Harō Kiti Gourmet!

22 Tuesday Dec 2015

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Bonjour again! Came across a Hello Kitty gourmet café recently, I must say the decor was absolutely lovely and very suiting for anyone who loves either pink/funhouse/Kitty/cakes/ all that is mentioned. My entire excursion was filled with “oohs” and “aahs”. There were also “wait wait… pickcha!!”. Okay, quite often… MEOW cares!

Upon arrival

Hello Kitty (full name: Kitty White), is a fictional character by Yuku Shimizu under Japanese company, Sanrio. Though, initially this legendary character was only known as “the white kitten with no name”.

Her first appearance was all the way back in year 1974 then introduced to the United States in year 1976. At the age of 40, Hello Kitty was worth $7 billion a year. Kitty power!

The official profile for this phenomenal kitty lists her full name to be Kitty White, born in the suburbs of London. Date of birth – 1st November (how cute seriously).

Height – five apples tall | Weight – 3 apples precise.

Here kitty, kitty, kitty..!

Fun Fact

Hello Kitty has a twin sister who she is very close to, Mimmy!

2 floors vintage funhouse – coffee, cakes and salads are served on the first, 2nd floor is where the high tea sessions are.

Afternoon tea!

Strawberry cheesecake.. very much like cotton candy

High-tea set @ RM 99.5 for Two

TOP TIER: Hello Kitty macaroons, chocolate mini tarts, chocolate coated strawberry

MIDDLE TIER: cones of the day, petite tarts and marshmallows

BOTTOM TIER: finger sandwiches (smoked salmon & smoked turkey), variety of scones

There’s so much cuteness at every corner you see. Food was okay, tea was good. Decór wise, pamper your pretty lady(-ies) to a pretty wonderland might be a good idea eh!

sugar, spice,

and everything nice!

Hello Kitty Gourmet Cafe

Lot 083.F.6, Oasis Boulevard, Sunway Pyramid, 3, Jalan PJS11/15, KUALA LUMPUR, 46150 Petaling Jaya

(located next to Sephora)

à tout à l’heure!

Rowie

Delicious Spicy Slurrps … (PJ State Ed.)

20 Sunday Dec 2015

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Malaysian cuisines are well-known for its versatility due to an interesting combination of different races and cultures.

And what’s best is that a variety of yummy food can be found all around! From your humble earthy streets… to sassy posh cafés with its sophistication exuberance, you can almost find any flavour that sings to your daily tunes, satisfaction much!

My all time favourite hawker destination – Restaurant Kam Heong @ PJ State.

You can basically find any local delicacies at this place, prawn noodles, chicken rice, fresh fruits, dim sum pastries, and beverages to complete your satisfying meals.. I want some already!!!

TOP: famous curry laksa, packed with ingredients and flavours

BOTTOM: Seaweed popiah rolls, a must-add side dish during visits

Coldsweet cuppa jello to keep the heat down, perfection!

Below is a Deesse mask session. Looks pretty cool ey, non-invasive, no pain just relaxation…

For further reads (posts from Harpers Bazaar and Vogue) — Click here!

Have you done your Christmas shopping yet? *beams*!

much love!

The Festive & The Fabulous

12 Saturday Dec 2015

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HO! Ho! Ho! Christmas has again exploded all around town and I can tell, all the kids in us are out to play.

Busy malls are filled with beautiful decorations, topped with soothing Christmas carols, bells and lights, such atmosphere certainly makes Christmas the best celebration all year round.. oui~! ❤

Le Pont Boulangerie – As chiq as the café name is, it simply means the bridge thus the place where gaps are connected and ideas are embraced over good food and drinks.

Sophistication.

Decided to be “Surprise Santa Rowie” 🎅

of course.. pretty-in-pink xmas packages for ze ladies

Let’s get started with the café review, shall we? Right!

LE PONT BOULANGERIE

An European designed three-floored café, tucked in the prime F&B area of Old Klang Road (near Midvalley).

Stepping in the boulangerie, rows of wooden shelves displaying various yeast goods and pastries spotted, hunger pangs after being bathed with a wave of scrumptious scent of baked goods!

Temptations!

Drools..

Moving on to the second floor where the feasting begins.

Pan seared salmon

Good ol’ Aglio Olio

King Prawn Fettucine

Seaweed sandwich..

seriously good.

