Foodies adventure #2: Beard Papa + Tong Pak Fu + Hui Lau Shan

Hola!!!

Before I continue our Part 2 journey at KLCC,  click here! if u haven't read about Part 1 foodies adventure ^^

Okay, it's time to get this started!!

After having a healthy brunch at Antipodean Cafe, we continue our fun and adventure journey by walking all the way from Menara Tan & Tan to KLCC without doing any 'homework' on how to get there Lol.

Capturing photo before crossing the road haha.

Well, we used Google Map while we're still in Antipodean although it's not really useful at that time.
I think it helps a little eventually   (✿◠‿◠)

In my opinion, one of the best way to travel is exploring places with public transport and walking.
I love adventure a lot, because adventure is completely spontaneous, you don't know what it's going to happen next but just keep moving on until you found it.

You may find something unexpected and fun along the way too!

Check out my very first adventure written in Mandarin >> here
PS: use the Google Translator on the top of the right sidebar if you need someone to translate for you ^^

Finally reached! 

It's around 10 minutes walk (Estimated time) to KLCC, we entered through KLCC outdoor park and this is how you'll see KLCC ahead of you =)



The weather lately is killing me, walking under the burning hot sun is like being toasted in an HOT oven ((((゜д゜;))))

Feeling like heaven when we get inside, the pleasantly cold freezing air... haha.
Looking at those scrumptious food and desserts make us feel gluttonous again albeit we just filled up our tummy.
We're never too full for desserts and snacks *wink*

#1 First stop in KLCC - Beard Papa

Grabbed this image from Beard Papa official website as I forgot to take photo of our order. 

Mango Yoghurt Ice Cream Puff - RM6

I only took a small bite of it, I think it tasted like a normal mango yogurt being filled into a cold cream puff.
Nothing too special, the price doesn't really worth for a cream puff in our opinion.  

Overall it's quite okay, you can try it if you're a cream puff lover =) 

We only ordered one cream puff since the price is a little expensive for us and we wanna save it to try the others food as well :D

#2 Second stop - Tong Pak Fu 糖百府

My all-time favourite!! ♥

Tracka Durian Snow Ice 榴莲飘香（竹脚）(L) - RM14.80

This is one of their best seller and you must order this if you're a durian lover!!! It practically like eating a real durian flesh after refrigerated. Didn't know cornflakes can turn out to be the perfect match with durians. Mmm... finger-licking good! ✌

Beside this, we also order their Otak-Otak as snack. 

Photo from Tong Pak Fu

And once again, I forgot to take photo of the Otak-otak  -.-

The portion size is kinda small than the one you saw on the photo above, we think it's so-so only. It's not really worth the price for that though.

Btw, students get 5% discount when you show them your student ID upon bill payment.
You must be thinking only 5%?
Well... it's better than none, right? ^^

Will be writing another blog post for Tong Pak Fu on my next visit, so that I can try out different desserts and with... photos haha! Stay tuned!! 

#3 Third stop - Hui Lau Shan 许留山 

Since my friend didn't try Hui Lau Shan before, so brought them to Level 4 to try their signature mango dessert.

Didn't manage to take the photo of it, my friend ordered the same dessert as the one I visited at another branch in Time Square before, so here's an old photo I took last time =)

My friends and I then went to KLCC outdoor park for a short walk after stuffed so many food into our stomach  ´ ▽ ` )ﾉ

Rainbow?

I didn't realise it until my friend spotted this beautiful scene from window! 

It's been quite a while since I see a rainbow, this totally make our day!!

Tried on 2 different edits, which one do you prefer? ^^

This accident shot turned out to be one of my favourite ♥

Couldn't help to keep taking photos of the pretty lovely view! 

Serenity. 

Blue sky with white clouds, skyscraper standing high among the green trees, how the sun shines on the water fountain and creates a virtual rainbow on it.... Ahhh, what a lovely day ▰˘◡˘▰

At that particular moment, I feel so relieved.

How often do we get to slow down our pace in this busy city and enjoy the little things around us? It could be just a flower, a small bush or even a leaf. 

You may think it's another boring scene with buildings and trees since we are so used to see it everyday, but what's more important is to find joy in the ordinary. 

That day is the most relax day for three of us, just sitting beside friends silently and watching the beautiful view could be more than enough. 

*Sorry for the poor english description*

That's all for now, but this is not the end of our journey yet, keep looking forward to the last post yea lovely! Have a nice day ^^

*Click here for Part 3!!

Love, 

___ Irene C ❤

Foodies adventure #1: Antipodean Cafe

Hello !! It's been quite a while since I blogged in English.

As this will be related to a food post later about Ben's@Pavilion KL (check it out! ^^) in English I blogged before, so yeap!
English for this post too heeh.

