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Budapest: New York Cafe, The Most Beautiful Cafe In The World

Eastern Europe Trip // Budapest: New York Cafe, The Most Beautiful Cafe In The World – How can you not visit the self-proclaimed ‘Most Beautiful Cafe In The World’ when you are in Budapest? The New York Cafe, located in a corner of Boscolo Budapest Hotel together with the hotel exterior beautifully lighted up. It looks luxurious, grand and just fascinating from the exterior and it looks even better from the inside!

So, after visiting the Alexandra Book Cafe and checking out this New York Cafe in Budapest, I find that there the hipster-style cafe in Malaysia that girls like to go there and take a selfie, high-tea and Instagram them are so out! HAHAHA. Just kidding, they are equally cool, but these two in Budapest are the best that I’ve been to!

The exterior of Boscolo Budapest Hotel that houses the New York Cafe looks magnificent at night.

4 guys, 1 cafe. LOL.

Awesome Hot chocolate with caramel flavour & whipped cream. HUF1,790, about £5. Quite expensive, but still worth it.

The atrium of Boscolo Budapest Hotel.

May 24, 2014

Klang Valley: Acme Bar & Coffee, Troika, Kuala Lumpur

Klang Valley: Acme Bar & Coffee, Troika, Kuala Lumpur – Troika is one of my favourite building in Kuala Lumpur, designed by Foster & Partners architect and it’s standing beautifully just right across the KLCC park. It’s actually a high-end city condominium with restaurant at the mid-level sky bridge and also at the ground floor. Of course, it’s a high-end fine dining restaurant at the sky bridge on 24th floor, there’s also a bar as well as another Italian restaurant (unfortunately, only the Cantaloupe fine dining restaurant can get the best view of KLCC).

Coming back to Acme Bar & Coffee, or ABC in short, is another restaurant at Troika, but located on the ground floor. The restaurant, of course serve western cuisine, as well as food with a fusion of localized taste and price starts from RM25. It’s rather pricey, although some accept it because of the location and interior setup of the place. Don’t expect the premise to be big, it’s actually smaller than I expected, but the raw steel and wood design, blend with English-style design actually attracted my senses quite a lot.

Let’s talk about food. When people discusses about ABC, the first thing comes to mind must be their famous Cempadak (Jackfruit) Cake, but that’s desserts and served in the end. Of course, they have a good Smoked Buffalo Wings which we didn’t order, unfortunately. The menu’s variety is quite choice-ful and me and my friends were confused picking out our main course.

Just Mac & Cheese – RM27.

Angel Hair Pasta with Scallops – RM-forget. Another interesting dish with lots of pan-fried scallop.

Sambal Hebi Aglio Olio Spaghetti – RM31. Interesting combination of local and western taste with lots of shrimp.

Grilled Jumbo Hot Dog – RM-forget, but I know it’s the lowest price of all and my friend said it’s good! Yes, it indeed looks good.

Marinated Grilled Lamb Shoulder – RM-forget but it’s the priciest of all you see here. The portion is quite big which I promise a full stomach after this.

Cempedak (Jackfruit) Cake – RM15. The famous cake of this restaurant. Truly, the taste of jackfruit is very strong and powerful which will be pleasant for jackfruit lover. Many complains it’s overrated, but yes I still like it, but not the price.

US! The food gang, the interior designers.

Yes, the food is very over-priced in my opinion, but it seems to be a nice place for hangout with friends actually. Food taste is still up to standard in my tastebuds and service was pleasant. If there’s a chance, I want to go back for a breakfast as they have different menu. After all, the down point is still the price, really pricey. Bahhh.

Acme Bar & Coffee

Unit G1 The Troika

19 Persiaran KLCC

50450 KL

Telephone: +603-2162-2288

Business Hours:
11am – 12am (Mon – Thurs) | 11am – 1am (Fri) | 9.30am – 1am (Saturday) | 9.30am – 12am (Sun)

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August 27, 2013

Kwong Sang House, George Town

Kwong Sang House, George Town – Heritage-style cafe and restaurants are now here and there in this UNESCO World Heritage City of George Town. There’s so many to visit right now and I know that there’s still more to come in the future! Somehow, do you realised the food that each of these heritage-style cafe offered are similar? Coffee, pastry, pasta, pizza and sandwiches. Hopefully I will something different like parmesan port chicken pie, jumbo hot dog, grilled marinated lamb shoulder, pork chops and stuff like that.

Anyway, Kwong Sang House, a restaurant converted from an ex-tailor shop which has a tailor-theme in the little heritage shophouse which serves food like pizza, pasta, chicken chops, fish and chips and more. Food is tuned to a more localised taste, similar to those western food stall that you can find at food court, but with a better setting, bigger portion and more beautiful food presentation.

I recently went to tried their Spaghetti Aglio Olio & Chicken and Ham Pizza. My personal liking goes to the spaghetti, but then it’s not better than the one at I had at Redbean Bags @ Publika. Chicken and Ham Pizza was rather plain with lesser ingredient. I might come back to try out some other food in their menu provided the price is quite reasonable at about RM10-RM20. The restaurant itself is simple and relaxing too!

