Lil's Birthday Part 2: Dessert at T Forty Two~

After lunch at Canoodling, I was telling Lil abt this place selling macarons (I used to spell it as macaroon but then read in wiki that most ppl use the French spelling macaron @.@~) in Bangsar Village II that I'd heard abt the last time I was there.. and being very suaku and not trying it before, I just had to find the place! We were very dumbo, cos we circled the whole building quite a few times searching for the shop, well to be fair BVII isnt that big... After quite a lot of walking, we decided to read the directory more carefully and realised there was a shop listed under cafe/confectionery that we didnt see at all...

Rupanya we'd already passed it quite a few times, but just the area outside and not the actual shop and shop window... T.T how stupid *facepalm*

Finally hit paydirt!! :)

The place is called T forty two.. and the decor is really nice... :)

got grand piano some more leh~! :P

Queen of the day in her high backed chair... the seats were damn comfy i must say~

another pretty dining area separated from us by glass windows :)

the menus were interesting, know why?

cos they had different quotes in front... Pink says "Tea is water bewitched" - Lu Wah, and Blue says "Love and scandals are the best sweeteners of tea" - Henry Fielding~ means anything to you???


Taadaa~ the stars of the day, heck they got even more photos than the birthday girl~ :P

L to R: Bittersweet Chocolate, Strawberry, Green Tea and Passion-fruit

My favourite surprisingly was bittersweet chocolate, cos i usually don't choose chocolate when it comes to flavouring i.e chocolate ice cream or chocolate pudding, etc... The strawberry and passion-fruit ones were surprisingly fruity, exactly like the real fruit itself, very fresh... the green tea one tasted a little to strong for my liking tho..

What surprised me was the texture of the macarons themselves.. I'd expected them to be cake-like, since they look like little cakes but its actually more like marzipan, and I was a little surprised when I took my first bite.. O.o... For RM3.90 each, they are pretty pricey, and very indulging.. not something tat I would consider for teatime any other day lor... hehe...

We also ordered the chocolate fudge cake (RM9.90) which looked crumbly but was actually very gooey and yummy and warm inside... :) nice... but better not eat it in front of someone you secretly admire cos the cocoa powder tends to stick to yr teeth :P

Other tantalising desserts.. chocolate tarts, passionfruit cheesecake slices, lemon meringue tart, chocolate fondant, strawberry shortcake etc etc etc.. A dessert lover's dream come true, sighhhh... The pink one in the middle is the rose macaron which costs a crazy RM13.90. omg! I can have a full meal for that price :S but secretly wondering whats so special abt it...

Other baked stuff with canggih-ranggih pronounceable names like croque monsieur, turkey ham and gruyere muffin, Spinach feta and pine nut briquette O.o..... extremely saliva inducing oso... *eyes glazing up*

We reached the cafe at around 2.15pm and were given a 25 minute window to finish playing around and eating as they were having an event at 2.30pm, a baby shower =.= I know kids nowadays are damn 'ho mia' but babies as well?! Gah.. But no worries, we still managed to finish in good time and had 2 refills of warm water each :P

A little something that deducted some marks from my macaron experience.. I saw a baby roach under the table! Arghhhhh... didnt say anything cos we'd finished eating at the time and I dont think the birthday girl noticed it... shocking eh? but not as shocking as seeing a full grown one in the middle of The Gardens Mall one fine day when we were going back to the office from lunch... *True story* This goes to show that high end places are not safe from nasty pests as well @.@~

So, YaY! cos I finally tried macarons after hearing abt them so long.. but i guess its just a fad, like cupcakes and donuts.. :P

Lil's Birthday Part 1: Lunch at Canoodling @ Bangsar Village II~

Another chance for celebrations... Lil's quarter of a century birthday is here!!! We were out and about all day on Sunday for an early celebration.. Part 1 was at Bangsar, Part 2 at Mont Kiara and Part 3 at SS2.. amazing right????! :):)

I'd visited Canoodling at Bangsar Village II once before, thanks to my food blogger colleague, Mr Wei Ming, I didn't really like the food that we tried that day but since I was having a serious bout of coughing the last time round, I decided to give it another try together with Lil, whom I figured would love the quirky decor, hehe....

At our table which had its own spotlight.... bright and cheery yellow makes you feel happy too!

The lights were hanging lamps, how creative~~

they had all sorts of doodles on the wall and crayons on the table for you to play around with... how fun~

Menus! The one looking extremely like an exercise book was from the place next door, called Ricetaurant..

see??? the horrible squares from my childhood, cos i had a hard time keeping the words in them, lol...

our appetiser, only RM4.90, tempura kangkung... It wasnt cheap considering that its just a few fried leaves... but it tasted yummy with the dip that they gave us which was a mixture of sweet and salty flavours and complemented the batter quite well :)

I quite liked this to be honest... who would have thought? Tempura kangkung @.@~

Lil's main... 'The Canoodle Oodles of Noodles' the flour wrap felt and tasted like chee cheong fun skin and it was quite fun to create our own roll plus the meat was quite tasty as well, so this this gets a thumbs up from me for being interesting and tasty... Hehe~

My claypot 老鼠粉 which which is the special dish or sundays... nothing special about it though. Apart from the pretty egg on top, it didnt taste that special and was rather salty.. Had to slather the accompanying chilli sauce on every spoonful before I could eat it... :S and I thought it could help change my perception abt the place having a cosy atmosphere but mediocre food, too bad....

