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Kalamata Cafe may be housed in an ordinary upstairs shoplot in Desa Sri Hartamas, but once inside, one is transported to the Mediterranean, with warm terracotta contrasted against turquoise hues, abstract designed Egyptian carpets on the walls and exotic hanging lamps, providing the ideal ambience. …
Continuing his French love affair, Chef Andy Choy has opened Doux Doux, his latest foray into desserts. Located inconspicuously above a Chinese medicine shop, who knew a lovely French-inspired pattiserie serving excellent canelé existed? Like most cafes these days, Doux Doux by Chateau Dionne employs …
Guinness Malaysia is back with a month-long celebration to celebrate the good times this St Patrick’s Day. Guinness Malaysia’s 2023 St. Patrick’s celebration, “Our Day to Remember”, is all about bringing fans together to celebrate their loved ones – their true lucky charms – as they commemorate the good times with Guinness. With a series of activations happening at participating bars and pubs from now until the end of March, the brand has lined up an array of activities, games, and giveaways for fans to celebrate.
This year, the brand wants to elevate fans’ St Patrick’s Day experience with the first-ever, Guinness St Patrick’s anthem. With this, fans can immortalise their memories in the form of a reel or video and post it on their social media platforms using the soundtrack. All they have to do is select up to eight photos of them and their lucky charms creating memories, then to compile them into a reel or video with the exclusive Guinness St Patrick’s Anthem accompanying it. More information on www.guinnessstpatricks.com.
To take the festive celebration up a notch, Guinness is rewarding fans who take a trip down memory lane and use the Guinness St Patrick’s anthem with exclusive merchandise. The more fans use the anthem, the more prizes will be unlocked. For every 30 uses of the anthem, Guinness will give away three prizes, meanwhile for every 300 uses, 30 prizes will be unlocked, and if 3,000 fans use the anthem, 300 users will stand to walk away with the prizes. Up for grabs are the exclusive Guinness mugs, as well as the Guinness festive St Patrick’s hats.
“St Patrick’s Day is an important one for Guinness since the aspect of communion is so deeply engrained in our brand DNA. We wanted to introduce a novel and magical experience for fans to commemorate the good times with our Guinness St Patrick’s Anthem. Besides celebrating their loved ones – their true lucky charms – we will be further amplifying the Guinness St Patrick’s celebration with an array of activities and games for Guinness lovers all month long,” said Shaun Lim, Marketing Manager of Guinness Malaysia.
Fans who would like to celebrate the good times with Guinness this St Patrick’s Day can do so with their lucky charms at their favourite pubs and bars. Check out www.guinnessstpatricks.com for the full list of participating outlets. As for those who want to create a day to remember with the Guinness St Patrick’s Anthem, they can do so by checking out the microsite too or when they scan the QR code available at participating pubs and bars.
Visit www.guinnessstpatricks.com, as well as Guinness Malaysia’s social media pages at www.facebook.com/guinnessmalaysia and www.instagram.com/guinnessmy.
Opened since January 2021, Jade Pavilion managed by Banyan Tree serves pork-free Cantonese cuisine and has become a popular dining destination for both tourists and locals alike. Helmed by Chef Kenny Lee and Chef Dino Lee, the resto honours the classic traditions of dim sum …
The latest upscale restaurant in town serving authentic Chinese cuisine, EMP KL invites food connoisseurs to step back in time and feast like an emperor in ancient times. Located at The Westin KL, EMP KL adds that touch of grandeur reminiscent of imperial China with …
Savour a wide array of enticing Chinese New Year Delicacies at The Oriental Group of Restaurants including Shunde Style Poon Choi; Triple Wealth, Health and Happiness Gift Set; and together with Chinese New Year Specialties and Gourmet Celebration Sets, the CNY delicacies are available at all restaurants. With a treasure trove of premium ingredients, it is a perfect symbol of abundance and prosperity.
The glorious Poon Choi was mouth-watering and it was every bit as good as it looked! For this review, we also had the Crispy Fish Skin + Pacific Clams Traditional Yee Sang (RM178), Roast London Duck with Wild Mushrooms & Black Truffle (RM198), Stir-fried Mixed Vegetables with Conch & Golden Shimeji Mushroom (RM168), Charcoal flamed claypot rice with waxed meat & Hong Kong Chinese Liver Sausage (RM198) and Steamed ‘nian gao’ with shredded coconut and fried ‘nian gao’. Short of gushing, every dish was superb, even the simple dessert!
The Oriental Group of Restaurants celebrates the arrival of the Year of the Water Rabbit with a series of CNY delicacies from now till Feb 12. This includes Shunde Style Poon Choi; Triple Wealth, Health and Happiness Gift Set; together with Chinese New Year Specialties and Gourmet Celebration Sets.
Shunde Style Poon Choi: contains 17 premium ingredients including whole 10-Head abalone, sea cucumber, goose web, fish maw, dried scallop, smoked farm chicken (half), roast duck, salt and pepper king prawn, dried oysters, cuttlefish, roast pork, bailing mushroom, yam, Chinese cabbage, mushroom, and gluten. Priced at RM888/nett, for 6/pax reunion meal. Also for takeaway for reunion at home, the Poon Choy comes in a claypot in an insulation bag. Pork-free version available from Ruyi, Yu and Seafood World. For collection from Jan 25 to Feb 2, customers can schedule their orders three days in advance and collect from their preferred outlets.
