dreamz bakery@the strand, kota damansara

cause bulat will go to the ends of the earth for dessert! hohoho!
:D
found this by accident by randomly clicking blogs and off i went to scout the place. while mom was enjoying her manipedi session, i went and piled on some calories -_-!

hello! the cute door that greets you before entering! seriously, if you do not know the area well, you might have to waste a lil petrol making rounds cause it wasn't really prominent to begin with and it's kinda tucked away..hidden..somewhere. laughs*

the signage at the door:)
you are required to take off your shoes before entering (if i remember correctly) i guess it does promote warm, homey kinda feel by doing so.

the blackboard that was outside with the signage..brings manymany memories of high school and the horrible chalk dust floating around when erased. the fact that i was short, not fun erasing the blackboard LOL i recalled in std 3 maybe? i was jumping to rub the top part of the blackboard. short remember? not to mention fat too (fatter then now lol growing sideways at top speed!)

and my teacher actually said, in front of the whole class.
"omg! don't jump. i can feel earthquake! i can't mark my work!"
.....i don't have to tell you how loud everyone laughed and she was actually being serious cause while saying it, she was holding both sides of the table with her hands like there was really an earthquake-_-!

this will greet you once you step in! the beautiful display of cakes...no , wait. actually the aroma will hit you first laughs* nothing beats a nice smelling cafe...omg...it's is damn heavenly the feeling...not to mention they have a glass window at the right side of the cafe that gives you a small view of the kitchen where 2 or 3 pastry chefs would be sprinkling their magic dusts to produce awesome goodies! :D yay!

lil trinkets, bits and pieces that are for sale. did not get anything. i know! bulat always buys lapsap! how come?! hahaha purse on a diet.

here the window that you can see the magic working! :D sorry bout the bag...hahah don't know whose isit. spoiling my photo-_-! pifts* i love the fact the furnitures are all white! and the fishnet thing is prolly something where customers write comments bout their cakes and stuff to put there. on the left is a very nice hand-drawn cutesy wall~

love this! patchwork cloth thing to serve as a divider? door? i think i used to hate this kinda patchwork thing when i was young. both my grandmas did many things like these and i thought it was horrible cause it looks like a poor people thing *spoilt girl lol* but now my views have changed 180 degree..hahah i wonder why.

they have another room after the patchwork divider thing which i lovelove. it feels like a nice place for people to hang out if there a small party or something...maybe around 15 people? to just do whatever you want amongst yourself in a private room. downside is, right opposite this room is an office? actually its a floor that is divided by 2. the cafe on one side and office of a co. the other side. there was no one in that office when i went but my friend said there was when she went and it felt kinda weird to have a bunch of random ppl "at the cafe" although they are in another room all together.

one of the best seller- chocolate cake.
tasted like..a..normal good chocolate cake? laughs* not those that made me ooohhh-ahhhhh but it was a good cake. not like a rip off of your money that kind.

the mille crepe cake! arhhh!!!* i sometimes wonder what is the big fuss over mille crepe cakes (like what is the fuss over macaroons.) but whatever...ahhhh!!!!*
erm ...this was prolly tiramisu. it was not bad....but still nothing beats the famous nadeje at melacca....or austin chase's layer cake.

original/vanilla mille crepe...sadly this was...like.....it was like eating butter. hardened butter. cold hardened butter. mille crepe is usually soft. this was actually kinda hard...i was alright with the taste but my bro (being the pro if all mille crepe cakes) hated it. hahaha T_T he said it was not good at all. wasting his calories. sigh* i read good reviews on their mille crepe though. maybe the pâtissier was having a bad day thus this cake, lacking with love during baking process..haha-_-!

chocolate cake decorated by yours truly....for mom. hahahahhahahah-_-
nothing better to do. seriously.
on a plus side, i feel the cakes are reasonably priced at around rm8.50 per piece..don't think i see these kind of prices anymore lately. it's crazy but it starts to feel like rm12-rm15 is a normal pricing for a slice of cake when clearly you don't need that much for the ingredients.

well...if you don't pay (as in cash) then you will pay (as in energy) when you self-bake. hahahaha

Dreamz Bakery
My Kidz Pit Stop Center (3rd floor)
No 58 The Strand Jalan PJU5/20D
Pusat Perdagangan Kota Damansara
47810 Petaling Jaya.

Monday :10.30am-7pm

Wednesday to Sunday :10.30am-9pm

http://www.dreamzbakery.com/

Canoodling @ bangsar village II

have always wanted to try the place cause of the wonderful deco from the outside itself:)what to do. i'm superficial. hahaha~

finally a chance came when by chance i was at BVII with mom and with mom she basically ALL IN for anything new~ yay me!

the place was mainly yellow theme in a glance (see menu) with neat and clean settings and with the wonderful hanging table lamps at one end of the cafe/restaurant must have captured many people's eyes. hahaha esp. my mom.