(one of the 4 very mouthwatering

sammiches on a serving platter)

Le Pont Boulangerie’s signature – Lamb Shank

Beef Brisket – Tender and loving the mash

Overall, good ambiance and reasonable priced food, left the café with wide smiles, definitely looking forward to going back for the other dishes!

Le Pont Boulangerie

Address: 6, Jalan 1/137c, Bedford Business Park, KL

Click here for le website!

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Where flowers bloom, so does hope – Lady Bird Johnson

Surprised would be an understatement to describe it when I found this elegant box sitting in my living room! I received another one from a secret Santa all the way from Aus ❤

Previous BLOOMTHIS post, click here

It’s Christmas mysterious blooms this season, comes with complimentary Sothys Paris gift cards.

Unwrapping the package gives me stomach butterflies, eeks!

Beautiful roses, pine cones, fresh Christmas tree ferns carefully wrapped in gold 20151211_154925

Loving my precious blooms!

For Japanese cuisine lovers out there, does Nobu ring a bell?

It is well known for this prestige restaurant to infuse Japanese culinary with Latin American flavours, serving the finest quality of food, offering the best view in Kuala Lumpur.

I truly enjoyed my visit to Nobu Melbourne a year ago, freshest sashimi platter was served. This time round, I had the privilege to journey on another Nobu adventure, in the heart of my home-city.

Mystique view @ Nobu KL

Gotten all fidgety for the dinner to commence hah!

Grateful for my partner-in-crime who had surprised me well.

Fresh and Lipsmacking – sushi rolls and salmon ceviche

Highly recommended and also highly priced @ RM45 per piece —

Uni (sea urchin)

Black cod in miso – just try it, no regrets.

Bento dessert – elegant and best coffee in town, hands down.

Lava chocolate, seriously delicious and not overly sweet, already drooling as I type.

That’s all for now folks!

Have a merry MERRY Christmas, cherish your loved ones and I shall end this festive post with a Charles Dickens’ quote..

Let us honour Christmas in our hearts, and try to keep it all the year.

À tout à l’heure!

Rowena

Burgundy Baby!

07 Monday Dec 2015

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Good hair day?

Bad hair day?

Ever experienced… EXTREMELY bad hair days in a row?

Had a HAIR MELTDOWN much recently and the Mr. decided to treat me to a nice hair transformation. GO burgundy, red head love!

Light ash brown crisis

Better view with sunlight

Magic curtains reveal… dum dum DUMMM!

major lurve!

As for those who had gotten their hair treated should know, maintaining part is quite a workload. Specially for brighter colours, shampooing can be nightmarish seeing all those precious colour being washed down the drain grr!

Scored some pretty cool “sidekicks” from Hair Depot.. I LOVE LOVE their products! Quality at its best I would say…

Le magic oil~ Highly recommend this for all chemical treated hair

And this cute bomb! Saloon hairdos from curly to straight @ your very own home, is that a yay I hear??

Maintaining has never been any simpler nor pleasurable =)

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As stated in my previous post, here are some of the Christmas offerings gadgets at Le’ Bungalow

This “controlled-cooling” baby comes in handy, allowing all the stem cell / hyaluronic acid goodness fully and deeply penetrating, achieving baby smooth skin GUARANTEE!

Combining that with the Jason’s hockey mask applicator, fancy schmancy~!

Okay that’s all for now. Stay tuned!

Bonne nuit ~
Rowena

Christmas Greetings and Sweet Delivers

07 Monday Dec 2015

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Jingle jingle!

Festive season’s here people!!

What’s better than Christmas exploding everywhere around town, with soothing carols all month round and perhaps a turkey celebration or two with your loved ones?

And boy oh boy, do I have some sweet offerings here~

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Deesse Spectrum Mask

Why the buzz among celebrities like Katy Perry, Gucci Westman…?

Deesse Spectrum Mask originated from Korea, increases blood flow, promotes would healing, stimulates collagen and elastin production.

All these obtainable from a mask resembling serial killer Jason’s white hockey mask from the movie, Friday the 13th!

100% natural and non invasive guarantee
suitable for all age, however less treatments would be recommended for younger age groups
cost effective
a wide range of treatment

New York Manhattan’s very own celebrity facialist, Georgia Louise strongly recommend this treatment “For anyone who wants to prolong healthy looking skin without invasive surgeries, it’s a phenomenal tool. 3 or 4 times 20 minutes session per week, not on a daily basis.”

