Stereo-Type, Petaling Jaya

Stereo-Type is Section 17’s new needle drop for audiophiles and after-hours aficionados, a PJ cafe tuned like a listening room.

Come for the A-side of ‘cappuccino pasta,’ including sambal garlic butter tiger prawn spaghetti served in a mug; stay for the low-noise, hi-fi soundscape with zero-proof coolers spiced with ginger, chilli and lime.

Eleven Moon, Subang Jaya

Subang’s new Eleven Moon shines with shio pan, served extra-crisp and savoury with truffle scrambled eggs or sweet with chocolate ganache.

Padoo, Kota Kemuning

Pop into Padoo, Kota Kemuning’s cosy new corner for baguettes and brews, with specialities like pulled beef sandwiches and white chocolate pistachio matcha.

Take a photo here with Padoo’s film camera to help fill their upcoming memory wall, while enjoying 50% off everything for the soft launch this current weekend.  

Torino Toriko, Lot 10

With a flagship store in Ginza, Tokyo, Torino Toriko is Lot 10’s new kitchen for tori paitan with chicken-based ramen broth.

The signature shoyu is delicate-textured and deep-tasting, sweetened with seafood dashi of kelp and bonito flakes plus red onion oil, smoothly extracted and emulsified with a frothy head that heralds fresh-boiled, collagen-rich chicken bones, flesh and skin, satisfyingly luscious with a trio of minced, sliced and deep-fried chicken.

Guided by chef Kazushige Domon, Torino Toriko is slated to run here for six months.

Ara Sikdang, Ara Damansara

Fans of fun Korean cooking, explore Ara Damansara’s new Ara Sikdang for everything from beef intestine sundubu-jjigae to barbecued eel rice bowls, chicken gizzard buldak to skipjack tuna kimbap, deep-fried quail to minari pancakes.

Spearheaded by a Seoul-born founder, specialities span the soulful beef intestine sundubu-jjigae, loaded with springy-chewy intestines and silky-soft tofu in lightly spicy stew. 

Live Malaysian eel is slaughtered everyday for the freshwater eel rice bowl, meaty-textured and clean-tasting, while tender water celery forms the fragrant, full-bodied foundation for the minari pancake. Youn Yuh-jung might approve.