s there not to like, about a succulent, glistening, beautifully browned bird. Not much. And at Di Wei, a rather fantastic version of the bird, called the Honey Apple Cider Crispy Roast duck, was something [...]

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CCFoodTravel’s article, Eat Yangon appears in Crave, The Malay Mail

Our post “Eat Yangon” appears in the center spread of Crave, The Malay Mail, on Friday, the 15th of March 2013. Here is the online version … Click on the picture to play and read Why “Eat Yangon” ? Because we literally ate our way through Yangon, Myanmar, early this year (Jan 2013) when we [...]

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The newly renovated PJ Hilton

We pay PJ Hilton a visit to check out their newly refurbished establishment.. I have to say that the newly re-designed PJ Hilton, is gorgeous. It was just a weekend ago, that we stayed at PJ Hilton’s executive suite. Checking in on the 21st floor at the executive lounge, we noticed a newly refurbished area, [...]

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Chef Baptiste Fournier Revisits Mezze Bistro

Chef Baptiste Fournier, of the One star Michelin restaurant, La Tour, France, Revisits Mezze Bistro.. We had to get this post out real fast, because, a rather cool and accomplished chef, is visiting Mezze Bistro KL, for just this week. That’s right folks – all good things should and must be shared, and so, from [...]

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The Moon Bar @ Plaza Damansara, Damansara Heights

Star gazing… Moon gazing… and dinner at the Moon Bar. What an unusual name. It kind of conjured up images of werewolves and things that go bump in the night, coming out to play. But far from being creepy, we found that this latest gastro pub on the Plaza Damansara strip, served rather nice, unpretentious [...]

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Movie Review: Stoker (2013)

Here is our movie review of the film Stoker .. The Koreans have conquered the smart-phone global market. Can they conquer Hollywood too? Park Chan-wook famous for his Korean speaking revenge thrillers Oldboy, Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, and Lady Vengeance has adapted the screenplay from Wentworth Miller (the blue eyed Prison Break actor who has [...]

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Back to Vishal @ Brickfields KL

The Chef, the Banana Leaf and Vishal.. The great thing about chinese new year holidays is the quiet streets of KL. The bad thing about chinese New Year hols, is the fact that hardly any restaurants are open, the exceptions being Indian, Malay food and or fast food. Since we had a chef from the [...]

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Miki Ipoh Beansprout Chicken Rice @ Taman Midah KL

What so special about Ipoh Beansprout Chicken anyway.. ? The thing that caught our eye, was the smooth, white chicken, hanging at the front of the shop. It kind of gleamed when it caught the noon-day sun, and we knew from the growl in our bellies, that we needed to eat soon, so we quickly [...]

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