#TRAVELOQUE FOOD | FRIENDS | PLACES
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EDITORS FAIRUZ KHALILAH Fairuz Khalilah Binti Mohd Fadzli kellyfadzli93@gmail.com 13 January 1993 Port Dickson, MY Editor / Journalist facebook.com/kellyleaixodia Instagram: @_kellyfadzli
“Keep walking forward. If Cinderella went back to pick up her shoes, she would not had become a princess.”
erma khaleeda Erma Khaleeda Binti Kamarudin ermakhaleeda93@gmail.com 15 August 1993 Malacca, MY Co-Editor / Journalist facebook.com/erma.khaleeda Instagram: @ermakhaleeda
“When it rains, look for rainbows. When it’s dark, look for stars.”
fatin athirah Fatin Athirah Binti Muhd Suhaimi fatin_athirah_suhaimi@yahoo.com 15 July 1993 Puchong, MY Co-Editor / Photographer facebook.com/fatin.athirah.180 Instagram: @fatyn_atyra
“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only a page.”
CONTENTs HUNGRY FOR HUNGARIAN Page eight
THE HIDDEN CAFE Page Twelve
Treasure in a claypot Page sixteen
DINE IN A LAB Page twenty
YOUNG AND SUCCESSFUL Page twenty-six
seize the moment Page thirty
work hard and get fit! Page thirty-four
To meet and to feel Page forty
Buried in art and coffee Page forty-four
the timeless town Page forty-eight
for the love of mural Page fifty-two
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HUnGRY FOR HUNGARIAN
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for us to find fresh Hungarian food in Malaysia. Luckily we have Secret 009 Kalacs here in Publika. Secret 009 Kalacs serves Hungarian food such as Gulyas or Gaulash, a soup or stew of meat, and vegetables, seasoned with paprika and other spices, Chicken Cake, Olive Oil Grill Chicken, Nokedli and the famous Kurtos Kalacs. Kurtos Kalacs is a traditional wedding Pastry. It name as Kurtos Kalacs in Hungary languages. Kurtos means Chimney, where as Kalacs is a type of pastry between bread and cake. Kurtos Kalacs is made from sweet, yeast dough (raised dough), of which a strip is spun and then wrapped around a truncated cone–
shaped baking spit, and rolled in granulated sugar. It is baked above charcoal cinders while lubricated with melted butter, until its surface gets a golden-brown color. During the baking process the sugar stuck on Kurtos Kalacs becomes caramel and forms shiny, crispy crust on the cake. The surface of cake can then be provided with additional toppings such as chocolate, ground walnut or cinnamon powder. Secret 009 Kalacs was founded by Piroska, a 74 years old Hungarian lady from Hungary, who now lives in Malaysia. As a person who likes to cook and eat, she founded Secret 009 Kalacs and she would like to introduce her country food to Malaysian.
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SECRET 009 KALACS UG Lot 26, Block C, Publika Shopping Gallery, No. 1, Jalan Dutamas, Solaris Dutamas, 50480 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. BUSINESS HOURS: 10:00am - 10:00pm
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would have noticed there is a hidden café at the most unlikely location? Located at the Regal Valet auto specialist centre, only a few might peer deep within and realise that something surprising has stirred here. For the food lovers you guys can go and visit Monkey Garage at Jalan Maarof, Bangsar another very friendly café in the hustling town of Kuala Lumpur. Not only known for the setting of the café that seems like a sanctuary for the locals, the café also serves daily specials such as on Tuesdays, customer can enjoy their lip-smacking Laksa Johor is, the straight-from-the-south recipe with spaghetti & creamy fish-&coconut gravy, while on Wednesdays there's a supremely hearty nasi tomato & ayam masak merah and on Fridays are currently reserved for nasi lemak & rendang.
a hidden cafe
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You also can get a mouthful and delicious sandwiches from butter gipfel stuffed with scrambled eggs to pumpkin wholegrain ciabatta with hot beef salami & baguette with chicken & cheese here at Monkey Garage. We do not recommend the main course on the menu since it serve non-halal dishes. Not to mention their yummy desserts such as their speciality the Congo Bar, a basically a nutty blondie with chocolate chips. Of course since it is called Monkey Garage, you can enjoy their monkeyslove-bananas theme of a light such as smooth cheesecake with bananas & peanut butter and also a lovely caramel banana tart. You also will enjoy well the milk chocolate cake with marshmallows, banana cakes & other confections to tempt the sweet tooth. As on beverage, their Italian coffee and hot chocolate would definitely hit the spot on currently rainy days of Kuala Lumpur.
