last days of summer

Summer almost ends, and those last days have the most beautiful afternoons throughout the year. I spent one of them for nice afternoon tea and coffee with my cake buddy, Amet. This was our last weekend before holiday ended. We had plenty of choices for cafe but I settled my heart on Toko Coklat. They have a nice small garden area in front of the store and many shady trees surround its shop. This is one of my favorite spot because it's not too busy (believe me, that point is important when you choose cafe in holiday season) but located in a busy area. 

Amet went to Cianjur for his break and brought me this! My favorite snack, mochi with peanut filling, coated with sesame!  

I couldn't keep my hand off from the box!!

a date night

As far as I remember, we've never had a proper night-out. I work on weekend and usually on Sundays we're just too lazy to be part of people making their way on the city's traffic jam and opted for DVDs instead.

One day, he said he wanted to go out and have dinner. More, he wants to make it our routines.

I cringed when he told me that, but I also love sitting with him doing nothing but talk so I said, it sounds like a good plan.

This was one of our dinner, I looked beaten and weary from a day in the office and I must say..I didn't smell nice while he - still having his days off - smells perfectly..appropriate. We went to Azura again. He said he liked this restaurant, but the only glitch was its interior colors. I said that was one of the things I liked about this restaurant. 

oh well. 

But hey, the important things are we get to enjoy good food and have nice conversations. 

Our favorite! Fruit juice with chunks of mango and berries. 

I love bread pudding! Bread pudding goes really well with ice cream, here is coffee ice cream to neutralize the sweetness of the pudding. 

Guilty. I put this photo in black and white to hide my messy hair and oily face. 

oh and by the way, it wasn't exactly a date night, since my sister tagged along. 

White, Blue and Fishes.

Last week, me and my sister finally decided to come out and see people after a long week stayed inside and cooked or baked or, in her case, glued to a DS playing the everlasting rpg Harvest Moon.

We took Lulu for a nice afternoon at PVJ and had dori fish for our late lunch at Azzura, my favorite restaurant. Food aside, I really love the theme ot the restaurant and the colors it uses. White and Blue. Hm, is it time to hit the beach? (Our chose of dish, the fish, made it perfect!)

Azzura Restaurant
Paris Van Java Mall
Sukajadi, Bandung
(next to Pancious, which by the way, didn't allow pet - even at the outdoor area!)

Inside the nest of Hummingbirds

This past ten years, Bandung has been changing fast, especially in culinary area. In every corner of the street new cafes or restaurants or bars pop up. Lots of them are good, most of them are pretty good, but only a few are actually great. The thing with culinary business in Bandung, it seems views and ambient are more important than the food itself, owners spend lots of money to decorate their restaurants with fancy menus and extravagant interiors. 

But I have some that I consider great, and Hummingbird is one of them. Opened almost two years ago, this restaurant has what it takes. Great menu with various choices, amazing interiors, open for breakfast, and most importantly : they serve good food that suit their image really well. I think there will be more posts about Hummingbird, so I won't write much. Here are some of my favorite on their menu :

Soon they will open their new branch at Kuningan, Jakarta. If you have never been here before, my advice are: go there during weekdays and avoid lunch time. On the 1st and 15th every month they usually open later in the day than usual, meaning no breakfast served on those dates. Because I often have breakfast there with my friends and two times I arrived only to find out that they were close, I kinda unintentionally memorizing their schedule.

Hummingbird Cafe

Jalan Progo 14 

22-4212582

Bandung