Nope. I've been to all the rated ones in KV.

None of them is really worth it. If have to, I'd probably recommend Dewakan and Nadodi at best from those.

If you go and try Helena Darroze or CORE, then can see why they are 3 stars. Even that I still felt it could be better.

Yep. Helena Darroze I think just got its 3 star last year. Its very typical french though, I'm still salivating over their simple things like butter.

CORE is by Clarye Smith (?), and its a more modern take on British food.

For MY, you can try Dewakan, Nadodi, Akar and Entier. Wouldn't say its a 3 star experience, but okay enough to be a 1 star lo.

Around 500 or so?

I spent slightly more in DC. But yea 1k+ is the benchmark for the 1 stars.

There's a fair few, but same you want to queue or not.

In Tokyo, there are honestly very little "hidden" gems.

You either book ahead via calls, or use one of the booking sites, else you queue in line.

For Tokyo, as I assume you are there as tourist, register an account with Omakase and Tablecheck. You pay a bit more, but if there's opening you can get one fast. Else, just ask your concierge for help but more and more restaurants are rejecting those in favour of local patrons so YMMV. Secondly, Omakase will send email for any last minute cancellations so if you are fast, you can secure a spot in some of the 3* Michelins.

Secondly, check out Tabelog, locals use that for food rating and reviews over Google or other sites, so if you want to know what's hot in local scene, there's where you can find out.

For places, on top of those the others already mentioned, maybe can also can check out Fuunji, Tempura Miyashiro, Saito, Sawada, gyukatsu motomura. And ramen wise, I think generally all has been good so I skipped a fair few of the ones that need to queue like crazy.

The only thing I can't comment is that I skipped the non-Japanese food there, so therr might be great restaurants like Joel Rabuchon but I reasoned I don't want to go Japan to eat French food haha.

If your hotel is high end, you can email/call your concierge and see if they can help you book. Smaller ones they don't give a shit, and many just don't want to allow booking without a local number or local person.

So for those hard to get ones, either get your colleagues to help, get the hotel to help, or try your luck on those two sites.

For Omakase, they will email you on the cancellation open spots in damn random time and places get picked out fast so my advice is put in your credit card information ready.

I lost Sushi Saito because I said yes but can't remember my CC num in that couple of minutes haha.

Does it work for JPN? Some of the restaurant owners are asshats that won't entertain unless they talk in Japanese etc.

I rely a lot on my local friends to get things done haha.

I genuinely skipped most of the 'named' places due to the queue and just go around some random ramen places which is almost equally as good.

The queue system is crazy especially compounded with the kiasu visitors from all corners of the world.

It was worth it when I went, back before michelin came in. You should try Beta KL as well, newly minted 1 star. I'm slightly disappointed in DC, but its a 1 star la to be fair.

I'm surprised though, as I would have assume Nadodi might have got it over the rest.

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You need to try Core by Clare Smyth in UK.

Tried Potager, brainchild of chef from Entier and one of the new up and coming contenders for the Michelin Star.

Oh I didn't know! I've been a fan of Chef Masashi since his Entier days, so I made it a point to go. A lot of the stuff is carried from Entier just at a more fine dining scale. We got to meet and have a chat with him, and he made it clear that Potager is made with getting a star in mind.

Still some work to be done on the service level part, but I believe they will get one soon enough, considering I don't think it's any lesser in terms of quality from Beta KL, which I tried and is also now a 1 star.

It's pretty great, and relatively cheap as well compared to the other MS restaurants around.

Recently went to Gai by DC.

It's... disappointing to say the least. Chim by Chef Noom was miles better.

Yes, Gai is his take on Thai food, Bref is his take on French fusion and DC is the only one that has Michelin star.

Not really la, it's just Chim is better Thai food compared to Gai.

Gai's more like an expensive Thai food place, even though it's from a Michelin chef.

Dewakan is the only 2 star in MY for now, so many probably looks to it when it comes to benchmark.

I'll probably ask you to try Potager, it's not yet a star but very likely will be one soon.

Not really, given how popular Japanese restaurants are around here. It's more a difference in taste buds in my view.

Like France is the capital of Michelin, but frankly most of the food I had there wasn't great, just they had excellent service and attention to detail.

In comparison, Malaysian would likely rate a western fusion or Japanese or even Thai cuisine way higher because it fits our rich taste buds more.

Yea, most like just follow trend then end up nothing.

It's a bit sad even for Michelin, there's not that many really pure Malaysian cuisine that is listed.

No one wanna take it into a higher level, but good thing our kopitiam level still not bad. Definitely better than SG but much behind TH I feel.

Definitely not worth it.

There's a new one star in New York serving Malaysian food, where the owner has never even been to Malaysia hahaha.

hksgmy have you tried Odette and Zen or Les Amis?

Which will you recommend?