Waltzing to J&D Espresso
Next on our Waltzing Matilda food trail, we waltz over to J&D Espresso in Bandar Utama, where they claim to serve ‘bloody good coffee.’ Located at the Mini Oasis Centre at the traffic light junction between Lebuh Bandar Utama and Persiaran Tropicana, I admit...
Penang Flood Relief
The *Make It Right Movement and BAC* seek your kind assistance to collect essential items and monetary donations to aid these families in need.
Nostalgia of food from Australian Outback
Exactly thirty years since graduating from a university in Melbourne, Australia, I am still feeling nostalgic about the Australian outback. Not that I had spent a lot of time in the outback, but the bush songs such as the Waltzing Matilda still ring fresh in my mind....
Bonfire Restaurant
On our Waltzing Matilda Food Trail, let’s start with Bonfire at The Starling Mall in Damansara Uptown. Touted as a ‘modern Australian’ restaurant serving cuisine which is cooked using a custom-made woodfired oven, Bonfire first caught my attention, when I saw the...
International School from Malaysia now part of Endeavor Network
A partnership that puts two home-grown Malaysian international schools on the world map.
Just the Chettinad Dining Experience
For the uninitiated, the Chettiars are famous not only as money lenders; they do have their well-known cuisines that give a truly Chettinad dining experience. Most of us may think that Indian restaurants are all the same, but like the Chinese, we our Cantonese-style,...
Heart disease: the number one killer of Malaysians since 1970s
The statistics Heart diseases were the third-biggest cause of death in Malaysia in 1950. By the 1970s, they have become the number one killer and remained so since (except in 1980). In 2014, heart diseases killed 10,432 people or 13.5% of all deaths in Malaysia....
A call to increase cigarette prices up to RM100
The proposal to increase the price of a pack of cigarettes to RM50 in light of the coming Budget 2018 announcement is seen as small and might be futile to our ongoing struggle to prevent the smoking habit among our people especially among the youth. If the government...
Der Backmeister simply means The Master Baker
When Oliver Rollar decided to call it a day in the corporate world, his passion in the bakery business took off to where he is today. With the help of a baker friend of his from Cologne, Germany, Klaus and his wife Monika, Oliver and three other partners managed to...
It’s Friends of Mine Café
Whenever I am around in Mont Kiara area, I like going to my friend’s café. Oops! Except for the way it is called – for which the correct name should be ‘Friends of Mine Café’ – most people would believe that the café is operated by some friends of mine. No, I only...
A simple Penang Ah Meng’s Teochew restaurant in PJ
Teow Chew Meng Restaurant in SS2 Petaling Jaya is a Teochew restaurant, while Ah Meng is just a common nickname in Penang. For those who did not know, this was how the name of the restaurant came about. Simple, but it reflects beautifully the beginning of a restaurant...
Dear Malaysians, stop being hypocrites!
Why then are we accepting one issue while condemning the other? I will tell you why – because we are bloody hypocrites.