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MONKEY GARAGE CAFÉ Regal Valet, Lot 61, Jalan Maarof, Bangsar 59000 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Tel: 03-2282-1282 BUSINESS HOURS: Weekdays: 9:30am - 7:00pm Weekends: 9:30am - 5:00pm
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treasure in a claypot When
we say Malacca, and we say food, the first thing would come in our mind are Asam Pedas, a dish of various type of fish or meat in spicy and sour stew-like gravy mixed with lady’s finger. Want some more special of Asam Pedas? Visit Asam Pedas Claypot or also known as Restoran Kota Laksamana 1 where the Asam Pedas were cooked in the claypot. This restaurant is popular of their Asam Pedas and some of people even said that it’s a must visit restaurant when you visit Malacca.
Served with plain rice, fried mixed vegetables, salted egg and the hot and kickin’ sambal belacan, this Asam Pedas would be the heaven on earth for the authentic spicy food lovers. Besides serving Asam Pedas Claypot, they also serve roti canai, burgers, fried rice, otak-otak and so much more. The restaurant is only open for dinner from 6pm to 3am in the morning. We recommend this place if you were looking for the most delectable Asam Pedas in the world.
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ASAM PEDAS CLAYPOT @ RESTORAN KOTA LAKSAMANA 1 86, Jalan Laksamana 3, Taman Kota Laksamana, 75200 Melaka, Malaysia BUSINESS HOURS: 6:00pm - 3:00am
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Dine in a Lab This
casual concept of cafe implemented by various of elements from science laboratory by presenting their serving with the equipment and apparatus that looks like doing some experiment in laboratory is the main attraction for the Chemistry Cafe+Lab. The concept idea of the chemistry cafe comes from Intan Syafina Datuk Abd Rahman and Zuhairy Zakaria, the owners of the Chemistry Cafe+Lab. This cafe choose chemistry lab as their concept because the element of science can triggers people’s mind of the chemistry subjects. It can be seen through the way they served their food and drinks, and also their waitress who will be wearing laboratory coat like a scientist. Chemistry Cafe+Lab have uniqueness in each of their menu. They also have expertise to comeout with coffee that have full of aroma with some selection from Mexico. Menu that are selected by most of the customers if they came to the Cafe is Roasted Chicken, Beef Stew, Beef Nanchos with Sour Cream, Bolognese Beef Tortillas and Calamari with Garlic and Tomato Souce. For drinks, the Chemistry Cafe+Lab serve Smoothie Mix Berries, Harry Potter, Chocalate Crunchy and Caramel Coffee.
