3 simple ways to search for Malaysia Food

Different people like to do things differently, thus we should provide different way for each to perform the same task. So, we give you 3 ways to search for Malaysia Food.

Simple Way
Just type anything you are interested with, and click search. You can use double quote(") for exact word match, or use special tag to search by cuisine, location, food or name (name of the place). More help on Simple Search.


Advance Way
A slightly advance way, put more powerful to narrow down your search. You could choose to search by any keyword as usual, and to narrow down your search result by venue name, cuisine, food or location. More help on Advance Search.


Google Way
The common Google way, which allow you to use Google Search to search this site :)

Where to go for Valentine Romantic Dining

It is the time of the year, where everyone would crowd together to have a romantic dinner with their loves one on the same night. It’s seems like a fate that no couples could escape, due to society pressures and irrelevant origins.

No matter what, we still need to find a good spot to dine. Someplace cozy, perhaps romantic, decent food and definitely not cheap (at least not too cheap). The spots which comes to my mine is always Bangsar, Hartamas and Pavilion perhaps? Let see what I could dig out from Malaysia Most Wanted Food and Malaysia Foodies.

Sky Bar or Luna Bar seems like a good place, classy and nice view, definitely expensive, uncertain about the food. I tried La Bodega before, nice environment with nice food. Look Out Point seems like a good option, with a nice night view. Maybe some Chocolate Fondue at Fondue House.

Perhaps some more classy place, such as Cameo, Vincenzo Ristorante Italiano, Opus, Rick's Cafe Casablanca or Saffron.

For good food, probably Bumbu Bali, or King Crab if you are really a crab lover (not romantic though), Ninja Jones, Max! Kitchen and Wines, My Elephant, Italiannies, Food Foundry, Isthmus KL, El Cerdo, Sandias, Daorae Garden.

Hmm, I am having a hard time to make up my mind :|

Malaysia Food Review: January 2008

The January Food 2008 Most Viewed Food Venue (based on Google Analytics pageview) result for Malaysia Most Wanted FOOD.

Bumbu Bali @ Bandar Puteri Puchong, Puchong, Selangor seems to be the most popular restaurants around, continuing its winning spree since 2007 offering delicious balienese food.


The runner up is Yuen Buffet Steamboat Restaurant, Buffet Steamboat @ Mentari Plaza, Bandar Sunway, Petaling Jaya, Selangor, offering cheap, tantalising and varieties in buffer steamboat.

The third place goes to Shogun, Japanese Buffet @ One Utama, Bandar Utama, Petaling Jaya, Selangor: A Japanese buffet restaurant offering lots of varieties of food from starters right up to appetizers, at a reasonable price.

As of today, Malaysia Most Wanted FOOD had listed 1032 food venues for you pleasure :)

Convergence of Malaysia Food & Property

In conjunction with our vision to gather the most wanted information about Malaysia, it’s time for us to integrate Food and Property at Malaysia Most Wanted Main Page.


First time user can choose to search for Food (Restaurant) or Property (Real Estate) related result from the Main Page, where it shall be redirected to the relevant service page.

A similar top banner is available at every service page to allow navigation between different services provided by Malaysia Most Wanted.


We shall upgrade Property (by end of February) to the similar platform as Food to encourage community participation, where user could put in comment, write reviews, rate their favourite properties, find their property using Google Maps and etc.

Malaysia Food needs your feedback

http://food.malaysiamostwanted.com

We can do all the things to find good food in Malaysia, only if we know how.

We have been working very hard to come up with various ways to find good food in a easy and accurate manner, and we we want to do it better.


We need you (Yes, you) to tell us what more we could do to please you. We need recommendation and criticism :) Please feel free to start posting your feedback by leaving a comment, or email to info [at] malaysiamostwanted (dot) com.

We need to know what we had done right, or done wrong.

We need YOU!

Malaysia Food: The Most Wanted Version 2

The quest to find the best food in Malaysia continues.


Besides showing the most viewed food eateries by the month and year, now we will show you

Most Rated (based our rating for food lovers)

Most Active (based on participation from food lovers, such as leaving comments and reviews, or contributing links and images)

Most Popular (a combo based on page view, rating and user activity)

If you don’t like the result, you have the power to do something about it.

We give all the Top 50 pages a face lift as well :)

Full List of Malaysia Food? Almost …

Besides offering the ability to search for food by Location or Cuisine, how about to search by food type or name? For example, show me all the Nasi Lemak or Steamboat :)

As of today, we have about 777 food keywords listed. Some include a broader category of food, such as Chicken, Beancurd (Tofu) or Salmon; while some are more specific such as Chicken Chop, Chee Cheong Fun or Pizza.


