PETALING JAYA, Oct. 19 -- Our relationships with restaurants are often as complicated as human ones.

We may love one or more dishes at a place that sees us returning many times until the next "flavour of the month" - as my friends call the trending food of the moment - entices us away.

But once we hear their story or connect with them beyond just a perfunctory relationship of placing an order, those invisible threads bind us to them.

You find yourself championing their cause, as it's not a faceless person behind the restaurant, hired by a big corporation to take your money.

You can find that warmth at BigBasket Kitchen, a family-run place well hidden inside the often forgotten Millenium Square in Petaling Jaya Section 14.

I had once ...