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Nov 2016 – Restaurant Puti Bungsu

Restaurant Puti Bungsu is one of the few restaurants serving authentic MinangKabau food in Malaysia. The recipes of most of the dishes have been inherited from the ancestors which make this restaurant’s food have its own unique taste. Sometimes the ingredients must be brought from Indonesia as they can’t find the similar taste here even […]

Oct 2016 – Restaurant Sekmechoy in Salak Selatan

A group of 16 Enakkers really enjoyed their visit to this restaurant in Salak Selatan on Thursday 13 October. Sek Me Choy is the name of the owner who was a tin miner but in 1986 when the world price of tin fell suddenly he was forced to let go of his tin mines and […]

Aug 2016 – Wadi Hadramawt

ENAK is all about a taste of Malaysia. So we do tend to visit Indian, Chinese and Malay restaurants on our monthly food treks. Of course, we’ve tried a few others, such as Vietnamese, Sri Lankan, Bangladeshi and others in the past. September Enak was held at Wadi Hadramawt, a Yemeni restaurant on Jalan Ampang. […]

Jul 2016 – A Li Yaa

July’s Enak was held at A Li Yaa, a small Sri Lankan restaurant at Plaza Damansara. It was a small intimate affair with only 6 members in town at the time.  Attending were Suparna Kundu, Rosemary Chin, Maryann Kobzan-Diakow, Anjeeta Nayar and of course the organizers Vicki Fennessy and Michelle Pease.  While we all love […]

Jun 2016 – Marco Polo Restaurant

A group of MCG Enak members and guests enjoyed a Cantonese style ‘Dim Sum’ lunch at one the oldest Chinese restaurants in Kuala Lumpur. Marco Polo Restaurant is said to be one of the very few ‘Dim Sum’ places that has survived the intense competition through the years. Marco Polo Chinese Cuisine was founded in January 1980 by […]

Apr 2016 – New Heong Kee Restaurant

A special nighttime Enak this April ! Thanks to Joanne Mahendran for organizing and Chee Keong Choy for the fabulous photos and information! A wonderful night with delicious food and company! “BEGGAR’s CHICKEN” (or Hak Yi Kai) at New Heong Kee Restaurant in Ulu Klang, Kuala Lumpur. There are only three places in the Kuala […]

Mar 2016 – Hanwoori Restaurant

Hanwoori (“one of us”) Restaurant has been serving Korean and KL clients for more than 15 years. Located in Koreatown, across from Ampang Point, it is one of the many restaurants that cater to the 3,000 plus ethnic Koreans who live in the area. It is estimated that there are more than 20,000 Koreans who […]

Feb 2016 – Ampang Park Food Court

On the day that the Year of the Goat ended to make way for the Year of the Monkey, twelve of the Enak team paid a visit to a shopping mall with an uncertain future.  Ampang Park – the first shopping mall in Malaysia – has been served notice that it is to be demolished […]

Jan 2016 – Ganga cafe

You could be forgiven if you thought a flock of starlings had invaded the Ganga Café at lunchtime on Thursday. But no, come to think of it, a flock of starlings could never make the amount of noise the ENAKers achieved. Twenty-three women were telling each other how Christmas had been and wishing all and […]

Dec 2015 – Roshono Bilas

With over 500,000 migrant workers expected to move to Malaysia to work here & another 500,000 Bangladeshi Malaysians living here, the Bangladeshi cuisine will surely see more restaurants opening up in Malaysia.    However there seems to be few restaurants as of now serving the traditional food of this country. So for December Enak we will tried […]