New Mall In Town!

Heyya!

Ok so i think its time to take a break from all the tudung business for a sec... and slip in a lil review... I've not been to many new places lately, but after visiting my friend Iqa in confinement 2 weekends ago me n Hubster decided to check out the newest mall in town -- Tropicana City Mall. It's located right at the corner of LDP and NKVE, and although it's not fully completed, the mall is up and running and attracting a considerable amount of shoppers.

We first went straight to the information desk. You can actually tell alot about a mall by its information desk's service. And for a small new mall, i must say that this mall is starting their operations with a good start. First of all, they have all the basic facilities that a mall should provide: Wheelchairs, baby strollers and a concise mall directory. Although the amount of wheelchairs and strollers are abismal, but it's definitely better than nothing, right? Since we didn't bring our Deena's stroller for this outing, we decided to use theirs. After filling up the necessary paperwork, lo and behold -- a bright red MacLaren stroller was rolled out from behind the counter. MacLaren?!?! Wow. Even the huge Sunway Pyramid uses Sweet Cherry.. huhu.

So after checking out some of the colourful booths on the ground floor, we decided to have a very early dinner at Pho Hoa. For those who's never heard of this restaurant, it serves huge bowls of delicious noodle soup with various parts of beef such as steaks, flanks and "perut" as condiments. And lemme tell ya... the meat are SO tender! Those of you who love soups should really have a go at this restaurant. It has a rather nice asian ambience, too! After eating our fill we managed to snap a couple of pix...

Deena and her Abah (who's attempting to grin like Deena usually does.. hehe)

This is what the grin should look like... cheeky, eh?

Two sisters. The one in red is gonna fly off to Sydney for studies end of this month so we're hogging her time to the max! Hehe

After we were full to the brim, we decided to window shop! The retail tenants were preddy good in TCM. There's Carrefour, Borders, Esprit, Nichii... just to name a few. The food outlets are nice too -- there's Kenny Rogers, Pho Hoa, Starbucks and this new place (well new to me anywayz) called BadAss Coffee. Will definitely go there one day!

Some of us had to answer nature's call, so it was a good time to check out the loos... and boy, were they fabulous! Wood panelled stall doors and chic washbasins? Almost hotel material, i reckon. The only downside is the lack of diaper changing facilities in the women's washroom. We followed the "baby room" signs, hoping to find a cool, excellently furnished room for diaper changing and breastfeeding.. only to find that it wasn't done yet! Looking in from the glass doors, we could see a diaper table and possibly panels for a sink and a breastfeeding room, but the rest were preddy much rubble and cement so I really cant say how good it's gonna be. But rest assured that I shall come again to check it out! (Aida: How's this for a baby room report? hehe)

After much walking around (well actually running around chasing after Deena who refuses to sit in the stroller for long), we went into my new fave boutique -- Kitschen. They have funky tees and blouses there! I got carried away with trying out one too many shirts so Hubster entertained our lil munchkin while waiting for me. And this is the result:

Why is Ummi carrying all those shirts?


Can we go home now, Abah?

After much window shopping, i ended up buying something from Nichii instead, haha. Oh well, at least i found a long tee with long sleeves, which is virtually impossible considering my not-so-flattering figure... huhu. After that, Deena started her "whining" machine so that means we had to leave for home. I went home satisfied coz I have discovered yet another haunt that's not too far from home... What can i say? I'm a shopaholic to the core... hehehe.

So after my first visit to TCM, i would have to give it:

RAVE-FACTOR: 3 / 5

Till next entry then, ciao!