some food on the second day

second day now in paris, 30 may 2011. what fine weather we had!!

this is gonna be about food only while i am waiting for my mamee kari berapi ready. well, some hot food is comforting for the stomach eh. they don't usually eat hot breakfast like what we have in malaysia. breakfast is mostly pastry and hot beverage.

so yesterday, well, today is 31 may 2011 tuesday, i made them follow me all the way to one of the restaurants i found on the internet which has good review. so here we were for breakfast:

terminus nord restaurant, just opposite gare d' nord. i think the place has been in paris for a long long time since the end of 1800s.

we should stay here for either lunch or dinner as well i think. i have a list of restaurants to go but sometimes it is kinda hard to find their locations although the names of the streets are given as well. you should check out the map of paris and look at the kaleidoscopic streets on it. your eyes will see things!
we ordered the set breakfast with a choice of hot beverage, fresh orange juice, and 2 pieces of pastry. the strawberry jam was heavenly!!! so good!!!
huge and flaky croissant! went so well with the butter, well i like mine salty.
this is kinda hard but when i tasted the strawberry jam, all was forgotten.

we visited galerie lafayette yesterday but i got nothing there. however, half my wallet is emptied when i reached printemps and that was where everyone shopped as well.
i think lafayette is soo soo soo over-rated. the crowd there was huge and the lines outside the boutiques were silly.
however, once you go over printemps, the amosphere is so much better and i think the boutiques here as bigger and have a bigger selection of bags too. yup! bags!!! that was what we got. mine? hahah.....wait lah.....i will reveal it. in fact, i have already used it yesterday!

have anyone tried macarons? people you have to try this in paris eh? well, i did, and i bought mine from laduree which has a small outlet in printemps right at the entrance. do i like it? errr..... it is only ok. maybe there is a lot of work put in to create this fine rounded cookie but i dun find it delicious wor. there is no melt in the month kind of sensation. and everyone found them kinda sweet unless you take those fruity flavoured one. hmm....i think my love with macarons end here.
passion fruit, citron and stratacella flavours.

said to be one of the best ice-creams in paris. well, it is really good.we chose to sit at the restaurant. very rich in all the fruity flavours we chose.

my quite miserable looking lunch from lafeyette gourmet section. but the sauce was good. not bad....13 euro!!!

found this japanese pastry shop in lafeyette gourmet section too...heard it was featured on discovery food channel.
ok, it was not supposed to be looking like this, but i had it packed and walked around the mall with me, hence when i reached the hotel, it turned out this way but still yummy.