KL retreat Day 2 (Part 2) and Day 3
High tea session was at Tous Les Jours bakery cafe. We passed by this cafe on the first day of our shopping and I did some homework that they sell really nice pastries and coffee here therefore we told ourselves to come back tomorrow. Anyway, it is easily located as this bakery and cafe is located right opposite H&M Lot 10 in KL. Those who wants to take a monorail, you may alight at Bukit Bintang station.
Tous Les Jours, which means "everyday" in French is a French-Asian bakery. They served fresh pastries, bread and home-baked cakes everyday. What amazed me was the popularity here. At 3.30pm, the whole place was crowded with human having their high tea session. You can even see students studying over at this cafe as it provides free wifi.
When I entered into the shop, the smell of the pastries delighted me and lured me to get hold of a tray and tongs. I was lost in choosing what pastries to munch because every pastries look so delicious to me.
I'm really a bread person, so when it comes to buttery pastries, I couldn't resist myself from trying all of them! I can skip rice and noodles and just have pastries and cakes for lunch and dinner. They are not only appealing to the eyes, but also pleasing to the palate.
Tous Les Jours is a self service order cafe, you have to queue at the counter and give them your orders regardless of cakes or beverages. However for pastries wise, you can choose and make payment together with your orders. They have breakfast brunch menu like bug breakfast and Egg Benedict. We only get to see their menu while we were done with our orders. Too bad, we over-ordered and couldn't force ourselves to order more items.
Let me refresh what we have ordered. I remembered getting myself a bun of sausage cheese while Geraldine chose some honey toast bread which we felt cheated as we didn't taste any honey in the bun. What I really love was the cream cheese bun as they were generous with the filling. While Ying wei got herself a bun of macadamia white chocolate. However, we had a hard time to cut open because the bun was really hard to bite.
Our cake came with Devil chocolate which has 3 layers of milk/dark chocolate. This was the most sinful and filling dessert and I kinda get sick of continuing of a few mouthful. Last cake was Tiramisu which the cream was light and not bitter at all.
Some photoshoots taken inspired by i-don't-know-which-scene but we just feel that the scenery is nice to capture a landscape shots. The lightning was so perfect but I wish that the construction workers weren't there to photo-bombed us. HAHA, just kidding. I should be thankful and salute them for their consistency hardwork.
We had a good break over at Tous Les Jours. The only pity was not being able to try on their brunch menu and their egg benedict looked really good!!! Nevermind, I will come back to Singapore and satisfied my crave for benedict.
Tous Les Jours @ WOLO Bukit Bintang
Address: 126, 126A-C, Jalan Bukit Bintang, Kuala Lumpur
Tel : 03-4065 0088
Opening Hours: 8am – 11pm (Daily)
Website: http://tlj.com.my
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TLJMalaysia
Second day of the trip shall pamper myself and we hit one of the salon to get our hair washed. We budgeted and opted for student academy which means that our hair would be well taken care by students who are still training to be a certified hair-dresser. Some of them are still a freshies as this can be seen from how they blow dry our hair. I was lucky enough to get a hair-dresser who could wash and dry my hair properly whereas Ying wei got an inexperience hair-dresser who almost got her hair stuck inside the hair dryer. A few were obviously bull-shitting when they told their lady boss that it was the hair dryer fault and pushed the blame to one another. But what we paid is what we gotten so who could we blame?
Last stop of the day and we headed down to Petaling street which is also known as Chinatown. It was so popular of their fake branded goods which they bragged that it was from a real branded goods, Those who didn't know about the back story would easily get deceived by them. For instance Ying wei was trying to ask a price of a rayban sunglasses and this owner quoted her 120RM! This is obviously chopping our head off so she walked off but the man held her and said 80RM...60RM. While we walked further away more, he shouted "Okay, 20RM!" You see..., from 120RM to 20RM, that's made a lot of difference! But she got the best deal!
But anyway, we didn't want to shop over there so we hunt around for food. We stopped by a famous claypot chicken rice and some ASAM fish which was yummy! The price stated was based on the sizes that you ordered. A reasonable stated price of course. And next, our second stop to wonton mee which we were puzzled why the aunty doesn't give us Char siew meat.
We wanted to try other things but some of the shop has already closed down so sadly we took a cab back to our apartment for an early rest.
Our third day morning, we decided to head back to Imbi market for our breakfast because we missed their food and there are alot of things that we didn't try out.
Back to their Popiah and Yong tau foo because we have not enough and wanna da-bao back. We added in Char Kway Teow and Kaya Butter bread from Hainan tea stall. Have you ever tried dipping Kaya bread into your Teh Tarik? This was what traditional people will do so especially if you asked your grandparent. They will even share with you how they mixed half boiled egg with coffee.
Lovely and colourful kuehs that we stopped by and can't help ourselves to take away some even though we were full and filled. Its like 50 cents for one, why not? If those kueh doesn't turn bad fast, I would have considered to bring back some to Singapore!
Its departing time and we caught our 11am bus back to Singapore. Slept all the way till we reached custom and lucky for the early departure, we escaped from the heavy jam!
Arrived Singapore and received a big hug from Boyfriend! How blessed am I (: Accompanied him for dinner before he send me home and booked in for his night.
Thanks love <3
That's all for my travelogue for Kuala Lumpur trip! It was really a good experience to stay in airbnb and also to travel around by public transports just like how their locals did. A tips is to prepared well for your trip and do sufficient homework so that you won't be lost in the jungle and perhaps able to venture more expected places that was not in your list.
Communication is very important and we were glad that most of them speak mandarin and therefore we have absolutely no language barriers between us. Some spoke Cantonese which I could understand but would reply them back in English or Mandarin.
Awesome trip and hope to venture some other places like Hongkong and Taiwan.
Till then.
