Magical Ramadhan Nights hold sway at the Pullman Putrajaya Lakeside

Source: Pullman Putrajaya Lakeside website.

Up to 3 July the Pullman Putrajaya Lakeside is hosting guests at Magical Ramadhan Nights. Held at the Clock Tower Courtyard, the event consists of a food market featuring over 300 Malaysian favourites, including:

• BBQ seafood
• Carvery of meats
• All-you-can-eat durian
• Homemade Turkish delight
• Gourmet dates
• Baklava, kunafa, loqaimat
• Omelettes
• Smoothies

There will also be children's entertainment, traditional music and live performances.

Interested?

The event is from 7pm to 10.30 pm every evening. Tickets cost RM169 per adult and RM130 per child, all taxes and service charges inclusive. Reserve a place at +603 8890 0000

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Try the recipe for loqimat

Pullman Kuala Lumpur Bangsar has a Starry Arabian Nights food experience over Ramadhan

The Pullman Kuala Lumpur Bangsar is all set to offer a mouth-watering Ramadhan spread from 21 June to 16 July 2015. The LINK All Day Dining culinary team has designed a Starry Arabian Nights themed buffet dinner with an extensive variety of traditional Arab and Malay cuisine for the Ramadhan period. The decor features exotic starry lights in the Arab style, and there will be live ‘ghazal’ performances throughout the buffet dining experience.

Source: Pullman Kuala Lumpur Bangsar. The Arabian salad bar features baba ghanoush, fattoush and other Middle Eastern delights.

Pullman Kuala Lumpur Bangsar has invited Arab chefs to prepare the Arab dishes for authentic flavours. Arab cuisine is aromatic, making use of spices such as cumin, nutmeg, turmeric and caraway to achieve dishes that are unique to the region. 

Some of the highlights are shish tawook, the traditional shish kebab of Middle Eastern cuisine; whole baby lamb with Arabian marinade; sharwarma, a Levantine Arab meat preparation, where beef is placed on a vertical spit; spicy marinated sea bass fillet, a dish from the southern Mediterranean coast, and lamb kofta. Asian patrons should not miss the fresh durian, which is specially sourced from local farms.

LINK All Day Dining features all-day dining in a 360-seat restaurant that revolves around interactive show kitchens displaying a sumptuous array of food. The live cooking areas comprise a plancha grill, a rotisserie, tandoor, dim sum, and sauté stations. It will host the Starry Arabian Nights food experience at RM140 nett per person (50% discount for children between 6 to 12 years old) from 21 June to 16 July 2015, from 6.30pm to 10.30pm. 

Get a taste of the buffet at RM110 nett per person during the Early Bird Special, from now to 12 June 2015. Reservations can be made by calling LINK All Day Dining at +603 2298 1855. The operating hours will be from 12pm to 3pm (lunch) and 6.30pm to 10.30pm (dinner).

Accor hotels in Indonesia support Time to Give, Time to Forgive online campaign

Accor’s upscale Pullman, MGallery and Grand Mercure and midscale Novotel and Mercure hotels in eight cities across Indonesia – Jakarta, Bogor, Bandung, Surabaya and Central Java – are running the Time to Give, Time to Forgive online campaign over Ramadhan. 

The campaign offers room packages and free WiFi Internet access plus a pre-dawn meal at only Rp1,000 per person. The hotels will also donate Rp5,000 to the A Tree for A Child (ATFAC) Foundation for every booking made through the promotion. 

ATFAC was launched by Accor to help underprivileged children with their educational needs and protect the environment through a sustainable tree plantation project that also provides livelihoods to farmers in Central Java. Since the initiative was launched in 2001, ATFAC has planted over 100,000 trees and supported the education of over 150 children in Indonesia.

Pullman Jakarta Indonesia rolls out the Ramadhan offers

The Pullman Jakarta Indonesia is offering a corporate Buka Puasa (iftar) Ramadhan Deluxe Package at Rp450,000 nett per person for a minimum of 50 people. The feast includes various of tajil* selections with coffee and tea, an Indonesian Archipelago buffet, and kultum** by ustadz***.

For reservations and further information contact Ms. Sarat at H8491-SM4@accor.com or call +62 21 3192 1111.

Smaller groups can experience the Ramadan Food Festival at the Sana Sini Restaurant, on till 27 July for Rp395,000 nett per person. Executive Chef Ingo Oldenburg from Germany, Chef Gerald Maridet from France, Chef Heri Purnama from Indonesia, Chef Liu Zhijun from China and Chef Shuichi Osawa from Japan will present different cuisines at their respective stations.

For reservations and further information, contact Sana Sini Restaurant at +62 21 390 6444.

Tajil are served at Le Chocolate Lounge, the Kemixtri Gastro Bar, Makaron Bakeshop, as well as at the Kahyangan Shabu-Shabu and Teppanyaki Restaurant starting from Rp85,000++.

For those looking for corporate gifts, Idul Fitri (Eid al Fitr) hampers are available at the Makaron Bakeshop in three sizes from Rp660,000 nett. 

The small hampers include dates, nastar****, five macaron flavours, pineapple jam and meringue, while the medium sized hampers (Rp990,000 nett) have dates, nastar, kastengel*****, lapis legit******, pineapple jam, five kinds of macarons, traditional tea, assorted cookies and also meringue. The large hampers are available at Rp2,200,000 nett and also have snow white, six flavours of chocolate praline, dendeng balado*******, assorted cookies, and apple sparkling wine in addition to the other items.

*High-calorie snacks and drinks consumed to break the fast, usually sweet
**Religious lectures
***Islamic teachers
****Indonesian pineapple cookies
*****Cheese cookies
******A layered cake of Dutch-Indonesian origin, also called spekkoek, lapis cake or kueh lapis
*******Thinly sliced seasoned and dried meat is called dendeng. The Minangkabau version is called Dendeng Balado.