The search for the best scones in KL begins.

First stop - The Living Room at The Westin. This wasn’t my first choice, but it’s one of the many shortlisted. Weirdly, many places don’t offer Traditional English Teas on Sundays.

Also, this series will focus on scones. Although it may seem like I’m covering Hi-Tea/Traditional English Tea offerings, the main points will come from the quality of the scones. Everything else is secondary.

The Living Room offers a general buffet spread daily, but they have a relatively unknown English Tea menu called “An Afternoon Affair” that runs from 3-6pm. Be careful to order just one serving as it’s more than enough for two.

You can’t call the scones mediocre. But they’re not quite there either. And small. The cream was a let down too. It came with ‘fresh bulla double cream’ which was thick but less consistent and neutral than clotted cream.

However, it came with two jams which were superb to say the least - rock melon with vanilla jam, and passionfruit butter curd. Personally, I like the latter more. Random useless fact - double cream is 45% fat, clotted cream is 55%. Whipped cream is in the 30-36% range.

To be fair, An Afternoon Affair is a very rounded experience and the other pastries were awesome, to sum it up simply. There was a live band going from table to table serenading guests, a welcome surprise.

Other notable items on the menu include - the lobster, walnut and celery sandwich, oyster mornay, and the chocolate fondue at the end (which quenched my very long craving for choc dipped marshmellows).

On a sidenote, the teas weren’t much to shout about either. Sure it came in a tea press, but anything less would be a disaster. There wasn’t an extensive tea menu or anything, but then again, I didn’t care.

Overall, to call it good would be an insult - it’s amazing. But the emphasis wasn’t on the scones, and it didn’t standout despite being one of the few English items on the menu.

Creammmmmmm

The jams and cream


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