Menu Malaysia: Fourth Course – Tanah Rata, Cameron Highlands

We were dubious about the Cameron Highlands. We’d met some tourists who had not been impressed, and the Lonely Planet guide (unreliable and disappointing in general, but that’s another blog post) implied that in recent years the region’s character had been wrecked with commercialism and its natural environment ravaged and plundered. The facts as we saw them? Continue reading Menu Malaysia: Fourth Course – Tanah Rata, Cameron Highlands

Menu Malaysia: A Sideserve in Lumut

Whenever I travel, I am constantly in search of the Authentic, which I suppose partly explains why we were reluctant to eat at any mid-priced or upmarket restaurants – rightly or wrongly, I suspect that these establishments are more likely to attract tourists, and to dumb down their food to cater for foreign tastes. That is doubtless very cynical of me, and unwarrantedly so. But it’s my paranoia and I’m sticking to it… Continue reading Menu Malaysia: A Sideserve in Lumut

Menu Malaysia: Third Course – Penang

As anticipated, the food in Penang was uniformly delicious. Again, we ate only at hawker centres and very cheap local restaurants, where foreigners were a rarity. Doubtless, there is magical eating to be had in Penang if you pay a bit more – IF you know where to go. We didn’t, so we chased up local recommendations, with invariably excellent outcomes. Continue reading Menu Malaysia: Third Course – Penang

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