Three different modes to target different types of skin problems:

Mode 1: 630 nanometers of red light sent out to stimulate collagen and break up hyper-pigmentation

Mode 2: 415 nanometers of blue light delivered to kill acne-causing bacteria and reduce inflammation

Mode 3: Bathes your complexion with a combination of red and blue light along with a combined pinkish beam that increases circulation and wound healing

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Treat yourself or your loved ones to a massive sexy X’mas promotion this season!!

Only RM 99 for one FULL treatment with some complimentary sides!!

(net worth: RM 380)

Link attached below is the full article on Deesse interview with facialist Gergia Louise!

= http://www.harpersbazaar.com/beauty/skin-care/a10801/miracle-mask-0515/ =

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For further understanding, please refer to VOGUE article..

= http://www.vogue.com/946331/deesse-led-face-mask-georgia-louise/ =

Now everyone, who doesn’t want a sizzling santababy, what are you waiting for? Act now!

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Email – rowenacheesay@gmail.com

Tel – +6010 – 239 6323 / +603 – 7931 8996

Merry Christmas,

Rowena

Dining in the Dark

05 Thursday Nov 2015

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Indeed!

I had the privilege to experience an out-of-this-world dining experience, thanks to my mum’s special day. Few days ago, I was overwhelmed with the idea of what to get her.. Flowers? Chocolates? Homebaked cake? Jewellery? nahhhhh….

And it hit me, why not something interesting… something that might stir up that lil kid in her, a culinary journey of course!

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Journey started an hour earlier as Changkat’s nightlife is well-known, as well as the touristy crowd and ridiculous jam. It wasn’t too long after we managed to search for a narrow entrance with a signboard as shown below..

As we carefully climbed up the carpeted stairs, we get this sense of dark yet elegant exuberance, it was kinda exciting, imagine Alice falling into the rabbit hole.
At the top of the stairs, we were greeted by a team of friendly hosts who guided us over to a stretch of velvety sofas. Time for our welcome drinks and mini games..

Lounge

master patissier’s hands completed mini game in no time!

Black ‘n white portrait of Christine Ha

A renown blind masterchefAU contestant who got praised by chef Ramsay himself!

Proceeded over to the locker to keep all our handphones, watches, anything that might create light in the dark.. Dad wasn’t very fond of the idea due to his surgeon duties, he compromised kindly though =)

We were then introduced to a “Darkness Expert”, Dino who guided us into the dark dining room. We were told to form a straight line behind him, holding onto the shoulder in front and just follow. Tippy toeing because it was pitch black, you can’t see nada, nothing! not even a glimpse of light.. Terrifying because the last thing I wanted was tripping and tumbling over someone’s hot boiling mushroom soup ey…

By all the luck in heaven, we arrived at our table without any incidents. At that very moment, we realise all we have are all our senses but EYES. Seriously, it was PITCH BLACK. I haven’t seen darkness in such form till then. So the entire night, we were blindly touching and tasting everything. Fun nonetheless hah!

the restaurant

I will not reveal what food they serve here because the classic menus are supposed to be masked and only be revealed after customers are done with their meal.

Theme of the restaurant is fine dine and Dining in the Dark has been awarded the Best Fine Dining Restaurant in 2015.
Besides that, it has also been ranked #2 out of 3,017 places to eat in Kuala Lumpur.
What are you waiting for? Go grab a table now and indulge! I will definitely go back when the new menu sets in..

Reservations can be made via their website — http://dininginthedarkkl.com

“A recipe has no soul. You as the cook must bring soul to the recipe” – unknown

Till next time!

Rowena

Devil wears Prada

15 Thursday Oct 2015

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Finally some serene time for me to sit quietly and tap away on my mac. It has been a tough yet fruitful journey adapting to working life. End of the day, you choose who and what to filter out of your life. Capiche?

I broke a nail and it BLOODY HURTS! Imagine having a sharp chipped nail right…. dangling somewhat tight yet loosely to your skin and meat.. you’re so placed in a “life-death” situation, to pull it off or not?

Not cool.

So don’t make fun when this happens and girls go off shrieking “I BROKE A NAIL!” It is not the end of the world but it is very uncomfortable… EXTREMELY uncomfortable.

One more week to scuba diving. I’ve been contemplating for years whether to venture into the ocean and get my diving license and BAM! it IS happening! hello sharks. hello corals. hello unknown sea creatures. Adventure!!!

” People who don’t explore the ocean are missing out on 70% of the world we are living! “

Cool.

