Masa nak pergi hari tu Leen Bakar ada recommend a place called Blue Pumpkin, katanya ice cream situ setap. And then my sister in law also recommended that place. She told me dekat situla first time dia makan macarons , dia suka and sebab tu suruh aku ajar.
We only had the chance to go to Blue Pumpkin on our third day. Since we have no plan for lunch we decided to stop by and tengok apa ada. Kalau takde apa yang boleh dimakan,might just buy the ice cream.
I noticed they are two Blue Pumpkin cafe, satu dekat dengan Night Market and satu dekat Pub Street [dekat dengan old market]. Yang dekat night market tu kecik je, tapi dekat pub street siap 2 tingkat.
In case you are wondering, pub street is like Bukit Bintang except lagi murah. You could get beer for USD0.5 to USD1 and other food pun takdela semahal Bukit Bintang.
So we went to the one yang dekat Pub Street.
Sebenarnya aku tak tahu pun dia 2 tingkat until after we ordered our food the cashier told us, boleh duduk dekat atas, tempat yang ada air cond.
Level bawah more to kedai pastries, ada bermacam jenis pastries, sandwiches and desserts. Macarons pon ada gemuk and cost only about RM3 , which is cheap for the size tapi aku nak tengok pun dah tak lalu, inikan pulak nak makan.
Dekat bawah juga ada ice cream parlour.
Disebabkan panas membahang dekat bawah we went up and bila sampai di atas, I instantly love the place.
White, spacious and relaxing
Dekat dinding, ada deretan sofa or day bed for you to lounge while eating or surfing. They will provide you with portable tables.
Masa kitorang datang, tempat tu dah penuh, so we seat dekat meja and kerusi yang biasa.
People berrelax-relax di atas sofa
Pub street memang penuh dengan foreigners jadi tempat ini pun sama. Macam-macam jenis orang adala, tapi banyak juga yang datang untuk online, maybe sebab dekat sini wifi free.
Other angle
Duduk-duuk je dia bagi menu and bagi cold towels. Swirly cakap the cold towels siapletak minyak cap kapak. Haha. Aku tak perasanla pulak sebab panas gila masa tu so I just use the towel untuk hilangkan panas.
I ordered pumpkin soup with baby lobster and swirly ordered deep fry tonle sap fish [something like that]
I tried the fish, not bad, crispy and taste so fish. He seemed to enjoy his meal.
And he ordered mexican coffee kot, ada cinnamon taste dia kata, different but he liked it as well.
Mine
The soup was sooo creamy ditambah pulak dengan big chunks of baby lobster. I loved it.
I ordered passion fruit shake which was superb. Tak tahu kenapa, when we were in Siem Reap I went crazy over passion fruit, semua nak passion fruit. Sedap gila kot? Tapi bila balik sini tak sedap pulak hehe.
Masa menunggu for our food to arrived, I noticed they used the pulley system. Food from below will be sent in a tray or something and will be pulled upstairs, sama dengan pinggan-pinggan yang kotor.
I think it’s kind of cool.
Memang sedapla soup aku tu kan tapi tak habis sebab muak tapi tamak jugak nak order ice cream tu. We thought we wanted to order sundae type of ice cream, yang ada dalam menu but most of them ada liquerla pulak so takpelah, kitorang order yang dalam cone or cup.
The choices are quite extensive and they have sorbet as well.
I went for dark chocolate ice cream in a cone and swirly bought jackfruit dengan vanilla kot in a cup.
Menjilat bibir
Sambil jalan-jalan sambil menjilat ice cram di tengah panas. Bliss!
So if you want some thing to relax but with a good meal, go to Blue Pumpkin.
Just ask the tuktuk to drive to Pub Street and you will surely see the kedai or lagi senang suruh je tuktuk hantar pergi Blue Pumpkin,surely they will know.
If I come back to Siem Reap, this is one of the place that I will visit again.
But next time, I shall try their sorbet.
