What can you expect to eat at Asia's hottest restaurant?

The Ngoh Hiang roll features the unusual combination of aged duck and aged fish. — Photos: EAT AND COOK

This has been a triumphant year for fledgling eatery Eat and Cook. After only being in business since February 2021, the Bukit Jalil eatery scooped up the American Express One To Watch award at this year’s Asia’s 50 Best Restaurants 2022 awards. The award is typically doled out to a restaurant deemed Asia’s hottest dining haunt.

For the young chefs that helm this groundbreaking eatery – 25-year-old young uns’ Lee Zhe Xi and Soh Yong Zhi, this is the culmination of a tiny 10-seater eatery that started off at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic when both were out of jobs and decided to do something new.