Photography by Chris Osburn Last week, Monday through Friday, we had our breakfasts and lunches delivered to us by Food Secret. All meals came from the restaurant’s detox menu (a range of “nutritious but filling culinary offerings… full of essential vitamins, minerals and enzymes that will help eliminate stored toxins

Si Chuan Dou Hua Restaurant in Parkroyal Hotel Kuala Lumpur is offering a fruity yee sang to usher in the Year of the Tiger, alongside eight other varieties — salmon, yellow fin, tuna, soft shell crab, Pacific clam, unagi , abalone and shark’s fin.

FANS who crave for a meal or some of the durian pastries from Yik Kee Restaurant need not travel all the way to Karak now, for a branch of the well-known establishment has been operating in the Klang Valley for the past six years.

Sam Sifton, the restaurant critic of The New York Times, selects his favorite dishes of 2009.

Sam Sifton, the restaurant critic of The New York Times, selects his favorite dishes of 2009.

IF you are looking for a special place to host a festive dinner this holiday season, look no further than Benkay Japanese Restaurant at Hotel Nikko Kuala Lumpur.

If a recession is the ultimate test of a restaurant scene’s soul, 2009 proved that Philadelphia’s virtue as an eater’s paradise is growing as dynamically as ever. Yes, revenues on the whole were off. And, yes, we witnessed the pillars of another era’s glory days begin to tumble, as Walnut Street’s Restaurant Row saw Brasserie Perrier, Susanna Foo, and Striped Bass close.

Nikki Buchanan says Thai E-San’s menu includes regional specialties and that the restaurant is a very good, perfectly legit Thai place.

Crab Landing, the new seafood hot spot dreamt up by owner Andrei Soen and his team, happens to open at a very fitting time: crab season. Aptly located in the picturesque coastal town of Half Moon Bay, the restaurant features a diverse fusion menu of all things delectable and fresh from the sea. Featuring a sparkling Raw

What’s in a name? A lot, especially if the name is Lolo Dad’s, the restaurant that is largely considered as the staunchest bastion of fine dining and good taste in the Philippines.

Nostalgic Chinese banquet dishes from the 1970s make a comeback at One World Hotel’s Zuan Yuan Restaurant from now until the end of the year. By ALICE CHING

An kosher restaurant, pizzeria, sushi bar and bakery, all rolled into one

Alex Summer, RA Sushi’s beverage director, has made this annual cocktail menu update one that moves the restaurant toward fresh ingredients and more complex flavors.

Na La Restaurant (那家盛宴) opened not long ago at the foot of Fragrant Hills and has genuine visual and gustatory impact. Simple but grand, its Chinese-style dcor is particularly impressive. One of the owners is ethnic Manchu and wanted to give the restaurant the look of a Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) official’s house. &$ &$ Tables and chairs

Get FREE Daily Headlines by email! Since the spring of 2007, I have driven the same route home almost every evening — past Cathedral Park, up Old Santa Fe Trail, by 315 Restaurant & Wine Bar, past the Capitol Rotunda and toward the snarling traffic on Cerrillos Road and St. Francis Drive.

Fredy Guardia, owner of Restaurant Sonia, with some of the day’s fresh catch at the door to his restaurant.