To ease your navigation (in search of true love with food), we provide easy food linking (in addition to the existing location and cuisine linking) to all your favorites food at each Food Venue page.


We hope that you can find your craving :)

Introduction of Malaysia Food for Foreign Traveler

I think MMW Food is meant for 2 main group of people, the locals looking for good food, and of course the foreign tourist looking for something local, something truly Malaysian.

We provide a Top 50 ranking of Malaysian Food, based on how often they are offered by local eateries. Taking the top position is our everyday staple food such as Fried Rice, Nasi Lemak and Chicken Rice. Nevertheless, how could we forget local delicacies such as Bak Kut Teh, Laksa, Roti Canai, Fried Kuey Teow and Teh Tarik.


Thanks to Wikipedia, we are able to offer a short description of the Malaysian Food. Though not all of them originated from Malaysia, but it is definitely popular among Malaysian.

Malaysia Most Wanted: Home-base Data Entry Job

Malaysia Most Wanted FOOD would like to recruit you as home based data entry personnel, so that you could make some pocket money while working in your pajamas from home :)

Basic Requirement

• Basic Computer and Internet Skill (No Programming or Technical Skill required)
• Decent English Reading and Writing Skill
• Knowledgeable in Malaysia Address and Food
• A Responsible Person
• And of course, have a computer with Internet access at home (Broadband recommended)
  

Job Scope

• Read an article about food (Articles shall be assigned to you)
• Extract basic Information such as Venue name, Location, Food offered, etc.
• Extract food Images and named them
• Detailed guidelines shall be provided upon shortlisting

Pays

• Each Data Entry should take between 5-15 minutes (practice make perfect)
• You get paid in the block of 20 entries (RM 2 per entry, RM 40 for 20 entries) if you have a Maybank Account (direct fund transfer into you account)
• You get paid in the block of 40 entries (RM 80) if you do not have a Maybank Account (cash or GIRO)
• If you manage to complete 50 entries within a week, you get paid a RM 10 bonus.
• You can work from anytime and anywhere (as long as you have a Computer and Broadband)

Interesed Candidates do email your resume or profile to info [at] malaysiamostwanted [dot] com

* Priority shall be given to Students, Housewives and the Less Privileged.

Advance (and Helpful) search for Malaysia Food

I always found the Search feature is very important, in order for us to find the exact food that we are looking for. Initially we started with Google-styled of simple search (with only one textbox, where you can type all your search criteria in here). Perhaps this could be quite troublesome for non-techie which needed more help and guidance, thus we created the Advance (and Helpful) search.

Simple Search

Basically, there are 3 fields

• Search for, where you can type in any keyword you would like to search for
• Cuisine, like Chinese, Vietnamese, Halal, Vegetarian, Seafood, etc
• Location, for the state, area, street or building

You don’t have to fill in all 3 criteria, just one of them will do. You could key in more criteria when you want to narrow down / filter the results.

Advance (and Helpful) Search

As you would have noticed, there is a list of recommended words shown up as you start typing in the textbox of Cuisine and Location. It gives some recommendation of words so that you could easily know what kind of options is available. The recommendation list will get shorter as you type more, narrowing the list of available options. Just click on the recommended word and it shall be filled into the textbox automatically.

Recommended word list for Advance Search

Notice that we put the double quote around the selected word, such as “Jalan Gasing”. This is to ensure the exact word “Jalan Gasing” is searched for. Without the double quote, it shall look for the word “Jalan” OR “Gasing”, and the word “Jalan” could caused a lot of irrelevant result to be returned. You could learn more about Simple Searching, or try the Location and Cuisine searching.

Remember Double Quote (") for exact word match

Now, you have the option to use Simple or Advance (and Helpful) Search to fulfilled your need for good food around Malaysia. Happy Searching!

Malaysia Food Map: Minor Enhancement

We made two minor tweaking on our existing Malaysia Most Wanted Food - Google Map feature which enable:

i) By default show by Map only (used to be Hybrid – Map + Satellite images). Why? Because it loads faster and the map is clearer.


ii) Additional tab named “Google Map”, which allow to view this location on Google Maps Official Page. Why? So that you could use the Google Map Search to find other addresses, or merge with your other personal maps stored under My Maps tab (in Google Maps).


With this feature, it helps you to easily find the place, and also to spot other valuable food resources (click on the fork and spoon icon) in its surrounding areas.

Convenience of Cuisine and Location Linking

Whenever you are looking at a food venue, let’s say Ninja Jones at Mid Valley, wouldn’t it be nice if you could find other similar Japanese cuisine, or check out other restaurant at the same area?


