Whenever you are joining a tour group from Indonesia, one thing is certain, the itinerary will include a lot of shopping. And our tour to West Europe is not an exception and hence, here we are at Galeries Lafayette. Galeries Lafayette is an upmarket French department store chain. We visited the main store of Galeries Lafayette but it seems that it has a lot of branches both in France and outside France.
If you are a Longchamp lover, you should come to Galeries Lafayette and join the queue line to enter the store. Yes, I am not kidding. A lot of queue is formed outside the branded store inside Galeries Lafayette including Louis Vuitton and Chanel. This is because most visitors to this department store come from China and they are known to come in big groups. Galeries Lafayette even has a special tax refund counter to cater for Chinese customers.
I did not really have budget for any bags so after my mum bought her Longchamp, we just walked around and settled down at McDonald's upstairs. Time for me to drink my Les Frappes.
My mum and I got bored after 45 minutes waiting for the other tour members at McD, so we decided to look for whatever we can try. I am not talking about fashion or bags though. I am talking about food. And since we are in Paris, it is just right to try one of the famous Parisian dessert named Macarons. This is the first time I bought 10 macarons at one time, even the lady behind the counter was shocked. She double checked the order with me to make sure she heard correctly. Does the Parisian never order macarons in such a big quantity?
The above macarons which we bought for no-name store (okay, it's probably has a name but I did not really pay attention to the name) is so good. The texture just right, the taste is not so sweet and yet, delicious. We love it!
And just like that, we bought a box of macarons from another store but this store is apparently Pierre Herme's. He is a French pastry chef who is famous for his creation of macarons. We bought a box of 7 macarons. The box is so cute!
The macarons sold at Pierre Hermes are very unique in terms of color and taste. I mean, it has macarons with purple color, for goodness sake.
The funny thing is, we prefer the macarons from the unknown store. We probably prefer the simpler taste of macarons because Pierre Herme like to mix a various taste (which is good, I never say it's bad) into his macarons.
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