During the period between 19th Aug 2011 to 23rd Aug 2011, I had a short trip to KL with Hubby. This trip was purely for leisure purpose as it had been about 2.5 years since our last visit to KL in year 2008 thus we decided to make a return visit. It was actually a last minute decision therefore our tickets cost us a bomb; we were traveling with the budget airline, Air Asia so this is pretty ironic and somehow didn't make any sense at all =_______=
Being the owners of a food blog, we both decided to make this a foodie trip rather than just a shopping trip. In other words, we are just 'tam chiak' lar! But I do know that there are certain people who would rather have only a meal per day when traveling to abroad for a shopping trip. It seems like to them shopping is more important than eating. Salute!
I would say that compared to my previous visit to KL, I heart this trip more as I managed to visit few places that I've always been wanted to go but didn't get to years back. And I also found some new interesting facts as well as experience during our stay in this neighbouring city. One of it would be us helping our taxi driver to find the route to the place that we wanted to visit by using Hubby's iPhone GPS; kudos to the modern technology!!!
Anyways, there are just too much interesting stuffs that I wanna share with you guys so I will divide it into few entries in accordance to my first day in KL till the last. So I am gonna start it off by sharing my day 1 in KL in this entry; enjoy reading!
Our flight was in the morning and to my surprise, there were just so many people flying together with us. Sadly to say, Hubby and I were unable to sit next to each other on the flight as it was a full flight so we weren't allowed to choose our seats. But it wasn't so bad at all as I finally was able to kick that big man away from me; just kidding! :P
We reached KL LCCT Airport at almost lunch time and we decided to take Skybus service to our hotel which was located at Bukit Bintang. In order to take Skybus service, we bought our bus ticket at the Skybus counter which was located inside the arrival hall after we had stamped our passports. Priced at only RM9 per ticket, it was really cheap! After leaving the arrival hall, we followed the signages and eventually found the bus stop at LCCT Airport and hopped on our bus. One important note is that this bus only brings passengers to KL Sentral which is about 45 minutes ride. Thus, after reaching KL Sentral we took a taxi to Bukit Bintang and the distance wasn't too far as it was only 15 minutes ride.
When the bus just reached KL Sentral, there were many people trying to convince us to sit their car to Bukit Bintang and one guy even told us if we get our taxi from the official taxi stand, it would cost us RM30. We found him untrustworthy so we just ignored him and found ourselves the official taxi stand at KL Sentral main door and bought the taxi coupon to Bukit Bintang which was actually much cheaper than we thought! Apalarrrrrrr that guy!
To learn more bout Skybus service and schedules, you can read here.
To find out more about Piccolo Hotel, you can read here and I made my reservation through Agoda.
This is the hotel lobby.
Entrance to Lot 10 Hutong
As we both did not have any breakfast and after few hours of traveling, we decided to have some good food after checking our hotel by visiting the non-halal food court at Lot 10's basement. I have to say that I really heart KL's food court to the maxxxxxxx! During my previous visit, Food Republic already left me with extremely good impression but this Lot 10 Hutong food court really made me felt like I was in food paradise cause there were simply just too much choices of food to choose from!
What made Hutong food court unique and different from any other food court is that most of the stalls were hand picked by Tan Sri Francis Yeoh and have been in this industry for many years; like Song Kee Beef Noodles have more than 60 years of history! The main concept is to gather most of the well renowned KL street food under one roof so that people do not have to travel around in order to enjoy such delicious local delicacies and at the same time, visitors from other places are able to learn more regarding KL famous street food. Beside the food quality and choices; I am giving two thumbs up for the interior design as it really made me felt like I was sitting in a time machine and back to 40s.
A stall selling chicken rice
Star Duck - Duck King! Must try!
Char siew!
We passed by Kong Tai which is a stall specialised in serving oyster omelet and decided to order a plate. It cost RM11.50 and after taxed, we paid RM12.20 for this. Honestly speaking, it wasn't as yummy as we thought. It was just average.
Geof highly recommended us to try out roasted food at Duck King which we did and was very very satisfied with it! There were different selections available and we wanted to try almost all of the roasted food thus we decided to go for BBQ 3 Combo which consisted of Roasted Duck, Char Siew and Roasted Pork. Those roasted pork tasted so much different from the ones I've had; the combination of its hot and crispy skin with juicy meat really made us felt like we were in heaven! It was just so delicious! This combo set cost RM28.80 before tax and RM30.55 after tax.
