Food and luxury travel - Malaysia and the world
Cosmo Pro® Air Purifier + 5-in-1 HEPA Filter Monica Tindall Living in Southeast Asia for over two decades has certainly given me time to consider the quality of the air we breathe. From months of unhealthy haze to pollution from traffic in the inner city to dust from …
Maxime Pfister In this interview, Maxime Pfister, director of beverage and food at W Kuala Lumpur, shares his passion for food, fun and a life less ordinary. What do you do? I function as a strategic business leader of the property’s food and beverage opera…
Tifa KL Trillion Words: Sathya SelvarajahPhotos: Rich Callahan Every so often, there comes a place that captures your heart for innumerable reasons. Is it the quality of the food? Yes. Is it the mad happy hour deals? Of course. Is it the alfresco seating outside th…
Kapitan Haus Words: Matt BrownPhotos: Rich Callahan Three cheers for the reinvigoration of Chinatown, where after a few quiet years during covid, businesses are emerging and staking their claim to a piece of KL’s returning nightlife. There are bars that are hid…
Undisclosed Location Words: Matt BrownPhotos: Monica Tindall The word ‘combination’ keeps coming up again and again when I think about one of the newest eateries to open recently in the Taman Rasa Sayang area of Petaling Jaya. A pleasing combination of excellen…
Sustainable Hospitality Malaysia Monica Tindall In a follow-up to our piece on sustainable hospitality industry in Malaysia, five more businesses share their efforts to reduce their impact on the earth. They report on practices to learn, educate and change m…
Her House Bar Chinatown KL Words: Matt Brown Photos Rich Callahan Located upstairs in a space once used as an antique store and mahjong café is a solid metal door that doesn’t seem to be used for anything. Push it open and step into a psychedelic, neon-filled p…
Luxury Villas Kuching Monica Tindall Embraced by Mount Santubong to the west and the South China Sea to the east, the new luxury villas at Cove 55 just outside Kuching are in a picture-perfect location. Their setting, minimalist design with a thread of tribal infl…
Allen Ding In this interview, Allen Ding, CEO of Snappymob, tells how his team is helping The Yum List and shares some news about other projects in the works. *Header photo: From left to right: Wei Xing (Designer), Roy (Lead Developer), Allen (CEO), and Arthur (Pro…
Modern Cuisine Kuching – Local Produce Monica Tindall Describing themselves as “one part local, one part global, and one-part special sauce,” the team at Kechala takes pride in showcasing local produce in innovative ways. Their goal is to make everyday e…
Mother’s Day Kuala Lumpur 2022 Here’s a round-up of some of the flyers I’ve received to celebrate Mother’s Day in Kuala Lumpur, 2022. As many restaurants are short-staffed (and just generally good manners anyway), please be kind in ma…
Craft Cocktails Kuching – serving cocktails fancier than you are Monica Tindall Malaysia is full of surprises, and Borneo has proven again and again to hold some of the best-kept treasures. This time the gems are in the form of craft cocktails, shaken, buil…