Kwong Sang House 廣生洋服

36 Leith Street 10220 Georgetown Penang

Tel: +6012-556 5509 / +6012-4939 230

Business Hour: 12pm-2.30pm, 6pm-11pm (close on Thursday)

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August 27, 2013
Penang: Coffee Chocolate Mille Crepe & Cafe Latte @ Twelve Cups

Penang: Coffee Chocolate Mille Crepe & Cafe Latte @ Twelve Cups – Penang’s road came into a massive war zone around Gurney Drive area, Air Itam and some other tourists area of Penang! So many other state’s vehicles have flocked into this little island on the weekend causing congestion here and there. After lunch, to prevent myself stuck in the congestion on the way home, I brought mom to Twelve Cups for a little after meal desserts and a cup of coffee to chill a while before getting ourselves into the traffic jam.

Coffee Chocolate. Not my favourite afterall, found that Hokkaido Milk was better. =D

A good cup of Caffe Latte.

Lovely time with mille crepe and coffee at the cafe, but then it’s not lovely when being in the jam. Argh, seriously, something need to be done to help reduce the traffic congestion on this little island, but how?

The Twelve Cups

12, The Whiteaways Arcade,

Beach Street,

10300 George Town, Penang.

Telephone: +604-2626812

December 23, 2012
Ipoh: Burps & Giggles – Cafe With Interesting Concept and Feel

The old school five foot path, or called Varendah, or in Hokkien – Goh Kha Ki.

Ipoh: Burps & Giggles – Cafe With Interesting Concept and Feel – Let’s go to Ipoh now shall we? It’s getting a trend that old Chinese shophouses in Malaysia are converting into art cafe/restaurant with vintage feeling, or contemporary style. It’s either super modern or go back to the old school way of decoration. Penang has many of them and Ipoh too, has one very cool one – Burps & Giggles located in the old town area.

Let’s go in…. Nice door by the way.

The indoor section, here it’s air conditioned.

It’s actually quite easy to find, located in the old town which is near to those famous Lou Wong, and old school kopitiam. The two tiny shophouses are converted into one not-very-big cafe, in fact it’s kinda cramp in there with many tables and chairs setting up near each other.

The interiors is cool, has a two section where one is semi-open and one is indoor with the kitchen located here. It was a Saturday noon and it’s so crowded when me and lovely Clarice arrived there.

The cafe spanned all the way to the back lane where you still can find some seats outdoor which something I’ve never seen before. Connecting to the back of the building is another cool attraction – Sekeping Kong Heng where there’s kopitiam (coffee house) at the bottom and rusted and modern designed homestay hotel at the above.

The cafe itself is a nice place for photography as it’s vibrant and colourful. It’s not really a good place for long chat as it’s very noisy when it’s full of people; but having a meal at the semi-open area seems more comfortable and got feel than the indoor one.

Open-kitchen, so you might get smelly, or the other way, you can smell the aroma of the food cooking.

Lovely pastry! I want them all please!

The wall.

Lazy lane, door to the back lane seating.

The backlane.

The backlane with seats.

Well……. to the toilet.

Semi-open area with bar and sofa seating. Lovely isn’t it? There’s tree inside some more!

Let’s talk about food. They offer western food like burger, sandwiches and pastry! Being a very authentic Asian, I am not familiar with western food, I only know about chicken chop and fish and chips. Haha, but of course, I am always ready to try new stuff. =D I think it’d been like a month I’ve visited this place so I’ve forgotten about the food name, so anyway, I’ll let the photo bom your eyes and mind.

Burger, grilled chicken, vegetable, sauce, something something.

Something pastry something with lots of cheese and chicken again.

A cup of earl grey from TWG. Is it true that earl grey taste like your soap?

Love Clarice and me.

So, yeah. This is it. Some place is meant to be visit once, moreover Ipoh is not my hometown. What I really like is the way, the concept they decorate the place.

Burps & Giggles,95, Jalan Sultan Yussuf, Ipoh, Perak.
Tel: 05-242-6188
Open 8am-8pm, except Tuesdays.

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December 11, 2012
Cool Cafe – +Wondermilk, Damansara Uptown

Cool Cafe – +Wondermilk, Damansara Uptown – +Wondermilk Cafe is a very cool cafe located in Damasara Uptown. Why I mentioned it’s cool is because of the interior decorations which is very artsy and beautiful, so does the food choice. The cafe is decorated with many artsy stuff like decal, photoframe, typography, warm lighting and has nice cafe music playing along.

I went there with my dear, Hueisean for a little afternoon tea. +Wondermilk Cafe is famous for cupcakes and sandwiches. Since we were not really hungry, we just ordered one piece of cupcakes and a beverage. This is also to save cost because cupcakes are expensive. Haha.

Free wifi is available at there. We chat chat and take photos at there and eat the Chocolate Oreo Cupcake (RM4.50/cuppacake). It tasted not very sweet, just nice and crunchy a bit. Kinda good.

As for the beverage, I ordered a Minty Lime Chiller (RM8.90) which is lime + soda + mint leaves which is very refreshing and quenching. It’s kinda expensive, I can make the same thing at home. Haha.

She’s so happy! =D

Overall, the cafe is very comfortable, but price wise is kinda high. They sell Lomography camera too! ‘Drink More Milk’ – motto of +Wondermilk Cafe.

+Wondermilk Cafe and Cuppacakes

41, Jalan SS21/1A,
Damansara Utama,
47400 Petaling Jaya.

Telepehone: +603-77258930

Business Hours: 9.00am – 10.00pm daily.

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April 26, 2012