19 - 23 December 2018
KL Day 1
It took about 3 hours to get from Singapore to our hotel in KL (it takes me like 2 hours to get to school(ノಠ_ಠ)ノ) We are staying at The Element KL, which is a 53-storey building with the lobby on the 40th floor, the lower levels are galleries.
Thank God the rain stopped when we decided to go walk around the city. We stopped by Secret Recipe and had their Shinjuku Toast, which was what we came for after having it in Malacca. 2 toasts, each with 2 scoops of ice cream and 2 drinks cost us only SGD$11 (´▽｀) But I’ve had so much bread since morning (bread for breakfast, toast for second breakfast, auntie anne’s for a snack) that I have to name my stomach Brad Pitt (Bread Pit) (￣ 3￣)
Then we went shopping at KLCC, which was mostly luxury goods, and Avenue K, before going for dinner at a food truck park!!! It was so cool, much like the market on wheels we had at Bugis, but there was a mix of local traditional food and aesthetic Instagram-worthy food and so affordable. The seafood aglio olio was super spicy but super tasty. I loved the chicken with rice, and the gigantic mango smoothie with real mango pieces inside!
After dinner we visited a grocer where I found BUBBLEYUM, I’ve been looking for it for years and thought they’d stop selling it forever but YASSS. Another awesome thing is that our hotel has Fox Movies and HBO and tHEY’RE SHOWING AVENGERS INFINITY WAR ON SATURDAY. Thank you God for a great day and for watching over us ♡
KL Day 2
The weather was really good today! We had breakfast at a cafe called Ra.ft which was really aesthetic. The pancakes, granola and big breakfast was good but the honey lemon drink was like all lemon and no honey. They had a Christmas special beetroot latte which was all pink.
Then we took the LRT to KL Central to book a day trip to Genting for tomorrow and before taking one stop backwards to Pasar Seni to visit the famed Central Market which sells cultural and handicraft items. For lunch we had penang char kway teow, prawn noodles and a salad.
We walked so much that we had to pretend to try on shoes at a shoe store just to have a seat (˶‾᷄ ⁻̫ ‾᷅˵) Then we walked over to Chinatown (Petaling Street) and were disappointed that the restaurant we specially came for was under renovation :( But on the bright side we did lots of shopping and I bought a pair of high-cut converse for SGD$25 (๑>ᴗ<๑)
Alas, our legs cmi and we sought refuge at Texas chicken. After chilling there for a very long while, we walked back to have dinner, stopping by a heritage and history museum with a free photo exhibition that was more like a maze. There were mirrors and doorways and featured Chinatowns from all over the world. They explained common phrases (most overlap with our Singlish) and unique cultural practices. But the best part was this separate room with movie star/character quotes where I took a photo of every marvel-related one¯\_(ツ)_/¯
We had dinner at a relatively cleaner food outlet. The soup was superb, the dumplings inside the soup not so, the garlic sweet potato leaves also great. Lastly it was back to the hotel where Avengers Age of Ultron was showing on Fox Movies and I could practice reciting it’s lines from memory lololol. Thank you God for another amazing day!
KL Day 3
Today we woke up bright and early to go to Genting. The bus ride took about an hour and the skyway 10 minutes.
Genting is sooo different from 6 years ago that my mind is blown, First World Plaza has changed so drastically we didn’t even know we were inside it and were walking around trying to find it (´Д` )
We had lunch at a recommended restaurant called Burger and Lobster and ordered their original lobster - grilled and with their signature lemon garlic butter, and the beef and lobster burger.
Then satisfyingly full, we walked around (kinda in circles cos everywhere is linked in someway or the other) and shopped some more.
Then we got tired and bored so we stopped by a cafe with giant teddy bears to have a drink. We ordered grande latte and a venti mango frappe which was too much so we ended up playing scissors paper stone and black and white to see who would drink ahaha. There was one brown bear and one beige bear so I played using them and their hands.
We went to take photos at the atrium that was decorated to look like Santorini (•͈ᴗ•͈ 人) and they had fake snow too!
It was around 3pm that we went for afternoon tea at Cafe Richard, ordering their Paris set with 18 sweets (macarons, tarts and eclairs) on an Eiffel Tower stand and 2 complimentary teas (rose lychee and green mint). But it was so sweet we were in agony and agreed to never have afternoon tea again.
(sorry lady who photobombed, you're forever immortalised in this blog post)
We took the skyway back down early and visited the premium outlets at Awana station. It was almost 9 when we returned to the bus station at KL Central and had a late dinner of Ayam Penyet and Tilapia Penyet (the soup was so tasty). Back at the hotel there was Captain America Civil War and GOTG2 on Fox Movies and HBO (≧v≦)
KL Day 4
Today we had breakfast at San Francisco Coffee, a food outlet found everywhere in KL. We ordered their sausage and scrambled egg burrito and focaccia and ham omelette which was not bad.
Then we took the LRT and MRT to Bukit Bintang to visit the Selfie Museum at Fahrenheit88. The museum has 9 theme rooms and 5 free desserts along the way (cupcake, marshmallow lollipop, baskin robbins ice cream, bubble tea, ondeh ondeh and an extra chili popcorn at the end). We had 10 minutes in each room so the whole tour lasted 1.5h. They were playing really good Christmas songs about Jesus (•͈ᴗ•͈ 人) In the last room there was this spinning carousel thing with a camera attached to the ceiling. It was a mistake to have gone on it, the after effects of the spinning lasted for hours (T ^ T)
For lunch we ate at Connoisseur Cafe. We ordered mushroom risotto, fruit rojak and the prawn aglio olio was superb! After that we went shopping and shoe hunting for my mom. At one of the stores, the guy said the size we wanted had only one side left and we were like ლ(ಠ_ಠლ) and he said someone probably bought it and we again we were like ლ(ಠ_ಠლ). So someone is walking around with a size 37 shoe on one side and size 41 on the other (which was the other size that had one side left).
For dinner we visited Jalan Alor, which is a huge food street which mainly sells zi char and coconut ice cream. We had rice with barbecued chicken wings, garlic clams and siput, a fantastic meal!
