When there's a crowd like this, you know that something's on.
When it comes to Malaysians, you know some celebrity is here.
And also when it's a free event.
"No purchase necessary" is a damn good crowd puller
So this is my insight of that day. 8th of March 2014. At Caffe Bene, Sunway Pyramid. Call it a fan account or whatever you want.
Checking the place on Instagram before departing to Sunway Pyramid
This is the stage outside
Now you see only 1 floor is packed. By the time I reached at about 11am, 2 floors was packed with sardines humans
This is how it was outside and there's also people standing at the pedestrian bridge zomg
Balloonsssss! I wantttt :'(
This aunty is so smart! Should've asked her where she got that stool
H&M and Sephora closed their doors because people are trying to use their exit to go outside. And being short and in a big crowd, breathing gets a little harder because we haz no oxygen down here. Thank god me and Hue Ying didn't faint. Cause we are smallminitiny but strong little warriors wtf.
But we did witness a few accidents. There's this one girl who wore an incredibly low and short top with really short shorts or skirt (I'm not sure) but hopefully for her sake, she was wearing shorts. And the Malay police man was fanning her. Must have been very awkward for him.
And the crowd was really crazy what with all the climbing-on-tables-and-chairs-and-boulders. There's also girls who were wearing skater skirts (yes, those kind which flare out) standing on the boulders outside screaming Kwang Soo's name. Omg face palm betul. Although some guys enjoy seeing under your skirt, some were disturbed and awkward lo please. Take care of your pride la can?
Fans chanted Lee Kwang Soo, Lee Kwang Ja, etc. Some claimed excitedly that they saw his hand (apparently he was doing his famous pose), head, hair, etc. But being 154cm in crowd, I saw nada. No hands, hair or head. Only the camera following him around. Zzzzzz
One very pissed off girl screamed that she was waiting in line since 2am. Damn admirable la *salute*
After being pushed and shoved, I got this close to the stage and then found out that 기린 would not be coming out. Fuck this shit
The location of the fan signing changed from the stage (outside Orange entrance) to inside the shop (indoors) which makes more and less sense. More because there's aircond inside and the condition outdoors is terrible. Less because well, the shop itself is small. And what about those people who waited outside?
Then
at about 2 something, a pretty and well dressed lady who was the MC of
the day announced that Mr Lee is tired/not feeling well (I can't
remember which word she used) and had gone back to the hotel. I can't
help but to feel that our giraffe is a diva for being late and for
heading back early. But then again, I don't know what really went down. He could be late because of traffic
(we all know how it is) or he was just being fashionably late (1 hour late I think?) and well, he could be really sick. Oh wells,
just hoping that his condition isn't serious... If that's the case.
Anyway, this part is quite a blur to me. Many are blaming the management for well, poor management. See what I did there? I'm so punny hahaha. I so happened to scroll through Caffe Bene's FB page here and
it seems that the particular girl who came at 2am ended up going home
empty handed. Everyone was ranting about how bad the management was and
their disappointments and such because those who came early and lined up at the stage didn't get his signature, but those who came later end up getting the signature.
Oh wells, enough complaining! We can always scroll through the internet for pictures right? I'm quite content with that.
Mr Lee. Sounds so formal hahhaa
Somehow I prefer the top left picture. The typical kolian 기린 face :D
Apparently Kwang Soo wished a fan Happy Birthday *jelly*
*Pictures shown above are stolen from google.com, Running Man FB page, Caffe Bene FB page and various random Instagram accounts. TVQM
This is the line at about 5pm. Thanks to Kwang Soo's appearance, the whole Sunway Pyramid was packed with people.
He looks so lonely standing there...
So I joined him. Hahaha
Hue Ying with Kwang Soo. This Pei Yi didn't want to take picture with him. Haihhh you dunno what you're missing out here.
I didn't get to go into the shop on that day, but I managed to - 1 day before that. Yeap, I went to Sunway Pyramid 2 days in a row because I'm just so crazy like that. Okay, so here's my verdict.
Picture stolen from their FB page
Location
Omg so damn hard to find this place because I got lousy directions from my
retarded-in-direction sister. But actually it's quite easy to find. It's just opposite machines, the shop
right next to the entrance from the bus station or, the shop next to H&M. You're welcome.
It's shooo pretty :O
Seatings
It's a very small shop, so we had to wait a bit. And we went on a Friday afternoon.
Each corner has a nice place to camwhore - mural, vintage clock, etc and lighting is especially good in
the morning/afternoon and early evening because of natural sunlight. And the nice floor-to-ceiling glass doors.
Menu
Waffles, buns, bingsoo, patbingsoo, latte, coffee, cappuccino, yogurt and gelato
Portion
Portion size for the patbingsoo is incredibly hugeee. Comes in 2 sizes, Single (S) RM10.80 and Double (D) idunnotheprice. 4 of us, 3 girls and 1 guy shared 2 Single bingsoo and I think we struggled to finish it.
Food
I think all of us pretty much agree that the Cookies&Cream is a little bland i.e tasteless. Especially after you have a spoon of the Strawberry patbingsoo. Strawberry patbingsoo is really not the problem, it's flavour is not overpowering, it's just... the Cookies&Cream has a very light flavour I guess?
Service
Good, friendly and polite staff.
They messed up our order - we ordered Strawberry and Cookies&Cream without red bean. And
after eating halfway we realized they mixed up our order by giving red bean (actually only because I hate beans and won't tolerate a drop of it and insisted to change in which my friends doubt that they will change it) and so I went to the
counter and told them the problem. They changed it for us, apologizing and without throwing sour faces at me. Major like!
So we camwhored TWICE. Amazingly it didn't melt and even after 10
minutes of photo session, it still taste and look good by the time we
were done.
And every table took many pictures. EVERY! I kid you not. Turn left and right also got people snapping pictures like a riffle. We were soooo lucky to get seats at the mural. Because omg the wall looks so good. Especially for camwhoring wtf.
Omg! I sat at the same place Kwang Soo did! Only 1 day before!!!
Gahhhh should've wrote "Michelle was here on the wall"
Our Strawberry and Cookies&Cream patbingsoo!
Our Strawberry and Cookies&Cream bingsoo!
See the difference?
First picture is the one they messed up - you can see the generous amount of red bean there below the strawberry gelato *yuck* and the red bean is in the centre of the cup for the Cookies&Cream
Second picture is the one correct order! Ding ding ding! That's my happy bell ringing :D Although it looks like there's lesser strawberry there. But what the heck. They were all sour ><
Btw, pat is korean for red bean so patbingsoo means red bean shaved ice while bingsoo simply means shaved ice. Know the difference!
See! This Single patbingsoo is as big as my head!
Strawberry patbingsoo consists of shaved ice, red bean, strawberry sorbet, strawberries, and strawberry syrup
A tiny spoon of everything
Cookies&Cream has cream, yogurt or vanilla gelato, shaved ice and oreo
I'm a damn good photographer. No la, it's only because there's a nice background, nice food and pretty girls. You're welcome :D
Fed up face.
We took photos all the way - before and after our desserts arrived, while eating and even after we were done. *We here applies to only Alisha and me - we were the crazy ones snapping away while Dabeliu and Sylvia drool over the bingsoos and asked "Can eat already or not ar?" Sorry but not sorry because the photos all turned out great :P
#asianatwork
With the pretty pretty background
Dunno who's idea is this, but it's a darn good idea when you want to take picture with the person sitting opposite you. And the plus point is that there's 2 of each person. Genius!
"Haihhhh come out with 3 girls is like that one lo bradder"
Natural sunlight is our best friend
*photobomber, you're no friend of ours
