Kuala Lumpur

by klyeoh 2 years ago

Chow Kit is KL's roughest & grimiest neighbourhood, populated by some of KL's most violent characters. The place is full of drug pushers and drug addicts, street hookers (including transsexuals/tra...

I'm in Chow Kit at the moment but will head somewhere else tonight maybe. I would like to find the best restaurants or street places or wherever I can the best Malaysian food only. I travel a bi...

by klyeoh 6 years ago

Named after the lethal curved blade used by Nepali Gurkhas both as a tool & a weapon, Khukri Restaurant in Kuala Lumpur's "Little Nepal" area (behind Kotaraya) serves up a fabulous selection of 100...

I have been in KL for a few days with work and tomorrow night can finally explore the food scene a bit (leaving on Saturday morning). I would be very interesting in a restaurant where I can try exc...

by klyeoh 4 years ago

Simply Mel's is one of the rare few Malaccan-Portuguese eateries in Kuala Lumpur, and perhaps the best one in town. What we tried: - Papa Vincent's "Pikadel Pesce": Fish croquettes. - "I...

I'll be on a month long trip eating myself through Japan and I am thinking of adding another week to somewhere else in Asia, but can't decide where to. I am very tempted by Kuala Lumpur but Shangha...

by klyeoh 6 years ago

I’d blogged about Kim Lian Kee before as part of my writing about KL’s old Chinatown eats, but I reckon a 80+ year old (not more than a century-old as claimed by previous articles) eatery which inv...

by klyeoh 4 years ago

Quick, quick - if you're in the vicinity of Cyberjaya, near Kuala Lumpur, you have to make a visit to the one-week-old Green Banana Leaf in Shaftsbury Square. At the moment, it's serving, hands-dow...

by klyeoh 5 years ago

It's here again - the durian season: that's when pop-up stalls emerge all over Malaysian cities: Kuala Lumpur, Penang, Ipoh, Johore Bahru, Malacca, etc., all offering that super-pungent thorny frui...

by klyeoh 4 years ago

Whilst the hawker food stalls at Kuala Lumpur's Jalan Alor cater very much to the tourists and foreign visitors, local KL-lites make a beeline for Wai Sek Kai, a nickname given to the hawker food s...

by hyperbowler 4 years ago

I've been slowly crafting an itinerary for a trip ... that begins later this week. Eek! We're coming from San Francisco, so the priority is on foods that would be difficult to get here. There s...