Crème De La Crème, Damansara Uptown

Crème De La Crème (CDLC) is Malaysia’s first and only artisanal dessert haven with highly-skilled local pastry chefs, who have worked and trained under world-renowned celebrity dessert master Christy Tania.  Located in Damansara Uptown, you will find artisanal ice cream and iconic petits gâteaux, all made using 100% all-natural fresh ingredients without preservatives, artificial flavourings or colourings.

Not only are their delicate petits gâteaux extremely delicious, they're super Instaworthy too! To be honest, it was so difficult to choose which one to try cos they all looked so good. We settled for their bestsellers, the Longevity (RM25), Da Bomb (RM25), Beauty & the Beast (RM25) and Unicorn (RM22).

Our favourite was Da Bomb; this is literally the bomb in terms of flavours and textures. When serving, the server will light up a sparkler next to the fuse for you to photograph this dessert. This is made up of 63% dark chocolate and Madagascar vanilla ice cream, with hazelnut crunch, chocolate hazelnut praline ganache, dark chocolate dip and gold almond crumble. Perfect for chocolate lovers!

The Longevity takes after the steamed peach bun commonly served on birthdays and eaten to represent a long life. Here at Crème De La Crème, the peach is still served in a dim sum steamer basket. However make no mistake, as this is not a steamed bun, instead it is made up of Japanese matcha and black sesame ice cream, mango yuzu compote, lemon curd, matcha sponge and white chocolate dip.

Beauty & the Beast - if you've watched the movie, you'll be familiar with the enchanted rose encased in the glass case. This seems to be a really popular choice with the couples - a rose which you can eat, why not?  63% dark chocolate and Madagascar vanilla ice cream, morello cherry sorbet, dark chocolate crumble, chewy chocolate brownie, almond nibs and dark chocolate dip.

Unicorn - our girl loves unicorns, so this was a natural choice for her. Madagascar vanilla ice cream, lychee and raspberry sorbet, white chocolate dip and crispy meringues - this was rather light and refreshing.

The handcrafted ice creams are rich, creamy and smooth, with over 20 ice-cream flavours available daily, including bestsellers such as Gold Digger (salted caramel ice cream swirled with chocolate ganache and organic honey comb), Dragon Rose (dragon fruit, lychee and French rose sorbet), and French Earl Grey Boba (French Earl Grey tea ice cream swirled with caramelised brown sugar and topped with golden chewy boba).

Refreshing Mango and passion fruit sorbet

In addition, you will also find some really scrumptious drinks here such as the Matcha Monster (RM18). They use Niko Neko Kyoto matcha and as you sip the drink, you will also find chewy brown sugar boba inside. The drink is also topped with a homemade chewy matcha cookie monster on top (very cute, and you can stick your straw through it's mouth to get to the drink). #BobaLover is happy!

In conjunction with the Mid-Autumn Festival, Crème De La Crème has also created four new petits gâteaux in a limited-edition mooncake giftset, priced at RM129 for a box set of four. Lio Lim, CDLC’s Managing Director says, “With our ice cream mooncakes, we have not only conceptualised a series of iconic and delicious artworks, but they also tell a story which helps to revive the true meaning of the Mid-Autumn Festival. Our mooncakes will make you feel over the moon and are definitely one giant leap for mankind!”.

The four specially created petits gâteaux are:
Chang E’s Elixir: Kyoto Houjicha ice cream, Sesame crunch, White chocolate dip & Dark chocolate garnish. Sakura ice cream + Lychee rosemary compote as yolk.

Fly me to the Moon: Chocolate ice cream, Hazelnut crunch, Candied orange, Meringue & Gold flakes. Mandarin sorbet + Orange ganache as yolk.

小月兔/Little White Rabbit: Coconut ice cream, Raspberry sorbet, Mango compote, Almond crumble & White chocolate dip. Mango passion fruit sorbet as yolk.

红笼梦/Prosperity Lantern: Pistachio ice cream, Crumble, Lemon sponge & Dark chocolate garnish. Strawberry ice cream and homemade strawberry jam as yolk.

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Opening times: Sun – Thurs: 12pm – 11pm / Fri & Sat: 12pm – 12am

Location: Crème De La Crème (CDLC), 35G, Ground Floor, Jalan SS21/60 Damansara Utama (Uptown), 47400 Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia.

Tel: +60 3 7494 0735


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Korean BBQ @ Ma Eul Cup Bab, Damansara Uptown

Knowing how much I love Korean BBQ, our friend suggested our next dinner meet up at BBQ Ma Eul Cup Bab in Damansara Uptown. We were lucky to get a parking spot right in front of the restaurant, however you may also park at The Starling Mall and walk over. The restaurant was fairly quiet when we arrived at 5.30pm, but very soon it started filling up and by the time we left, even the tables at the sidewalks were all taken up. 

Guide to Korean BBQ (on one of the walls), featuring Bart Simpson :P

We ordered Set 3 (RM59 - for 2-3 persons) which comes with sliced pork belly, pork shoulder and grilled baby octopus. Once you place your order, the staff will serve you with a selection of ban chan (side dishes), usually about 8 types and a salad. The ban chan are refillable (self service) and you can also help yourself to the seaweed soup.

The ban chan selection includes fish cake, anchovies, radish kimchi, kimchi, spinach, pickled radish, beansprouts and glass noodle. Later on, they also brought out crispy seaweed which was really good.

The staff will cook the meats for you so just sit back and enjoy the ban chan while waiting for your grilled meats. You can dip the grilled meats in the sesame oil-salt condiment or the doenjang (bean) paste.. personally I prefer gochujang with my grilled meats.

I enjoyed the pork belly but found the pork shoulder to be a bit tough.

The grilled octopus had a nice marination, and was very nicely grilled. Love the chewy, crunchy texture.

Since we still had room for more meat, we supplemented with an additional order of hanjeongsal aka pork neck (RM25). When the meat arrived, I knew it was gonna be good... judging from the lovely marbling on the meat. True enough, it was excellent - I prefer this over the pork belly and shoulder anytime.

Super juicy and tender!

Menu at BBQ Ma Eup Cup Bab

Verdict: Enjoyable dinner, good service. 

Opening times: Mon-Thu 11am to 12am daily; Fri-Sun 11am - 1am.

Price: Total bill RM89.05 for 3 pax.

Location: BBQ Ma Eul Cup Bab, No. 48, Ground Floor, Jalan SS21/58, Damansara Utama, 47400 Petaling Jaya, Selangor.

Tel: 03-7732 9955


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Softsrve, Damansara Uptown

After a satisfying dinner at Super Big Don House, we dropped by Softsrve for dessert. As we were quite full, we shared their signature Cereal Vanilla Milk ice cream (RM9.90). Though the portion is pretty small, tastewise it was delicious - light and creamy with a distinctive cereal taste, which is what makes this unique. It melts pretty quickly, so dig in and don't spend too much time photographing it. :P

Menu

Opening times: 12pm to 11pm daily.

Location: Softsrve Ice Cream & Dessert Bar (Damansara Uptown), 31 Jalan SS21/1A Damansara Utama, 47400 Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia. (Street parking available or park at The Starling and walk over).

Tel: 03-7733 9515

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