A rising number of clubs and bars have crept up on Changkat Bukit Bintang and its surroundings, transforming a formerly calm dining haven into a crowded party zone.
Lava Bar is the latest entry here; its bevy of tightly attired female employees and booming music could be an ominous harbinger of things to come.
The cocktails are OK though: we liked the Horse's Neck (brandy, angostura bitters, dry ginger ale, lemon) & Paddy O'Hooligan (baileys, green creme de menthe, mint)
Mudslide (kahlua, baileys, vodka, ice) & Black Widow (dark rum, southern comfort, lime juice, curacao, soda). Bar food is available, but nothing alluring for now.
Lava Bar,
Jalan Berangan.
Hmm, one wonders what the bevy of tightly attired female employees are called - The Lava Lamps? The Lava Lasses? :P
ReplyDeletelfb: lava lovelies! now try saying that 10 times fast! :D
ReplyDeletewheres the girls!? haha. and the food?
ReplyDeleteLava Lovelies. Lava Lovelies. Lava Lovelies. Lava Lovelies. Lava Lovelies. Lava Lovelies. Lava Lovelies. Lava Lovelies. Lava Lovelies. Lava Lovelies.
ReplyDeleteThere.
:P
Joe: seemed too exploitative to take photos of them! And as for the food, didn't feel like having chicken wings and burgers, heheh
ReplyDeleteLfb: Say it, not type it! (i wanna hear u say 'lava lovies' sted of 'lovelies' before u hit five) :p
All the lava lava is making me think of a certain Mr. Lova Lova song by Shaggy... :P
ReplyDeleteHAHAHA! kenny is so funny .. how bout a Mr Lova Lova my wat too eh? :D
ReplyDeleteYarrr. Where's the food? And no piccies of the Lava Lovelies oso.. :p
ReplyDeleteLooks like a great hangout place, but it's a reminder that CBB will never be the way I remember it from a couple of years back. It's kinda depressing.
ReplyDeletelfb: ooh, i had a chance encounter with shaggy once ... outside an adelaide hotel. but i didn't recognize him until i heard his voice :D
ReplyDeleteciki: bleh, he's not THAT funny lah! (ok, ok, i had to say that to prevent his head from swelling when he reads what u wrote!) :D
j: maybe i need to go back for the food here! but i tried not to take photos of the service team, cos they seemed a bit embarrassed :D
lemongrass: ya, i'm glad the businesses here are doing well, but i worry that too many clubs might kinda ruin this place, somewhat similar to what happened to asian heritage row. i still love many of changkat's restaurants, but maybe i'm getting old, so the atmosphere at, say, jalan bangkung seems more appealing :D
Hahah, I bet. He has one rather distinctive voice. And that's right - his name is Shaggy. I kept remembering it as Scooby but figured that couldn't be right, no matter how ridiculous the names these hip-hop stars gave themselves these days. :P
ReplyDeletelfb: hip-hop stars where got ridiculous names wan. lil wayne, ne-yo, t-pain, ludacris, bruno mars all sound so kewl... oh, unless u're thinking of puff daddy :D
ReplyDeletePuff Daddy? Isn't he called P Diddy now? Or just Diddy? Or maybe just Did or Dy? Hard to keep up... :P
ReplyDeletelfb: maybe we should just refer to him by his real name then, sean combs. see, all the seans are the most vibrantly creative people around (and to a lesser extent, so are the shawns and shauns) :D
ReplyDeleteHaha, wait till Shaun Lee of WineActually.com reads this!
ReplyDelete(But he probably won't - who visits the back posts, aside from the two of us nattering away in the comments section as usual?)
:P
lfb: coincidentally, i'm meeting shaun for dinner next week. he's helping to reunite me with a long-lost cousin from malacca (i haven't seen her in more than a decade) who coincidentally happens to be one of his good friends who studied in london with him! i'd invite u along, but my tearful, emotional reunion with said cousin would probably reduce u to mush (not a good thing) :D
ReplyDeleteYou can't possibly invite me along cos that would make a table of four - and don't you have a Rule of Three (Max. Pax) for your dining experiences? :P
ReplyDeleteP.S. I can't be reduced to mush when I'm cold, hard stone. Don't you READ my blog? :P
lfb: hmmm, on one hand, u could prove useful in helping to finish the food, which is certain to be plentiful. but on the other hand, your excessive alliteration might drive everyone insane :P
ReplyDeletep.s. aiya, even a petronas deepavali tv ad can reduce u to mush lah.
Excessive alliteration? That does not work. How about abundant alliteration? :D
ReplyDeleteP.S. But I dun watch TV wor...
lfb: that's atrocious alliteration! begone, foul demon! :P
ReplyDeletep.s. can find on youtube lah...
huh how come i passed by Jalan Berangan and I didn't notice this place one?!! must be too drunk.. haha
ReplyDeleteeiling: heheh, it's just on your left, after you pass bakita, albion and bar italia :D
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