The Southeast Asia food festival returns this year, kicking off with the Kuala Lumpur Weekender in September. Discover what’s on and how to buy tickets.
The Kita Food Festival, celebrating Southeast Asia’s rich and burgeoning food scene, returns to the region for its fourth edition this year, kicking off with events in Kuala Lumpur in September, before continuing in Singapore in the early part of 2025.
From September 4-8, 2024 Kita will be hosting the Kuala Lumpur Weekender, with a series of four hands dinners and kitchen takeovers scheduled. Chefs cooking include Prin Polsuk of Bangkok’s Samrub Samrub Thai, who’ll be taking over Raw Kitchen Hall, and Hans Christian of Jakarta’s August, an Asia’s 50 Best One to Watch, who’ll be cooking at Akar Dining for a four hands with Aiden Low.
The Weekender will culminate, in a culinary sense, with the Big Sunday Barbecue on September 8, with chefs from restaurants including Mumbai’s Noon and Kuala Lumpur’s own Dewakan taking over the grills.
Simultaneously, Kita will be hosting a number of thought leadership events, including A Food Affair on September 7 in the Malaysian capital. An evolution of the festival’s Kita Conversations format, A Food Affair will open up the discussions to a wider, foodie as well as industry audience, with a full day of masterclasses, talks, panel discussions, and an artisanal marketplace.
This isn’t the end for Kita Conversations, however. The format will kick off with three seminars in Singapore in January and February, “exploring topics such as how we source food in a resource-challenged world, how we stretch the food that we have to feed the world, and how we find alternative food crops” according to Kita. It will then culminate with an ambitious symposium aiming to bring together as many as 400 F&B “professionals, educators, and enthusiasts for a full day of keynote presentations and industry sharing sessions.” Speakers include chefs Vanika Choudhary of Noon and Ben Devlin of Pipit in Pottsville, Australia.
