Wednesday, September 12, 2007

Where to Dine

Born in Malaysia, a multi-ethnic country I always thinking eating out is very enjoying as Malaysia is a culinary diversity country. Malaysia has cosmic array of food with endless variety, such as Malay, Chinese, India, Nyonya, Western, Fast food, Portuguese. I always feel that Malaysia is a food paradise where there are no limitations and full of variety and abundance of food. I always feel lucky and proud to be Malaysian.

When food is in the topic, we always want to find nice, tasty and cheap food. But with the wide variety of food in Malaysia, finding the nice and cheap food is not easy thing but very nuisance. I always feel very annoyance to decide a dining place either for normal dinner or any celebration. I and my friends always cannot make a decision where to dine. Just imagine, Klang Valley is so big. It is not a simple task to come to a decision where to dine in based on the location, price and atmosphere which is suitable to us or the celebration. So, sometime will end up eating something that everybody doesn’t really enjoy it and the price is out of budget.

After few times facing the same problems now I come to a conclusion. Decide what category of food to eat before choosing the restaurant. Example, if I feel like eating western food then I will go into a deep survey of the western restaurant which is available based on the location, menu, descriptions, and review of the restaurant before I pay a visit to that particular restaurant to dine in. Usually I will go into the Malaysia dining directory to find all the dining listing before I choose. Recently I find my favourite dining directory, dining-choices. It made my job easier. I can easily find the information I need in dining-choices. Dining choices provide short information like the description of the restaurant, menu, and location. Short and brief and I no need to browse through and go through the whole website of the restaurant website. It cut short my searching period.

Beside the price of the food, the quality of food will always be the consideration when I choose where to dine. Some restaurants food is very expensive but it taste very good and delicious so once in a while I won’t mind paying more to enjoy the food. Apart from that, location of the restaurant is also important. Prefer to dine in the location which is nearby to my house during weekdays to avoid traffic jam. Nowadays, I love to visit other people blog sharing their favorite food reviews about the entire restaurant and dining places.

In Malaysia, dining-choices have all the dining listing with audio and video pod cast. Where the atmosphere of the dining is being captured and I can watch it before I decide the location to dine in. Sometimes when I wish to enjoy my dinner at romantic places, I will go to dining-blog to browse through the atmosphere of the dining places which I feel comfortable with. I also enjoy the reviews in dining-blog where I can quote professional comments on selected restaurant before I decide to dine in. I can view all the famous and unique dishes from the particular restaurant before I dine in. This also let me decide what I want to eat when I dine in the restaurant. Normally, after I dine in I will put my comments in dining-blog. I enjoy sharing my favourite foods with everyone who appreciates foods.

Sometime, when I am in tight budget, I will always check on the price list before I dine in anywhere. From the range of the price list which is affordable to me, I will choose the places to dine in based on the audio and video pod cast found in dining blog. Occasionally having budget dining is also enjoyable. But once in a while, I also want to enjoy nice food in good atmosphere. So my dining choice will depend on my mood and financial ability. I always feel very happy and excited when I read the motto Now Everyone Can Eat. This is true, everyone also enjoy eating, so now everyone can eat.

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