Christmas in KL

My Christmas present this year was a shopping trip to KL :) We bought mostly Chinese New Year clothes and things for our new home. I have a corporate rate with Cititel Mid Valley (where we stayed the previous time) and we stayed there again, just because it is so very convenient. I was a bit sad to leave Hannah behind, as she would have enjoyed the Christmas decorations at the shopping malls, but it would have been impossible to bring her this time, especially to Ikea where we did most of our shopping.

Anyway, we arrived in KL early on Saturday morning and since we did not stop for breakfast, we had brunch here:



Delicious is owned by the E&O group and the last time we were here, it was packed to the maximum. However, since we were early and there was not much of a crowd, we decided to try it out. By the way, they are opening another outlet at Straits Quay Mall in Penang, so those who are interested can check it out there.

While waiting for our food, we took pictures:





On weekends, they serve all-day-breakfast. I had vanilla waffles with some sort of syrup and strawberries. Very yummy. This is Hubby's idea of "art" with the syrup and strawberries :)



They originally came like this:



We also shared a chicken dish - it had some fancy name which I cannot remember. I especially liked the potatoes in the dish.



This was the Christmas decoration at Mid Valley. Pretty impressive, I would say. It must have cost them a lot to do it up like that.



Hannah would have loved the big "bear-bear"(s).



A kind passer-by helped us take this photo:



Later on for dinner, we had this:



The menu placed outside the restaurant looked quite interesting so we thought we would give it a try. As you can probably tell from the name of the restaurant, it serves Italian-Japanese fusion food.

We had the pizza topped with turkey ham and all types of Japanese mushrooms - a must try.



We also had spicy pasta with scallops and Japanese mushrooms (again! - but I love mushrooms :p). It didn't look that impressive at first but it tasted better with every bite.



Our usual hotel room photo:



The next day, we went to Ikea and Ikano Power Centre. The Christmas deco there was pretty nice too:



We had lunch here - good food but very bad service. We waited almost an hour for our food.



This was their specialty - Hainanese Chicken Chop. We also had the Nasi Lemak Ayam Merah but forgot to take a photo as we were probably too hungry!



Looking at all the Christmassy decorations really put us in a Christmassy mood. But this year we did not put up the tree as we are busy moving, so to put it up and keep it away again would be a lot of trouble. This was our tree last year:



Nevertheless, Christmas is not about trees at the end of the day, it is about the love and joy that Christ has brought into our homes and hearts, and that is what really matters.

Wishing all of you a very blessed Christmas!