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Unicorn Cafe - Bangkok, Thailand

Hi guys...

So i've been having some anxieties the past few days and i decided to try out a teraphy that usually works well to calm me down : to blog about something that makes me truly happy and feel like i'm transported to happier times : travel. I know i haven't been updating about my super backdated trips, but i couldn't think of a better time to do it than when i truly miss it and need it like right now. I've been sad too about not knowing when we can travel again (technically we can, i can go to Bali or even Turkey, but i just don't feel safe to do so and i don't want to risk it) so here's a cafe recommendation for y'all kawaii lovers for the next moment we can step out of the country safely.

Honestly, the only thing that made me excited about our trip last year to Thailand was this cafe *LOL*. I went to Thailand (only Bangkok and Pattaya though) way too many times when i was younger and honestly i was quite bored of the touristy places (back then independent trips were still something foreign for me and since i was with my school/family, i relied on them for the itinerary, and when you take tour packages, they tend to bring you to the same place over and over again, those tourist traps) and their fashion was not to my liking (somehow their fashion now is right down my alley *LOL*. It's so weird, i dunno if they become suddenly fashionable in the past 10 years (okay, 10 years is not sudden, but the change is so dramatic IMO) or my taste changes. No, i don't think it's the latter. I still have some clothes i bought there 15 years ago or something (true story) and it's definitely a far cry from what they have in the market now.

Basically, i wasn't too interested in returning to Thailand except to shop and because i was OBSESSED with this Unicorn Cafe - ofc then we had quite an adventure, visiting places i've never been and discovering things we'd never know about if we have no local "tour guide" (who lets us crash in her place *LOL*, best tour guide ever. Shout out to my babe Bo) and now i would kill to return to Thailand (preferably to some other cities like Chiang Mai tho). Life and travels just got so much easier thanks to the internet, and then completely ruined by Covid 19. The Circle of Life i guess.

And with that long ass intro, i just wanted to tell you. I was dying to come to this cafe because i LOVE unicorn and i love quirky cafes okay.

I love this pic so much i think it's good enough to be the cafe's advert WTF

Btw, disclaimer first : most of the pics used in this blog post were taken by Olin, while i improved my photography skill during quarantine, this took place before the nightmare begins and i still suck at taking f&b pics anyway (and like ambience of the cafe etc. Don't think i have the eyes for that).

Anyway, the Unicorn Cafe was actually nearby Bo's place and it took us only a short taxi ride to get there. Much to my surprise, there are actually TWO of them (same company, i guess they got so popular on IG and decided to open another one to accommodate all the crazy tourists like moi).

Here's Zone A, that looks a lot more muted and toned down. Not that i came there for, sorry *LOL*

Now, this is what i came for ehehehe. The loud, OTT, Zone B
Unicorn Cafe
44/1 Soi Sathon 8, Silom, Bang Rak, Bangkok 10500, Thailand

I mean, just look at the huge unicorn statue...

Sorry ah, tourist gotta do what a tourist gotta do

My happy place for sure hehe

Now, let me clarify something first. Olin's camera's really nice and she knows how to set it right too so somehow all of the pics turned out super pretty and dreamy. The real place? Er.. It's not as pretty as it looks in photographs. I honestly expected it to be more like those Japanese/Taiwanese dreamy thematic cafes but in reality... It's Thailand. No offence, but Thailand is still a lot more similar to Indonesia than Japan/Taiwan so i don't know why i had such a high expectations *LOL*. Reality is the place is not very pastel at all but very loud and almost neon colored. I took some photos of the place with my sucky pocket camera and it shows the sad reality hahaha but you know, you come to this place to take pics and with today's phone cameras and digital camera, achieving this kind of pics is not impossible so why taint the beauty of this blog post by showing the reality *LOL*.

Don't worry, i wasn't disappointed. I was still super happy to be there and i found the place to be super cute (although tacky. Seriously, this cafe is like how i feel about Thai actors too *LOL*. Some of you who comes from my IG would know that i'm quite obsessed with Thai actors lately, there are so many handsome ones and their visual's comparable to Korean actors but manlier. Because of their looks, i tend to forget that Thailamd is Thailand, and sometimes i get a bit of a shock when i see the background or location because it yanked me back to reality *LOL*. Looks too similar to where i am living, not glossy like how K-Dramas are) and totally worth a visit.

One of the cutest thing about the place is the many unicorn and ponies plushies hanging on the ceiling

Ofc like all other thematic cafes, there are plenty of plushies strewn around for you to take pics with

And like most thematic cafes, they are quite dirty and dusty *LOL*. It was pre-Covid so nobody hesitate to hug and pose with them anyway, we can always wash our hands and shower afterwards right... Not so easy these days ofc *LOL*.

In case you don't know yet, when i plan to go to thematic cafes, i dress accordingly :p. You'd never finf me not matching the place fo sho

Yeah they sell a lot of (overpriced) unicorn stuffs to, i personally would skip them and purchase them at a much better price at markets/mall :p

I took the time to photograph the whole menu book for ya, ofc it's been over a year so they might take off/add some items or justify the prices, but i think this would still be plenty helpful for those of you planning to visit in the future.