That is exactly what we are offering, Cuisine and Location linking. Look carefully at the maroon red information box at the top section, zoom to Cuisine and Location. You could find that the words are actually a red link (which is clickable) and could show you more Japanese cuisines, or find other food venues in Kuala Lumpur, Mid Valley City or Northpoint Mid Valley.

Cusine Linking

Location Linking

List all food venues by Japanese cuisine

Isn’t that cool and useful? Anyway, you could Search for Malaysia Food by Location and Cusine.

Vote for Best Malaysia Food and Restaurant

The community is very important to help to rank which food venue is actually better, so that others can actually find and visit them as well. Out of the so many Chicken Rice outlets in Malaysia, we need to know which one is better (though I could tell you which one is more popular and most viewed).

If you are lazy or want to remain anonymous, you could rate the venue by clicking on the Stars at the top of the page. We offer a 0.5 star to 5 stars rating system. Just put your mouse over the star to indicate your rating, the click on it to rate. Generally, 3 stars means average; 5 stars means highly recommended; 1 star means don’t eat there.


You could vote through the review and comment system as well. Just click on the Review button and type in a review with the ratings (mandatory, must rate). The same goes with comment, except that rating is optional. I personally feel that voting through Review/Comment is actually better, where you could tell why the food sucks or why is it damn good :)


Hopefully this would help us to find the Real best food and hidden gems in town, rather than just the popular ones. Let’s start VOTING!

Happy New Year 2008 from MMW Food

I had been more than a year since Malaysia Most Wanted FOOD was launched, and now we have more than 600++ places to find delicious food around Malaysia, and hopefully in a better and more efficient way.

Special Thanks to all the Malaysia Foodies

• * :: || Life of A Food Lover || :: *
• KampungboyCitygal
• Babe in the City - KL
• 3-meals.com
• Makan Kings

and many more. Without all of you, we shall be lost and deprived of our rights to good food.

May 2008 be a more fruitful year for our tummy :)

Malaysia Food Contribution System

Malaysia Most Wanted Food provide various way for you to contribute information about the yummylicious Malaysia food & restaurant, where you can recommend a place, write a review, drop a comment, provide a link, submit our own images, or be a food bloggers.

How does the contribution system work?
We allow users and non-users to contribute information. For those who Join as a user, you get:

• A Personal Profile page with you name, description, website, avatar, plus all your contribution shown here
• All your contributions shall be logged under your account, with a POP (Popularity) score to represent the current level of contribution
• You don’t have to key in the annoying Captcha (Verification with Picture and Characters)

How to contribute?
Recommendation. If you know of a good place which MMW Food have not covered yet, feel free to recommend it to us (or view the list of recommendation). Just fill in the Name of the Place, Specialty, Location and Others information.



Information. Visit any food venue page and you shall see an orange color Contribute Info button (right under the maroon red information box). Use this to contribute information such as location/direction, specialty, contact number, business hour, etc.


Image. If you have photos/pictures of yummy food, you can upload them to the relevant food venue. Click on the Submit Image button and provide information such as Source Name, Image Title, URL (website address if available, as we shall provide a link back) and upload the image file.


Links. If you happen to stumble upon an interesting food article, or you wrote one, feel free to click on Submit Link.


Review. Click on Submit Review to write a short review of this place. You could rate this place at the same time.


Comment. If you would drop a line or post a question or just some ranting, you could click on Submit Comment. Review is a more serious evaluation of the venue, while Comment is more free and easy.


What if I am a Food Blogger?
We always believe MMW Food could not be the only place to review yummylicious food, and a lot of creative bloggers would very much like to create their own food kingdom as well. If you are a food blogger, drop us an email at info [at] malaysiamostwanted [dot] com, and we could arrange for a full archival of your food blog into MMW Food. It works something like how Google archive your blog so that other people could find it. We know how to respect your copyrighted content :)

Enhance Malaysia Food Picture Viewer

Malaysia Most Wanted Food has thousands of food pictures contributed by food bloggers around the country. We need the images to make us salivate and feel very very hungry.

We have recently upgraded the image viewer to allow full screen viewing of the image (the picture preview used to be much smaller). Search for any of your favourite food venues page, look under the Image section and you sell see a lot of small little images to give a quick preview.


Click on any of the images to see a bigger image which gives you a clearer picture.

You can navigate to the next picture by clicking on the left portion of the image itself, where it would show a Next label. Click on it to see the next picture. You can see the previous picture by clicking on the left portion of the picture. You can also navigate between next and previous and hitting the left and right arrow key on your keyboard. If you feel lazy, you can click the Play button and enjoy a slideshow of all the subsequent pictures, starting from the current one. If you want to stop viewing the images, you could either click Stop or hit the ESC key.