To quench our thirst, we bought a cup of soya bean and chrysanthemum tea from I Love Yoo! and it cost RM2.90 each before tax and Rm5.70 in total after tax.
After a round of satisfying meal, we decided to return to our hotel for a good rest so that we could explore the city later that night. Oh, not to forget Piccolo Hotel does have a massage center which provides fish spa service but I didn't manage to try it. Hope during my next trip I will finally be able to experience fish spa!
Models wearing colorful wigs to attract attention of passer-by; good marketing strategy!
That night, we had a strong craving on wanting to try out Nandos so so so badly thus we went to few places to hunt for a Nandos branch in Bukit Bintang. Unsure why but iPhone GPS did not help much on helping us to locate Nandos. Perhaps Steve Jobs doesn't like Nandos :(
Below pics were taken while we were walking around in Bukit Bintang trying to locate Nandos while exploring the city.
BB Plaza; No, I did not shop a lot (I think lar :P )
The famous street for food; Jalan Alor
Green GTR spotted!
It was Friday night thus traffic jam every where in Bukit Bintang.
Massage parlors and budget hotels were easily found in this area too and do beware of the staffs in these massage parlors as they would try to ask you to enter their parlors. Some were pretty dodgy so be extra cautious.
Every night when I passed by this place I would see this guy wearing different color of shinny bling bling suit.
Pictured is a dessert house which I so wanted to visit but didn't get to :(
After so many turns and walking, we finally found Nandos!!! And it's actually just inside Sungei Wang Plaza =_______= Later then we found out Pavillion also has one; even more =_________________________=
Chili bottles that came with different level of spiciness were placed on each table so that customers. It's also available for purchase. Hubby loved the Ultra Hot Peri Peri Sauce!
My Madeira Red tasted much better than Hubby's Citrus Bliss.
Being new to Nandos, we were unsure of what to order so we just simply ordered a set of Chicken Kebab which came with potatoes salad and grilled vegetables and quarter chicken set which came with fries and coleslaw.
Chicken kebab set RM15.90
Quarter chicken set RM15.90
Ok, so here is the review. Before I got a chance to even try out Nandos, I've already heard rave reviews regarding how yummy it is but after trying it, I found it was just over rated. I personally think that no doubt the chicken is much more tender and the spices being used to marinate the chicken had managed to flavor the chicken and added fragrance to it. By adding the famous Nandos chili sauce, it made the chicken tasted even nicer. BUT, it was not up to the stage which is a 'No try guarantee will regret!' stage. Thus, no worries if you miss this out during your trip :D
Total damage for this meal was RM54.30 after tax.
We walked around Sungei Wang Plaza after our dinner and found a Subway outlet in that building which made Hubby went gaga over it. He was like, "EH! SUBWAY OUTLET OVER THERE!" Then he kept tempting me to buy it for our supper later. Actually he was the one who was craving for it but didn't wanna admit :P
As the time when we visited it was near to closing hour, staffs were actually cleaning things up already.
Choices of ingredients available.
Different types of sauces/dressings available
If my memory served me right, we ordered Subway Melt and Italian BMT. Hubby requested the staff to add all vegies which were available at that time.
Staff preparing our subway, wooot! Couldn't wait to try it >.<
It was already 11PM at that time; night was still young but we were old already. Couldn't tahan anymore so we decided to call it a day and returned to hotel to watch tv and eat subway haha!
This is actually taken outside the main entrance of the hotel I stayed; very lively right?!
"I am gonna eat you!"
*SLURPS*
Oh, we also bought this from supermarket
Alright, that's all for my day 1 in KL. More to come!
Hunnie Signing Off~
3 comments:
I read your blog.. It's a nice and amazing trip for you.. I see all images on you post...All images make my mood... Nice post..
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Hi! What did you think of Piccolo hotel? Were you happy with the room? Gonna stay there in Dec. Thanks.
Piccolo Hotel has got really good location which is very near to big shopping malls in KL city. All these shopping malls are accessible by walking and this actually allowed us to save a lot on our transportation. We were totally in love with the hotel room design and the friendly attitude of the staffs actually added value to our stay. When we checked out the hotel, it was pouring heavily and we needed transport to airport so we requested the hotel to help us get a taxi. In order to avoid the rain, the hotel officer helped us to move our luggages and guided us to their hotel basement in order to hop on the taxi without wetting our clothes. Overall, we had pleasant stay in the hotel and would definitely stay there again during our next trip to KL!
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