Alexis

Where do you go to get a decent bowl of Vietnamese beef noodle in KL. Alexis is the answer.

There are 2 branches of Alexis in KL, one in Great Eastern Mall, Jalan Ampang and the other in Bangsar.

Alexis in Great Eastern Mall, Jalan Ampang is a restaurant cum Jazz bar. They invite well known Jazz singer from the world to perform here in the evening. During day time, this place is just a restaurant. The place is cozy during day time. It could be crowded in the evening.

There is a wide collection of wine in their cellar.

Alexis is a good place to spend a lazy Sunday morning. Bring along your laptop if you have plenty of time. The place is cozy and not crowded.

As I said, this is the place in KL to get yourself a bowl of Vietnamese beef noodle. It is not fantastic, but can do. The soup is good, but the beef slices were not thin enough.

You can try their pan cake too. Nicely decorated with strawberries and sweetened banana.

The other Alexis is located in Bangsar.

The shop here is much smaller. I think Alexis in Bangsar opens only in the evening.

There is a wide collection of wine in the cellar here too.

The Vietnamese beef kway teow tastes the same here too.

Alexis is famous for its high quality cakes.

You should really try the tiramisu here. Top with berries and sweet egg white crust. There are layers of chocolate and liqour in the middle. The cake will melt in you mouth and the taste is too sophisticated to describe. This is what I call sophisticated cake.

Yummy!

Papparich

It was Saturday 3 weeks ago, I was in Bangsar around 12 midnight. There is this shop in the corner of the road in Bangsar called Papprich that caught my attention. Well, the shop looks like one of those new kopitiam that has sprung up in Malaysia. But, this one is different in that it has a certain English elegance in its decor. Being curious, me and my friend went in to take a look.

"Malaysian Delights" written on the front door was simple, but elegant. The steam coming off from its food counter makes me feel warm about the place. Apparently, they serve dim sum. Not many kopitiams serve dim sum. Most of them serve toasted bread and noodle.

This being Bangsar, most of the client are Malaysian yuppies of various races.

One look at the menu, I was impressed with the varieties of food offered. You have all sort of noodles like char keoy teow, laksa, hor fun, curry mee, etc.

They have hor fun dry style mixed with various type of gravy too.

Nasi lemak and chicken rice.

Otak-otak and fried foo chuk too.

There is also a wide variety of toast and bugger.

Vegetarian dim sum, lor mai kai, egg tart, etc.

For dessrt, they have bean curd, soya bean, ice cream, pudding, etc.

There is a wide variety of drinks, hot and cold.

I ordered a plate of hor fun dry style mixed with chicken and prawn in soy sauce.

It was a big plate.

My friend ordered chicken hor fun.

Actually, we wanted to eat something light. But the variety of food on the menu made us ordered more than what we should eat at 12 mid night.

The vegetarian dim sum is a bit disappointing.

The fried foo chuk is chewy and tasty.

A bowl of bean curd. You have a choice of plain sugar syrup and gula melaka.

Same for soya milk too. Soya milk with gula melaka was great.

Barley with lemon. Home made.

The bill came up to around RM50. Not that expensive considering the amount of food we ordered.

Well, so far Papparich only has branches in Klang Valley. If you are interested to open one, you can contact the following number.

Foh San Dim Sum Restaurant

It was 3pm in the afternoon and all my family members had to be in Bridal World to take family photo with my sister, who was the bride of the day. Just next to Bridal World is the new Foh San Dim Sum Restaurant.

Ask anyone from Ipoh where to have somea good dim sum breakfast, most of them will tell you to go to Foh San. Not that it is the only dim sum restaurant in Ipoh, but Foh San is definitely one of the popular one. The restaurant open early at 6 am every morning and you will see a long queue outside the restaurant waiting to be seated. At least, that was the scenario in their old shop.

The last time I came back to Ipoh for Qing Ming festival around mid April 2009 , I already discovered the grand new Foh San almost completed. The new building of Foh San is really big and grand. The architecture looks like a clan association. It spans at least 5 shop lots and 4 storey high. The building can house at least 1000 people. With this new building, I hope the long queue waiting outside the restaurant will become history. At that time, the building was still under renovation and not opened for business then. This time round, the new Foh San restaurant is already in business. But too bad, 3pm is not the right time of the day to take dim sum and yam cha and the restaurant is closed for the day.

In the end, we went to Hua Nam just across the road for some white coffee while waiting for our turn to picture. Guess I have to wait till Chinese New Year to enjoy my dim sum in Foh San. In the mean time, I could only admire Foh San's new grand building.