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Wednesday, November 30, 2011 8:40 PM
Cute lil place in KB~ Wan Choo's Eatery!
Came across this new cafe like place from KB on the internet(blog or fb? dont remember!zzz) last night, or was it the night before that? Anyhow... this afternoon, I dropped by that place with sis and cousin K for tea/early dinner at 4 ish.
Wan Choo's Eatery, here we come!
:D
Upon entering, we were greeted by a huge cupcake banner! How cute and cool is that?! Went inside and I love the ambience instantly! The whole place screams modern with a lil touch of classic to me! It's black and white the whole way! Chair, tables, wall, curtains etc They have lots of photo frames filled with black and white photos hanging on the wall too! Totally so classic!
The interior of Wan Choo's Eatery~
Those beautiful photos on the wall! Next time I'm gonna sit near there to look at the photos tsk tsk~
PS: sorry this photo's a bit blur as my phone's zoom aint that good..
Sink and I suppose, toilet?
Saw the lovely cupcakes and headed for them right away! They have normal and mini size cupcakes! How cute!
Here are the food that we ordered.
Lasagne, spaghetti, strawberry cheesecake, mini oreo cupcake, mini red velvet cupcake and rainbow cake.
For me, the strawberry cheesecake was the winner! Cupcakes were really cute but they're just normal. One thing I like about them is their size! Mini size means you eat less! tsk tsk... I just love the cupcake cups to the max! Especially the polka dots one! Spaghetti was alright but the lasagne was YUMS when eaten hot! Just skip the pretty rainbow cake aights?
Our coffee arrived later cos the place is run by a lady(who I assume her name is Wan Choo) and 2 or 3 of her family members and I guess she's the only one who can make the coffee that come with designs!
My cafe latte(a flower), sis's cafe latte(hearts) and cousin K's cappuccino(hearts also). Pretty or not?! WE LOVE THEM!
Personally, I like how the coffee is being presented in a nice cup and the taste was ok too. You can just drink that way but if you like your coffee sweet, you can always add sugar.
We also ordered a peach pudding but I forgot to take a picture of it! That was just alright... strawberry cheesecake for the world! HAHA
Since this is my first visit to Wan Choo's Eatery, I'll be a lil bit lenient.
Ambience : 5/5
Food: 3/5 (I'm sure it'll improve when they have a chef)
Dessert : 3.5/5
Coffee : 4.5/5
Location : Last along Court Furniture's block in KB. If you know Nail Paradise, it's just 2 doors down!
You may check their website at www.wanchoo165.com for more info~
Labels: Brunei, cafe latte, cappuccino, coffee, dessert, food, lasagne, mini cupcake, spaghetti, strawberry cheesecake, wan choo's eatery
Monday, November 28, 2011 5:18 PM
Rainy Monday
Hi~
It's Monday again but it feels so different today cos it's a Public Holiday!
Woohooooooo~
Planned to sleep til really late but it's not easy to adjust our body's alarm clock to wake up later than the norm.
:(
Caught up with a close friend who I've not seen for a few weeks over lunch and I've been idling at home since I got back from lunch HAHA
When we're working, we always ask for days off but when we're given one, we are suddenly lost and clueless with the given free time.
Humans...tsk tsk....
Korea trip day 3 onward will not be posted today cos I don't have the mood to edit the photos!
Sorry!
In the mean time, do check the links under the 'Link' tab for awesome reads! I've updated with a lot of new links and did some house keeping with old links!
I'm afraid the precious links that I've bookmarked on my laptops will be gone due to reasons such as virus, software malfunction etc
I love reading blogs so if I were to lose the links one day, it's gonna be such a pain in the as* to find the links again!
Signing off with these 2 photos!
Enjoy reading in this rainy and grey weather!
Oreo Cheesecake
Matcha Milkshake ♥
Labels: cake, links updated, matcha milkshake, public holiday
Tuesday, November 22, 2011 3:29 PM
South Korea, here we come!
