As usual, we ordered some dishes and share them out.

Mushroom Soup. It was a tad too oily for Belle, but it was fine for me. Haha.

Signature Toast. I love the toast alone with the syrup. Haha. Belle ate most of the fruits there because I am not a too big of a fan for blueberries as well as strawberries.

The Atlantic. Toast bread, with poached eggs, vegetables and salmon. Very delicious and filling. Don't be deceived by the size of it.

Thank you for the wonderful presents.

A shot together outside of the restaurant. Photo credits to one of the waitress there.

#OOTD shots.

Belle didn't really liked this shot, but I love it a lot!

After walking around Publika, we decided to have dessert and drink at The Library Coffee Bar. We ordered a Chocolate Mousse Cake and their Luxurious Chocolate drink, and share it as we were both stuffed from lunch. 

#selfie

Thank you for the special request for candle and lighter, as well as the Happy Birthday song. 

Super candid shot but I like it. Haha.

We both headed back to my apartment, and chilled for a little before she head out again for work at 5pm. We managed to do the Best Friend Tag, as well as a short VLOG of our day together. Check them out below:

VLOG

Best Friend Tag

Thank you for the awesome day! <3

This place has been trending this year in Ipoh besides the new cafes that has been opened. Last I heard about this place, it's a fine dining restaurant and I've been seeing a lot of photos posted on Facebook. Although I do love visiting all these new restaurants/cafes, but it never really strike my mind to have a meal here on my usual weekends back to Ipoh, because there wasn't any specific occasion to dine in such place, until the previous weekend that I was back. 

Few days before my return, my mum booked me for a Saturday night dinner and she said it's for a 3 in 1 celebration; Advance 20th & 50th Birthday for me and her, and Father's Day. So, I said earlier that I've only seen the place from pictures and from what I've saw, the backdrop of the restaurant is like a underwater world, which I thought it was real fishes until I was there personally.

The pictures says it all. It's actually a huge LED screen which covers the entire restaurant with moving clips played. It changes every 20 minutes between this ocean view and...

...the space view. I've been trolled! Haha. My mum made the reservation online, and pre-booked the dishes in order for her to get a 25% discount for the meal. 

This is the interior ceiling. It's suppose to be of galaxy but to me, it looks more like just lights, pretty lights. Haha. If only my room has those lights..

Bigger view of the LED screens. 

Appetizer:

Mushroom Soup 

I forgot what soup is this called, but it tasted a lot like Tomato Soup. Mum ordered Pumpkin Soup initially but they ran out of it for the day. 

While waiting for our main course to be served, it was present opening time!

Dad unwrapped his Father's Day gift...

...and mum unwrapped her early birthday gift as well. Both were purchased from Isetan, KLCC the weekend before. I thought it was my turn to unwrapped mine, when the main course came. 

Harmony Fish

Sea Trout Pasta

Secerto [Smoked Duck.. I think]

The presentation of the food was superb, and it tasted pretty delicious as well. The downside of it was the portion that was served with the amount that we were paying. It would have been perfect if the portions are a bit bigger. Still, it's no harm giving this restaurant a try, but I would only go if there is a really really special occasion the next time. 

Anyway, after dinner, the waiters cleaned up our table and were waiting for dessert which my mum told me that she got us a tiramisu dessert as well. Not expecting any surprises at all (because it's a 3 in 1 celebration), the restaurant's music changed from a very soothing and jazzy choices of songs, to the Happy Birthday song, but in a instrumental version as well. As I said I wasn't expecting any surprises, I was scoping out the restaurant, trying to find who's the birthday boy / girl, until the waitress walked to our table, and placed the cake in front of me!

I was so shocked, and probably blushing out of (positive) embarrassment because everyone in the restaurant had their eyes on me. Mainly it was the birthday song that caught the attention of everyone in the room, and then the presentation of the dessert, which is my birthday cake! 

I did not see this coming!

I wish.....

I preferred this shot actually, but sadly it's so blur. I heard the shutter was slow when the picture was taken, but it looked alright from the camera screen, until I transferred it to my computer. Oh well, at least there's another picture. 

My birthday gift this year from my family. A black backpack which I picked out myself from Zalora. Haha. Mum didn't know what to get for me and when I asked her whether could I have the bag, she asked me instead can that be my birthday present. Little did I know, she went and had a little shopping in Lovely Lace as well, and got me this scented bags to be placed in cupboards/car, etc, and it's Teddy Hug scent. It smells really good, like baby smell which I like a lot. Haha. 

Thank you for the wonderful night, mum and dad ^^

Drove to campus in the morning to be interviewed by my friend for her assignment, and then I Waze my way to Belle's place on my own for the first time. It took me along the Federal Highway and traffic was quite heavy until I turn off at Jalan Barat. And then the 'fun began'. There's so many construction going on and additional road splits out of nowhere which made me kept changing lanes, trying to keep up with the GPS. Luckily cars at the area wasn't too fast, and it's off peak traffic hours so it wasn't too bad, and managed to get to her place in one piece. Haha.

She then led me to Jaya One where we had our lunch at Old School. There's a lot of choices of food there, but I still went with my chinese food. Haha. Crave for chinese food like mad these days, as well as hawker food but not much of it around my area. In the end, we ordered 3 dishes and decided to share them out.

All time favourite Mushroom Soup. I always surprise people when I don't eat it with the given garlic bread. Haha. I like it plain tho, and also because I was pretty full from the main meals.

Super nice pork noodle! This is one of my current cravings. Haha. 

Fancy Pork Burger. Haha. 

I didn't manage to take any photos of the surrounding before the crowd started. And only manage to take a couple of shots before leaving.

A very school concept, hence the name of the shop. The waitress were all wearing school uniform, with fake black frame glasses. Haha. And there were a lot of paintings around the shop which portrays a classroom. Not the usual hipster sort of cafe, but a place where there is nice food with (sort of) reasonable price.

No selfie this time haha. Treated her lunch for lending me her Polaroid camera as well as getting a cardigan for me from F Block. Hehe. Till next time ^^