The Owls Cafe

This is Rebecca; Waffle served with strawberries & blueberries, topped with Earl Grey home made ice cream blended with Almond flakes and Maple Syrup. (RM18)

This pretty waffle with real edible flowers is The Queen; Assorted flavours of home made ice cream with the unique flavour of macaron. (RM23)

This is my yummy David waffle; Generous amount of bananas, home made Vanilla ice cream, peanut butter cream and chocolate sauce.  (RM18)

PROS:
* Loved the pretty waffles in the shape of a flower. 
* Yummy waffles, crispy on the outside and fluffy on the inside.
* Unique flavours like Earl Grey flavoured ice cream.
* The waffles are served really pretty with edible flowers and macarons. 
* Very filing and satisfying.

CONS:
* Very cramped environment and its mostly packed. 
* Could use more variety. 
* A bit on the pricey side. 

FACEBOOK: Their FB page is pretty comprehensive and you can download a copy of their menu there. 

Pastis, The Gardens

I was too tired walking around MVM/The Gardens that I just wanted to have tea. I've seen Pastis many, many, many times but the occasion just didn't call for me to have a meal there. So, on a busy Friday, I'm just walking around aimlessly, I decided to have tea at Pastis!

What attracted me to Pastis is the HUGE ASS selection of chocolates and cakes. I have an insatiable sweet tooth and this is heaven. They have EVERY sweet, decadent, sweet, sweet, sweet, pretty, sweet selection of chocolates and all sorts of cakes and desserts!!!! 

They have marshmallows, chocolate on a stick, teas, cupcakes, muffins, oh-my!!!! This is my kind of heaven!!!

Guess what I had? I had a Moist Chocolate Cake and it was seriously good. It wasn't so sweet that it empowers the chocolatey taste, but rather sublime sweetness with very, very moist cake and more of a bitter after taste. This was extremely delicious and so chocolatey that even I, a self proclaimed Dessert Princess couldn't finish it! 

If there's no chocolates of desserts in heaven, I ain't going!

Till next time!

Pastis,
The Gardens Mall,
Ground Floor,
Right outside ISETAN.

A Slice Of Heaven, Jaya One

I had the Death By Chocolate and Red Velvet, 2 of the best sellers at A Slice Of Heaven. Read so many positive reviews on the place, I was peer pressured to try!

Death by chocolate was about 9.80MYR (If I'm not mistaken!) for a little blob. Oh, if you like it, it comes in 1KG or more as well! So, I decided to try!

The texture was very mousse like with a thin layer of cake and covered in a delicious, chocolatey layer. Surprisingly, Madrekins loved this as well. I'm just OK with it, Epicurean makes better ones. But of course, this is good in it's own way. I don't really like it because it's too sweet. I love my chocolate bitter so....

This lovely thing is the Red Velvet. It's like the cutest thing. I'm not a huge fan of Red Velvet but since it was one of the best sellers, I decided to try it. 

The cake is surprisingly soft and fluffy, I've had a few Red Velvet which was a bit on the hard side and that was one of the reasons why I dislike Red Velvet and I think that its overrated. This one however, proved me wrong and it turned out to be the best Red Velvet I've tasted. Super delicious. Soft and fluffy and if eaten with those little white creamy clouds, its creamy and cheesy! Highly recommended. 

You can check their website out A Slice of Heaven by Just Heavenly, You can find the whole range of their cakes and even baking classes!

D'Italiane Kitchen, Sunway Giza

I had a chance encounter with this place because I'm at Giza every Sunday while waiting for The Fiance to finish church. Besides Nando's, we don't really eat at restaurants here. I'll always be at Boost getting my juice and we'll have JoJo Chilli Pan Mee for lunch every Sunday. Well, one of these Sundays, I was craving for a good, old fashioned Lasagna. Chicken Lasagna to be specific. 

And since Times Bookstore, another place where I wait for him, is just next to the restaurant, we decided to go there and try. 

Previously, all pastas couldn't compare to my favourite pasta at Dave's, 1 Utama. I normally don't eat pasta except at Dave's. Unfortunately, Dave's quality has been slowly and steadily deteriorating, we decided to have the pasta here. WE WERE BLOWN AWAY! We had the Salmon Alfredo (RM29.90)  and my, it was out of this world!!! The Fiance even said that it was better than Dave's. The pasta was al dente, and the salmon was very fresh. The salmon in your plate comes in 2 varieties; Cooked and smoked so, you get the real air flown salmon on your plate! And yes, they weren't stingy with their sauce unlike Dave's, ever since the 50% lunch promo was changed to 30%... 

