Tao Zui Kitchen, Bandar Damai Perdana

Tao Zui Kitchen is Damai Perdana’s new family-run cafe for comforting rice bowls, warmly led by chef Tao, his wife and his sister.

Aburi Five-Spice Pork Belly is lusciously layered with slow-cooked meat, fresh-tasting with fragrant smokiness, perky with pickled cucumbers and onsen tamago. Pair with supple-smooth chilli oil wontons, soulfully tongue-tingling.

Fun fact: Cooking runs in Seremban-born chef Tao’s family. His grandfather worked in a Hainanese kopitiam in Port Dickson, where their household enjoyed preparing communal meals like chicken rice.