Vanilla Bean is a relatively new cafe located at Senibong Cove which serves specialty coffee, artisanal cakes, brunch items and waffles with interesting flavors! The cafe is quite small but not too cramp, we visited on a sun afternoon for brunch and i quite like the ambiance there! I only realised I didn't take any picture of the interior after we left hahaha! I ordered the smoked salmon avocado and my fren ordered the baked eggs. Smoked salmon and avocado can never go wrong and i love how generous they are with the avocado spread! As for dessert, we ordered their earl grey lavender waffle to try and omg the earl grey lavender ice cream is so so so nice, very refreshing with the right amount of sweetness! And their waffle is on point too, crispy and fluffy, exactly how i like my waffle to be. There's a few waffles that i really feel like trying such as the salted egg yolk waffle, teh tarik waffle (what?) and the ondeh ondeh style waffle..such an interesting flavor! Oh and the artisanal cakes that I din get to try !! Ok, enough reason for revisit..hehe!
Finally gotten the chance to visit this famous cafe during my 1st visit to KL this year! I have actually visited KL twice this year which was quite impromptu..haha! I believe many have heard of this cafe, VCR in kl, it's like one of the must visit cafes if you are in kl. VCR is located in a renovated house with its wall painted in black, easily be spotted! The cafe was almost full house and we were seated near the windows so yes to good lighting! My friend recommended me the potato waffle and this is actually my first time to try a savoury waffle! I immediately fell in love with the waffle when it was served, just take a look at the wobbly eggs..hehe! The waffle was topped with sauteed mushroom, poached eggs, rosemary and sambal inspired tomato chutney, a really tasty combination! My friend told me that the cakes are very nice too, especially 'The King', guess i will have to try it next time! :)
VCR
2 Jalan Galloway, 50150 Kuala Lumpur
Mon-Sun 8.30am - 11.30pm
After much procrastination, im finally here to update our taiwan trip last year..opps! And im flying to Taiwan again this Friday coz of my sis grad..lol!! Day 2 was basically tour around the places in Taichung and we hired a driver to bring us around, can't remember the total price but i think it's around 3500NT per day, 10 hours maximum. We woke up super early that day and have a simple breakfast below our airbnb while waiting for the driver to arrive.
Our first stop is the Rainbow Military Dependents’ Village (彩虹眷村), the whole area is full with colorful and bright paintings on the wall, which was all painted by a veteran, Mr. Huang. The village should have been torn down years ago due to the government program to demolish and replace military dependents' village throughout Taiwan. However, this village has become so popular from all these paintings which attract more and more tourist. Eventually it has became one of the tourist attractions in Taichung and the government was forced to preserve this village. You will spot someone in iron man mask performing music there if you go at the right time, he was really friendly and fun! He even instructed us to pose for the picture and took our camera to selfie..lol! We spent around 20-30 mins there taking photos and off we went to our next destination - Sun Moon Lake and Qingjing.
One of the key attraction in Sun Moon Lake is the Ropeway Cable Car, we bought the round trip ticket (around $10) and i think there's some free coupons for us to purchase food at the top. The view was nice but i honestly felt that it's kinda boring actually..lol! There's this Formosan Aboriginal Culture Village Theme Park at the end station but we didn't visit due to time constraint. The driver then recommended us to take a walk at the Itashao market street where we chanced upon this famous fried bun stall! The bun is filled with cabbage and mushroom, fried on the spot and you have to help yourself with the packing and paying, all self service XD The stall owner was so funny, he even posed for me and ask me to take his picture with the signboard behind..lol! Must try ok! It's really good especially when eat it hot!
Our last destination is the Qingjing farm and the journey from Sun Moon Lake was really really long..luckily we still manage to catch the last sheep show at Green Green Grasslands. The sheep show is only available on weekends and public holiday. The venue was already full of visitors when we reached and the crowd is really no joke, we had a really hard time finding a good viewing spot..lol! The sheep was then released after the show to allow the visitors to interact with them, we have waited so long for this..lol! We bought some sheep feed at the vending machine and start to spam photos with the sheep XD It was extremely hard to take photo with the sheep, we tried so many times and take countless shot and only manage to get some decent one. Well..just look at the selfie that I took with the sheep..it totally nailed the 不屑 face man..hahaha!
We went to the Small Swiss Garden to take some pictures before we left Qingjing. The place is kinda boring in my opinion so we just took some shots and went back to Taichung. The highlight of that day has got to be the Monster shaved ice that we had that night, click here to read! :)
Stay tuned for the update..which I hope it won't be too long..lol!
Meanwhile, please watch our Day 1 & Day 2 Taiwan trip vlog below! Watch in HD ;)
This has got to be one of my favorite cafes in Bangkok! We visited Casa Lapin x26 on the 2nd night of our Bangkok trip for dinner. The cafe is located in a quiet area at Sukhumvit 26, around 10 mins walk from Phrong Phong BTS. Apparently Casa Lapin has quite a few branches in Bkk and the one we went is the biggest branch with a hostel, flower shop, co-working place and of course the cafe itself.
The cafe is really really spacious and it offers a good variety of seats from bar table, sofa table and dining area at the back. We were brought to the dining area behind by the friendly staff and we chose a window seats with sofa..hehe! I didn't do any research about the food so we just ordered the items that look appealing to us..lol! For the drinks, we ordered mocha, iced chocolate, lychee tea & thyme and orange & passion fizz. We ordered the green curry with roti for our appetizer and to be honest, we didn't have any expectation for this dish at all but it was so yummy!!! We certainly have higher expectation for our mains after the appetiser. We ordered a spicy carbonara, aglio olio and a beef burger to share and everything was so gooddddddd!!! I couldn't decide which pasta i like more because i lovee their aglio olio but they done the spicy carbonara so good, it was not jelat at all! o.o The beef burger was not bad too but i guess the pasta was too great that it outshone the burger, hahaha!!
The cafe was very quiet on that night with only few tables of guests and i really love the atmosphere there, definitely a great place to chill and relax after a long day of shopping hahaha! Saw some reviews of their hostel as well, would really like to stay at their hostel one day!
Casa Lapin x26
Sukhumvit 26 (10 mins walk from Phrong Phong BTS)
Khlong Tan, Khlong Toei,
Bangkok 10110, Thailand
Daily: 8am-10pm
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