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T+L Hometown Hit List: Malaysia
We asked our writers for their favorite places to travel domestically. Add these in Malaysia to your post-pandemic bucket lists
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Inspiration
T+L Hometown Hit List: Malaysia
We asked our writers for their favorite places to travel domestically. Add these in Malaysia to your post-pandemic bucket lists
Hotels & Resorts
This Maldives resort has its own COVID-testing machine. And if you’re positive, you stay for free
Soneva Fushi dropped six figures on COVID screener in order to keep its doors wide open with all our masks off.
Inspiration
Pearl Diving, Desert Horseback Riding, and 7,000 Years of History in Ras Al Khaimah
This quiet emirate challenges the typical U.A.E. stereotypes, with deeply rooted heritage and rugged mountains, desert, and coastline. Make the hour’s drive from Dubai and you just might find your great escape.
Food & Drink
These are Our 5 Favorite Pizzas in Singapore #TLASIAPIZZAWEEK
This exhaustively researched list of the best pizza in Singapore features both quick’n’sleazy slices and gourmet pies.
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These Are the Hottest Tables in Thailand Now
French, Italian, Spanish and Thai. The five hardest reservations to get in Thailand today vary in all ways but their utter deliciousness.
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Singapore’s Hottest Table Is a Tiny Eight-Seater That’ll Blow All Your Conceptions of What a Restaurant Should Be
Whet your Appetite for star chef Ivan Brehm’s super nerdy, border-crossing, culture-merging, artsy, moody community hub. Oh, you can eat there, too.
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Travel Back in Time at these Adorable Old-School Eateries
Across Southeast Asia time-capsule cafés and bars provide a glimpse of—and a reassuring anchor to—neighborhood diners in simpler times.
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Add These 5 New Restaurants to Your Hong Kong Eating List
Hong Kong’s best new restaurants serve up the world on a plate.
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This New Farm-to-Table Restaurant in Phuket Takes Locavore to the Next Level
Grow your own veggies, cuddle ducklings and eat fresh from the earth at a new farm-to-table restaurant by five-star resort Trisara in Phuket.
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Chef’s Table: Lennox Hastie’s 5 rules for cooking with fire
The modern master of grilling shares his tips on how to barbecue like a boss.
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4 Fancy Dim Sum Spots in Hong Kong That We Love
Hong Kong’s top tables keep us hungry for more with their ever-changing takes on beloved Cantonese fare.
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How to Pair Natural Wine with Vegan Pasta
A more Earth- and body-friendly version of the heaven-sent combo you love.
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The Meatchop Butcher & Spirits
This stylish steak mecca brings laid-back Brooklyn vibes to Bangkok’s CBD.
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Durian Cream and Butter Cheese—5 Krispy Kreme Flavors Around Asia
When in doubt, donut it out.
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Rediscovering Singapore’s Local Restaurants After Lockdown
How lockdown deepened our love for local eating in some of Southeast Asia’s foodie hubs.
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Your First Fine-Dining Meal Post-Pandemic Should Be at This Neo-Indian Restaurant
Each dish on their transportive tasting menu is not only stick-to-your-bones good, but also uses ingredients from their urban garden and upcountry farm.
Food & Drink
Jakarta’s Food Scene is on the Rise
A strong metric for charting regional capitals is by the sophistication of their food scenes. We loosen our belts and makes a case for the heretofore underrated Indonesian metropolis.
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These are the Most Absurdly Delicious Dishes We’ve Eaten Recently
Quarantining has the T+L staff daydreaming of many things (social interaction?) but especially these dishes.
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Boost the body and mind at these Bangkok Eateries
At the new Mövenpick BDSM Wellness Resort, healing starts with nutritious, delicious meals at Khum Hom and Tamarind.
Food & Drink
The New Taste of Saigon
Stepping out of the shadows of French fine dining, a new guard of visionary young chefs is capturing the city’s culinary zeitgeist.
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A Historic Tasting Binge in Luang Prabang
Often squeezed out by the cuisine of its neighbors, Laos offers its own menu worth exploring, writes Duncan Forgan, who goes on a historic tasting binge in Luang Prabang.
Hotels & Resorts
History with a view—George Town’s Eastern Oriental Hotel
Not only does this storied stay hit all the marks, but it is also the only seafront hotel in George Town.
Food & Drink
Bangkok’s Multi-Stellar Michelin Masters
The long waiting lists at these restaurants are worth the wait.
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Textura
Spain meets Sichuan in Tokyo’s central business district, where chef Hirofumi Saito opened Textura earlier this year.
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Sushi Shin by Miyakawa
The first Tokyo outpost of Hokkaido’s Michelin three-starred Sushi Miyakawa has touched down in the Mandarin Oriental Tokyo.
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1919
If you’re craving Italian aperitivo with Sunday-session sharing plates, the new eatery from prolific Bangkok restaurant group Foodie Collection is the place to settle in.
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Samrub for Thai
The maestro who’d been running the line at Nahm for years, chef Prin Polsuk, has been teasing our palates with pop-ups of his deeply researched, forgotten Thai-cookbook recipes. Now he’s settled into his own space, a tiny chef’s-table, open-kitchen restaurant hidden within like-minded locavore 100 Mahaseth.
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Mia
Don’t let the awesome wallpaper fool you. On the wide-ranging menu at the city’s new Instagram darling, the tastes more than match up to the aesthetics.
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Siri House
Finally, a place that transitions seamlessly from day to eve. The clubby Siri House invites you in from breakfast right through midnight.
