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When a Langkawi-born restaurant beloved for Negeri Sembilan specialities launches its first KL outpost, the result is an instant hit.Spicy satisfaction: The Masak Lomak is the headliner, with sliced smoked beef sultrily swimming in a light coconut milk gravy, yellow with turmeric, fragrant with l...

This new Puchong bakery is a friendly stop for bringing home some classic treats, with old-fashioned butter cakes, coffee chiffon cakes and egg tarts beckoning from the shelves.Ikabake77, Jalan Puteri 5/7, Bandar Puteri, 47100 Puchong, Selangor. Daily, 730am-6pm.

Craving cocktails? Surrender to the call of the wild with whiskey sours at Solaris Mont Kiara's new bar with beautiful rainforest-themed murals.Amazonia SohoKL, Solaris Mont Kiara, 50480 Kuala Lumpur. Tel: 018-206-6599

This new maritime-themed restaurant mussels its way into Desa Sri Hartamas with a shipload of seafood - keep it simple with mussels braised in tangy, tomatoey picante sauce (RM31) or dive deeper with the paella arroz negro, blackened with squid ink, brightened with mussels, clams, scallops, prawn...

Peetzaduhh does a terrific job of crafting home-baked pizza with playful, pleasurable twists.Our favourite is the Japanese-inflected Salmon Jaga-Mayo, blanketed with salmon, potatoes, onions, black sesame, kewpie mayo and aonori seaweed flakes - it all comes together beautifully, giving you all t...

Wandercakes By Kat promises the wonder of fluffy cinnamon rolls, handcrafted with love and heart by a home baker who's a mother of two. Made with premium Japanese flour, omega-3 eggs, organic molasses, and of course, organic cinnamon, these rolls are tastefully, modestly sweet, buoyed by just eno...

Nan’s Dee-lites’ custard butter cookies are the perfect family recipe, rooted in the brand founder's own Nan (Grandmother).  Nan first began baking these cookies for pleasure before turning them into a festive treat for loved ones. She initially gifted the cookies to family and friends for Chi...

Summer Sweet Time promises the pleasures of Persian-beloved cakes and cream puffs, channelling the charm of an Iranian bakery for all seasons.The Napoleon Cakes are irresistible - fresh, thin layers of puff pastry, beautifully flaky to the bite, soaked and smothered with whipped cream frosting fo...

Minum petang: Kopi Numtang serves moka pot-brewed coffee with Malaysian twists in a booth by a bustling car wash in Ampang Hilir - smooth, milky-soft sips of iced caffeination for just RM7 a cup, laced with bonus ingredients like butter or nisan coconut sugar syrup.Kopi NumtangKampung Perwira Jay...

Calowries is worth the calories: PJ's new burgers-for-delivery joint offers not only full-portioned burgers but slider-sized ones too. Customers can savour a taster box of two mini burgers for only RM18.90 - the Braised Beef Burger is bursting with beautifully succulent chunks of unprocessed meat...

Indie Pizza Guys takes a freewheeling approach to its pizzas - if you love spicy pies, the Killer Cowboy Pizza is murderously fiery, with lamb sausages sautéed with chillies and onions, made extra-meaty with pepperoni and turkey ham, rounded out with hand-crushed tomato sauce, mozzarella, cranb...

If the pastry cream is your favourite component of choux au craquelin, check out MMG Patisserie's plumply stuffed puffs, which come in distinctive Asian tea-flavoured varieties - Japanese hojicha, Chinese Pu'er, Thai milk tea and Malaysian teh tarik (RM8.80 each). Crackly and crunchy to the bite,...

Beautiful and buttery enough to make Proust weep, 12% Bakery's scallop shell-shaped madeleines are 100% worth admiring - moulded sponge cakes that prove a treat for the senses, richly tasty and textured. A box of four flavours clocks in at RM35: Traditional almond deepened with dark chocolate,...

The Malaccan Eurasian speciality of Pang Susi comes to the Klang Valley, courtesy of Sabrozu, delivering this Kristang community favourite of sweet potato buns stuffed with chicken or sardines. 'Sabrozu' is Kristang for tasty, which Pang Susi is. These beautifully golden, buttery-rich snacks s...

The Allsome Gelato specialises in botanical-inspired gelato with light, lower-calorie virtues, crafted of floral and herbal ingredients, laced with spices and nuts. Distinctive temptations include gelato sandwiches layered between cookies - Earl Grey lemongrass gelato in gluten-free green tea coo...