Okay I'll admit, we skipped the Old Town of Warsaw. After two consecutive Old Towns the previous week, we weren't sure we wanted to squeeze through throngs of tourists in another one with similarly shaped and structured conserved buildings. I'm pretty sure it would've been a similar experience because well we were still in Poland...

Warsaw was the perfect city to savour different cuisines. After days of eating potatoes and bread dumplings, I was so ready for something -- anything else. That's when we found pierogis!!!! I was skeptical at first because they were also known dumplings (I cringe) but we went to a popular bar mleczny (translated to a milk bar -- a Polish form of a cafeteria serving mostly local food) and ordered an array of local specialities. And that's when I fell in love with the pierogi. It tastes the closest to a real Chinese dumpling #backtomyroots hahahaha. 

I really liked our hostel in Warsaw: Hostel Oki Doki (I know I know, where do they get these names?) It was near the city centre (not the Old Town) and there were so many nice restaurants around too (best part). 

Here's Nowy Swiat, one of the most popular streets in the city centre where you can find restaurants, cafes and bars recommended on TripAdvisor

Also where I had two cones of gelato ;)

The Palace of Culture and Science -- really majestic and also the tallest tower in the whole of Poland. The city planners had a debate whether to keep the building because it was originally designed by a Soviet architect (a symbol of the Soviet domination in the past). Today it's an exhibition centre, museum, cinema and office complex.

We managed to catch Suicide Squad at Kino Atlantic (the oldest cinema in Warsaw)

Lazienki Park is the largest park in Warsaw that houses the royal Palace on the Isle. There are many (pricey) cafes within the park-and-palace complex and it'll probably take you an entire day to walk all of it. Daryl and I ended up taking a 30-minute nap on the grass and well, that was the life~

We also found a 'hipster' market to go to the night before we left Warsaw. Nocny Market is a weekend market that gave me a lot of Timbre+ vibes, except there was barely any place to sit. It was more like: buy what you want and stand around eating and chatting with your friends.

What I found interesting was how more than half of the food sold in this hipster market was Asian food like baos, sushi, pho etc. Does that mean that Asian food is hipster? 

We also decided to splash the rest of our zloty before leaving the country and so indulgent dinner it was. And damn the food was good!!!!