THE CHEMISTRY CAFE + LAB NO 26, J ALAN KRISTAL J7/J, SEKSYEN 7, 40000 SHAH ALAM, SELANGOR. BUSINESS HOURS: Mon-Thurs: 12:00pm - 1:00am Fri: 12:00pm - 1:00am Sat-Sun: 10:00am - 2:00am
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Young And Successful Who says you can’t be suc-
cessful in a very young age? Ima Shariza can proves that to you. At the age of 21, she now owns a boutique and a skincare product line. Born on 2nd November 1993, the owner of the name Ima Shariza Abdul Hamid, now are busy running on her business called Maisha House located in Bandar Baru Bangi, Selangor. According to Ima, the path to get to where she is now is not an easy route, she had to start business at a very young age during her high school years selling clothes online. Things were getting serious from April 2012 when she started the Instagram shop. Around that time also, she started designing muslimah dresses, jubah, abaya to be sell under Maisha House Collection and in June 2014, she finally opened her first physical boutique in Bandar Baru Bangi. Besides being busy with selling clothes
and attire, this Diploma in Beauty and Health holder from Australian Institute of Applied Sciences (AIAS) did not waste what she learned in her classes. In May 2013, she started her own skincare product line called Instabright Skincare. Using Ariz from one of Malaysia boyband, Forteen, as the face of Maisha House and Instabright Skincare, Ima also told us the skincare products are approved by Malaysian Health Ministry (KKM) and to whitening and make skin become more flawless. She just releases few attire for Maisha House which are Adelia Instant Shawl, Saarah Shawl, Madarina Abaya and Madeena Dress. As for Instabright Skincare product, Ima just release Argan stemcell stretch mark serum and Argan stemcell repairing face serum. It’s definitely not a smooth and easy route to become successful at a young age!
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WEBSITE:
http://www.maishahouse.com
EMAIL:
maisha.house@yahoo.com
FACEBOOK:
http://www.facebook.com/ima.shariza
INSTAGRAM:
@imashariza_ @maishahouse @instabrightskincare_hq
ALAMAT:
C-11-03A, Plaza Paragon Point, Jalan Medan Pusat Bandar 5, 43650 Bandar Baru Bangi, Selangor.
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Seize the moment
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is talking about how a picture can say a thousand words. While some say that pictures can live forever. No doubt on that, a guy has decided to live his life to prove it. Meet Farid Jalil, a full spirited photographer who can make timeless memories never fade away. Based in Shah Alam, the owner of the name Mohd Farid Azfar Bin Jalil has been in this photography industry for almost 7 years. At the age of 24, this young guy now has his own studio called FJ Photography Studio in Seksyen 7, Shah Alam. Born on 16th June 1990, Farid start off as a freelance photographer around Shah Alam and in 2008 he started his own photography workshop around Malaysia. Farid is known by his friends and clients as some who is willing to share his knowledge and skills. He held few workshops on photography, videography and also make up for low prices and sometimes for free.
His motto is “experiences were meant to be shared, not to be kept�. This Diploma in Graphic Design holder from PTPL Shah Alam has expanded his business from just photography to videography, graphic designing and doing printing works. Not just that, he also added new service which is a training centre for makeup, developing websites, graphic design, photography, videography and post editing on photograph and video. Currently Farid is busy doing photo shoot for weddings and convocations since it is the end of the year where people were busy doing weddings and most universities are having their convocations. Besides that, he also doing product shoots for his clients. Farid Jalil is definitely an artist who is drawing with light.
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EMAIL :
fjstudio@yahoo.com
FACEBOOK :
http://www. facebook.com/xfaridjalilxl http://www.facebook.com/xFJStudiox
INSTAGRAM :
@xfaridjalilx @officialfjstudio
TELEPHONE :
03-58886409
ALAMAT :
FJ Photography Studio 6-B, Jalan Plumbum P7/P, Pusat Komersial Seksyen 7, 40000 Shah Alam, Selangor Darul Ehsan.
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Work Hard and get fit ! The
aestatics of being fit and be in the gym has driven this young man to pursue as a fitness coach. Doing it as a freelance to generate side income, Izzat Iskandar said it is not easy being a fitness coach while still holding on the title of full time student at University of Kuala Lumpur Malaysia Institute of Information Technology in Diploma in Multimedia. Izzat finished his sport science study at Bandar Penawar Sport School in ma jor of rugby and also representing Malaysia. Starting as a part time model, Izzat says that in order to look good he needs to go to the gymnasium 5 days a week. Since that, the grandson of the legendary A.R Tompel admit that he grew fond of it and he became addicted of doing work out. Being physically active in rugby and futsal, he had experiences injury on his knee which requires him to be hospitalized and rest for about six months before can get back on track. However, he needs to start slowly so that the recovery can take place and stay fit. At the age of 21 years old, the owner of the name Mohd Irwan Izzat Mohd Iskandar has been coaching for a few numbers of people and most of them turn out quite well. Now Izzat is coaching a group of his former classmates at a gym in Wangsa Ma ju, Taman Melati and Gombak on the weekend. He also do boot camp training and personal training while struggling with his classes. Izzat Iskandar is a true man of iron after all.
