Ipoh Hainanese Curry Mee
Our quest to search for the “best” curry noodles brought us to Fatt Kee coffee shop in Ipoh Garden South. At RM7, there was only half a shrimp, cut lengthwise, … Read More
Food Gems at Kedai Kopi Chor Kee
In our quest to support the small business holders in our community, we have been patronising coffee shops that we hadn’t visited for the longest time. Many are unfortunately hard … Read More
Tucked-in Clothes a Thing of BEAUTY
During a two-week family holiday in Japan, Latifah Hamzah noticed a simple fabric art piece hanging on the wall of her sister’s home in Tokyo. “I was curious and asked … Read More
Exploring Malaysia, One Dish At A Time
Listening to Englishman Rhys William converse in Bahasa Malaysia (BM), from his fluency, one would be surprised to discover that he only picked up the language when he relocated to … Read More
Going Places, Playing Hockey
When Rafaqat Shahzad was selected from a pool of coaches to lead a team of young hockey players from Hong Kong’s Shaheen Sports Club to Ipoh, it was like a … Read More
Doing it for Children
When Muhammad Zulfadhli Bin Nor Azmi received the positive news that he has been granted a scholarship from Terengganu Foundation to pursue medicine at Jordan University of Science and Technology … Read More
Frenchman Here to Stay
Twelve years ago, when Thibault Paquin’s fledgling career in the hotel development industry took him from his home city of Paris to Bangkok, he had no idea that he would … Read More
Spellbound by Sabah
A loud thought about joining his friend in Borneo changed the course of the life of Lukasz Przybylek for two years and counting. While working as a forester for Polish … Read More
On Neverending Road Trip
What was originally planned as a one-night stay in Kuala Lumpur to extend his Indonesian visa where he had been doing a motorcycle trip from Java to Nusa Tenggara for … Read More
No Flight of Fancy
Lightly painting one brush stroke of brown watercolour after another over a different shade of brown, Chong Kok Leng was about to complete yet another piece of art on an … Read More
Keeping Tengkolok Tradition Alive
Deftly folding a triangular songket into a tengkolok, shaping it by wrapping the fabric around his knee as he sat on a chair, Raja Ahmad Akashah demonstrated how the headdress … Read More
Savouring Johor’s Food Scene
Riding pillion on his father’s trusty little Honda as his dad manoeuvred the bike from their home in Toa Payoh Singapore, crossing the Causeway to Sungai Segget in old downtown … Read More