Bangkok is one of my favorite cities in Asia. Other than an endless array of delicious foods, be it street-food or fine-dining restaurants, Bangkok offers some of the best—and most trendy—boutique hotels in the region. Flip through any travel magazine and you will read about new, happening, chic resorts and boutique hotels sprouting up all around Bangkok. I travel there…
Whenever I go back to Penang, other than stuffing myself silly with Penang street food (hawker food), I also like checking out new restaurants, cafes, and hotels. Since the inscription as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, George Town is abuzz with the openings of new boutique hotels, trendy cafes, tasteful art galleries, and cool hang out spots. One of the…
Met my long time blog friend Austin Bush of Real Thai this afternoon, who came to Malaysia on an assignment for the Lonely Planet guidebook. We had Char Kuey Teow. Quoting Austin’s blog, my Char Kuey Teow was better than yours. When it comes to hawker food (street food), real foodies know that Malaysia owns it. And when it comes…
Every time I come back to Penang, there are a few hawker food (street food) that I never miss out eating. As I was born and raised in Penang, I seek out to those foods and places that carry sentimental values to me—my favorite dishes and treats I grew up eating, neighborhood restaurants, hawker centers or coffee shops (kopitiam) that…
Greetings from Penang! It’s been a month since I came back to Penang. Needless to say, I have been having too much fun, eating too much good food, and not blogging much at all. The first month of my vacation had been filled with festivities and much celebrations: Chinese New Year, short trips to KL and Singapore, visiting friends and…
Rasa Malaysia (and my Penang Private Tour and Culinary Tour) is featured on Budget Travel May 2011 issue!! Click here to read why Malaysia is Southeast Asia’s next foodie magnet. If you are a foodie, what are you waiting for? Pack up now and go sample the goods!
Following the UNESCO World Heritage Site inscription, Penang has become a hotbed for boutique hotels and small intimate resorts. International and renowned hoteliers such as Christopher Ong of Galle Fort fame and Narelle McMurtrie of Bon Ton Resort have transformed the hotel scenes in Penang by restoring heritage buildings and property into stylish and chic boutique hotels that put Penang…
It’s been almost two weeks since we arrived in Malaysia. Needless to say, I have been stuffing myself silly with lots of great food daily. I apologize for the lack of posting but there are just too much fun being home, especially during the festive Chinese New Year celebration. There are always friends and family to visit, places to go,…
I am a huge advocate for Malaysian food and have written numerous posts and recipes about Malaysian cuisine—Penang street food, Malay cooking, Nyonya Food, etc., but Malaysian food is beyond what you have read on Rasa Malaysia. Hence, I have invited a talented Malaysian food blogger J2Kfm who is based in Ipoh (怡保) —another food mecca in Malaysia—to introduce Ipoh…
When it comes to sweet decadent snacks on the island of Oahu, you simply can’t afford to miss out these sinfully sugary and to-die-for malasada, or malassada (the correct spelling)–a confection of Portuguese origin. We were lucky. Had I not received two emails and a comment from my loyal reader Burt, we would have completely missed out one of the…
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