Yuk Kee Coffeeshop, KL Pavilion and The Gardens Mid Valley

Published by simon on October 16, 2007

I’m back from my Ipoh trip.

I’m still on two days annual leave, and since it is my wedding anniversary today, we went on a big day out. And what do we do on big days out?

WE WENT SHOPPING!

But first stop, we went for breakfast. We went to try this Hainanese coffeeshop we’ve been dying to try for some time - Yuk Kee Coffeeshop on Campbell Street (called Jalan Dang Wangi these days). They serve lots excellent Hainanese / colonial dishes, including local dishes.

We tried the roti bakar, pork chop and roti babi (with apologies to my Muslim friends). The latter is their signature dish, was rather too rich for me. It’s actually Chinese sausages (lap cheong) with some stringy vegetables stuffings wrapped with a thin bread and the whole thing is french toasted. Quite filling, and it costs RM7.

The pork chop was rather good, reminded me of my grand-dad’s cooking. He was also a Hainanese cook for the British during the pre-Independence.

Then we headed for KL Pavilion nearby.

It’s not as small as a lot people make it out to be, they make use of lots open spaces which the trend with shopping malls like 1-Utama and the Curve. Quite a number of shops were still not opened yet, and it was obvious they haven’t really finished the construction completely yet - lots of workers walking around patching ceilings and painting. But there was a lot shoppers, too.

Most of the shops were couture fashion outlets, but two interesting outlets were The Loaf and J.Co. The Loaf is that Japanese bakery partly own by Tun Mahathir. We tried some, four pieces of pastries cost us RM15. Most expensive snack i’ve had in a long time. Tastes okay only la. If you can, check out the logo. I could have sworn that’s TM on it.

J.Co is a donut shop from Indonesia featured in the Star recently. The logo and shop looks strangely like Big Apple in The Curve and 1-Utama. We didn’t try them, but they looked really SMALL and costs slightly more than Big Apple. But the line of customers was really long, man.

Pavilion has quite a few fine dining restaurants, but mostly it is for expensive ladies’ clothes.

In just over 2 hours of shopping, we were done. Parking costs a bomb, though. Okay next - the Gardens at Mid Valley.

Just like Pavilion, it was just opened, and not really entirely completed, but most of the shops here were already opened. It’s more varied that the former, but a lot of the same couture shops are also found here, like TopShop, DKNY, etc. But the Gardens has a great concept, and they obvious spend a lot of money on the plants and couches and architecture (including the giant screens at the top) unlike the bland Pavilion.

There are less food outlets here, but a great place for family shopping.

Below: that’s my daughter fooling around on one of the giant couches on the ground floor.

I’m still on leave tomorrow. What am to do? We’re going to eat steamed fish head at Chan Sow Lin and followed by…

… MORE SHOPPING!

Or as i prefer to call it, ‘fueling the economy’.

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