Rue Montorgueil

Finally, I've got time to upload the pics and video we took last week. Next week is going to be fast, Jas's landing on Tues in Paris, again!!

She brought me soon kueh (a white vegetable dumpling) last week =)
It was a pretty weird feeling to be able to eat this steaming hot in Paris.

Part of what I asked her to help me bring over from S'pore.
We were eating fresh pork floss bread in the hotel room with milk tea and she got me several magazines from Singapore to read too.
What more can I ask for?



She landed on a Sunday and we went out trying to find a supermarket which is open for business but to no avail.
Saint Lazare, no. Havre Caumartin, no. Not until we reached Les Halles.



Had lunch at this quirky new age Japanese restaurant on a lazy Sunday afternoon.




Somehow, I think it resembles one of the chairs in "Restaurant City", the game in Facebook.



Chirashi sushi. I love sashimi too much to order other stuff.



Meat skewers. One of these was the house speciality which I thought was delicious!



Common scene in summer at roadside cafés.



The video clip I took while we took a stroll along Rue Montorgueil.
It was a coincidence that it was the Festival of Music where the street musicians gathered to perform for the public.
Please take time to finish the clip as there will be some funny scenes. Hahaha!!

Rue Montorgueil is a trendy street in the 2nd arrondissement (in the Châtelet-Les Halles district) of Paris, France. Lined with famous restaurants, quaint cafés, bakeries (including La Maison Stohrer), fish stores, cheese shops, wine shops, produce stands and flower shops, rue Montorgueil has become recognized as one of the best places for hip Parisians to socialize while doing their daily shopping.

At the southern most tip of rue Montorgueil is the famed Saint-Eustache Church, the Centre Georges Pompidou (Museum of Contemporary Art, also named Beaubourg Museum) and Les Halles, containing the largest indoor (mostly underground) shopping mall in Paris, and to the north is the area known as the Grands Boulevards.

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We went to Marais on Mon. Stomped upon the shop of Tsumori Chisato.

One of the most interesting streets is the famous rue des Francs-Bourgeois, one of the rare streets of Paris completely open on Sunday.

The neighbourhood has experienced a growing gay presence since the 1980s, as evidenced by the existence of many gay cafés, nightclubs, cabarets and shops. These establishments are mainly concentrated in the southwestern portion of the Marais, many on or near the streets Sainte-Croix de la Bretonnerie and Vieille du Temple.

The yoghurt ice cream topped with fresh raspberries was so refreshing!


Couscous, Korean BBQ & KTV planned next week!