Hello~
It's towards the end of November 2011 already so we're so much closer to the one month long holiday! WOOOHOOOO! Anyway, today I'm going to blog about my recent trip to South Korea since I'm done with ALL my work! Yes, I am bored! HAHA I'm gonna split my awesome vacation/holiday trip into a few posts!
Let the series of unfortunate exciting events begin for Day 1 and 2!
Day 1 ( 19 August 2011)
Left for Miri Airport at around noon. When we reached the airport about an hour later, we waved goodbye to my sister and niece with really excited faces.
We went in and dropped our luggage at the counter and got our boarding pass. (You can check in online or use your mobile phone or the kiosk counters at the airport!) And so we went upstairs but, we had to take the stairs cos the escalator was under service!!
*horror*
Not that I want to make a big deal out of that but my backpack was really heavy! I had packets of instant Mee Goreng, perencah ayam masak merah, perencah sup tulang etc together with 2 mobile phones(DST and Digi), a book and other stuff! To make things worse, due to the weight of my backpack, I tripped at the stairs.
T^T
Hurt my chin and thank goodness, not my face. Or else, I'd have a bruised face in all the photos!!
By the way, I packed all those food for a friend who's doing her Masters in South Korea! They are not for our consumption HAHA
We flew to Kuala Lumpur via MAS at about 4pm. As usual, it took about 2 hours to reach West Malaysia and upon arriving KLIA, we claimed our baggage and hunt for a money changer.
We tried to change into Korean Wons in Miri and at other places at BSB but they are all not available! Luckily a friend's uncle helped me to change to some KRW in Singapore beforehand!
Anyways, don't even bother exchanging BND to KRW at KLIA cos the rate is VERY low. Or rather, don't even think of bringing BND when you want to travel to South Korea cos NOT ALL money changer or banks accept BND. So, to be on the safe side, bring SGD with you. My cousin and her Thai friend had to change some BND to KRW despite the bad exchange rate.
Since we're flying to Seoul via AirAsia X, we had to move our butts to LCCT soon.
How do you get to LCCT from KLIA?
With the help of signs and some instinct, we managed to get to the bus station.
Take the lift to Level 2, go down to the bus station and get on the bus at 'Bus #10'.
I think we each paid RM2 for the 20-30 mins bus ride. There were two young Chinese(mainland) girls taking the bus with us only so it was a quiet ride.
When we reached LCCT, we headed straight for Old Town cos we were famished! HAHA after filling our stomachs, we went to the kiosk counter to print our boarding pass and then drop our luggage at the counter.
We had around 2 hours to kill before our flight and really, it was a torture! Y'all know how it feels like, right?
Anyway, we boarded our flight at 10.20pm and took off at 11pm. The plane was FULL of Koreans and Chinese(mainland)!!
In this post, please note that whenever I say Chinese, I mean Chinese from China, not Chinese from Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei or other countries.
The 3 of us got the middle aisle seats and I sat on the outer seat, which is next to the aisle. Bad choice but I couldn't change my seat cos the plane was really very full.
Not long after the plane took off, they dimmed the lights so passengers could sleep. We were kind of exhausted cos we'd traveled for almost 12 hours, by car between 2 countries and airplane between 2 states and then by bus between 2 airports. So, we decided to get some sleep.
Then we woke up in the morning with happy faces NOT!
TT^TT
In fact, I did not sleep at all! Other passengers kept on walking on the plane and each and every time one passed by, either my head or shoulder got knocked, pushed or nudged!
:'(
A family sitting near us won't stop eating and talking but that's okay, I solved the problem by stuffing my earphones to my ears BUT the walking thing?? OH MAI GWADDDDD I felt like standing up to slap or shout into their faces!
T.T
But I am a nice person, right?? ^^
So, I could only curse in my head and hope that time will pass faster.
How do I know I didn't sleep at all? Every time I doze off, I was woken up at the end of the friggin same song!! ROARRRR and I did not set my playlist on repeat or random.
*crawls on floor*
Sad, right?
What's even sadder is that the flight's duration was 6 hours and 20 mins!!!
Snifffsss
That aside, about an hour before landing, I went to the lavatory to brush my teeth and wash my zombie-fied face. Yeah, we did not shower for the whole day!
