I went for the premiere of a REALLY interesting new Malaysian TV show created by Honey Ahmad!
It focuses on two things i love about living in the city – FOOD + FASHION!
If you can guess from the title, it’s called ‘I Eat KL’ and features 3 girls in their late 20s who form friendships over food, have strong individual fashion preferences, and have a little love and work drama thrown into their lives.
I’m so glad there’s a series about how girls in KL love dressing up and eating cos it’s so true! We are constantly sharing information about where to shop and eat! I’d say most of our salaries go to these two things (besides travel), do they not?
Food-wise, the show is shot in some popular makan establishments in KL like Yut Kee, R.A. Nasi Lemak, Satellite Chicken Rice and Adi Burgershop. I didn’t even know where some of these places were or looked like, so there are so many useful tidbits of info on places i haven’t tried myself. And goddamn, did i crave nasi lemak for DAYS after watching the first two episodes!!!
As for the fashion portion of the show, Jiman Casablancas serves as the head stylist, and did a fantastic job of dressing the girls up in pieces from Malaysian designers like Alia Bastaman, Syomir Izwa, Silas Lieu and Sereni & Shentel. Local food and local fashion. LOVE IT.
Jiman: “Each girl has their own sense of style, so we made sure that we dress them according to their character. I see their sense of power dressing complementing their appetite for good food.”
The three main characters:
1) Sabrina (played by Nadia Aqilah Bajuri) is a journalist and dreamer who’s currently having a crappy time at work and in her love life. She’s intensely involved with nasi lemak.
2) Meg (played by Dawn Cheong) is Sab’s best friend and just got back from culinary school in France. She’s a perfectionist and control freak who is intensely involved with her career.
3) Kiki (played by Chelsia Ng) is a spoilt brat fashionista who’s possessive about people and street food. She’s intensely involved with herself.
Other cast in the show are names you’d probably recognize, like Tony Eusoff, Bront Palarae, Peter Davis and Gavin Yap. There are also some names involved like Justin Nazreen, Michael Chen, Olivier Johanan, Adam Sinclair and Kimy Ordie.
Watch a clip from the first episode here >
A clip from episode 2 >
I Eat KL is available from April 20th. It costs RM15 to watch all 13 episodes which is… super cheap!
You can purchase the program on HyppTV Channel 833 on TM’s IPTV service using the Video On Demand service.
I already have Unifi so yay! Gonna buy it for sure!
I Eat KL is by the FriedChillies Food Network, who will be running a campaign called “I Eat and Look Fabulous”
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