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Bangkok Trip Day 2 – Part 3 – Shopping in Bangkok

28/09/2011 No Comments

Waking up early, head to one of the famous New York Chain Dean & Deluca for breakfast, head to river cruise for a stroll and now the most anticipating of all time which is the girls cant wait is to dig into their pocket and pay is…..shopppingggg . . .

When we reach back the city center or known as business district center, Bangkok is also famous for their massive congested traffic whereby as near as 1km distance can get stuck till 1 hour in some super peak time.

Besides on their traffic, Bangkok is regard or well know by many of my girl friends as shopping heaven where in a short distance you can find as many as 10-14 shopping complex are very nearby or I would say, walking distance!. So Girls, if you do go Bangkok, do prepare yourself with alot of bullets (money) to randomly shoot around. One of the main train station to get off is this SIAM Station. . . . .. .

One great thing that make Bangkok so convenient in terms of walking, is that they have this sky walkway below their sky train as far as the train distance is covered under their business district, which is slightly covered area that even though its raining, we can still walk around, that MALAYSIA is seriously lacking off! Thru this, their business among malls are there, which is similar like Hong Kong.

MBK is one of the shopping complex that sells average price items that we spend nearly half a day here, where you plan to get handphone covers, t-shirt related to Bangkok, here is one of the mall to get.

Gaysorn to come here nearest BTS Skytrain is Childlom

One of the newly build mall which is Central World which is huge enough to make you spend alot of time in here, that host many of foreign brand in this mall. Exit at Childlom station and its just a few minutes to this mall.

This is how inside Central World looks like . ..

In one of the wing that have ice skating ring. . .

Then we walk thru Central World to reach this mall that all girls will go crazy . . is . .

The Platinum Fashion Mall, which is one of the main wholesale area where by also most of my friend came here to get their whole sale clothing back to Malaysia and sell at a good price besides heading to China. The retailers here also do sell in lose pack if you do not intend to get alot, just that at their retailing price. If you go with a group of friend of 3 at least, the more you buy the more you can bargain.

Its a huge mall that have old wing and new wing that hosted more than 5000 shops in here. You can just imagine that.

If you plan to shop here, whereby most of the girls money will be spending inside here do come early, as you cant walk finish the mall in 1 day, where their operating hours is from 10.00am – 10.00pm. As it was Queens Birthday that day, so it was operate till 5pm.

We spend the whole day here, the girls still did not manage to walk every floor as they skipped 2 floors.

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TGI New Menu, Texas Mex @ Hartamas Shopping Center

04/05/2010 No Comments

One of the food outlet which is no stranger to all of us, I remembered that during my college times, when we were pretty broke yet still want to enjoy nice food, we head to hunt their set lunch at RM14.90 comes with a drink at Subang Parade outlet, and we just sit there talk and watch soccer and for the first outlet that they open in Penang, my dad brought me to dine there, he give me a prank yet also a surprise on my birthday few years back, that I have to stand on the table holding chili sauce bottle to sing as song to a full house crowd~ Gowd!, that was one of a great experience that I kept with the restaurant.

It was not until recently that got invited to go to TGI Fridays to try out one of their new menu, Tex-Mex, the range of Mexican food. When comes the word Mexican, the next word that pop out from my mind is Tacos, with fine fried bacon baked with cheese. Yummm~

The bar area in the restaurant also used to be one of my favorite hang out spot after work, as I often came by for their happy hour after work when I was in Penang as it was on the way back home. I love their dim light ambiance filled with a few big LCD to watch ESPN or some news to chill and nice Bartender to talk with. It was chill and relaxing after hard day of work.

It always depends on mood to hunt for which beer but to me, it was always draft, never on bottles~ The clear and fresh taste of it. Stout is one of my favorite choice but Heineken is the most preferred choice as its cooling and refreshing.

With the branch at Hartamas Shopping Complex, the team had put in a lot of effort to decorate the place and the team had won several times as the best dress restaurant, cannot deny that now the whole restaurant had Mexican ambiance that decorated with donkey, cactus and famous Mexican hat.

Even Elvis Presly will entertain you for the night. 😀

and I just love this wall that decorated with old classic vinyl record lable on it.

The day could not be any better that we got served with ‘Gold Mango Margarita’ ripe mango pureed with tart lime juice and shaken with tequila and triple sec. The mango smell is so tempting but they were never stingy with their tequila shots, it was strong, a few sips already make me haywire abit, but it was good. RM17.90. The good news is, they also served ‘Virgin Gold Mango Margarita’ whcih is without alcohol.

