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Top chefs launch global culinary award with sustainable twist

Some of the world's top chefs launched a new global culinary prize Monday aimed at rewarding cooks who use their skills to make an impact beyond the kitchen and onto society. Joan Roca, whose...

Every Sundae all sugar, coolness but misses the mark

Cielo Dolci makes some the best gelato in town and is my favourite, so when they opened a dessert cafe, I knew I had to pay them a visit. I gathered all my friends and made my maiden visit to...

Pepsi to open first restaurant in New York

Pepsi is working on a restaurant concept that quietly extols the virtues of its soda without plastering its logo, bottles and merchandise over all four walls. Due to open in the Chelsea...

Nestle Japan creates sake-flavoured Kit Kat

Nestle Japan will soon be offering a sake-flavoured Kit Kat, reports Rocket News 24. Japan has many Kit Kat flavours ranging from wasabi to red been sandwich to soy bean. Popular among foreign...

Homegrown Secret Recipe’s marble cheese cake voted one of Shanghai’s best

Secret Recipe's very own marble cheese cake has made it to the top 10 list of best cakes in Shanghai, China, as voted by users of Dianping.com, the country's biggest restaurant rating...

Combining science, food with molecular gastronomy

Plumes of thick white smoke float out of the kitchen. It's not a fire, it's just chef Isadora Chai making an espresso sorbet with liquid nitrogen, one of the many cool things one can do with...

Chinese New Year Snacks 101

Let your guests snack to their heart’s desire while everyone plays cards, mahjong, or gossips away. HungryGoWhere brings you some of the bestselling and most popular snacks of all time during...

3 cafes for good food and goodwill

Want to indulge in your weekly cafe visits and do some good at the same time? Here are three cafes that combine food full of heart and soul with a dose of charity and cheer: Project B,...

Three new restaurants Malaysians queued up for in 2015

2015 had many new food outlets that caught the public eye and caused huge lines, much like last year in 2014. Have you tried these spots, and did you think they were worth lining up...

New North Korean alcohol leaves ‘no hangover’

North Korea has created a hangover-free liquor that is between 30% and 40% alcohol but leaves you clear-headed in the morning, according to state media. A recent edition of the Pyongyang Times...

German brewers cheer 500th birthday of beer purity law

German brewers will be clinking glasses this year to the 500th anniversary of their "purity law", even as craft label designers complain the decree is cramping their style. Known in German by...

Dining at Kafe Warisan, Avenue K

Office-hour lunch-time dining is a race of sorts for the working crowd. One hour is broken down to making your way to and fro the food outlet of choice, getting a table and ordering, eating and...

Noma’s pop-up restaurant 108 opens today

108 at Noma, the famed two-star Michelin restaurant's new pop-up venture, opens today, giving food lovers 13 weeks to try the restaurant's new specialty dishes. Open from January 20 until...

Delicious waffles you will adore in KL, PJ

Wanted: The foster child of Brussels, Belgium. Join us on the hunt for the best waffles you will ever eat in Kuala Lumpur and Petaling Jaya. They come in all shapes, textures, and flavours, hot...

8 places for a prosperous Chinese New Year feast

With the Lunar New Year just around the corner, it's time to prepare your belly for all the festive feasting on auspicious delights like yee sang, poon choy and more. After all, nothing brings...

Famous nasi lemak in Shah Alam

Nasi lemak is such a classical Malaysian dish, a simple serving of coconut cream-steamed rice, spicy sambal, mixture of anchovies and peanuts, and cucumber, that there is no question why people...

Mak’s Chee wonton noodles hits the mark with 100-year-old recipe

Wonton has always been a staple in Chinese cuisine but it wasn't until the 1920s that Mak Woon Chee, in his humble stall in Guangzhou, became the first person to replace the usual pork filling...

Canadian whisky, best in the world but can’t hack it in Canada

Though it caused an international sensation when it was named the best whisky in the world in November, the Crown Royal Northern Harvest Rye has fallen short of being deemed the best in...

Bakso gets delicious fusion treatment at Rakshee

The carefully crafted Rakshee linguine wasn't just about throwing the bakso into a pasta but rather making sure the flavours complemented and matched each other. Rakshee puts the spotlight on...

Ambassador of Filipino cuisine Margarita Fores is Asia’s best female chef 2016

A chef in the Philippines who is considered an ambassador of both Italian and Filipino cuisines and who has served heads of state like US president Barack Obama and the king and queen of Spain...