Food and luxury travel - Malaysia and the world
Monica Tindall Auresso – tea, chocolate and specialty coffee supplier Malaysia – was once purely an online entity. Café owners and home brewers, however, will now get a buzz out of knowing that Auresso has recently opened a showroom in Shah Alam. With aspirations …
Monica Tindall Common Man Coffee Roasters in TTDI is a café that I often recommend to friends wanting a “damn good cup of coffee” and a good range of delicious food to match. Really, truly, the coffee here is superb and it takes very little persuasion to get me to […]
Words: Aisling Cullen Photos: Monica Tindall Do you ever get café fatigue? Are you tired of hearing that another coffee house has opened up nearby with roasted beans from the hills of Indonesia? No? Neither do I! I love to see new independents bringing their inspir…
Words: Aisling Cullen Photos: Monica Tindall I am on a health buzz right now. I’ve adopted clean eating as my everyday diet, I’m trying to exercise at least four times a week, and I’m determined to get rid of my baby belly which has been taunting me for […]
Words: Aisling Cullen Photos: Monica Tindall Have you heard about ‘hygge’? It’s a Danish word that has been trending for quite a while now, and roughly translates into ‘cosiness’ or retreating into your familiar comforting bubble while seeking out the litt…
Words: Aisling Cullen Photos: Monica Tindall When I think of little cafes in Italy, I imagine tourists unwinding on a woven rattan chair, sipping a cappuccino which rests on a small table decorated with a chequered red and white cloth. Espres…
Words: Patricia Podorsek Photos: Monica Tindall Great new cafes are popping up all over KL, stretching even to the far reaches of the city. 103 Coffee Workshop recently opened a new outlet in Cheras Selatan, new territory for me, and I was happy to have the ch…
Currently KL’s hottest location for food and beverage, you can visit Art Printing Works (APW) at just about anytime during the day and find it filled with gourmands, Instagrammers lining up the perfect shot, and a whole bunch of those-in-the-know hunting …
Words: Heather Onderick Photos: Monica Tindall Deep in Petaling Jaya, Taman Mayang Jaya, to be exact, lies Milligram coffee, a cafe packed with PJ’s trendsetters, reminiscent of Brooklyn’s Park Slope neighborhood. With blinds outside to shade the outsid…
Words: Margaret Elizabeth Photos: Monica Tindall Situated in the leafy yet bustling former Art Printing Works site in Jalan Riong, Bangsar, is Pulp by Papa Palheta aka Pulp; an eco system that is everything coffee. The interior cleverly incorporates a coff…
Words: Aisling Cullen Photos: Monica Tindall Working for The Yum List definitely has advantages. Besides the fact that we get to try some great cuisines from all over the world, I also love to pick Monica’s brains for insider info on the latest hot spots that ha…
Words: Patricia Podorsek Photos: Monica Tindall It’s easy to get so consumed by mall culture in KL, with the slick shops, easy parking and aircon, that we forget the pockets of history and charm leftover from some forgotten colonial era that grace our fair city. …