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Bagel ‘n’ Coffee Station @ Hartamas Shopping Center

06/01/2010 No Comments

I have always been to and pass by Hartamas, neither did I know that actually on the other side, hidden another shopping mall which is Hartamas Shopping Complex which I find it kinda cool place to be for the very first time, whole stretch of shop rows that filled with F&B, some souvenir shops, and many others and if add on some exclusive brand there, it would be like street shopping at Melbourne.

The reason me being there was, Richard had extended an invitation to us to dine at Bagel n Coffee Station in that area.

I have no idea what Bagel is about until the boss explain to us that it is actually another type of bread that shape into ring(very similar like donut) boil in water then baked that will comes out with chewy, dense and crispy. There are a few types of it and the classic one are with poppy and sesame seeds. It is popular at Europe, US but not in Malaysia.

A simple classic western café decoration and appearance that make it simple and nice which you can always see in the movie as I like this kind of designs.

As we were seated and the friendly owner greeted us and explain to us how this shop been set up and the concept of it and got to know that this brand is origin from Germany as the owner travel quite often between Malaysia and Germany so then he took the franchise and open it here.

Another classic menu that makes me recall back my working time in a cafe when I was in Melbourne.

Offers variety of bagel in different dressing. If you guys are coffee lovers, please do not miss their coffee which is blend with imported beans and the way that they blend the aroma out of it, its truly get the taste of the finniest coffee, of course I mean is better than Starbucks and Coffee Bean in my own taste.

‘Cafe Latte (R)‘ RM8.70 With smooth foam yet brew to perfection with the froth at the right temperature and right blend had pour on top of it. Its something I could not resist.

‘Voreo Cream Shake’ RM12.50 is what I would assume like Oreo Shake. Was first to serve this and I finish it within minutes. Just cant stop slurping it. Nice taste yet not too sweet the smoothness of the ice is just perfect.

For those who love coffee extra strong that I would recon ‘Double Espresso’. Brew from Original double shot with hot water compress and pressure thru it, comes the nice creation of aroma in it. RM5.80

‘Iced Barraquito’ is something new to us. Its like a shot of espresso added on with condense milk at the base and top with creamy foam added with 1 or 2 cubes of ice, had bring the coffee aroma to another level. Something which Ken loves and enjoy alot. RM6

I was too caffeinated till I forgot to shot another drink which is ‘Ciokaffe’ which is behind this glass of coffee. More like a long black but surely long black with great smooth taste. RM7.90

Then next head on with our order of Bagel. That the bagel is slice into half and as the based support, cabbage, lettuce, onions, green pepper then top with the selection of your chioce and cover the top with another half of the bagel.

Which first serving is ‘Chicken Bagel’ by the look of it, me and Ken look down upon this bagel that wonder how would it filled our stomach but bagel had proof our assumption wrong! A whole slice of bagel is enough to make us full. RM11.50

Chewy texture yet with the special seed top as into baked had make the bagel unique in taste and with the ingrediant, sauces and salad added in. Its perfect!

Then we head to our ‘Roast Beef Bagel’. Beef was roasted perfectly yet preserving the softness of the beef that did not overcook yet the aroma of the beef slices had combines well with the bagel and dressing. RM14.60

Next the owner introduce us to try out ‘Sesame Bagel’ and tag with ‘Classic New York Lox’. Among the list so far, this would be the far best and personally highly recommended. The freshness of salmon that had a cream cheese spread on the bread added on with some dressing that combine is truely delightful. RM14.60

We order another one that caught our attention which is ‘Quater Pounder Cheese with plain Bagel’ . The name and the look of it had made us impress and the taste of it, its delicious too. Medium well beef with salad with a slice of cheese is just more high class of Ramlee burger version. RM11.50

Being the place orignate from Germany we would not miss the opportunity to try out their ‘Beef Krakauer, Chicken Garlic, Chicken Jalapeno’. Chewy and juicy texture that bath with their home made sauce had just end our meal with satisfaction and the boss gives us more coffee. RM7.90 each.

Bagel with coffee is truely great combination. Surely we will return to the shop for anothe round. Thanks to the owner for giving us a warm hospitality n Richard too.

-= Ka Ching =-

Food Rating 9/10, Very good,Recommended!!!!~-Stamped-

–Warning– This is based on my individual taste. Try it at your own risk-

Location:
Bagel ‘n’ Coffee Station
Lot P-7B Plaza Floor
Hartamas Shopping Center
No.60, Jalan Sri Hartamas 1,
50480 KL
*Halal

Tel: 03-6201 1073