Top Hat Restaurant Kuala Lumpur is an award-winning venue set along Jalan Stonor, just a few minutes’ walk away from the Ampang Park LRT station. Housed in a converted colonial-era bungalow, its kitchen serves up cuisine that blends western and Asian influences to create dishes that are both inspiring and comforting.

Though there are hot venues opening every week in Kuala Lumpur, it is often the long-standing institutions like Top Hat Restaurant that impress us time and time again. Opened in 2001, its quirky name is derived from one of its signature dishes: kuih pai tee (top hat sweets). At RM10 for six pieces, they are bite-sized appetisers of shredded moist, sweetened radish strips, carrot ribbons and spring onions in fried wanton wrappers: light and crispy, they are more than worth the trip here.