Wedding Wednesday: Wedding planning at its height!

I'm on my way to Barcelona {literally, I'm in my stop-over in Doha right now!}, where I'm gonna be for 10 days with a full schedule getting everything ready for the wedding!!! I need to meet with the caterers, the photographers, musicians, floristry, make-up artist, hairstylist and candy bar company. Wow! I'm not even sure how I managed to fit all that into a week! Because the last three days of my trip are completely reserved for my girls, who will be throwing me a BRIDAL SHOWER on Saturday the 13th of April! OMG!!! I'm super excited about everything that's to come these next few days! Soraya, from Madrid, and Jamie, from the Uk, are coming to my place on Friday and are spending two nights here with me! Hello pajama party!!! Then the three of us are off to the airport and back to our normal lives! Which is nothing bad at all, because that means going back to my love, from whom I'll be away for TWELVE nights!!! I hate that he couldn't make it to the wedding planning this week, but he has too much work in Hong Kong:( Oh well, don't worry honey, I'll make sure to take your taste into consideration :D Exciting days ahead!!!

Picture via Wedding by Color

Radi Cafe - Bangkok

J and I are just back from our marvelous pre-wedding trip in Thailand. I'll be telling you all about it soon, but today's post is for Radi Cafe, our last stop in Bangkok before coming back to Hong Kong yesterday. Radi Cafe is a cozy cupcake cafe in Thong Lo, Bangkok, owned by charming Fin, the master baker of all the delicacies served there. I told her we would be visiting, so she was waiting for us when we arrived.

Fin's cupcakes were truly delicious, and so was the coffee, which comes from Fin's parents own coffee plantation in northern Thailand! How cool :) It's a strong Arabica coffee, which they call aRADIca :D

I was so happy to get to see Fin and chit chat with her during our visit, she's probably one of the nicest and prettiest girls in Thailand!

One thing I loved about Bangkok is it's filled up with cafes serving all kinds of sweet treats. And even though cozy cafes abound in Thailand's capital, Radi Cafe is one not to be missed :)

Radi Cafe

Thong Lo soi 11

Bangkok

Thailand

High Tea at Cafe Gray Deluxe - The Upper House

Cafe Gray Deluxe is located at the top of small luxury hotel The Upper House, in Admiralty. The Upper House is a trendy hotel with minimalistic design and stunning views of the harbor.

For a five star luxury hotel, the price of the high tea set is very attractive, but beware, there is no free lunch in this world! This high tea set was one of the most disappointing I have ever had, and I wouldn't dare to recommend it to anyone. Everything was well below average and I couldn't get to finish most of the sweets, no matter how tiny they were. My beloved scones were savaged by a ton of sugar crystals on the top making them inedible. That deep red tea I had is their Cafe Gray tea, worst tea I've ever had >.<

Visited on: March 23, 2013

Overall Quality: 2*

Price: $345 + 10% service charge for a tea set for two

Value for Money: 2*

Would I recommend it? Never in a million years

Sunday Brunch - Bacar, Soho

 

A couple of weeks ago J was out on a weekend business trip, and I joined my friend Marie and her boyfriend Roger for Sunday brunch. Sunday brunch in Hong Kong is ok, but nothing special, as far as I see it. Paris is my favorite city when it comes to yummy brunches, with all those French pastries... heaven!! Anyway, we chose Bacar in Soho for our brunch and it was quite good, specially price/quality wise.

Both Marie and Roger went for the eggs benedict. They come with bacon but since Roger is a vegetarian got it changed to salmon instead, which looked way yummier! The price for the brunch sets is around HK$100, service charge included. There's several options to choose from, and I went for the Breakfast Pizza, which was good although very meaty, and I'm not such a fan of meat either.

The best thing of the brunch set is it's served with the drink of your choice, the regular tea or coffee selection or cocktails or smoothies. Marie and I had the strawberry and apple smoothie and it was DELISH! That smoothie is already worth half the price of the set.

Visited on: 10 March, 2013
Overall Quality: 4*
Price: Around HK$100 for a brunch set
Value for Money: 4.5*
Would I recommend it? Yes! It's a great choice at very competitive prices for a brunch in Soho. 

Bacar
38, Shelley St
Soho

Wedding Wednesday: I got my wedding dress!

J and I spent last weekend fully immersed in my wedding gown search in Guangzhou, China. Guangzhou has a huge avenue called Wedding Street filled up with all things wedding, mainly wedding gowns, totally awesome! I'll eventually have to do a full post on it because it's probably unique in the world. It should be called Wedding City instead, it's THAT big! But that's for another day :)

As I had previously told you, I was almost sure of the wedding dress I was going to get, and I just had to do some alterations to it so that it could be perfect, or so I thought. And then, on Saturday morning, I tried a wedding gown that took my breath away, and J's breath, too! {Yes, J saw me with the dress, we're doing this Chinese style rather than Western style, where couples go buy the dresses together!} It was totally what I was looking for. It brightened my face, it looked gorgeous on me, and it made me look like a royal princess. Yes, this is exactly the feeling both J and I had. And we loved it!!! We went back to the store of the dress I had previously in mind and realized the "new" dress was way more ME. 

So now you know that I got a lace wedding gown that makes me look like a princess... And that's all I'm allowed to say!

It was meant to be, I guess! :)))

Picture via David Jones