♥ 2014 Christmas decoration at 1 Utama Shopping Centre, Selangor

Year-end is approaching and Christmas is just around the corner. What do you like about Christmas?

As for us, Christmas decorations are one of the thing that makes us love this joyous festive season. We enjoy seeing different theme of Christmas decorations adorning the shopping malls. The Christmas trees, the twinkle lights, the colourful ornaments, etc. 

This year, 1 Utama Shopping Centre is the first mall that we head over and their Christmas decorations are of theme "Rustic Woodland". All those adorable furry friends are going to light up the kids for sure. 

Pictures tell thousand words. Enjoy. 

Cheers.

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♥ Afternoon High Tea at Tokyo Pastry, Kota Damansara

Our first afternoon high tea at Tokyo Pastry. 

Address: No.2A-1, Jalan PJY 5/9, Dataran Sunway, Kota Damansara.

Doubtedlessly a classy European style cafe with calm and cosy ambiance, offering a wide varieties of pastries, cakes and desserts (all looks fabulous and tempting). To our surprise it is not a Japanese style cafe and bakery shop. Seats are quite limited though. 

Our afternoon high tea set for 2 pax on a 3 tier stand.

The top most tier came with chococlate flavoured hokkaido chiffon cupcakes and a slice of sesame cake with macaron. Cupcake was not a fluffy one and the cream did not taste good. Sesame cake was too dry and not fresh. The macaron was too sweet to our liking. 

Melon buns, hokkaido cupcake (again) and swiss rolls on the middle tier. For your information, melon bun, also known as melonpan, is a type of sweet bun from Japan. It wasn't melon flavoured, slightly dry at the outer layer (like cookies crust) but soft and moist on the inside with cream as a filling. We like these melon buns and they weren't too sweet. Swiss roll was just an oridnary swiss roll, nothing too great.

The lowest tier consisted of deep fried chicken wings and sandwiches. Nothing too great. 

Tea was good (at least it was Dilmah tea). 

Overall, it wasn't a good afternoon high tea experience as the foods weren't as good as we expected and we had to wait for more than an hour to be given a seat. Sigh.

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♥ The Good Batch at Damansara Uptown, Petaling Jaya, Selangor

The Good Batch, one of the cafe which being featured as the top 10 brunch cafe in The Star newspaper, is definitely a place that worth checking out. We were there on a Saturday night for dinner. 

This cafe is quite spacious. With cemented floor, wooden tables and dim lighting, it provides a calm and relaxing environment for you to dine in. However, we don't really like the indoor smoking area at the back.

The all-day bar.

Some of the decoration items.

After a glance at their menu, then only we discover they are offering all-day breakfast/brunch dishes as well as a few after 6pm mains, desserts, coffee, juices and alcohol beverages (Not to forget to mention, this cafe has an all-day bar). Although with quite limited options, all the food items in the menu sound delectable (especially those egg-laden breakfast platters). 

Caffe Latte (RM 8.50)

Not too sweet, not too bitter, and to my brother liking. Between, complimentary water is given to all the dine-in customers. 

The "Ang Moh" (RM 25.90)

Consists of two softly scrambled organic eggs, streaky beef bacon, grilled chicken sausage, ripened cherry tomatoes, baked "Portobello" mushroom, pan fried potatoes, dad's baked beans and lightly toasted bread. 

We like the scrambled eggs as they are softly set, slightly runny in places and moist in texture. The streaky beef bacon was irresistible, it wasn't the crispy type, not too hard in texture and most importantly not salty. The cherry tomatoes were juicy and the pan fried potatoes were tasted really good, slight crispy on the outside yet perfectly done on the inside. The bread had a slight hint of vanilla flavour.

The baked "Portobello" mushroom which served together with The "Angmoh". One of the best baked mushroom we ever tasted, great tasting, juicy and we like its dense flavour.

Hang Over Mess (RM 20.90)

Corned beef mixed with pan-fried potatoes and capsicums, topped with two sunny side-up and drizzled with herb-infused  Hollandaise. Portion was considered small although with a quite generous amount of potatoes and corned beef. The sunny side-up was good, especially when you eat it with the Hollandaise sauce. However, the corned beef hash texture wasn't really pleasant to us in term of the tenderness (too soft), but it goes very well with the pan-fried potatoes.

The Italian Job (RM 24.90)

A creamy Portobello mushroom risotto topped with poached egg. The poached egg was perfect and good. The same goes to the Portobello mushroom, so good in taste and juicy. The risotto was made with cheese and it was smooth, creamy and oozy. A thumbs up for this dish, although the portion was quite small.

New Yorker (RM 23.90)

Version of hotdog with a twist, topped with corned beef, completed with a mix of their homemade sauces, served with a side of chips. Hotdog was just normal, corned beef was the same as those served in Hangover Mess, the chips were good and in overall, this dish wasn't a bad try.

The Good Stuff (RM24.90)

A mouth-watering dessert which looks appetizing. This freshly baked toast with mangoes was lightly dusted with powdered sugar and paired with a scoop of vanilla ice-cream. One of the best sweet dessert we ever tried.

The Good Batch, awesome place for a brunch retreat although the price is on a higher side.

The Good Batch

Location: 53, SS21/1A, 47400 Petaling Jaya, Malaysia

Website: http://www.facebook.com/thegoodbatchkl

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