NOT a food blog
When work gets me down and I need some comforting, the only way to go is Japanese. I have two favourite restaurants (friends, take note :-P), Zipangu at Shangri-La KL and Iketeru at KL Hilton. As it turned out, I was working on Thursday (a public holiday) and feeling sorry for myself, and that is […]
Some of us in the Makan Club are well acquainted with Woo Lan Restaurant. Now housed in an air-conditioned shoplot at Jalan Scott, Brickfields, it didn’t start out that glamorously.A wooden structure under the overhead bridge next to the Holy Rosary Church. Cars parked haphazardly. Was that all? Just another old shack to cater to […]
Smokin’ SOB normally doesn’t get ecstatic about food; his philosophy in life is to eat to live rather than live to eat (unlike the rest of us). So when he mentioned to me, about a month back, that he had just eaten same “damn good f*#^ing good fish”, I knew that it had to be […]
Food, for me, is a means to an end and not an end in itself.
Food, for me, represents the love of family, the fellowship of friends, and the community and communality it brings.