Happy Vines Culinaire, Personal Chef for Closed door Restaurant, Private Dining, Cooking class,Food and Wine, Kota Kinabalu, Penampang, Sabah, Malaysia

After decades of procrastination, Happy Vines Personal Chef, Remie Law, finally took the plunge and earned himself a

Diploma in Food Preparation & Culinary Arts in 2008. Jamie Oliver started off with this same qualification that eventually launched his starred career. Remie, on the other hand, have no ambitions for stardom. For Remie, this course confirmed, strenghtened & refined his cooking techniques and style that kept him healthily fed, all these years. The course was also to reinforce and complement his wine expertise via-a-vis complementary wines with Asian foods.
" Wine is the intellectual part of a meal."
Alexandre Dumas' Dictionary of Cuisine, 1873
Thus, the focus of this website is just that. A journey to discover, identify, define and refine the types and styles of wines that will complement our varied range of Asian tastes and cooking techniques. To prove or disprove, discuss and debate the various wine and Asian food matchings made in heaven or hell. Or simply provide acceptable choices.

SABAH is rich in food sources that have sustained the natives for generations. The food-related Government departments, here, has been active & effective in developing local production of food. Thus, our focus is to look at locally-available ingredients in a new cooking perspective & presentation. We will rarely use imported foodstuffs unless what we wish to create is not possible without them.
Finally, as pork is a favourite among the natives and Chinese, our meals would usually include it. However, we do cater for non-pork & vegetarian meals, as well.

Personal Chef - a Closed-door Restaurant concept
you would like a celebratory dinner
you need to dine important clients
you simply enjoy a good, relaxing dinner in private
call Remie to discuss possibilities
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A visual journey of SABAH's West Coast

Basically WINE
with food pairing
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CULINARY JOURNEYS IN SABAH - MALAYSIA

Basically COOKING
with WINE pairing
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Cooking a KADAZAN feast

WINE suggestions

our specialty dishes

RECIPE pairings