Kuala Lumpur: Birch @ DC Mall

Birch @ Damansara City Mall is the new, famous cafe hopping place for brunch lovers or Instagrammers. I have been seeing people checking in and my friend who tried, told me that they serve good food (coffee just so-so). Two weeks ago, I finally get to try this place out with a friend. 

DC Mall is a quiet mall and hence parking wouldn't be a problem. And guess what, the parking rate is RM1 per day for weekends! That's a plus point as you can spend quality time with your friends without worrying of your parking fee that will increase exponentially.

They offered us bar seats or else we have to wait for table. As we were quite free that day, we decided to wait for table instead. We left our number and walked around the mall for about 10 minutes. Since there are nothing much that we can see, we waited in front of the cafe and surprisingly was called immediately to our table. Lucky! Note: It would be safer if you call to reserve a table if you have a large group. I observed that a lot of tables were reserved and that's why we need to wait. 

Simple 2 pages menu - Immediately spot for Eggs Benedict that my friend recommended. XD 

Birch Benedict (RM26) -- served with spicy pulled chicken, BBQ sauce, hollandaise sauce!

Favourite combo and it is really good! Finally a brunch place that satisfy me.

Shakshuka (V) (RM25) - Baked eggs.

We shared our meals so I get to try this too! Surprisingly good and better than Breakfast Thieves and VCR in my opinion. My friend who loves meat like this as well. =D 

Taiping: Le'pak Kitchen

#throwback

If you want me to count how many nice cafes are there in Taiping, it will be an easy task! There are so few cafes here and good or beautiful ones are even lesser. Today, I am going to share a decent cafe, located near Taman Kaya in Taiping. They served Malay + Western fusion style and also photogenic desserts. I've seen a few people posting photos of this cafe and hence I went there to try about a month ago. Sorry for the delayed update! XD

Not hard to find. It has a very spacious parking space, but.... it still gets packed. 

Woods and bricks.

I ordered a photogenic dessert, which serves with bueno chocolate bar. However, I had too high expectation on this. It ends up just so-so to me. 

Craving for some mango sticky rice and so we ordered one to share! This dish looks so flooded as compared to our normal mango sticky rice. And it comes with a scoop of vanilla ice cream!! Yumzz...

Grilled chicken chop served with salad and potato wedges. (around RM9)

This is quite a decent plate of grilled chicken. =)

Chicken Chop served with mushroom sauce (RM5)

This is cheap! But it has too much flour. I prefer grilled chicken as compared to this. Of course, the price also doubled. 

Nasi Komando (if i don't remember the name wrongly). It is combination of nasi paprik and nasi pattaya. Ordered this because mom and aunt never try nasi paprik before and I personally like pattaya. Haha... So yea. This plate kills 2 birds with 1 stone =D

Perak: STG Tea House Cafe Taiping

If you are from Taiping, have you heard of Ecopark by Spritzer? In Ecopark, there is a STG (Sabah Tea Garden) tea house cafe, which is a franchise of the one in Ipoh. I have never tried STG in Ipoh/Taiping until this year's Chinese New Year. 

The mini golf place in Ecopark. STG is just beside this. 

The entrance of STG Tea House Cafe. Design looks very promising... 

The serve quite a variety of food but the choices of each category is kinda limited.

The bar.

We ordered a few types of food to share. So I'll be sharing photo of each dish and comment for them =D

Creme Brulee. Their creme brulee is quite good, just that it has stronger egg smell.

Potato Samosa. It was served super hot and the samosa is nice! Lots of fillings. 

One of the main -- Spagetti Cabonara with Turkey Bacon. This is quite good! Look, they are quite generous with the bacon. XD

I ordered Lemon Sabah Tea and it was really awesome! Best in the town!

Explore Selama Part I: Restaurant Country & Refuel Cafe

5 months working in Selama, Perak. To be honest, I haven't really explore much of Selama. Most of my lunch were home-cooked or buns. So I'll rather stay in the office rather exploring myself to the hot sun. XD If I were to go out to hunt for lunch, I seriously don't know where to go.

Whenever people ask me what Selama has, I don't know how to answer as I never explore. So, I've decided to explore Selama town more in this new year of 2016. Hmm... It is one of my new year resolution, which I think should be quite achievable. Haha... 

So....... What I've explored so far?

I found a chinese restaurant which serves nice coffee. Restaurant Country (家乡饭店) is where you can find seafood and various chinese dishes. They also offer some friend noodles, such as Wat Tan Hor (滑蛋河). I've tried their rice and also Wat Tan Hor, not superb but they are quite nice. Then there is one day that I ordered Iced Coffee as I was feeling really sleepy in the afternoon. Surprisingly, the coffee that they served is of good quality. Coffee Kao Kao (very thick texture). 

This is the Iced Coffee. 

