The weekend before

We stayed at Mandarin Oriental, KLCC. To put it not so nicely, we went "hoi fong".... with the 3 kids.

My hubs likes to buy these packages from hotels which offers a book of vouchers for a night's stay, meals, discounts and whatnots, which normally is valid for a year. We had stayed in a couple of them for these last 2-3 years, I think, and I had been wanting to post some of the pictures I took when we went for a short weekend break at the city just like that.

But this time, the only time, that I didn't bring a camera along and I was very regrettable about it!

It is a nice room, with a nice view of the KLCC park.

It is great to be walking out into the park and strut right into KLCC Suria mall without bothering about parking our car and paying for its expensive fees! I had waffles with 2 other girlfriends of mine and took the kids for a swim after that. All was well except the little baby girl, lollypop, was too exhausted from this long outing trip. (Sorry!)

Due to poor planning, it was to our surprise, full houses on each and every restaurants available in the hotel during dinner time! My gawd! There are really very very rich people in KL! OK, I know that fact way long time ago, but it still amazes me to see it in real!

So, after wasting our time looking for a table and didn't want to enter KLCC either, we drove over to Lot 10, braving ourselves for the long traffic snarl in the golden triangle. Couldn't find any parking lot but saw a spot behind the Starhill hotels, which looks like a dark alley to me, where to me, snatch thieves and muggers rule! I walked briskly along holding my 2 younger kids and barked at hubs when he was walking far away in front of me, oblivious to all these threats! Sigh! Men!

Do you know in Lot 10, at the basement, there's this food court which boasts of ALL the good street food in KL there are? I didn't know! And it was there for a long time already, apparently!

So I heard that the developer who revamped Lot 10 invited the best local food operators (not those branded known franchisers) there are in KL to open their business there but was rejected. In the end they agreed on a profit sharing basis and it was a huge success apparently!

I do not know the whole story, but it was packed with people that night! It was so difficult to find a table, for the 7 of us (my bro inlaw and his wife were there too). In the end, as it was slightly over dinner time, we found one at a corner and bought different types of food to share among ourselves. The pork knuckle was REALLY AWESOME! Eek! Again, I regretted not having the camera with me!

My bro inlaw and his wife then went to catch a movie at Pavilion while we just went back to retire for the night.

The next morning, it was a beautiful day, without the sun glaring hot on us, so we could go for a walk at the park. The 2 younger kids brought their bikes along and guess what? Bikes are not allowed in KLCC park!! Why?? Can you tell me why? I really can't understand why not.

Hubs and korkor went to buy breakfast back to the hotel while I send the 2 kids back first to have our shower. Then, the boys stayed in the room while I went for a quick shopping tour with hubs and meimei for, what does a holiday mean without any shopping goodies, right?

I was thrilled to find a nice comfy leggings from Uniglo, enough to make me happy for the day!

And that was our short weekend break in Mandarin Oriental, KL. A nice little treat for the weekend city break.You ought to try that too!