Cameron Highlands Resort Murder Mystery Dinner

Fancy having a Cluedo style dinner at Cameron Highlands Resort! Instead of playing a board game, how about doing it role playing style?! So this was what the YTL Cameron Highlands Resort hotel did! Of course at the end of mystery play time the mystery would be solved and the murderer found.

But the same can't be said of the real mystery of Jim Thomson disappearance. Without sufficient evidence, all you end up with are just conspiracy theories. Another conspiracy tale to add to the world's many myriad unsolved mysteries and conspiracies.

As for this dinner mystery Cluedo stle bash, it is no mystery, just pure fun! Cheers!

Restoran Zainab Sam

FOR good Malay food in the Cameron Highlands, make your way to this outlet. Zainab Sam Abdul Latif started a stall in 1974 and over the years, it expanded into this small restaurant.

At 66, Zainab, who hails from Batu Gajah, Perak, still actively attends to her customers, who declare that she serves the best Malay and Thai-style cuisine in the area.

The restaurant serves fried rice in many styles, such as nasi goreng kampung and nasi goreng Pattaya. Prices start from RM3, depending on the cooking style and the ingredients. If you opt for plain rice, Zainab offers about 20 types of vegetable, meat and fish dishes daily.

There is also good sup tulang or beef bone soup to be found here. What is outstanding is the ikan keli masak sambal. Zainab's nasi lemak with its flavourful rice is also good. - Star Street Food Guide.

Restoran Zainab Sam
(Opposite HSBC Bank)
10 Main Road, Tanah Rata.
Tel: 05-491 1917
Open 6.30am to 10pm.
Days off not fixed.

(That's why it is difficult to try it. So many times I look for this stall and still no luck trying it! Cheers!)

Make a pit stop at Bidor

Make a pit stop at Bidor
Story and Photos by Grace Chen
Sunday April 12, 2009

Bidor town is a favourite stopover for travellers seeking fruits and local snacks.

LAI Yoke Kuan, the owner of Ah Yew Fruit Shop, stopped us dead in our tracks when she jumped out and playfully hollered, “Halt! Who goes there? Friend or foe?”

Once she got our attention, the 46-year-old mother of five broke into a charming smile and handed out slices of red, juicy bell fruit for sampling. Lai’s shock tactic worked because when we left, she had managed to sell us two packets of bell fruit, a few kilos of seedless guavas, a bag of tamarind pods and a few stalks of lotus fruit.

Khong Siew Kit of Pun Chun showing the restaurant’s famous chicken biscuits and shat ke ma.

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Mayflower Restaurant Steamboat

Mayflower Restaurant Steamboat:
Steaming out in the highlands
Story and photos by Grace Chen
Sunday March 22, 2009

To keep warm in Cameron Highlands, a steamboat dinner may just be the answer

The one point that Swee Pooi Choy wanted to push across was “honesty”.

United: (Left) A family that cooks together, stays together, insisted Swee Pooi Choy (far left) of Mayflower Restaurant. He is joined by his elder son, Kuan Wei, wife, Yoon Ah Ying, 62, (standing) and Kuan Hoe (with glasses).

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To prove it, the 64-year-old owner of a steamboat restaurant who had just transferred his 21-year-old business to his two sons, would point to the signboard at his restaurant front.

Malaysian food -- Pineapple Tarts

Malaysian favourite
Sunday December 14, 2008
By Faridah Begum

Sinful they may be but pineapple tarts are irresistible to us.

THERE is nothing more decadent than popping pineapple tarts into your mouth, one at a time. Imagine biting into buttery and crumbly pastry only to hit a soft centre of fibrous sweetness.

Pineapple tarts are certainly an all-time Malaysian favourite.

All year round, name any festival, and pineapple tarts is sure to be on hand or at least part of the baking plan.

How the cookie crumbles: Good pineapple tarts taste divine.

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It is difficult to imagine a festive table devoid of these luscious and absolutely sinful morsels of delight. No good host or hostess would be caught dead without them, either homemade or store-bought.

The origins of pineapple tarts is said to be truly Malaysian while the art of making the dough look like pineapples is something the Baba Nyonya have perfected.

Very popular in Malacca as a tourist must-have, it is next to impossible to miss the trays or containers of pineapple tarts on Jonker Street.

The best thing of Smokehouse Hotel and Restaurant

The best thing
By Clara Chooi
Saturday October 25, 2008

You can get a taste of ye olde England in Cameron Highland’s colonial-styled Smokehouse Hotel.

IT is not often that I am rendered speechless, least of all by a tourist destination in my own country, but the words failed me when I stepped into the Smokehouse Hotel.

I wondered if I had just stepped back in time.