The must order is ofc the kawaii drinks! One thing that i love about Thai cafes, they don't have minimum orders and even the thematic cafes are damn affordable

For the sweet tooth. These are stuffs that i'm never interested in tho *LOL*.

I don't know about you but the colorful cheese over the karage scares the beejesus out of me :p

And i also dunno if it's a cultural thing, but the strawberry salad is just... wrong *LOL*

They do have a LOT on their menu, i honestly would never expect steak menus in a thematic cafes like this. Also not something that i would order anyway, i have trust issues with thematic cafes' food :p. Even the Japanese ones okay

Now, this is more like it :p

Mandatory pic with everything that we ordered :p

I think this was Bo's order. It's the kind of drink that's the best for picture taking in this place but personally i could never drink *LOL*. If i came with my husband i might order it because then i can make him drink 80% of it, but i wasn't and i know i could not take more than a few sips of the drink so why not borrow it from someone who already ordered it haha

Hot cocoa. It was swelteringly hot that day, just looking at it makes me sweat :p

Now, this is my order. When it's crazy hot, i tend to go for something sour and sometimes soda (although i normally don't drink soda. I probably drink soda like, 10 times a year. Mostly when i'm at McD haha

We also ordered a cake to share. It was... edible *LOL*

The cupcakes were cute but we couldn't even finish a slice of cake between the 3 of us so not ordering the cupcake was a wise decision hahaha

Like i said, i was super happy to be there, i ticked it off my list and i get so many cute pics. Would i return? I'd say it's a place where you only need to come once if you're a tourist (if i'm a local, i wouldn't mind returning because they let you take as many pics as you want, there are a lot of cute spots, the staffs leave you alone, the prices' reasonable, there are a lot menus to choose from and they also don't mind if you only order drinks! Those are all the criterias that i look for in a cafe especially as a content creator!) as there are plenty of other cute, unique and Instagrammable cafes in Bangkok. But would i recommend you to come here? If you love unicorn, kawaii-ness and pastel colors the answer is a hard yes. But if you're looking for extraordinary menus and mind blowing taste, obviously you're reading the wrong blog post *LOL*.

And that's it for today, folks! The teraphy works, i'm no longer anxious! I always feel so happy and accomplished after finishing a travel post *LOL*, i wish they are not such a pain to prep though (i have prepping the pics because i use a LOT of pics and i HAVE to have them in the right order because i am a story teller, and well - an OCD as well...). If you're interested on this kind of places, you might want to check out my post on La Fleur X Uniqorn Cafe too.

Toodles!

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La Fleur X Uniqorn Cafe - Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

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Hi guys...

How y'all doin'?

I'm trying to be productive and keep myself from overthinking and over worrying (with my city being in a semi lock down condition, business people like us basically are having zero income while still having to pay tonnes of bill. We also didn't expect this to happen because normally March is the start of high season in business locally so we were preparing for it, meaning be spent a LOT in preparation and now we have to pay the bills in a very different condition than expected. Ofc i have emergency funds, and the fact that we never had to use it in the past meaning i have enough to keep up afloat until things get better, but never having to use it before also means i find it even harder that we have to dig deep and watch our fund disappearing..) so i've been busying myself all day long.

I still cannot concentrate enough to do work-related posts, not even like light hearted reviews of tutorial (i am being active in this aspect on my Instagram though because i've made a commitment to myself to upload at least once a day there) so i am sticking to easy, escapee type of posts : travels.

This time i am walking backwards even further in time because i actually am about to share with you about this uber kawaii cafe in Kuala Lumpur that i went to in late 2018 hehe.

La Fleur X Uniqorn Cafe

I really had a great time there, but before i blogged about it the owners of the cafe went into a full blown online war with a Malaysia acquaintance of mine, it was really bad - and i was quite shocked because when we were there i think we were also attended by the owners but their service was very good and they were very very friendly, that's why the online war was double as shocking for me. As it got pretty big and usually *LOL* thematic cafes like this don't usually last that long anyway, i was not even sure if they are still open :)). But i checked and apparently they are still in business (again, probably temporarily closed due to Covid 19, but they are not out of business so i think you can still visit it in the future) and these pics i have of this place is just too cute to waste!

La Fleur X Uniqorn Cafe01, E1, 02, Jalan Lagoon Selatan, Sunway Geo Avenue,
47500 Subang Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia
+60 11-1179 6750

Yes, there is a teepee where you can take pics at the outdoor area, but the outdoor area is actually inside the building as the cafe is located inside a huge shopping mall called Geo Avenue. The mall is actually mainly consisted of cafes and eateries (also a supermarket) and it is located pretty far from central KL (it is located at Sunway, which is not even KL anymore i think - do correct me if i'm wrong, i'm really bad at Geography although i graduated cum laude in Tourism *LOL*) so if you are staying in central KL and want to visit this cafe, i would actually suggest you to bring a few clothes so you can change - you should visit a few of these cafes in the mall at one go. That's what i would do if i knew where exactly the cafe is located and how the situation of the place is beforehand

Another plus side of this cafe is that they actually provide unicorn onesies and slippers for FREE. Most thematic cafes would charge you rent and yes, the onesies are in dire need of being washed - but so is the condition of the ones you have to pay for (unless it's in Japan or South Korea i guess *LOL*), trust me i went to enough thematic cafes to witness it. So personally i think it's a huge plus that they provide the costumes for free!