Triple Wealth, Health and Happiness Gift Set: Traditional Yee Sang, Special Edition CNY Radish Cake Set and a pair of Koi Fish ‘Nian Gao’ with Brown Sugar. Yee Sang comes with eight different ingredients to pair such as golden crispy enoki mushroom, silverfish, crispy fish skin, salmon, soft shell crab, salmon and anchovies, salmon and prawns, and grilled Iberico pork neck, plus homemade plum sauce from Oriental Group’s secret recipe.
Each of Oriental Group’s 14 restaurants has its own CNY Gourmet Celebration Set curated exclusively for individuals (min 2 pax) or groups of 4/6/10, starting from RM588++ for 4 pax. Look out for signature CNY Specialties such as Pig Stomach with Chicken Shunde Style, Braised Pork Trotter with Salted Egg Yolk Meat Ball and ‘Fatt Choy’, Steamed France Turbot with Tangerine Peel & Ginger, Charcoal-flamed Claypot Rice with Waxed Meat & Hong Kong Chinese Liver Sausage, Fresh Water Prawn with Golden Sauce, Steamed Coral Garoupa with Clam in Superior Soup, Braised Tiger Garoupa with Shank’s Tendon Traditional Style.
The Oriental Group of Restaurants’ Estore is now open for CNY takeaway pre-order:
Fans of authentic Thai cuisine are in for a treat as Niyom 26 opens at Tropicana Gardens Mall. Located on the concourse floor of the mall, Niyom 26 is a spin-off of the established Thai restaurant Baan 26 at Changkat Bukit Bintang, KL. “Our menu …
Tiger Beer roars into the Chinese New Year with a renewed spirit with its ‘Cheers to Bold Beginnings’ campaign. The notion is all about celebrating moments of reflection, as we recognize our past courage while gearing up for a bolder tomorrow. Tiger wants its fans …
This Chinese New Year, Oversea Restaurant is hopping into the Year of the Rabbit with their rich traditions of Chinese cuisine. Look forward to seasonal signature Chinese New Year dishes such as Yee Sang, Waxed Meat Rice, Prosperity Treasure Pot, Dried Meat and an assortment of confectioneries.
What better way to usher in the new year than tossing tasty and colourful Yee Sang while wishing each other well with auspicious sayings around the table? Starting from RM78++, Oversea Restaurant offers 5 different types of Yee Sang: original Oversea Fabulous Fruity Yee Sang with Red Dragon Fruit Sauce, Yee Sang with Jellyfish & Korean Snow Pear, Yee Sang with Fresh Salmon & Korean Snow Pear, Yee Sang with Abalone & Korean Snow Pear and Yee Sang with Abalone & Black Truffle.
The Hong Kong Style Waxed Meat Claypot Rice is truly a scrumptious one pot meal delicately balancing flavourful notes with a distinctive aroma from fragranced glutinous rice and cured meat. Indulge in this Chinese New Year divine must-have from RM138++ (6pax) to RM168++ (10pax).
The Prosperity Treasure Pot is perfect for sharing – this simmering pot of 15 premium ingredients warms the soul as a full belly makes for a happy heart: 6-8 pax at RM838++ and 8-10 pax at RM1,188++. You can also opt for takeaway.
There are 3 set menus to choose from, starting at RM 898++ for 6 to RM 3,388++ for 10 pax, put together by a group of executive chefs with more than 40 years of experience. All the set menus will be available from Chinese New Year till the last day of February and each set comes with a box of Oversea’s Hong Kong Style Egg Rolls while stocks last.
Dried Meat is one the most popular Chinese New Year snacks – Oversea’s secret recipe has the BBQ meat grilled over charcoal rather than air-dried for a smokier flavour at RM78 per box. Oversea Restaurant also bakes their own confectionery – Taiwanese Pineapple Tarts at RM55 per box, Oriental Muffin at RM38 for 18 pieces and Hong Kong Style Egg Rolls at RM28.80 per box.
Of course, there’s the famous Char Siew and Siew Yuk, acclaimed as one of the best in town. Cooked to perfection, the crispy skin of the roasted pork cackles and breaks to reveal juicy meat while the glistening barbequed meat has a caramelised skin that is so lip-smacking good, you can’t help but as ask for another bowl of rice to go with it!
Since the 1970s, Oversea Restaurant has established itself as a fine institution for its role in preserving rich Chinese culture and heritage through shared recipes passed down the generations. Known for the quality of their cuisine, Oversea Restaurant has been awarded with gourmet titles such as “Asia’s Finest Restaurants”, “Greatest Table in Kuala Lumpur” and “Winner of World Gold Kitchen Cooking Grand Competition”. It has also shone in the global food arena representing Malaysia and received international accolades such as “International Restaurant of Chinese Cuisine” awarded by “The World Chinese Cuisine Association” as well as recognized for outstanding achievement in the F&B industry at the 15th Asia Pacific International Honesty Keris Award 2017.
Oversea Restaurant is proud to announce the opening of their new outlet in One Utama to better serve food lovers around Klang Valley. The new Oversea Restaurant boasts 12 private rooms and the spacious main hall is an excellent venue for wedding banquets and events as it is able to accommodate up to 15 tables and the giant LED screen and elevated stage can cater to all your entertainment requirements. The most impressive aspect of the new restaurant is the walk-in wine chiller showcasing a variety of wine and liquor from all over the world for an international tasting tour. It is open daily from 10am-10pm with Dim Sum served from 10am-2pm.
From press release
It’s tong-tong chang time! Truth be told, I already had yee sang weeks ago! Didn’t want to ruin the Christmas mood, so am sharing Chinese New Year festive food news only now. The Year of the Rabbit – symbol of longevity, peace and prosperity – …