This was my Chicken Lasagna (RM23.90) and it comes in Beef too. OK, all I can say is that, my cravings were satisfied after this, The lasagna was moist, flavourful in every bite, and the cheese, it whole lasagna was covered with a layer of cheese and cooked to perfection! I would say that, this is the best lasagna I've ever tasted! 

I was having really bad PMS, so The Fiance decided to surprise me with this Triple Chocolate Banana with Vanilla Gelato (RM22.90) because my two favourite things are banana and chocolate. I guess, I was a bit mean to him as well. Anyways, I can't comment on this because I love bananas and chocolate and this was orgasmic... 

Overall, I give this place a 9/10 because the waiters are all friendly, refillable water is only RM0.90 and the ambience is romantic and food was utterly amazing! 

D'Italiane Kitchen,
Lot F.10, Sunway Giza,
Sunway Damansara,
Kota Damansara, 
47810 Selangor
03-61481828

Mille Crepe, Humble Beginnings.

I won these 2 vouchers from ESQUIRE Malaysia to try the Mille Crepe from Humble Beginnings. They were oh-so-generous to give me 2 vouchers for 2 regular mille crepe cakes. Prior to the vouchers arriving, me and Madrekins debated about the vouchers. We thought they were going to give us a voucher for a slice of cake not 2 whole cakes! Really appreciated their kind gesture. 

I love the design and the packaging of the box and it's simple but from the design, you can see that much thought has been put into it. Unfortunately, I cannot say the same for the staff at the Telawi store. They didn't understand questions like "May I know who's on the line please?" and they replied us with sentences like "You better come now, we do not know when we'll close" and after that slamming the phone down. The staff were unknowledgeable, difficult to communicate with, rude and very rude. You see, before we went to collect the cake, we wanted to know if the cake was ready for collection. The first person that picked up the phone was relatively OK and was able to confirm that the cake was indeed ready for collection. When I enquired for his name, the passed the call to Person 2 who was female and she sounded upset and was very rude and told us to, "come soon because we can close anytime" If I'm running a business and I'm also in the service line, what will the customers think? you open and close the shop to your heart's fancy? Seriously. Extremely disappointed with the service aspect that we even considered "burning" the other voucher.  

The cake that we ordered was Nutella Banana and I'm a dessert person, I've tried mille crepes of all sorts and as a traveller, I've tried mille crepes in many parts of the world. You see, mille crepe is a fascination to me, I find it so delicate and the assembling of the cake requires much finesse and experience from the ingredients used to make the crepes (paper thin) and the layering. The ingredients has to be fresh and needless to say, Humble Beginnings has mastered the art of making mille crepes to perfection. It was moist, flavorful but not too sweet, decadent but not till the point that it overwhelms you. Indeed, it was THE BEST 20 layers of decadent, milky mille crepe that I've ever tasted in my life. I pretty much tasted lots of cakes but this has got to be the best! 

If you have yet to try a decent mille crepe, I would strongly suggest that you try the cakes from Humble Beginnings. It's the most delicious cake. I'm even considering a cake from Humble Beginnings for my birthday in October. A slice of the cake puts you in heaven. I even momentarily forgot about the bad customer service. 

~La Undomestic Goddess

Ice Cream Day

 This is the Banana Chocolate Parfait from Sushi Zanmai. It has corn flakes, vanilla ice cream, oreo bits, bananas, chocolate ice cream, fresh cream and chocolate sauce. mmmmmm.... delicious!

Next, we had Haagen Dazs and I so love their Banana Split, even though my search for a traditional old time banana split has to go on.... The 3 flavours we ordered were Tiramisu (THE BEST!!!), Macadamia Nut, and Cookies and Chocolate. It's served with a banana brulee-d to perfection.... But I didn't like it that way.. would prefer to just blow torch the banana or grilled it...

Then, we also wanted to try the Cookie Crisp but it was too sweet that all it was shared between the 3 of us... vanilla ice cream was encapsulated with chocolate layer and between 2 crisp wafers... it was quite delicious!

~La Undomestic Goddess

Pre Chocolate Mousse Tart

Gonna try Ida Garten the Barefoot Contessa's Omelet for Two and also Jamie Oliver's Baked Chocolate Tart.

I'm craving for the chocolate mousse cake I had at King Louis at Vivo City in Singapore.
Since it's been awhile since I had it, I decided to make it! Unfortunately, I can't decide between a cake or a tart. I need to find a very good chocolate mousse recipe.

Then I could incorporate it between 2 cakes or pour it into a tart shell. I think I'll try Paula Deen's Chocolate Mousse recipe and when I'm much more of an expert, will try Anna Olson's Blood Orange Chocolate Tart.

This Chocolate Tart recipe by Tyler Florence sounds really simple too! I guess this weekend will be spent finding and baking the perfect Chocolate Mousse tart.

~La Undomestic Goddess