Gourmet luxury travel - Malaysia and the world
Soft tunes elegantly struck on piano keys draw me into La VIE, French Restaurant, VIE Hotel Bangkok MGallery by Sofitel’s creative French cuisine restaurant. Elegantly dressed wait staff see me to my table, and I can’t help but feel swept up in the romance of the s…
Yellow Tail Sushi Bar, better known at YTSB, has gained a reputation for serving the “best sushi in Bangkok”. With an overwhelming number of choices of Japanese restaurants in Bangkok, this is no easy feat. Where “freshness” is something many premium sushi bars i…
Our love story begins with a lotus flower bouquet, a poem, a love potion welcome drink and a red pen to sign in. Seems nothing has been left to chance at The Pavilions Phuket when it comes to encouraging affection. Cupid has engineered every detail and the stars are al…
Banyan Tree Phuket has gone through some major refurbishments in the past six months, one of which being the introduction of a new Mediterranean and seafood restaurant, The Watercourt. Views are splendid with its lagoon-side locale, and weather allowing, the b…
You’d think the more I travel the more relaxed I’d become. Not so! The more years I tock up on the road, the less patience I seem to hold, and the more I desire hassle-free travel. In my youth, the hair-raising ride hitched on the back of a truck with […]
360° Bar is not only frequented by in-house guests of the luxury adults-only villa property, The Pavilions, but is also popular amongst residents in the area. Elevated above the crowd on a hill in Laguna it has a distinct advantage over other bars in the vicinity of…
You’ll Never Want To Leave The Peninsula Bangkok Words: Han Sen Hau Photos: Monica Tindall It’s half past nine on a Saturday night, and I’m but a capricious hotel guest wishing to take a ferry across to the famed Asiatique whose bright lights twinkle like stars r…
Revisiting Decadent Oriental Exoticism at Kom-Ba-Wa Words: Han Sen Hau Photos: Monica Tindall Marked only by its large glass windows concealed behind trees that filter the amount of sunlight illuminating its ostentatious interior, Kom-Ba-Wa is easily mis…
Words: Han Sen Hau Photos: Monica Tindall We have been misled. There we were, at The Lobby, sheltered from the tropical storm, surrounded by muffled chatter and the clinking of glasses, thinking that the only items we had to go through for brunch would be the …
Trying to give their customers a home-away-from-home feel, the Banyan Tree Phuket has developed a new experience for weekend visitors and in-house guests: Comfort Food on the Terrace, Family Style Dinners. Showcasing the best-loved recipes from the homes of t…
Christmas is not a public holiday in Phuket, but hotels and restaurants sure do their best to bring a little piece of the festive spirit to their properties for visitors and residents wishing to celebrate. We’re fortunate to be staying at The Pavilions in the Lagun…
Dining by the River of Kings at Thiptara Han Sen Hau and Monica Tindall It was a Friday night in the city of angels, so naturally its streets would be filled with cherubs and seraphs in their Toyotas and Hondas moving in speeds of I’m-trying-so-hard-not-to-hit-the…