Oh, but it was too enticing, we decided the difficult option and walked into Alexis. We were in Malaysia when Alexis first opened in Bangsar in the 1990s. They used to order their cakes from Suchan who had a cafe in PJ opposite University hospital. Suchan's tiramisu cake was legendary in KL (it is different from the pudding, but tastes great) and we were thrilled we could have some easily in Bangsar.
Eventually Alexis made Suchan's tiramisu cake and all the other cakes themselves although it wasn't exactly the same.They also made a banoffee cake - a banana toffee and coffee pie made into a cake. While I was in university it was my second favourite pie after a meringue pie . I was surprised Suchan knew about it and made the pie into a cake.
The Sarawak Laksa at Alexis was the best! Once I had a birthday party there and that's when we introduced Stephen to the Sarawak Laksa, his favourite too. So we try to go there as often as we can but sometimes getting there isn't easy. Now they have branches all over and unlike Madam Kwan's their standards remain good.
Coming back to our lunch, Nathan and I walked in and I immediately ordered my Sarawak Laksa and took ages to decide on a plain pasta tomato sauce for Nathan. Everything else looked too big and perhaps too spicy. The Sarawak Laksa is so popular that it arrived very soon after but the pasta didn't arrive for a while. Nathan was so hungry he said he wanted some. He tried it, said it wasn't too hot and ate more and more. He even drank the soup and eventually didn't touch the pasta!!! It was still yummy but without the chilli heat. The sambal on the side would have helped but I didnt add it to the soup.
That weekend I met up with Jenny, Mas, Norhayati and Nor Azrina at WIP. It was a little to loud to talk there so we adjourned to Alexis for cakes. At thie visit I got to try their cakes again. Here is a picture of the tiramisu cake. Yummy huh?
I am not a dilligent photographer. But I thought this blog needed some posts and one from my travels. So I googled alexis and tiramisu and sarawak laksa and got these fab photos from A Whiff of Lemongrass's very aptly titled post "The Things that make a girl go weak in her knees"
