KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 8 -- Dining at a brand new restaurant is often a double-edged sword.

Of course, it's exciting to savour a never-seen-before menu to perk up our jaded palates but when a place is ill-prepared with food that falls short of the lofty promises and the service is patchy, diners end up becoming white mice for an experiment to test out the restaurant's capabilities... at the peril of their own wallets.

Tangram defies all these opening odds and you'll find yourself walking away singing a happy tune with plans to return.

The Bangsar restaurant is the collaborative effort of Unwined's Hsiao Tung Wei and Johnny Tsai of one-Michelin-starred restaurant T + T in Taipei.

The spotlight is on Northeast Asia here, spanning countries ...