Sometimes it doesn’t have any pictures under the images section, because no one had contributed any images yet. You could contribute some images by clicking the “Submit Image” button.


Feel free to join us and contribute toward the Malaysia Food Community :)

Search for Malaysia Food by Location and Cusine

Sometimes we don’t have a particular craving, but we want something nice, thus we need some simple recommendations and options. Malaysia Most Wanted Food provides a quick and easy way to allow you to search for good food by location and cuisine.

Click on the Locations tab on the main page and you shall see a list of popular food destination around Malaysia. That in large fonts represents places which are more popular (more food venues), while the smaller and lighter colour ones have less options. Just click on your favourite spot and see what kind of food is waiting for you.


You can search for a food venue by Cuisine as well, where the big and red ones are more popular with more options.


Happy food hunting, and let us know of any nice and secret place to eat :)

How to search for Malaysia Food, accurately?

We have put in quite a few efforts to make the search engine for Malaysia Most Wanted Food to return more relevant result.


First of all we have the basic search, where you could search by the keyword Chicken Rice. Chicken Rice would return result which contains the word Chicken OR Rice, which mean things about Lemon Chicken, Fried Chicken, Yam Rice, Duck Rice shall be returned as well. So, we should put a double quote(“”) around the word “Chicken Rice” to ensure the search result match the whole word, not just Chicken OR Rice. This shall narrow down your search result and hopefully it will return something more relevant to what you have in mind.

You could narrow down your search further by searching specifically the cuisine or location. For example, location:puchong shall return all the food venues in Puchong, or cuisine:thai to find some thai food. You could search for multiple cuisine or location at the sametime, for example cuisine:japanese indian.

Now that you know how to search by location and cuisine, you could then search by keyword + location + cuisine. For example, fine dining location:bangsar cusine:french. Remember that you could still use the double quote (“”) to force exact word match and to narrow down the search result.


From the search result, you could perform a sorting on the name, location, state, cuisine, special, vote and POP by clicking on the little green round button (with 2 little triangle facing up and down) on the header. Click once to sort by ascending order (A-Z), and click again to sort by descending order (Z-A). You could sort by Vote or POP (Popularity Index of the food).

Malaysia Most Wanted Food Elevator Pitch

I notice I haven’t quite setup the identity of MMW Food, or rather to answer the question “What is Malaysia Most Wanted Food?” under 60 seconds (Elevator Pitch). This version is targeted to the users rather than the venture capitalist.


What is MMW Food?
It helps you to find delicious food recommended by food lovers around the country.

What pain does it solve?
Need a new place to have lunch or can’t find the perfect restaurant for a romantic dinner? We help you find the perfect place to eat based on your preferred cuisine and location, listening to independent and critical recommendations by thousands of food lovers from all walks of life.

What is the benefit?

• The recommendations are neutral (people will criticized if the food is really bad, and they are not paid to do advertisement) and everyone is allowed to do a review and contribute information.
• It allows easy searching by keyword, location, cuisine, etc.
• It shows you what is the most popular food in town; and it helps you to get there with maps and directions.

Malaysia Food: The Most Wanted Version

Problem to Solve: To identify which is actually the most wanted food in Malaysia, or at least the most popular, or most visited, or most bloged about. Basically, Show me the yummy food!


It’s not an easy task, and neither do we have the perfect answer, but we should have a pretty good idea (at least we try our best). First came the Malaysia Most Viewed Food Venues (click on "TOP 50" tab on the main page), which a pretty simple methods utilizing Google Analytics to track which is the most viewed food venues on a month by month basic, or year by year, or the all time favourite. Like the title implied, you get to know what other people are viewing (and perhaps eating as well).


Then we have the Malaysia Most Wanted Food Venues, which we use a special (and secret) algorithm/formula to calculate a magic number for a specific food venue based on the number of user contributed content, voting and page view. Based on this magic number, we are able to compare one food venue against the other; and give you a good idea on whether one food venue is more popular than the other.


We use a bar chart in the search result to show you how popular is this food venue (full bar mean it can't get any better, haha).



And we display the magic number to indicate its popularity.

Of course, we can only perform Malaysia food popularity analysis on food venues recommended by users, or archived by MMW. I know it's unfair to some-extremely-delicious-food-venue-but-not-acrhived-by-mmw-yet, so we would try harder to find and archive more food venues (of course, you could help too).

PS: I wonder is there a better word to replace food venue to replace the combination reference to “restaurant, café, food stall, mamak, pasar malam, food court, etc”.