The whale shark

oh hello you cute little thing!

I swear if this happens it’s either I pass out OR I lose my mind and start hitting it with my tank!

I wanna make friends!

my favourite dish with sambal

gorgeous

please do welcome me like this =D

xo,

Rowena

Let’s BLOOM

14 Friday Aug 2015

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“Flowers are a perfect replica of human life …. planting … growth … withering”

I love love LOVE the whole concept of

“BLOOMTHIS”

It’s not just receiving flowers anymore

but also GETTING TO KNOW your pretty flowers!

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Arrival of le parcel

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Box comes with a Bloom-care guide, a warm note from your sender & a L’occitane free gift!

Ribbons ~~~~ ❤

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Allium & Hot Cherry Pink Roses

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Decor exudes elegance and sophistication

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Pink Peony

Spells Lurve

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url: http://www.bloomthis.co

Since roses are the favourite pick for lovers… here is a little guide from me to You ❤

There can be meaning to everything.

It is up to you to make what’s meaningful in your life.

A fragrant day to all!

xo,

Rowena

Serenity & Sound of Nature.

08 Saturday Aug 2015

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The ocean stirs the heart, inspires the imagination and brings eternal joy to the soul. – Wyland

I love it most whenever the sea breeze lightly brushes across my skin.. A slight tingling touch that I feel after, almost as gentle as a mother’s touch. Beach waves serenading, singing to my ears and tiny sand particles partying between my toes at the same time. It is certainly an amazing heartfelt welcome to me — to a sweet escape I always crave for, I look forward to.

One thing about the beach that I absolutely adore is the chance to fall in love with that..

again.. and again, yet again…

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Leisurely enjoying what I do best, reading and toasting myself by the beach, what else but people watching. Children attempting to build sandcastles with their parents’ help, digging and searching for beautiful seashells that have been carried by the waves onshore. Carefree surfers enjoying the enormous challenging waves that often tumbles them into the salty water. And of course, the jet skis that races across the bumpy sea.

The beach brings relaxation to the soul, well, at least to me.. It is a sweet escape for an ambitious person like me, my goal in life is to contribute to charities in any form, hence i assume it is quite imaginable how much stress I let myself venture into.

Perhaps, to fully appreciate the good things in life, is to let yourself experience the not so good ones no matter how tough, how heart wrenching it can be. Good lessons learnt are never wasted.

To the ever hopeful readers, to the ambitious girls boys out there, to You.

may you remember the sound of mother nature, let the waves embrace your heart, your conscience, and the best, your soul..

xo,
Rowena

Bucket List

30 Tuesday Jun 2015

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Why Create One?

§ Sketching of personal goals and plans.

§ A tangible output to speak of.

§ A bucket list is a reminder of what’s really

important so one can act on them.

§ Bucket list expands the context scope,

whether it’s jumping off a cliff in Malibu or making dinosaur omelettes,

it sure tops To-Do-Lists in the spot.

§ Planning what you want for your whole life,

providing us with a whole new layer of enthusiasm knowing what’s in store ahead.

§ All boils down to maximising every moment of our existence

and live life to the fullest.

Here we go! ~

– Ocean diving off a cliff –

– Drift a car –
– Sky diving –

– Dine in at least one of the top restaurants in the world –
– Kissing in a dark and starry night sky –
– Experience Aurora –
– Publish a book –
– Experience marine life upclose –
– Hot air balloon ride –
– Own a horse ranch –
– Spend white Christmas in New York –
– Cherry blossoms in Japan –
– Scariest roller coaster ride! –
– Board on difference cruises –
– Fall in love –
– Gain enlightenment (spend a month or two in meditation course) –
– Join charity, make something for a good cause –
– Visit churches around the world –
– Cultivate a book per month kinda habit –
– Paris Paris PARIS!Last but not least.. Dance for life.

xo,
Rowena

Mademoiselle . TrAvel . Eats . Pleasure

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Category Archives: Blogbites

Harō Kiti Gourmet!

Delicious Spicy Slurrps … (PJ State Ed.)

The Festive & The Fabulous

Temptations!

Burgundy Baby!

Maintaining has never been any simpler nor pleasurable =)

Christmas Greetings and Sweet Delivers

Jingle jingle!

(net worth: RM 380)

Dining in the Dark

Devil wears Prada

Let’s BLOOM

Serenity & Sound of Nature.

Bucket List

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