Last Wednesday, after the so-called last day for exam, *well actually it's not but everyone feels like it is since we only left Paper  1/objective questions*
What's more happier than having a prosperous meal to reward ourselves after suffering in the exam for around... 1 freaking month?!
(2 more weeks till it ends T.T)

My friends and I do not have a proper plan of where to go for our brunch since that paper finished around 10+AM, but we decided to be around the area near to KLCC so that we can go there and walk around.

And the adventurous journey begins.... *drum rolls*

We finally make up our mind to head to a cafe called ANTIPODEAN in the lrt haha. #nevertoolate


Antipodean 

A cafe straddling across Asia which serves a wide variety of healthy breakfast/brunch, quality coffees, delicious cakes and biscuits that offer a uniquely "antipodean" style cafe food menu. Used only quality coffee beans which directly purchased from their partners rather than going through the brokerage system and roasted at their own Cafes by Indonesia's top specialty roaster, Merdeka Coffee. All their cakes are baked in-house using recipes handed down by famous Kiwi chefs (and relatives).

Some extra knowledge:

1. In Geography, the antipodes of any place on Earth is the point on the Earth's surface which is diametrically opposite to it.   
2. In the Northern Hemisphere, "the Antipodes" is often used to refer to Australia & New Zealand and "Antipodeans" to their inhabitants.

So we get down at Ampang Park LRT and trying to get direction from people around (Google map not really useful at that time)

We're kinda lost and clueless on how to get to Menara Tan & Tan before we found Antipodean.
Hmm.. cutting out all the depends-on-sixth-sense-searching-and-asking process, we finally make all the way to.... Antipodean! It's around 10-15 minutes walk from lrt *big applause*

Le entrance.

The cafe is located at an inconspicuous corner beside the entrance of Menara Tan & Tan, be careful not to missed and overlook it when searching for it.

Interior

PS: The phone photo quality maybe a little blur and too bright due to the lighting + natural light from the outside ><

Not much people yet when we reached Antipodean, but the flow started to increase around 12 noon. 

Avoid going there at peak hours if you prefer a more serene environment =)

Child play corner

They even provide a small corner for children! So considerate and thoughtful of them ^^

Time to order food!! 

Chalkboard menu on the wall. 

Well one thing that I dislike is they do not have a proper menu for us to look at as you have to read their menu on the wall and then tell the waiters your order when you're done.

I read some reviews on Antipodean before and most of it said it's quite inconvenient if it's at peak hours. Imagine you're standing and reading the menu in front of the wall with so many people walking around you O.o

Luckily there're not much people that time so we can take our time to read and choose ^^

While waiting for the food. 

Love the little details on the table. 

Our food order are served, Hohoho!

I have always wanted to try out Antipodean's breakfast because I had been looking at many mouth-watering photos taken from others in Facebook and Instagram!

Now I finally have a chance to chump in their food into my stomach Wheeeee! *happy kid face*

#1 Big Breakfast - RM20

As the photo above shown, Big Breakfast consists of toasted bread, mushroom, hashbrown, bacon and scrambled eggs. 

This is the one that I saw on social media sharing site for several times, It's kind of their signature breakfast. Finally it's my turn to try it out heeh ^^

Aesthetic appeal: 4/5 

Taste: 4/5 

Price: 3/5

Their scrambled eggs is moist and soft, you can sprinkle some black pepper on it to increase the flavor too. Love the thick hashbrown a lot, it's not like the commercial one where you can barely find the potatoes fillings. It's not too salty and you can feel mouthful of potatoes in your mouth. 

Crispy bread, delicious mushrooms and bacons... mmm! 

It's definitely a substantial breakfast, love this!! 

I considered the price as reasonable since the portion is quite big for a person, you can also share it with your friends and try out the others like how we did =D 

#2 Coromodel Green - RM18

It consists of salmon, feta cheese, walnut, figs, rocket and balsamic glaze according to the menu.

Aesthetic appeal: 4/5 
Taste: 2/5 
Price: 2/5

We ordered this out of curiosity and it turned out to be a salad, I couldn't recognize what are the ingredients actually except the common ones ヽ(๏∀๏ )ﾉ

Personally, I'm not a fan of salad and raw food so this is definitely not to my liking ٩(×̯×)۶  

However my friends said it's quite okay overall, just that the cheese is a little too salty. This maybe your cup of tea if you love salad and Feta cheese. 

#3 Jeremy Coney - RM12

Jeremy Coney is actually the name of a healthy juice that made up of apple, carrot, celery and mint loop.

Sounds too healthy eh? Haha.

Aesthetic appeal: 3/5 
Taste: 3/5 
Price: 2/5

The juice is quite refreshing after having the breakfast. It brings the sweetness of apple and carrot when you first drink it and you can feel the minty taste at the end.