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EMAIL :
izzatthetrainer@gmail.com
FACEBOOK :
http://www. facebook.com/irwanizzatxx
INSTAGRAM :
@coachizzat
TELEPHONE :
+6012 - 2862253
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To meet and to feel
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Art should be both splendid and sporadically
‘mean’, and to get from sensation to significance, it has to be missioned by persons, arbitrating between a sense of the past and an instinctive understanding of our surroundings. And perhaps, it is this objective which inspired Suarasa, brought to life with the intention of conveying together, a miscellany of works by artists of several generations Suarasa is merged from two Malay words, ‘sua’ (to meet) and ‘rasa’ (to feel). Rasa, of Sanskrit origin, meaning ‘juice’ or ‘essence’ represents a crucial spiritual state and is the passionate leitmotif of an objet d’art or the prime sensation that is educed in the individual who sees, reads and perceives such a composition. Now, after the success of Suarasa and Suarasa II, Suarasa III now beckons, featuring yet another formidable group of 27 artists showcasing 26 diverse works, a few returning from Suarasa II.
Fadilah Karim for one, the intensifying star; a wunderkind whose works of ‘shiny-not-sohappy-people’ making a return after her incredible two-woman show Msyt{EO}ry in MayJune this year, Aznan Omar’s aluminum plate Cyberlife of Obsession on communication breakdowns/meltdowns, Mastura Abdul Rahman’s ‘controlled’ fairy tales come to life under a Moon luminesce, and much more drama, of the primal, fantasies, politics of human conditions and so much more. Suarasa III is located at Segaris Art Center at Publika Shopping Gallery and is open to public from October 22nd 2014 – 14 November 2014, 10am – 7pm daily (including weekends and public holiday). The admission is free.
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SEGARIS ART CENTER Lot No. 8, Level G4, Publika Shopping Gallery, Solaris Dutamas, No. 1 Jalan Dutamas 1, 50480 Kuala Lumpur PHONE: +603 6211 9440 FAX: +603 6243 1107 BLOG: segaris-artcenter. blogspot.com/ FACEBOOK: facebook.com/segarisart center
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buried in art and coffee
Forget Starbucks when you’re in Malacca, and head to one of the best coffee places in the city, Calanthe Art Cafe. Located in a narrow alley just off the well-known Jonker Street, the cafe is like a quiet oasis, even though the decor doesn’t quite say the same thing – it is vibrantly furnished, with eclectic and creative touches such as rattan furniture hanging from the ceiling, hand-painted walls, and little trinkets on shelves throughout the property. Calanthe might be one good-looking cafe, but its wide array of coffee selections is what makes it famous. Besides that, the cafe also offers one-of-a-kind blends such as green tea coffee (green tea and coffee with whipped cream on top) and ‘Jealousy,’ a rich espresso blend with a dollop of mint paddy syrup; and ice-blended drinks such as ‘Cendol Ice Blenz’ (palm sugar and coconut milk topped with red beans and cendol) and ‘Pink Lady’, a concoction of vanilla, ice, whipped cream and strawberry sauce. Alongside coffee, other delicious drinks such as milk shakes, smoothies, teas, and soda mixes are also on the menu, all creatively-curated for the non-coffee drinker. With the tagline ‘The First and Only One’, Calanthe is unique, serving specialty coffee drinks from all the 13 states of the country, so if you’re an adventurous coffee aficionado, this is definitely something you want to try.
