From the category archives:
What do you do when you have 5 hours layover in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia?
For me, as a foodie, and a true Malaysian, I hopped on the 28-minute KLIA Ekspres straight into downtown KL for some serious chow. Inflight food? No thanks! I have better grub for my stomach…(more picture after the jump)
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While in Beijing, do load up on pot stickers or guotie (锅贴), which one can get pretty much anywhere in the city.
Here are the pot stickers at Made in China (长安壹号), a much celebrated Chinese restaurant in Beijing, located at the Grand Hyatt.
I love the shape, which is definitely a lot more easier to make than the traditional pleated version, but still pretty.
Looking for a potstickers recipe, I’ve got you covered. Please check out my potsticker or guotie (锅贴) recipe.
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Remember my Sichuan-style crawfish post? Well, here is the real stuff.
To get some of the best ma la xiao long xia/麻辣小龙虾 or numbing and spicy crawfish in Beijing, head over to this restaurant called “Hua Jia Yi Yuan/花家怡园” at the famed Guijie (簋街), a street packed full of neon-lit restaurants and hungry patrons…
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Thanks to my friend Syrie at Taste Buddies, I savored some of the best Thai food that I have ever tasted in my life–at the famed Longrain Restaurant and Bar in Sydney today.
The food was so good that I just had to buy the cookbook right there and then.
I have to call your attention to [...]
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My bounty at Sydney Fish Market–salt and pepper Australian Mud Crab. I originally picked a live green-lip abalone but it was DOA (dead on arrival), but you can’t go wrong with giant mud crab, deep-fried with salt and pepper batter.
If you like Chinese/Cantonese-style seafood, head over to Christie’s Seafoods. You can’t miss it as they [...]
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Seafood is exceedingly expensive in Sydney–think $150/kg lobster sashimi (average 5-7 kg per lobster, so do your math), $88/kg mud crab, and $48/kg clams or “pippies.”
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OUCH!
I’m not moving to Sydney anytime soon, regardless how nice and how much closer it is to Malaysia.
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A few months ago, when I was home in Penang, I took a “weekend vacation” away from my parents’ house and stayed at the revamped and remodeled Rasa Sayang Resort and Spa–the legendary hotel/resort that pretty much shaped up and defined the hospitality and tourism industry in Penang, Malaysia.
Rasa Sayang Resort holds a special place [...]
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I am back from 9 days sun, fun, and food filled cruise vacation to South Caribbean (Dominican Republic, British Virgin Island, Antigua, Barbados, and St. Lucia) on Norwegian Cruise Line/NCL–which coincidentally is owned by Malaysian Star Cruise. What a blast!
I like to think of myself as a tasteful traveler, hence I have always felt skeptical [...]
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