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Words: Ashling Cullen Photos: Monica Tindall My weekends are spent looking for places to go for brunch. I’ve found a few good places, but great places are few and far between. Sitka in Damansara Heights easily makes it onto the list of ‘great places to go’ for me.…
Kristin Cosgrove and Monica TIndall Until recently Melawati was a coffee no-man’s-land where zombies roamed, unable to properly caffeinate in the morning. Well… in my mind anyway. But Western style cafés are at last creeping into the sleepy suburb, and The Yum L…
Bob Busk and Monica Tindall The moment you enter the front doors of BreadFruits Taman Desa, your eyes are treated to a burst of color. Carefully stacked local and imported fruit line the shelves: guava, Asian Pear, grapefruit, apples, passion fruit, lemons, pome…
There’s good reason that Gili Lankanfushi has been voted Best Hotel in the World by TripAdvisor 2015, and besides magical location and outstanding service, food plays a significant role in this rating. We promise you much more to come on this truly incredi…
Aisling Cullen and Monica Tindall A new cluster of restaurants have opened up in Mont Kiara at the base of the Verve Suites. Among those restaurants is La Casa, a cosy and homely space that lives up to its name. Arriving at La Casa, it was no problem to get […]
Aisling Culling and Monica Tindall Arriving at Huckleberry Food & Fare at Plaza Damansara, we could tell that the food was going to be good by the short queue of people waiting to be seated in the packed restaurant even at 4pm in the afternoon. This stylish c…
We do love a our brekkie at The Yum List, so in a recent hop through the beautiful Coffs Coast we spent a good deal of time tracking down menus, sipping hot beverages and indulging in a bellyful of morning delights. After some serious food hunting and tasting, here…
Dunes Cafe at the Shangri-La Hotel Dubai has a great breakfast buffet. Recently given an overall, the range and quality of items in the morning line up is rather extensive. More to come on the hotel in upcoming posts, but for now, here’s a photo memory of some o…
Breakfast in The Dining Room at The Datai Langkawi is one of the best, if not the best we’ve tried on the island. Everything is made from scratch and the chefs lift the average hotel buffet options to gourmet heights. More on The Datai will come in posts next wee…
After a night of too much fun at La Bodega’s grand opening in Malacca, we haul our fragile bodies to the scene of the crime in the hopes of recuperating with a morning-after breakfast. La Bodega’s newest outlet in The Shore Shopping Gallery is a sizeable space tak…
Words: Monica R. Clear Photos: Monica Tindall Walking into Metal Box Restaurant and Café, one is greeted by a surprisingly airy atmosphere. As a walk-through restaurant that enters from the ground floor of Empire Damansara, and exits out onto a sp…
Ingredients: 4 avocados 1 lemon 1 jalapeno Pinch of kosher salt Pinch freshly ground black pepper 2 Tablespoons olive oil 2 Tablespoons chopped dill 2 Tablespoons chopped parsley Method: Put all the ingredients in a blender. Begin blending on a low …