The cafe itself is pretty big, it's totally spacious and cozy.

Ofc, the interior's all pink. Very soft pink though, so the atmosphere is still the luxe type of kawaii (compared to the unicorn cafe in Bangkok, it's like night and day *LOL*)

You order at the cashier, there is no minimum charge. You can order whatever you want and stay as long as you want, take as many pictures as you want - at least that's our experience there. The menu's very very affordable too

There are plenty of tables all the way to the back and sides, unfortunately the area in the back was packed so we couldn't take picture there but there are quite a lot of Instagrammable spots in this care. There are also a lot of unicorn plushies you can take pictures with and move around, but like the costumes, they are in dire need to be deep cleaned *LOL*.

I think we went during day time on a week day so even though there are some groups and couple there, it was far from crowded and we can take pictures quite easily

Some spots at the back, really looks like a baby girl's nursery yes haha

The decor of the cafe is actually quite minimalistic although still very cute. They go for clean, super soft, super pastel colors and i really approve of it haha

Another cool spot (although by now i think there are way too many cafes who installed the same thing haha) for you to take pictures at is this ball pit area at the front of the cafe.

The plastic balls are baby pink, white and clear - that makes it stand apart than most cafes' ball pits that usually have super bright, neon colored balls!

I was genuinely that happy to be there ^^

Also, in other cafes in Malaysia the staffs usually stare and ogle when we take pictures, it made us very self-conscious and stressed *LOL*, in fact we went to another cafe just before this one and they did exactly that. Some of the staffs also managed to find out IG, which is scary *LOL*. But not here, most people who come here comes for one purpose : take pictures, i guess the owners and staffs are used to any antics of people taking pics, and every other guests were taking pictures too so i felt pretty comfortable and welcomed camwhoring and posing

The details in this cafe is totally lovely

There is even a shrine for all things pastel and kawaii *LOL*.

My kind of shrine

These type of unicorn dolls are my favorite doll type, a year later hunny bought me a smaller one also in Malaysia (at Bukit Bendera's souvenir shop *LOL*, it was not expensive. I sleep with it every night now, it helps me feel loved and protected. I totally want another one soon)

My bangs were cut too short before this trip, and in real time my bangs are as long as my chin and i really itch to cut it (even though i might never go back to front bangs as i am very comfortable with side bangs now)

Seriously, i totally approve of whoever decorate the place

As i mentioned earlier, our sole purpose of visiting this cafe is to take photos, but we also wanted to order something cute (again, for the 'Gram). We just had a meal plus a dessert in another cafe so we're actually very full so we only ordered hot drinks (i went for coffee ofc. I think i remember it being decent) and one cake to split. There were some uber kawaii cakes available but we decided to go for the kawaii-est of them all :

A unicorn shaped one!

Honestly, my least fave type of cakes are the fruit flavored/filling ones and this one is exactly that *LOL*. It's sweet and sour, totally not my slice of cake - and neither Angel's i guess. We only managed a few bites between us and left about half untouched, and it's such a small cake too! I'm not saying it tastes bad, i just really don't like fruit filled cakes >.<, you know i hardly ever eat a full slice of cakes that i like in one go! They have other menus too, we were just not interested because we were full so i really cannot be a judge for the taste of their food. Their hot drinks are pretty good too, for the price and the fact that they let you stay as long as you want and take as many pics as you can, it's more than totally worth it for me.

Would i return? I actually would, i wouldn't eat beforehand (please note that most of these Instagrammable cafes in KL seems to open pretty late in the afternoon, so you might want to have a light breakfast first) and i would spend half a day in the area to visit a few cafes in the area.

Ofc we had to wear the onesies

No one to take our pics so selfie it is

Never mind us, just a pair of grown women losing our minds.

I would still be this kawaii when i'm a grandma. Mark my words.

It was such an afternoon well spent and for me, it was worth all the hassle going there (the pretty expensive Grab because we basically went out of town, then we got lost because i thought the cafe was located in Sunway Pyramid, IT'S NOT WTH. So we had to take another Grab to go to the right place so if you plan to visit please note that you need to go to Sunway GEO Avenue okay!!!), it's a little thing but it makes me happy - and that's what's important in life, right?

People wanna gossip behind my back about me, my style, my weight, my aesthetic, my life? I no longer give them the power to bother me. I severed a friendship once not so long ago when i found out that she did exactly that, and whoever wants to follow her foot steps would just be trashed from my life like her, in short - i don't give a damn. Especially now that i know how easy life crumbles and how important most things that we thought were really are. Imma just live my life even freer now because all i care about is being happy and contend.

I will blog about the other Unicorn Cafe in Bangkok sometime in the future too, if you enjoyed this one then i'm sure you would enjoy that one too!