Best Southeast Asian food in KL

Due to location, food in Burma takes from China, India and Thailand, owing to its deep end of the gene pool. Despite this, the complexity of the cuisine sails past most top chefs looking to Asia for inspiration.

Filipino food is a delicious jumble of influences from its colonialism and geographical location. There’s some Spanish, some American, some Portuguese, some Chinese, and some Malay.

To know Indonesian food is to know that rice is perpetually eaten at any time of the day. It’s the staple crop in a country of over 250 million – it’s no surprise then that the Indonesians have thought of hundreds of sides and condiments to eat it with.

The food in a country is only as complex as its history – and in Vietnam, it shows. Signs of French influences are as clear in their food as they are in elaborate cathedrals and pastel-hued block houses in Hanoi’s Old Quarter.