Showing posts with label Arabic. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Arabic. Show all posts

Friday, 30 September 2016

Leaving A Hero

First published in Options, The Edge Malaysia, Sept 5, 2016

“When a guest comes, he’s a prince, when he sits, he’s a prisoner, when he leaves, he’s a hero” – Bedouin proverb, seen on a wall painting at The Bedouin

There is a wide range of restaurants in Taman Tun
Dr Ismail, from Japanese to French, but no Middle Eastern, until The Bedouin set up shop in a double corner lot earlier in 2016.  It’s nice and quiet at night, with ample parking. Within, the décor is neutral and contemporary, with coppery lights casting an even glow, and patterned tiles adding an exotic touch, but nothing such as hookah pipes or carpet wall hangings that shouts Middle Eastern. Paintings of desert scenes lend some bright colour.