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For quality steaks, you can’t go wrong with PRIME. One of the city’s pioneering fine dining steak restaurants, PRIME serves top class halal certified imported beef. Choice cuts include the wagyu prime ribs with marble score six, Black Angus 200 days grain-fed steaks, and Australian 80 and 100 days aged steaks. Other traditional steak restaurant favourites are also available – for instance the clam chowder and apple wood-smoked Norwegian salmon – along with seafood selections such as Boston lobster, barramundi jumbo prawns and cod. Don’t worry if you can’t decide between the steak and the seafood; just go with the surf and turf for the best of both worlds. The Caesar salad takes the place of pride at PRIME too, and this classic dish is prepared live in front of you.

Award-winning Cantonese restaurant Celestial Court is known for their inventive dim sum. Chef Ken Liew doesn’t just make dim sum staples like har gao and siew mai, he also creates new dishes and flavour pairings highlighting premium ingredients that are not commonly found in regular dim sum. Some of the star items from his new menu include Imperial Sea Treasure Dumpling with Abalone, sun-dried scallop served with superior chicken consommé, crystal spinach dumpling with lobster, scallop topped with curry crab meat and flying fish roe, crispy crab meat dumpling served with pumpkin sauce, and many more. Whether you’re fond of steamed, pan-fried, deep-fried, stir-fried or baked dim sum, you will find something to your liking here. Dim sum is available during lunch, and the dishes are priced from RM16++. You can also order from the à la carte and set menus.

Qba is that all-encompassing outlet where you can spend the whole night, from pre-dinner cocktails to the meal proper, then proceeding on to post-dinner drinks and party. Inspired by the Latino experience, Qba is a wine bar and cigar lounge, a Latin grill dining room, an island bar and also an alfresco dining space. It is widely known for their variety of rum blends, South American fine wines and is also occasionally a social hub for the local Latin dance scene.

The Andaman in Langkawi is one of the country’s top resorts, and its location in a 10 million-year-old rainforest is the resort’s best selling feature. It should come as no surprise that the resort’s onsite restaurant Jala seeks to take full advantage of this idyllic natural setting.

Jala is designed to be a rustic beachside experience where the architecture is stripped to its most basic form to allow the indoors and the outdoors to merge as one. The surrounding rainforest is as much the attraction here as the menu of fresh seafood cooked in a fusion of Malay and Western styles, making Jala a popular destination restaurant in Langkawi.

Sustainability is naturally the concept behind the food at Jala. The chefs champion local ingredients, and they even partner with local fishermen to obtain the freshest catches which are delivered to the resort daily.

For more info visit www.theandaman.com.

A new addition to Le Méridien Kota Kinabalu, Favola is a classy restaurant done up in rich hues of granite and warm grey, set in contrast with an opulent palette of gold, bronze and dark wood. Aside from the main dining area, you can also choose to sit in the private room for added privacy, or out on the alfresco balcony and enjoy the sea breeze. The menu is a showcase of authentic Italian specialities, with emphasis on pastas, steaks, seafood and desserts. The menu also features Italian and international wines to complement your meal.

For more info visit www.lemeridienkotakinabalu.com.

A family-friendly restaurant, The Eatery at Four Points by Sheraton Penang is an all-day dining venue that has something for everyone. Serving both local and international flavours, The Eatery has both indoor and outdoor seating, complete with sea view.

For breakfast, The Eatery is known for their freshly baked breads and pastries. Look out for the raisin bran and all-bran cereal, bircher muesli, apple brioche loaf, Sheraton croissant, Rustico baguette and also the dim sum selections. Come lunch or dinner, check out the à la carte menu. Some of the more popular dishes include the sumptuous Sloppy Joe Burger (chicken or beef patty dipped in black pepper sauce and served with double cheese, beef bacon or chicken toast, pepper marmalade, fried egg and skinny fries on the side) and the Diavola wood oven pizza (pepperoni, red peppers and chilli flakes). Craving pasta instead? Try the Gambroni pasta, which comes loaded with ingredients: king prawn, spicy plum tomato sauce, garlic, fresh Italian basil and arugula leaves.

For more info visit www.fourpointspenang.com.