I would prefer this juice way more than Coromodel Green if you ask for comparison.

 Looking at these cakes and biscuits photos right now makes me regret as we didn't order any of their desserts and coffee to try out  (*´д｀*) 

Definitely coming back for another visit , too many things to try haha.

Ohh and forget to mention,
they served breakfast all day long, that means you can eat their breakfast as dinner too if it happens to be crowded in morning.

Overall: 

Ambiance: 8/10
Service: 6/10

Food Serving Speed: Moderate

Price range: up to RM30

Revisit or not: Yes

Antipodean Tan & Tan

No 207

Menara Tan & Tan

Jalan Tun Razak

Kuala Lumpur.

Phone: 03-2161 0752

Opening Hours: Daily; 7:30 am - 9:00 pm

Click <here> for Google map direction

Branches in Malaysia: Bangsar

*they also have cafes in Australia and Indonesia

http://www.antipodeancoffee.com/

And so we continued our foodies adventure at KLCC, stay tuned for #Part2  because there're more delicious food post to come!!! (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ

Read Part 2 and Part 3 here:
#2 Desserts
#3 Ben's@KLCC

Love, 

___ Irene C ❤

路。

拖了许久，终于上来更新部落客了。

最近因为考试而没有心情上来发文。
原本想写一篇关于大选后的文章，连Draft都写了，可是却很没心情去整理，结果到现在都还是在草稿状态。──C＜─___-)|| 

还蛮喜欢火车的轨道，之前随手拍下的。

【最短的路與最長的路】

有一天，一個小職員正在趕著上班，這天他的公司有一個很重要的會議，會議中的表現關乎到他能否升職，所以不能遲到。
　　
無奈他的鬧鐘卻壞了，而更糟糕的是還有二十分鐘會議便要開始了。
　　
小職員唯有改乘計程車，希望能趕得急參加會議。
　　
好不容易才被他截到了一輛計程車，匆匆忙忙上車後，他便對司機說：“司機先生，我很趕時間，拜託你走最短的路！”
　　
司機問道：“先生，是走最短的路，還是走最快的路？”
　　
小職員好奇地問：“最短的路不是最快的嗎？”
　　
“當然不是，現在是繁忙時間，最短的路都會交通堵塞。你要是趕時間的話便得繞道走，雖然多走一點兒路，卻是最快的方法。”
　　
聽了司機的話，小職員最後還是選擇走了最快的路。
　　
途中他看見不遠處有一條街道交通堵塞得水洩不通，司機解釋說那條正是最短的路。
　　
司機所言沒錯，多走一點兒路果然暢通無阻，雖然路程較遠，卻很快便到達了目的地。
　　
小職員最終也趕上了會議，還升了職當部門主任。
　　
人總喜歡走捷徑、希望不勞而獲，還以為走捷徑可以用最小的精力最快到達目的地。
　　
然而，捷徑雖然是最短的路，卻未必是最快的。
　　
捷徑並不好走，不但荊棘滿途，而且充滿危險，也沒人可以保證你走的路一定可以到達終點。走長一點兒的路雖然會累一點兒，吃苦多一點兒，卻是唯一最快到達目的地的方法。



在面子书看到这则挺值得深思的故事。
阅读后脑海中立刻浮现前一阵子正搭着计程车回家的时候，有个司机也问过我同一个问题。


我和司机的对话大概是这样：

司机问道：“小姐，请问你要走哪一条路？”

我就指着平时我走的那个方向说：“靠左边的那道路。”

“現在是繁忙時間，那边的路通常都會交通阻塞。前面有一道路可以繞道走，雖然比较远，可是比较快到达，因为那里较少车辆，路程也较通顺。”

但最后，我并没有像上述的小职员一样选最快的路，而是选择了我平常习惯走的路。

这篇小故事就像一记当头棒喝，顿时让我领悟到了些什么似的。

从多个角度看这世界，一直都是我在摄影时遇到的瓶颈之一。自从有了Instagram之后就喜欢上了摄影这玩意儿，照片拍久了后发现，我都习惯用同一个角度拍摄一件东西。

延伸阅读：http://rainbowgusto.blogspot.com/2013/03/pipitier-part-1.html

Source

有尝试想要用不同的眼光和角度来拍，可是拍出来的效果都不是很满意。

有时候，我们执著于自己的看法，执着于自己心里所想要的那样。

当别人提出建议时，我们往往会忠于自己的想法，而看不清眼前的事，就像一层雾掩盖了整座城市一样。

某中程度上，你可以说这带有一点固执的成分。

我并没有认为别人给我们的建议完全是对的，但至少从别人的角度多了解也未尝是一件坏事。

“旁观者清，当局者迷”的道理又有谁真正的晓得其中的意义呢？

Irene C