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CALANTHE ART CAFE No. 11. Jalan Hang Kasturi, 75250 Melaka, Malaysia +606-2922960 BUSINESS HOURS: Sunday: 8:30am – 11:00pm Monday – Wednesday: 12:00pm – 23:00pm Thursday: Closed Friday: 12:00pm – 12:00am Saturday: 8:30am – 12:00am
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The Timeless Town
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Malacca is the historical state of Malaysia, rich with heritage buildings, ancient landmarks and colonial structures. It was here that colonial forces first made contact with Malaysia, which eventually shaped the country into its current economic and political system. Today, in Malacca, you can still see the imprints of British, Dutch and Portuguese forces left behind in forts, museums, churches and towers. You'll learn about the rich heritage and history which has shaped Malacca into the unofficial historic capital of Malaysia. The most prominent contribution that Malacca has lent to the Malaysian cultural landscape is the Baba-Nyonya culture. Possessing an entirely new blend of customs, traditions, food and lifestyle, the Nyonya are especially prominent throughout Malacca.
Although the city is a mix of old and new with historical buildings standing side by side with ultra modern shopping centres it retains this seamless blend of cultures. At the Jonker Street located at small streets in Chinatown in the city centre, tourists can experience and taste lots of authentic and rare food. Along Jonker Street there aren’t a lot of sightseeing opportunities unless you count the noisy Chinese New Year song-and-dance show that takes place this time of year. Visit Malacca for the cultural experience of a lifetime. Malacca is a small city with many eye-catching sights and attractive modern establishments. It is easy to get around on foot or trishaw to explore the many places that make it unique.
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PLACES IN PICTURES: Jonker Walk Christ Church Melaka in Dutch Square Stadthuys in Dutch Square Melaka River Cruise Menara Taming Sari Kampung Morten Jalan Hang Jebat Jalan Kasturi
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For the love of mural Murals are getting viral nowadays. From just an art of vandalism, things are getting more serious when it gets recognition and acknowledgement from the government. We also can see a few 3D art museums are open in Kuala Lumpur, Penang and even Port Dickson. These kinds of arts were even appreciated when the government take the chance to enhance the back alley called #lorongbelakang project, the Laman Seni 7. It was the initiative of Ma jlis Bandaraya Shah Alam (MBSA) to change the back alley environment become cleaner, safer and can be visited by people. The artworks were chosen through the Laman Seni 7 Competition which were categorized by 3D Painting, 3D Installation, Street Furniture dan Painting On Site.
Depending on how detail you are in appreciating art (or photography for that matter), you can easily spend one hour at this Shah Alam attraction. Bring along your cameras, gopros, smartphones, selfie stick and have a fun and ‘hipster’ your time here at Laman Seni 7. Organised by KHZNH Studio, Laman Seni 7 is bigger, grander and more exciting. You can get here by driving or ride a bus to any of these landmarks and Laman Seni 7 will be within walking distance such as Tutti Fruitti Seksyen 7 Shah Alam, Islamic Steakhouse, Restoran Wong Solo Seksyen 7 Shah Alam. Once you are at the above landmarks, just walk into a nearly back alley and you will be able to spot the murals. If you can’t find any street art or murals and can only see mices, stink drainage or even a guy doing dishes, then you are at a wrong back alley!
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LOCATION: Laman Seni 7 @ #lorongbelakang Lorong Belakang Jalan Plumbum Q 7/Q, Pusat Komersial Seksyen 7, 40000 Shah Alam, Selangor Darul Ehsan
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Dedications We dedicate this magazine to our family who always help and support us mentally and financially, friends who always there when we needed the most, lecturers (especially Madam Azu) who help us a lot with the lessons given by them and not to forget the students of UniKL MIIT. We hope that this magazine will inspire you to travel and explore the world and also not to give up on your hopes and dreams.
“Laughter is timeless, imagination has no age and dreams are forever.� - Walt Disney
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Special Thanks Madam zuriani abd ghani
Madam suzidiana sulaiman
mr ahmad fahmi
mr haji malik
Ms Intan Syafina Abd Rahman
Mr Zuhairy Zakaria
mr fauzi
Ima Shariza
farid jalil
mohammad hafriz
Izzat Iskandar
aqmal merican
nurul nabila
maisha house
FJ photography
ceknek productions
malaysia institute of information technology
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