Very tempting isn't it? And it isn't expensive. I remember it is around RM2+.

Last week, I wanted to look for a place with air-conditioning for lunch as the weather is burning hot. Then I thought of a cafe near Caltex and hence I drove there for a try. Refuel Cafe is located beside Caltex and the Dobi. It is quite easy to locate. 

At first I thought Refuel Cafe is the kind of hipster cafe which I could have my cuppa coffee. I didn't visit hipster cafe for a very long while already. But yet, this disappoints me. This is not hipster at all, but it provides a wide range of food. From waffles, to sandwiches, to chicken/fish chop, to Nasi Lemak and noodles. 

This is how it looks. Pretty simple layout.

I ordered their Peppery Chicken Chop (RM8.80), which serves with fries and baked beans. I ordered something local as beverage -- Iced Neslo. Both of them costs me RM12 in total. I think the price is quite decent for a such a big portion of chicken chop and the drink is nice too. 

Looking forward to find some good food here. Please look forward for Explore Selama Part II. =D

Langkawi: Cable Car & Tanjung Rhu

If you are in Langkawi for the first time, cable car is a must-visit place. This is a place where you can enjoy the terrific cable car ride and fantastic view from the top.

The cable car ride is quite steep. 

I felt a little scared and have to stop taking photos at some point. XD

Cable cars ahead!

Spotted cute clouds at the horizon. 

Sky bridge! View from cable car.

Great view of Langkawi from the the observation deck. 

I love the blue sky, clouds and mountains. 

Sky bridge from observation deck.

Us with the blue sky. 

I think we can use this photo to get some toothpaste advertisement. XD

To get to sky bridge, you need to jungle trek for 10 minutes. Climb some stairs and and walk a distance. So tiring. It was much better compared to the first time (longer path), but hair still get messy after the walk. T_T

Another photo before leaving sky bridge. 

So hard to climb up here, surely we should take more photos. 

After 2 hours in Oriental Village, we proceed to Tanjung Rhu for sunset and dinner. I have been looking forward to visit Tanjung Rhu as it is known as a quiet but beautiful beach. If you want to find a beach to enjoy the beach without crowd, Tanjung Rhu is your choice. It is much peaceful compared to Pantai Cenang and they do have water sports here. 

Beach with few people. Beautiful soft sand and blue sky. =D

Panorama view of Tanjung Rhu beach.

We decided to have our early dinner at Scarborough Fish & Chip Restaurant as it is located by the beach and we can get a good view of sunset.

Langkawi: Yellow Cafe @ Pantai Cenang, The Villa, ZF Restaurant

If you are in Langkawi and looking for a beachfront cafe, Yellow Cafe might be a good choice for you. It is located at Pantai Cenang and its open all-day, where you can enjoy hot sun in the afternoon, sunset in the evening, or night time sea view.

This cafe is kinda hipster as everything is painted yellow, which includes the Christmas tree. XD The people here is very friendly and nice. Food wise, don't expect for Asian cuisines, it is mainly about salads, pizzas, steak, burgers, etc etc..... Price is around RM20++ in general. Beverage list range from coffee to fruit juices to alcohols. Don't be shock if you notice alcohols are cheaper than fruit juices here. It is a common phenomenon in Langkawi. But for your liver, please drink moderately ^_^

If you drive here, you will need to walk to reach Yellow Cafe as there isn't any parking lot near the cafe. We parked our car along the main road of Pantai Cenang and walked inside. They have sign board, so you won't feel too lost. =D

Told ya, everything here is so YELLOW. Yellow sofa, yellow bar. 

Our indoor seats, which allows us to get some shade from the 1pm hot sun, but still able to enjoy sea view while enjoying the food. I think outdoor seating would be more enjoyable in the evening.

Our lunch to share for 3 because we want to try other food in Langkawi. 

Grilled chicken burger and a Pizza. Taste wise I would say is acceptable. Not too fancy till I would highly recommend. 

Cute toilet (Gents)

 

After enjoying our lunch, we headed back to our hotel to drop baggage. We booked The Villa for 2 nights via Agoda. It looks pretty disappointing when we enter but the pool totally changed our mind. This is so pretty! 

The pool 

Vietnam: Loft Cafe

Day 5 of Ho Chi Minh Trip ^_^

After spending most of our last bit of VND in Ben Thanh Market, we headed back to pack our luggage. For myself, I left 2000 VND in my pocket only. Suddenly, we thought of our lunch. We need to settle lunch before heading to airport as we will reach back Malaysia around 7pm. We only have money for taxi to airport. Forgotten about our lunch. O-M-G.....