I had this the last time -- Pasta Pad Thai, sounds interesting but a tad disappointing... the noodles were gluey and there just wasnt any oomph to the taste...

Crispy duck salad, if i remember correctly, this was rather good, the duck was flavourful enough and Vi ordered this as her dinner so the portion is quite satisfactory i must say~

Pandan Chicken Wings were ok oso... funny how all the appetisers and desserts are not bad but the actual noodle dishes are just so-so considering that its a shop selling mostly noodles @.@~

my dessert... Aloe Vera, Sea Coconut and Ginseng Roots served ice cold...very refreshing and for RM5.90 the bowl was filled to the brim with aloe cubes and sea coconut slices :)

Lil's dessert, creamy mango and pomelo dessert and a peek of my iPad in its new clothes, whee~

and before you forget me :P:P

All in all, the prices and service were quite reasonable and wifi quite fast, plus the ambience was cosy as expected.. but the food could be better, imho....

We had our second dessert at T Fourty Two, also at Bangsar Village II and I cant wait to share what we had that we'd never had before this~~~ to be continued.... cos im sleepy.... :P

Hanging out at Chin Swee Temple~

5 June 2011

A long awaited retreat~! Our first time driving up to Genting Highlands, mainly to escape the horrible city weather, and we ended up at Chin Swee Temple, of all places... we could have chilled out at starbucks or picked strawberries at the farm, so i have no idea why we chose to climb up and down flights of stairs and slopes looking at statues instead @.@~

Anyways, i rather enjoyed the trip cos the last time i visited the place was ages ago so it was like visiting a new place, and its always nice to be able to visit a new place (even though its not exactly my first time there... confusing much??)..

The first thing of interest that i saw there was a bug... a stripey spider to be exact... was trying to take a pic of it when it suddenly fell right in front of my nose... scary man... actually the whole place was full of bugs... they must enjoy the view too~

pretty flowers... luckily took a pic of them before we set off exploring, cos it rained pretty heavily while we were exploring, and when we came out all the pretty flowers were drooping... :D

pretending to enter the pagoda to climb it, but actually we felt too lazy so we didnt climb up... :P

8 stories of tightly winding stairs...no joke~

uh oh, he pushed till it became slanted :S:S

the nine dragon wall and the gods of fortune hill behind

Dragons on the roof too~

The whole place just looks surreal... with the greenery and mist, it feels just like a whole other world...

You can imagine yourself at some hidden temple... (if you look closely, you'll realise that Buddha has grass growing in his hair... cute...)

or acting in some period kungfu movie... lol...

Got fake cranes oso... tat grey thingy in front is supposed to be some magic fountain/ water dispenser where you press the button and water comes out.. but apparently it needs some maintenance :*

Giant Buddha can help make your tummy look smaller... lol...

It started raining a little while after we arrived, so we went to hide in Goh Tong Hall, obviously named after the founder of Genting Highlands.. It was full of these beautiful sculptures that form the personal collection of Tan Sri Lim Kok Thay.. all of them were besar-besar belaka and must cost hundreds of thousands of Ringgit O.o... The main reason we went to the hall actually was to find a place to sit while we ate the waffle pizza's that we got for lunch but while observing the ppl in the room, i realised something funny...

every single person went and molested this happy looking sculpture :S there was this man who was rubbing its tummy and the heads of the little monks at the side of the belly for so long that i was wondering whether the paint would come off... I figured it must be something to do with luck, so what the heck, I went and patted its tummy also.. what to do? I'm kiasu wat

After that we went and looked at the sculptures depicting the 10 levels of hell, with super gory and scary sculptures that i couldn't bear to take pictures of in case i get nightmares while looking at them :S:S:S apparently even a small thing like littering can make you end up in a boiling pot of oil... so beware....

The last place we visited in the temple was Chin Swee Hall where I found the biggest 木鱼 (literally translated as wooden fish-the thing monks beat when they chant) ever seen! the stick even looks like a fish's eye :D

Climbing all ard the place got us real tired out, after all i wasnt wearing shoes that were suitable for lots of walking so we ended up in the casino uphill for the purpose of getting free milo, hahaha...

missed us??? :P

Had a lovely lovely dinner at Gohtong Jaya before we made our way back to hot and stuffy KL (RM48 frog legs anyone?).. The jam was terrible on the way back cos the rain and the winding road caused plenty of accidents = plenty of things for ppl to kaypoh and slow down for...

*groan* what an end for a super fun day~~~ only made it back at ard 11pm that night and had to work the next day, SOBS~