"rice-taurant" menu is on the right. next to canoodling and opened by the same group. (uh*hm, the group that runs 'plan b', 'ms.read', 't42' etc.)

the interesting part (to me, other then the wonderful yellow colour utensils used) was the blank piece of white paper used as 'tablecloth' cause it is used to doodle all you want. laughs* my table next door had 2 kids happily doodling away. good way to distract the kids from making noise or having something to do while waiting for the food. i rather see kids draw and stick their noses into their latest ipad/itouch-_- it's like the world around them suddenly disappears. bah.

the only other place that i remember having this was Avanti at Sunway Resort. went there 3 years? ago for christmas *laughs* going with a bunch of art students meant a paper full of rubbish drawings by the time we were done with the lunch buffet.

some seafood mee if i wasn't wrong. simple meehoon is what i feel, taste like ham choy soup. nothing to shout about but the soup was salty enough for me...mom thought it was overpowering. well, all the more for me then! :P
rojak! surprisingly this was really not bad. laughs* polished it off. lose to some roadside SS2 pasar malam rojak that i ate last monday but for a restaurant standard i think it's really not bad. mom loved it and she was surprised to see tauge inside hahaha

for the environment, i think price wise (around rm10-ish) is still fine. but if i were to go back though, would try the more exotic dishes they had on the right side of the menu! some peanut butter sauce mee! laughs* mom REFUSED to take it. hahaha

Canoodling
2F29, Second Floor, Bangsar Village II
No. 1 Jalan Telawi Satu
Bangsar Baru,
59100 Kuala Lumpur.
Telephone: +603-2287 1566
Website: www.facebook.com/canoodling.big
Opening hours: 12noon- 10pm daily


tiramisu at Espressamente Illy, Bangsar Village I.
right at the bridge between BVI and II, brought mom there cause a friend ooh-ed and aah-ed over the coffee they served. hahaha well, it IS illy. definitely can't go much wrong with that!

for a non coffee drinker (coming from a family that drinks coffee religiously, funny that i don't-_- i do drink BLACK coffee though, no sugar nor milk. but that's like really rare) i present you their tiramisu priced at rm14, it was not bad but there was no kahlua taste and tons of coffee used to sub it. kuakuakua. but overall, it wasn't bad but i doubt i will pay rm14 for it as my mom makes better tiramisu! WITH enough kahlua. (the alcohol used when making tiramisu)

mom took the caffe latte, which she happily polished off and no complains in between. (very good sign haha you should see her complain once bout bad coffee) priced at rm10.

total was supposed to be rm14 exc tax. but at tea time, (was there around 3-ish?) a slice of cake and coffee, both at your choice is at rm18 exc tax.

spent the afternoon gossiping with mom. yes, we exchange gossips. laughs* her friends and mine. not every nitty gritty detail but enough to know what's going on in each other's circle of friends. despite how much i can't stand my mom sometimes and the amount of "arguements" we have, moments like these i know i should treasure it and yes, it is a love but beh tahan relationship with my mom. laughs*

Espressamente Illy

Address: Lot F-12 & F-13A First Floor, Bangsar Village I, K. Lumpur.

Tel: + 603 2287 7078

Sushi Q

bought from groupon Malaysia.

as written :

for RM11.90, you get a Japanese set meal consisting of a box of assorted sushi and sashimi (RM18.80 value), a bowl of miso soup (RM2.50 value) and free flow of hot green tea (RM2.50 value) at Sushi Q (RM23.80 total value)

actually the main reason we bought this is cause every Sat we are at the JFKL library,Midvalley so it makes sense to buy vouchers that are redeemable at Midvalley/Gardens right? :P funnily we ate something veryvery filling that day and not even 2 hours later, we went to redeem this. laughs*

poke pocky's tummy!*

verdict : seriously in comparison with groupon's photo, other then the fact that there wasn't any garnish in ours and the salmon slices were a tad small, everything was ay-okay!:) esp the soup. hahahahahha! though it felt a lil funny as the soup was served in a plastic container. easy for packing if you can't finish it though. and the green tea? came in a very thick, good quality paper cup..that i sheepishly carried it, sipping throughout the journey from sushi Q to the car and later, washed the cup and kept it. laughs* im using it to put pens and stuffs. maybe i should decorate it too since it's so plain! :P

when sushi Q was frst opened (or when i frst saw it at 1U) i was really doubtful bout it. i mean..it's right in the middle of the "highway" and it looks like an express, take&go counter. how good can it be? sushi is supposed to be a delicate thing, personally made by the chef's hands with heart (acc. to me larh) but with mass production nowadays you tend to raise an eyebrow bout it. but Thank God, sushi Q did not let me down..well not top-notch but at least, it's wayyyyyy better then i expected:)