Good Friday peeps! This never ending holiday is starting to get on my nerves. I've been completely resting for the past few weeks. I'm starting to long for travelling, working, gallivanting and everything else. Even though i do enjoy staying home, being a home maker and purely enjoying my leisure, but i can't help but to look forward to more excitement in the future. For instance, this wonderful memory with my cousie when she visited me last month. I took her to Majestic Hotel for an exclusive and elegant afternoon tea.

The inviting and elegant dining space.

   There are basically 4 different spaces in Majestic Hotel to enjoy their wonderful afternoon tea sets that starts from 3pm to 6pm daily. They are namely The Tea Lounge, The Colonial Cafe, The Drawing Room and lastly the most exclusive--The Orchid Conservatory. Each of these spaces are located on the Ground Floor, right behind the hotel lobby. They are beautiful, elegant and relaxing but none of the above can compare to the beauty of Orchid Conservatory. Located at a transformed green house, The Orchid Conservatory consists of several tables that can only fit 15 customers per day, surrounded by amazingly colourful and vibrant orchids, just like its name suggests. Therefore, prior reservation is required in order to secure a place for your afternoon tea session.


   We were pretty lucky in the sense that we only made our reservation a day before. The hotel staffs informed us that normally, the reservation has to be made at least a week earlier. Thank God for this opportunity. When we arrived, we were warmly welcomed by the 2 staffs that were in-charged of this space. They escorted us to our allocated table, right beside an array of healthy and fragrant white and purple orchid. The table setting was neatly decorated, with crispy white table top, accompanied with classic white and gold china. There were only 5 tables here and all were occupied for the day.

Milk and brown sugar crystals for our teas.

   After that, the table staff quickly introduced us to Majestic Hotel's English Afternoon Tea Set. It began with the tea selection from their Twinings Tea Collection. We were given a petite black box with 6 different kinds of tea containers, ranging from Rose Garden Black Tea, Medley of Mint Tea, English Breakfast Tea, Calming Chamomile Tea and more. We used these tiny containers to smell and get our preferred choice of tea before proceeding. I went with the Rose Garden Black Tea while cousie Caryn ordered the English Breakfast Tea.

Twinings' Tea Testing Platter

    After that, our designated waiter brought over our teapots and began an interesting presentation of tea making. He patiently explained to us, that different types of tea require different brewing time. Therefore, they prepared this little device, consists of 3 different hourglass, with different amount of sands, symbolizing different time for each tea. White tea like chamomile requires the shortest time of all, only 3-4 minutes; whereas green tea and infusions take a longer time, approximately 5-7 minutes to be perfectly brewed. Coincidentally, both of us ordered black teas, which take the longest among them all to brew, roughly 8 minutes. He explained further, as the black hourglass (black tea) finish emptying its sands, our teas will be ready to serve. I thought the whole experience was quite delightful and educating. Kudos to our incredibly polite, patient and knowledgeable waiter!

Our waiter patiently explained the art of tea brewing

   After our tea was brewed, we were served with 2 cups of warm and fragrant teas, perfect combination to what we were gonna have next. We were having Majestic Hotel's English Afternoon Tea. It comes in a combination of sweet and savoury, both cold and hot finger food, served in their signature bronze wheel and a classic gold metal box. The menu changes frequently. Hence, the items we had might not be repeated during your next visit, because Majestic Hotel would love to keep their menu fresh and creative at all times. Although there were two of us, but the serving of the sweet items remain as single portion. What a set back, as we had to slice our beautiful desserts into halves. Nevertheless, the presentation was excellent, together with the natural lighting and white furniture, this place is beyond perfect for photography.

The complete look of our English Afternoon Tea Set for Two--RM 220 nett

    Let's begin with the savoury and warm items. In the metal box, we had 3 pairs of warm savoury items. The first pair was a crumbly pie, filled with arrabiata sauce, minced chicken and topped with creamed potato. Second one was a pastry pie filled with sauteed mushroom with herbs. Lastly, we were given two crispy fried balls, filled with shrimps. The last one was indeed Malaysian inspired. My favourite has to be the first pair. I'm loving the marriage between these ingredients, totally screamed savoury. The most unique part was the amount of love the kitchen team poured into these finger foods. They were placed in this metal box to keep them warm, so that diners would be able to enjoy the fullest out of these savoury items.

Savoury items: from left to right (first to third)

   Moving on to the bronze wheel, and i'll start off with the bottom layer, which was occupied by several types of sandwich. Starting from the left most, was a multigrain bun, filled with shrimps, coated in mayonaise and alfafas. Next one would be the typical smoked salmon with tuna sandwich, followed by a pair of egg mayo sandwich served with cucumber. Last but not least, beef sandwich served with rocket leaves. All of these sandwiches were delicious, but my personal favourite goes to the shrimp with alfafa, followed by the beef sandwich. They were well balanced and kept me going for more.

From left to right (first to last)

    Proceeding to the next level, we had three British scones. Two of them were raisin scones and one was original plain butter scone. Alongside with these were two cups of strawberry jam and perfectly whipped cream. There was another marmalade jam but was placed in the savoury metal box. The scones were good, but not the best i've had. To be honest, a good scone is pretty hard to get by. For me, i would prefer my scones to be flaky, crumbly, buttery, slightly chewy and have the perfect consistency in between a bread and a cake. Most of the bakeries out there tend to make their scones leaning towards the bread side while the scones here were more towards the crumbly side, which was not too bad. I absolutely love the whipped cream and strawberry jam. It would be better if they include clotted cream as well, because this thing is to die for!

British Scones (two raisin scones and one original scone) served with strawberry jam, whipped cream and marmalade jam.

   Moving up to the final tier, we were served with 5 unique individual desserts. From the left, was a carrot cake topped with coloured cream. The next one was a decadent orange chocolate mousse cake, coated with dark chocolate ganache. The little red one in the middle, was none other than Red Velvet Cupcake topped with cream cheese frosting and designed white chocolate. The one next to it was a cute little eclair filled with refreshing lemon curd, glazed with yellow coloured white chocolate and topped with paper thin wafer sheet. Last but not least, we also had a raspberry trifle, consists of whipped cream, meringue, raspberries and raspberry sauce. These were such complicated and delicate little finger desserts. Both of us girls adored these little babies and were longing for more! The portion should be doubled since there were two of us. Anyways, it was hard for me to choose a favourite, but the raspberry trifle was more unique and memorable to me, mainly because the different types of flavours and textures, blending altogether to form a summer treat. You could taste the crunchy meringue, velvety smooth cream, together with explosion of sweet and sour flavours within one bite. Totally mind blown!

From left to right: Carrot Cake, Chocolate Mousse Cake and Red Velvet Cupcake.

Eclair filled with lemon curd and Raspberry Trifle

With my beautiful cousie Caryn

   There you go, our memorable and enjoyable afternoon tea experience with The Majestic Hotel, KL. Overall, we were quite pleased with their food, service and ambiance. The cost per person was RM 110 nett for an afternoon tea in The Orchid Conservatory. Although it is a bit pricey compared to the rest of the dining space (RM 58 and above), but it was worth it, judging for the exclusivity, dining ambiance and personalised service. Imagine dining in a garden filled with colourful orchids that are meticulously cared, with delicate little sweet and savoury items which are professionally produced by a team of prestigious pastry chefs, along with a team of professional and polite table staffs. This dining experience was wonderful and one of a kind. I would definitely recommend Majestic Hotel's English Afternoon Tea to friends out there! I hope you enjoy today's write up. Have a wonderful weekend ahead! xoxo

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