*gross*
Day 2 (20 August 2011)
We reached Incheon Airport, Seoul, at about 6.20am local time, 5.20am Brunei time. I couldn't be happier to get of that plane. It was the longest and most torturing flight ever!
We found my cousin's friend who was on the same flight as us but he was sitting really far from us, like different class? =P
We found a money changer so we changed to more KRW in case we couldn't find any easily.
We then bought a bus ticket to............ Gimpo Airport!!!
LOL
We were going to Jeju island! I really salute myself for being able to stay awake after not sleeping at all on the plane.
So, we waited for the bus at Platform 10A. It was really hot and stuffy cos it was summer then. The bus ride to Gimpo Airport(a domestic airport which also provides flights to neighbouring countries like China, JAPAN, Hong Kong and Philippines) was about 15-30 mins. I'm sorry I don't remember cos I was a zombieeeeee...
Upon reaching Gimpo Airport, we had huge Korean dumplings and grilled pork for brunch!
Dumplings - meh....
Grilled pork - TOTALLY AWESOME!
Since we had some time to kill before entering the departure hall, we went to the mini mart to have a look. Bought this banana milk and some pastries from a bakery at the airport. The pastries were =S
Entered the departure hall!
Some random stuff we say on the way and the plane that's gonna take us to Jeju! *EXCITED*
And so we flew to Jeju island at about 11:20 am via Asiana Airlines. Reached Jeju airport around an hour later.
First impression of Jeju airport, it's infested by Chinese! Or rather, I couldn't distinguish a Chinese from a Korean. Too similar!
We took a taxi to our hotel(at Seogwipo City, south of the island), which was about an hour ride from the airport(at Jeju City, north of the island). It costed us about BND 50? I guess the price is okay cos we split it between the 4 of us. Along the way, I thought I'd sleep but I was so wrong. There were so many things to see and the island is really beautiful!
PS: The Halla mountain is in the middle of Jeju island so in order to go to the south, you either go along the east or west coast.
Halfway to our hotel, the sky and weather started to turn cool and before we realised, it was raining! Not those rain that we have here but those mist like rain? We didn't get wet although the taxi driver had his windows rolled down.
We stayed at Haevichi Hotel & Resort Jeju! Click here for the website.
The receptionist was really nice and friendly though she couldn't speak fluent English but just enough for us to understand. :)
The first thing that we did when we reached our room was to... TAKE SHOWER!!
Like finally!!! Imagine us on the move from Friday noon all the way to Saturday afternoon without much rest and shower! More than 24 hours!!
How did I survive 6 airports over 3 countries in 24 hours? It's a damn long and tiring journey!
Of course must share the photos of our room right? We booked an Executive Twin room under Resort Rooms for 2 nights. It sounds confusing yeah? It is a hotel and resort and we stayed at the resort part cos it caters more to families. I think we were the only foreigners staying there through out our stay there!
A mini kitchen, a queen bed, a single bed, a dinner table(which became my most favourite spot cos it's the only place where my phone can detect the wifi!!), the balcony and view outside our room! There's a mini living room with sofas but the photo that I took was too bad.
PS: there's a korean type of mattress in the closet so the room's just nice for 4 people!
It was already about 4pm when all 4 of us finally finished showering and resting. We took the taxi to Jeju city cos we were really really realllyyyyyyy HUNGRY!
While finding our way and hunting for a place to eat, we bought some HUGE peaches. To stop my head from going dizzy, I got another banana milk! It's just average.
We randomly picked a small family like restaurant for our dinner. It was a really good choice cos the food was really DELICIOUS and it's all cooked by an ahjumma! Steady or not?!
Korean Pepsi and Sprite, ddukbukki, kimchi fried rice, naengmyon(cold noodles), kimbap, kimchi, radish pickles and sun du bu and kimchi chigae shared by 4 of us and we ate til the plates were cleaned! It was a really satisfying meal and we ordered by pointing at the photos of food on the wall and with just one korean word that I knew 'Hana' which means 'one'. LOL language is NOT a barrier when your stomach is at risk! tsk tsk...
