Food and luxury travel - Malaysia and the world
Super Ramen Sri Petaling Words: Monica Tindall Photos: Rich Callahan Super Ramen brings a taste of Japan to Sri Petaling with their rich bowls of ramen with creative twists from around the world. It’s not only ramen that is drawing the crowds, though: a trendy sett…
Monica Tindall & Stacey Short I have to declare up front that I don’t mind a drop of whisky or two. Pairing an entire dinner, however, with whisky is not my idea of a great time. I’m a wine girl and have difficulty imagining something as weighty as whisky with […]
Monica Tindall A Spanish winery, famous for Garnacha grapes in the province of Aragon, is this month’s featured winery at Stoked KL. Export director, Miss Virginia Gimenez, joins us sharing some stories behind the vines and leads a dinner paired with some signat…
Words: Kitty Noble Photos: Monica Tindall More than a year on from my arrival in KL, I am still amazed at the quality of restaurants that you can find in unassuming shopping malls, and Soleil DC Mall is no exception to this. Known for its European, Asian fusion and sop…
“Embrace the Past, Reimagine the Present” Monica Tindall No doubt Singapore is blessed with options for merrymaking. It seems for every place I tick off my list as conquered I add three more to explore. The city’s latest entertainment-lifestyle establishment, …
Words: Monica Tindall Photos: Rich Callahan Confession: I am not a buffet fan. My green side just doesn’t sit well with the amount of food waste. My finicky side doesn’t like mass produced food and the neat-freak in me doesn’t like the idea of other people touching s…
The Yum List gets the inside scoop of life behind the scenes at Singapore’s famed NCO Club with head sommelier, Fabien Duboueix. What do you do and how did you get into the industry? My name is Fabien Duboueix and I’m the head sommelier at The NCO Club – a […]
Words: Monica Tindall Photos: Rich Callahan & Monica Tindall The Kuala Lumpur food scene never ceases to surprise with the best of food found in the most curious of places. Take, for example, hearty loaves of German bread and buttery European pastries: the la…
Words: Monica Tindall Photos: Rich Callahan OpenHouse in KLCC has moved to the top of my list for taking visitors to KL and also ranks high on my list of most memorable restaurants around the world. Conceptualizers, Andrew Wong and Brian Quirk (of Acme Bar & Cof…
Monica Tindall Coffee and red wine are two indulgences I’m not ready to give up. The pleasure I get from them though comes with a downside; stained teeth. About 10 years back I sought teeth whitening with conventional dentistry. The results were excellent but the p…
Monica Tindall JW Marriott Hotel Singapore South Beach offers a boutique hotel experience with 5-star facilities. Located on the happening lifestyle and entertainment strip of South Beach and placing a high value on all of the arts (including culinary creativ…
Words: Monica Tindall Photos: Rich Callahan It’s places like Extraction 萃 café in SS2 that have kept me in KL so long. A trio of friends with a passion for coffee and bread, Herman, Shin and Edric are the embodiment of what I adore about the KL food scene: small […]