Luckily, one of my friends activated her credit card to be use oversea. Hence, we decided to settle our lunch at the cafe downstairs -- The Loft Cafe. Haha... Yes, we are broke and still choosing such a nice place for lunch. In Cantonese, I would describe ourselves as "dai sei 抵死". XD 

So here's the bar of the cafe, where the Barista prepares the drinks. 

Due to financial problem, we did not order any drink. Plain water will do!

The cozy ambience of the cafe. It's lunch time and there's quite a number of people in here. Seems to be quite famous huh.. 

Caged light bulb. Looking antique 

Here's our lunch, seafood pasta with tomato base.

Another one - carbonara. 

I would say, their pastas are surprisingly yummy! Very up to standard. Never expect cafe food to be so nice. Three of us shared two plates of pastas. Of course the portion isn't too filling. We also ordered a pizza to be shared by everyone. 

The pizza. 

Forgot the flavour but it is delicious too. Of course I cannot compare this to those we've tried in 4P's. Those are heavenly good. This is good. :D

Our lunch! Lack of money and still dine like a queen. Oh Women........ 

And this post ends my 5D4N Ho Chi Minh Trip 2015 Travelogue. Hope you guys enjoy reading. I enjoyed typing this out and to keep it as memory for myself. 

Coming up next.... Some food reviews! And an unexpected trip.... Stay tuned. Have a nice day peeps!

Vietnam: 4P's Pizza

Day 4 of Ho Chi Minh Trip ^_^

After our half day tour to Cu Chi Tunnel (click here for the link), we were hungry and looking forward for our lunch! We booked a pizza restaurant for lunch. Heard from friend's uncle it is really good and worth trying. We made our reservation on the first day of the trip to make sure we could get a table. And hence, we went on a cab and went to 4P's Pizza for lunch.

According to their website, their vision is of "delivering wow and happiness". And 4P's stands for Platform of Personal Pizza for Peace. With their homemade artisan cheese, we really wow-ed whenever they serve us our pizza. It is located at Le Thanh Street, a small alley at the back. We managed to look for it with the help of Waze and taxi driver. 4P's Pizza is famous and not too hard to communicate with the taxi driver. It is also one of the Top 10 in TripAdvisor list. How can we not try? To explore more about this restaurant, you can click this link to read more on their website.

We reached the restaurant around 1.40pm, 20 minutes earlier than our reservation time. Luckily we were able to dine in straightaway. We were brought upstairs into a private room. Yes, you didn't get me wrong. 6 of us were being seated in a grand looking private room. We can't stop ourselves from "wow"-ing and sound like a kampung girl in the room. Haha.... 

The menu is simple but I bet you won't know what to choose when you start flipping.

Everything in it looks soooooo GOOOOODDD!!! It took us some time to decide on what to choose. Savoury pizzas look yummy. Shall we go for pastas? Shall we go for seafood? Meat? Oh my! The Cheese! Dessert Pizza! Awwww....... Yes, it is really hard to choose. =P 

After making our order, we then waited eagerly for our pizzas. Can't wait to try!

This restaurant is quite high class as their table arrangements and services are all very up to level. 

Can you look for the full term of 4P's in this photo? It took us a while to figure out what 4P's stands for. XD

And here's my glass of passion fruit soda! It is homemade soda and it mix quite well with passion fruit. Gassy and sour. Very appetizing. 

Ta-daa! Our first pizza was served with surprise! The white colour stuff in the centre isn't poached egg. It is their homemade burrata cheese. This is call Burrata Prosciutto Pizza, served with Prosciutto, rocket, fresh tomato, parmesan and olive oil. It sounds and tastes really Italian. *Thumbs up!*

WAIT....... The cheese shouldnt be eaten this way..... 

The waitress helped us to open up the cheese.

Ta-daa! The burrata cheese turned into flower shaped! Nicely served on nicely cutted 6 pieces of pizza. *claps*

My portion. Served so nicely on plate. 

Took me some time to cut and taste it. It is sad to cut and eat such beautiful pizza. How it tastes? I would say this is the best pizza I've ever tasted. The cheese tastes like heaven! It is cream cheese texture but a bit harder. It is not too cheesy either.

After we finished the first pizza, our second pizza was served! Tadaa!!! Seafood pizza. 

Oh my god, did you see the prawns! So many and quite big! They are really kind with their ingredients.

Then. our pesto pasta with baby clams was served! 

In Ho Chi Minh, you can find baby clam in a lot of restaurants and they are very juicy. This is sort of a fusion of asian and italian. Very nice one. I like it because the pesto taste is just nice, not too strong, and it is served with almond flakes! *melts*

We also ordered a Zucchini Pizza to try. 

This is so special! I've never seen it elsewhere (Forgive me, maybe it is because I haven't explore a lot yet). It is served with fried zucchini on top of the zucchini pizza. You can have crunchy version and soft version of zucchini in one shot. Heavenly good! Who says vegetarian pizza won't taste good?