Venchi Chocolates @ Gardens Mall Mid Valley

Recently tried the newly opened Venchi Chocolates in the Gardens Mall @ Mid Valley.

What can I say that isn't already said by others? Premium chocolates served as though you're in a fine dining restaurant!  

Great experience.

My visit to the Park Lounge (Level 75) @ Park Hyatt KL

I visited the Park Lounge (Level 75) @ Park Hyatt recently for their Afternoon Tea.

The place had only been opened for a few months and was mainly empty. IMHO, the building looked quite surgically cold & lifeless. Plus, we were going around trying very hard to find the hotel lobby. (Later on, when I was chatting with 1 of the waiters, he told me that when he came for the interview, he was late for over 1 hour because he couldn't find the way to enter the hotel.)

The menu was inside a beautiful leather clad booklet. The 7-course menu included desert items as the 6th + 7th courses. 

Before we started, the waiter told us how things would go and we were presented with a box of 17 varieties of teas that we could try. Some were suitable for empty stomachs, before the food were served. Some were to go with the food. While some were to wash the palate and prepare the tastebuds for desert. We only managed to try 4 types as each type of tea is served in a pot.

The service was great and so was the food of course. Initially, I thought that we'd end up leaving the place hungry as the servings for each course was such a small portion. However, by the time we reached the last item on the 7-course menu, we were stuffed.

Of course, we had to wash it down with some coffee at the very end. To our pleasant surprise, we were each presented with a piece of dark chocolate before ending the whole experience.

The waiter offered to give us a tour of the whole floor as it was a lot larger than the section we were seated at. The space where we had the Afternoon Tea was only about 1/4 of the size of the whole place. There was a section with rooms for VIPs (must spend above RM5,000 to use it) and also a section where they made in-house premium chocolates priced at RM10 per 10g. (we were given a few pieces to try during desert.)

More content I consumed this year (Nov 2025)

 Here's more of the content I consumed since my last post. 

 Sleepy Hollow - This is a re-watch. Not bad but not great either.

 League of Extraordinary Gentlemen - This is my 2nd re-watch. Still as good as I remembered it. Will watch again.

 Zoolander 2 - I really enjoyed Zoolander 1 so I went straight to Zoolander 2. Both are funny but Zoolander 2 falls short from Zoolander 1. I'd definitely want to watch Zoolander again!

 Aeon Flux - This is a re-watch. Sci-Fi is really my genre and I can't recall if it was good or bad. On my 2nd viewing, it was bad.

 You Don't Mess with the Zohan - Well, it's a comedy in the Adam Sandler flavor. There are some very funny moments and there are some very cringy ones as well.

 Naked Gun 2025 - This has received tons of accolades since its release. I loved the original Naked Gun movies. Naked Gun 2025 brings back this flavor of comedy, which has been missing from our screens for some year. However, it still doesn't compare to the original ones. 

 Dark Shadows - This is a re-watch. I recalled that it was a fun and entertaining movie. Not so good the 2nd time around.

 Gossip - This is a good mystery thriller. It kept me hooked on the screen and I really enjoyed it. I will watch it again some years later.

 Mission Impossible : Final Reckoning. I love the franchise, so I'm biased. I loved it. Sure, the action sequences are unreal, but then, most action movies are of the sort unless you're watching Daredevil.

 K-Pop Demon Hunters - Yes, it's a refreshing take on animated movies. But IMHO, not quite deserving of the cult status it's achieved in the short amount of time.

 Dorian Gray - Pretty good movie despite being very dark. Dorian Gray is a key character in the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (see above).

 Chronicle - This is my re-watch. I recalled that it was good, hence the re-watch. It is still good!

 Superhero Movie - It's a spoof of the Spiderman and X-Men movies but mainly (about 80%) from Spiderman. Not great but it's a fun 1-time watch if you are a superhero movie fan.