Chocolate lovers and cocoa addicts, yes you there. Cancel your plans this weekend, because from 8th to 10th January is Malaysia Chocolate Fair 2010. Malaysian first dedicated chocolate fair.

Featuring top chocolatiers, chocolate makers, manufactures and artisans all in one place, the event will showcase both local and imported chocolates from various countries in different varieties of flavors.

This weekend head over to Mid Valley Exhibition Center, and expect to meet at least 10,000 chocolate lovers, chocolate connoisseurs and other chocoholics from all walks of life.

There are also talks on the history of cocoa in Malaysia, chocolate making demonstrations, chocolate recipes and more. Visit chocolatefair.com.my for more information.

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Italiannies chain of restaurants, is a spin off from T.G.I Friday’s Malaysia. The restaurant chain have been popping up in few places in Kuala Lumpur. It offers a different dinning environment to T.G.I Friday’s. Italiannies serves American-Italian style food, think spaghetti, pasta, pizza and such.

Apart from the food, one of the restaurant appeal is its environment. The decor are designed as if you just walked into an Italian homey family run restaurant. You are at a corner street restaurant in Italy. Not that I’ve been to Italy but that’s how I imagine it would be.

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Sorry for the long hiatus. Maintaining multiple blogs are really time consuming. However MakanByte is not forgotten. The MakanByte krew is back and just in time for Raya! We dust of some cobwebs, a little spring cleaning and we should be back in business.

We are always looking for a good places to dine. So if you have any favorite, restaurant, stall, mamak, warung, cafe, bristo, do let us know!

MakanByte is also looking for contributers. If you have a passion for food – cooking or consuming or both – and a passion for bloggin – writing and food photography, contact us.

Stay tune… and Selamat Hari Raya.

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If you go to The Curve often you might have walked pass by this tiny little cafe on ‘The Walk’, the strips between The Curve and Cineleasure. You might even walk pass California Cafe hundreds of times and not even notice it.

So this time we decided to stop by and try out its desserts.

There are limited choice of ice cream on its ice cream menu. We ordered the Black Forest Coupe and Cherry Jubilee.

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Recently I went to Burger King. Sometimes I love some fast food, and Burger King is one of my favorite. As I arrived at the outlet, I notice a promotional poster. It’s the new BBQ Beefacon Cheese Stacker with the tag line “Do You Dare?”.

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MakanByte crew have been in a hiatus for quite some time. Now we are back in action.

Good news is that we have been traveling, and on the way we found some great eating spots and enjoyed some great food. Expect to see more food blog post soon.

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My dad just got back from Sabah. Apparently in Sabah seafood is pretty cheap, he brings back with him a few boxes of prawns. This calls for a prawn fiesta. Several different types of prawns were prepared.

If you were wondering how one ships prawns or other seafood from Sabah, they are packed in a plastic bag of frozen ice. Just like a block of ice with prawns inside. It would last for hours before completely melt. This also means that it will take some time for it to defrost.
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Sorry for the long hiatus, the MakanByte crew is back bringing to you more delicious yummy blog posts. Before that, here are some updates.

MakanByte has big ambitions, it wants to be more then just a blog about restaurant reviews. There are tons of blog doing that. MakanByte wants to be a community for food lovers to share their culinary experience and be passionate about food. You know what they say, “You are what you eat.”

In order to make this work, MakanByte needs to expand its reaches to all conners of the web-o-sphere. We did and had make our tiny hang out place over at Facebook. Joins the MakanByte Facebook group and share a makan place or a food you like.

You could also login in via your Facebook account to post comments, you’ll get to have your Facebook avatar on the comments. This is done through Facebook Connect, a secure authentication Facebook web-fu.

For those with weird fetish of taking photographs of food and posting it on your Flickr account, well there is now a MakanByte Flickr Group that you could submit all your tasty food pictures.

So see you around.

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Chun Buri Seafood and Tom Yam restaurant serves Thai dishes. Located at Kota Damansara, it’s a small restaurant. The all wood deco creates a feeling as if you are entering someone’s wooden kampung house.

The place does not look like it can fit a lot of people, unlike some other popular Malay Thai restaurant / warung that put up tables up to the streets, Chun Buri only has tables inside the outlet.

Normally I would order either Nasi Goreng Pataya or Nasi Goreng Paprik, this time however, we ordered white rice with some dishes. For those who can’t decide which dish goes with what, they have it in their menu several different sets. We ordered package one, a set of meal enough for 3-4 people.

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Since it is Deepavali, we decided to have something Indian for dinner. What better place to dine other then Taste of India restaurant located at Aman Suria, in Petaling Jaya. Formerly known as Maroon Cafe, Taste of India is the same shop, run by the same people except maybe a different management.

When asked the waiter what’s with the name change, he says that the boss wants to be consistent throughout all the other branches. Looking at the menu I notice it says “Taste of India – London, Kuala Lumpur, Kumba Konam India, Paris”. Wow, this is not your ordinary mamak.

The open air environment (with roof) is good for just chilling out. There is a projector mounted and a wall screen. Great for hanging out with buddies and watch a football game or two. Just like in Mamaks but with fancier food and service.

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