The whole meal costed less than BND 20! Can I go back there now??
*miss Jeju*
After feeding our stomachs, we walked around downtown.
Jeju downtown.
Strawberry Popsicle. Or was it Raspberry?
Paris Baguette spotted! My mighty nose practically smelled that place from far already! This yoghurt ice cream is the best! *sour*
=)
Wanted to get the Green Tea Swiss Roll but it's tooooo huge, like twice the size of those we have here? So in the end, I didn't get it. =(
Big Bang posters spotted while window shopping! GD ♥!
We went to Family Mart(local version of 7-11 or mini marts) to get some snacks before heading back to the hotel to call it a day.
Took a taxi back to the hotel and that ahjussi taxi driver's so cute!! Though he couldn't speak more than a few words in English and he had no idea where our hotel was, he still tried his best to speak with us! No worries if the taxi drivers in South Korea don't know where a place is as long as you have the address(in Korean), they can just key into their GPRS device!
Worries no more~
He asked where we're from and I told him we're from Malaysia cos really, if you travel a lot, you'll know why. It saves you a lot of explanation cos 9/10 people do NOT know where Brunei is.
Back at our room, while the men watched tv and my cousin uploaded photos to her fb, I took photos of things that we've bought from Family Mart!
XD
Soju, pomegranate juice, jellies/puddings from Paris Baguette, Cherry Coke(have not had one since I was 10!), coffee, fresh yoghurt from Paris Baguette, BANANA MILK(this is the best out of all that I've tried through out my stay there!) and Big Bang's cards hehe and oh our fridge!
Real and fake momokos~
Our Thai friend's bananas~
(I know that sounds so wrong but it's a fact ok!)
The wifi connection was VERY fast like seriously fast! I'd uploaded most of these photos to twitter so you might find them familiar ;)
After few hours of writing, organising, recalling and editing photos, that's all for this post! OMG it's the LONGEST post ever! I couldn't split the post into Day 1 and Day 2 cos they are connected! Sorry for the long ass entry!
Until then.... please stay tune for Day 3 - 7!
Have a great day guys!
^^V
Labels: gimpo airport, incheon airport, jeju, jeju airport, KLIA, LCCT, miri airport, south korea, travels
Wednesday, November 9, 2011 1:33 PM
The Return to Ciao Bello Cafe!
Dropped by Ciao Bello Cafe for the 2nd time last week with a friend for tea/early dinner.
Click here for my first visit.
Click here for my first visit.
That's how the main entrance looks like and from the place that I sat, I couldn't help but take a photo of the beautiful and enchanted chandelier lights hanging from the ceiling.
The weather was cool that afternoon and it started to rain not long after we sat down. Have I said that I love the quiet and peaceful ambience there? The lazy weather just made our time there more enjoyable!
This time around, I ordered a cup of hot coffee. Cafe latte to be exact and personally, they serve better hot coffee over the cold ones. Friend ordered the cookie and cream milkshake. I have no idea if that's nice or not cause we were busy catching up with one another's lives! You can never stop 2 girls from talking once they started! LOL
As what I'd planned after my first visit, I ordered their burger! I don't really remember the name of the burger but it was Swiss something burger with mushroom and cheese. The burger was served with some fries and it is HUGE! It's bigger than my fist! I think it was about 10cm in diameter!! Their beef patty is homemade and I couldn't distinguish the sauce in the burger but overall, the burger is DELICIOUS! A burger I'd eat again =D
PS: the burger with fries cost less than B$10!
And... I couldn't finish the burger! HAHA so, just a lil tip from me, share with another person ;)
Although it felt like time was frozen there what with the ambience and weather, in reality, we ate, sat and talked through almost 2 hours! WOW!
I enjoyed meeting up with my friend at such a lovely place. Will definitely drop by again! Heck, even my nephew was bugging me to bring him there again for the lava cake!! Kids, or rather, teenagers have accurate taste buds!
HEHE
Food: 4.5/5
Drinks: 4/5
Ambience: 5/5
Until then... have a nice day guys!
=)
Labels: Bello Cafe, Brunei, cafe latte, food, halal food, huge burger