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Taipei’s Food Scene Heats Up
With a group of young, wildly creative chefs leading the way, the Taiwanese capital is emerging as Asia’s buzziest culinary destination.
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Menus as Magnets at St. Regis Hong Kong
In Hong Kong, a city that loves to eat, you’re measured by the quality of your menus. Rather than rest on its pedigreed laurels, the new St. Regis debuts with two ambitious restaurants that already boast guest-books full of regulars.
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Here’s What It’s Like To Eat At Singapore’s Most Expensive Restaurant
At S$450 a head, newly opened Nordic restaurant Zén easily tops the list of most expensive restaurants in Singapore—and the region.
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Indian Accent
Chef Manish Mehrotra turns Indian comfort food into haute cuisine. His menu is often fusion-y (fluffy kulcha breads come stuffed with bacon or Camembert) but in a way that’s creative, not gimmicky.
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Maziga
This stylish restaurant in Clarke Quay takes an innovative, playful approach to regional cooking, with dishes like wok-fried paneer tacos and bhatti murgh tikkas served in Mexican style quesadillas.
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Charcoal Bangkok
Kebabs take center stage, with melt-in-your-mouth meats, veggies and paneer served in a bright, modern setting. Eat all you can at their smart Sunday brunch, or come at night to try their India-inspired cocktails, crafted to complement the flavors of the tandoor.
Food & Drink
An Eating Tour in Hong Kong With a Food Writer and Her Michelin Three Starred Chef Husband
Where do food writer Juliana Loh and her head chef husband, Guillaume Galliot, of the Michelin three-starred Caprice at the Four Seasons, dine out in Hong Kong? From cheap eats to high-end, the foodie couple serves us some of their favorites in the city.
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Butter and Bubbles Are Aplenty at This Restaurant That Boasts Bangkok’s First Michelin Three-Starred Chef
An ambitious new restaurant boasts Bangkok’s first Michelin three-starred chef on the floor—and up in the clouds.
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ROOM BY LE KIEF
This tiny cocktail kitchen in buzzy Da’an district actually serves up a full culinary experience. In his space of dimly lit booths around a stage-like bar, owner Seven Yi takes guests on a two-hour tasting journey.
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A heritage row in the former Burmese capital gives us food envy
Lined with crumbling fin-de-siècle buildings, Rangoon’s Pansodan Road transports visitors back to the former capital’s colonial yesteryears. But now, on-trend restaurants are breathing new life into the heritage edifices that once housed government offices and banks.
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This Macau restaurant has no menu, and that’s exactly why you should go
When Macau’s shiny new Zaha Hadid–designed Morpheus hotel opened last year to great fanfare, Yi restaurant sidled into the property’s 21st- floor, glass-walled skybridge, quietly but confidently positioning itself as one of the most innovative Chinese fine-diners in the city.
Culture
A Royal Revival in Lao Cuisine
Famous for dishing up award-winning Thai cuisine, the chef at the helm of Michelin-starred Paste Bangkok has ventured to the other side of the Mekong, offering reimagined takes on the traditional royal cuisine of her Lao heritage.
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8 Bangkok Restaurants Redefining a Genre
We’re just going to come right out and say it: Bangkok’s dining scene has never been more delicious or compelling than it is right now.
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Inside Tokyo’s Hidden Restaurants
It takes an expert to find some of Tokyo’s finest restaurants, which is why we asked photographer Shinsuke Matsukawa to take us on a visual tour of covert izakayas and tempura speakeasies.
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Banh Da Cua Di Ly
The interior might be rather sleek and modern but you’re coming for the best of Haiphong’s street-food scene at this family-run restaurant up the stairs at 103 Dong Khoi.
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Melting Pot Sydney Cooks Authentic and Nouveau Asian with Aplomb
In Australia, immigration, largely from Asia, is a hot-button issue. What isn’t in contention: the Asian culinary culture here flourishes.
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Front Room
For this fresh Thai fare with a Danish accent, little is lost in translation.
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100 Mahaseth
This über-sustainable nose-to-tail proves just how many tasty ways you can skin a cow.
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Funky Lam Kitchen
Two princes fulfill their culinary destiny with a hipper-than-thou, hotter-than-many, hill-country restaurant that gives old Laotian and Northern Thai recipes a decidedly modern update.
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Saawaan
Take a hearty trip through Thailand via a tasting menu brimming with delicious dishes we’d like to see a la carte. (The duo of female chefs at the helm is a fab added bonus.)
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Le Du
Delicately engineered plates starring local, seasonal produce are dreamed up by a celebrity chef who traffics less in “twists” than whiffs—call it, the edge of Thai.
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Sorn
Following the trail of history to old village recipes from soldiers and subsistence farmers made these southern boys an instant hit.
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Spinning Straw into Gold at 80/20
With a fresh revamp and a reorientation to tasting menus, one of the city’s secret faves is stepping out of the shadows.
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7 Terrific Meals in Singapore
There is not a more quintessential dining experience in the city than pulling up a plastic chair to tray full of food at a hawker center. Here, our abridged guide on what to order from the plethora of tasty plates dished out at these colorful outdoor food centers.
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5 Chef-Driven Eateries in Manila
Young chefs in the Philippine capital are whipping the local food scene into a frenzy with their cool restaurants.
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Dining and Driving Through Central Vietnam
Vietnam’s narrow waistline is bursting with indigenous dishes and inviting eateries. Duncan Forgan dines and drives from Hue to Danang to Hoi An.
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Sofitel Phokeethra Phnom Penh
When the Sofitel Phokeethra Phnom Penh opened its doors in early 2011, it became the first five-star hotel to open in the capital city since the 1990s.