Bake & Brew Cafe tasty lunch set @ CITTA Mall, Ara Damansara

Bake & Brew Cafe is a quiet and cosy place to have light meal in Citta Mall, Ara Damansara. It's a homey little neighbourhood cafe. They serve delicious beef stew and Vietnamese coffee. There are many bread options and cakes that you can try as well.

Taste:9/10(Delicious. I like their soupy and tasty beef stew. The soup taste natural and with strong beef flavour. Good for those who like clean and light lunch).
Price:6/10(Moderate. Lunch set of beef stew at MYR9.90 and banh mi baguette at MYR8.50).


Spaghetti beef stew with pomegranate tea.


They also have rice noodle options.

Dilmah Earl Grey tea.

Banh mi sandwich. This Vietnamese style sandwich contains beef, pickled vegetables and chilies.


Tasty Banh mi with crunchy baguette.

GPS/Coordinate: 3.113029, 101.579087
Address:Citta Mall, Lot G-33, Ground Floor, No. 1, Jalan PJU 1A/48, Ara Damansara, Selangor, 47301 Petaling Jaya, Malaysia.

Jewish quarter of Balat in Istanbul, Turkey

Balat located in old city of Istanbul is richest in history, unique architecture and characteristic. It is one of the places in the UNESCO World Heritage List. However, not many tourist visit this area as it is basically unknown and indeed not many tour bring the tourist here. The tour will usually make an easy move by providing the sight around Sultanahmet and Galata area for commercial reason. Balat was previously a neighbourhood of the Jewish rich but they have moved to district of Sisli in 1960. After that the neighbourhood populated by immigrants of low income. During year 2005, Balat area has been listed in UNESCO World Heritage and a huge redevelopment project has been planned for the area. Exploring Balat is challenging if you don't know the area well as the people there don't speak in English and the street might not be in Google Maps. I don't think that I will discover/visit this place if it wasn't introduced by the local tour that I took in Istanbul.


View of a street in Balat, Istanbul.


Traditional houses in Balat, Istanbul.

The houses here looks very old with narrow stairs.


Some of the colourful houses.


The area provides beautiful view as the houses were build on slope.

Clothing hang over a street.


Children playing in Balat neighbourhood. Since the area is hilly, the children enjoyed playing sliding down the street.

Reached the town.

Liceo Greco church. Very unique architecture in Balat.

GPS/Coordinate: 41.031627, 28.946493
Public transport: Taxi/Ferry at Balat jetty.