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With a kitchen that reputedly comprises some Beijing-origin chefs, PJ's new Jing Cheng tempts us in for Peking Duck, pleasurably prepared for a lovely lunch. The menu is peppered with intriguing offerings, from mustard-glazed duck webs to crispy mushrooms coated in crab roe to spicy Lao Gan M...

From Taipei to TTDI, this marks the first Malaysian outpost of a Taiwan-born cafe brand in Taman Tun Dr Ismail. Inspired by Taiwan’s main mountain ranges, M5 Coffee serves speciality drinks named after the Coastal Range, Alishan Range and other Taiwanese summits. For Malaysia, M5 has created...

The Lazy Man is working hard this Labour Day, launching a new PJ home-based mini cafe. It’s a cosy corner in SS4 to sip on The Lazy Man’s Cincai blend of Papua New Guinean, Ethiopian and Brazilian beans, a nutty medium roast with a fruity finish, easy to enjoy for an espresso-based beverage. ...

With a partly Greek-inspired selection and setting, PJ’s new Aegean Blue serves specialities such as satisfying moussaka, steaming-hot with comfortingly tender layers of potatoes, eggplant, minced beef and kefalotyri melted cheese.  The service is warm and welcoming, while the kitchen is capab...

Petaling Street's new Barra brings Barcelona-born chef Ignasi Prat's interpretation of a contemporary tapas bar crawl to Chinatown: The menu explores 21st-century globalised Spanish cuisine - creamy rice in lobster broth with Carabinero scarlet prawn and saffron aioli; Jerusalem artichokes with a...

The friendly founders of Taman Paramount’s new Nareo Donut include a Malaysian who spent seven years working at Melbourne’s well-known Shortstop Coffee & Donuts. He brings the spirit of Sutherland Street to PJ, pairing fresh-every-morning donuts with fresh-brewed coffee. Nareo has its own ...

Soft-launching this Friday, Mossarium Cafe is a delightful destination for fans of philodendrons and platyceriums - lovingly crafted by welcoming founders, this is a lush retreat to soothe the soul. Sip matcha lattes amid monsteras and moss walls - Mossarium seeks to be a community...

Basking in the sunshine of a beautiful skylight, Old Klang Road's new The Eighth Cafe serves up a soothing cafe experience, brewing up smooth tiramisu lattes and coffee matcha lattes for a morning escapade.

Set to soft-launch later this week, Bandar Sunway's Kooky Bowl keeps the Kooky empire rolling to a new neighbourhood, following in the footsteps of Kooky Cream and Kooky Plate. Here, the Sunway University campus crowd can savour a mix-and-match medley of East-and-West fare by day, with a diversit...

KL's new cafe with old-world charm, a five-minute walk from Merdeka Square: Fiftig Seofon (translated to 57, a tribute to 1957) is a lovely fresh space in a heritage townhouse. In this sanctuary of serenity in the city centre,. the welcoming team serves specialities from East to West, from Na...

Chinatown’s cafe boom continues with the soft-launch of Neighbour Club, the latest spin-off of the JWC Coffee Roastery group.  Sip on JWC's signature blends and single-origins, plus coffee coolers like the Kaya Butter Coffee and Guava Fizz, while shopping for snacks like Choc Oh Sourdough Cracke...

Soft-launching this Friday is KL’s first outpost of the OFFFFive (5 Coffee) series of cafes that have spread across Penang, Malacca and Johor in recent months. Specialities comprise coffee with floral and fruity flourishes - sunflower-topped coconut lattes, camellia flower-infused lattes, ora...

Soft-launching in Bandar Sunway, Traffic Bean is the first Klang Valley offshoot of a Penang-born cafe. Traffic Bean’s coffee is fun, fruity and flamboyant - stop for the calamansi americano, go for the peach blossom, a cold brew of jasmine tea with elderflower and osmanthus.

B.Land PJ’s colourful new cafe-restobar, Yum Yum Seng Seng makes a toast to morning-to-night merriment with upbeat vibes - come for the hot lattes and asam boi pop coolers, stay for playful pan-Asian twists on Japanese-inspired ramen and rice bowls. 

Chinatown’s newest cafe, Sandolicious is a whimsical wonderland of dessert sandos and distinctive drinks inside Petaling Street’s freshly launched B Hotel. Sandolicious’ signature treat is its cookie sandwiches - crunchy French-style sable biscuits layered with melt-in-the-mouth cheesecake f...