After the food market, May and kids went shopping at the clothing sections. Lafayette has a big glass dome in the center of the building, very impressive. But other then that, I found the display and building for most of the merchandise is fairly basic, I almost feel like I was in a Sears. But of course it has a floor for the luxury brand, they all have very nice store display. While May were shopping, I went to check out their Men's building and Home store. Nothing really interesting to me.
Then we walked to Fauchon at place de la Madeleine. The first floor packed with mostly ready to eat items. Everything is very beautifully made and looks very delicious. Kids ordered something and sat there to eat, while I went upstair to check anything I can take home. Not a whole lot of stuff there, but I bought a few more fleur de sal, a sample package of jam (all very unusual flavor, such as strawberry with rose patel), a package of different pates, a can of lavender honey. Fauchon's actually available in many countries, including NYC, I later found out. But it's nice to go into a gourmet store in Paris and shop. Place del la Madeleine also has a whole bunch of other luxurious stores, but we didn't have time to check it out cause May is more interested in the small boutique tucked in small alley in Latin Quarter.
Our next stop is one of the top haute patisserie in Paris: Pierre Hermé Paris, at 72, rue Bonaparte. The store is more like a jewelry store then a pastry shop. With a nice window display almost feel like you're going into a Tiffany. Once in the store, you will be amazed at the glass counter that's full of beautiful cakes and macarons. Pierre Hermé has 2 collections each year, and they will not repeat once the season is over. The only stable is his macarons. Everything looks so pretty, I don't know if I can bite on to any of it, but they also looks so yummy. Because our prior bad experience of Ladurée's macarons, we decided to pass it on here too. That may be a very bad decision cause later I found out there were many very unique available here such as the one with white truffle and hazalnut! But we still picked out some very nice looking cakes. The clerk behind the counter carefully took the cake out from the counter as they were handling a nice piece of art work, then they package them in a nice box, then finally every boxes are put in a very pretty Pierre Hermé shopping bag. As you walked out of the store with that bag, you feel like you just come out from a LV store or something.
After Pierre Hermé, we strolled around the St. Germain, May also wanted to see if there is any store that sells soap cause people told her to buy soap in Paris. But we didn't have any luck in finding soap specialty store. Even Bon Marche only a very limited selection. We were wondering where does people get their perfume soap.
That night after we got back to the hotel, kids didn't feel like going out to eat again, so they got sandwich from the Paul. While May and I went to Aux Lyonnais. I had a very delicious bloody sausage plate. It's not what you would think that my plate has only a piece of big sausage. Instead, it's a small pot filled with shredded meat and sauce, very delicious and unique. I cleaned up my plate cleanly. It is my favorite dish in this whole trip. This restaurant is kind of unique, the host who took us to the table would ask if we wanted to have any drink before dinner, so we ordered champane, then a waitress came to take our order, after we ordered our meal, I wanted to order wine, and she said another person will take my wine order, so the sommelier, who also brought our champane earlier to the table, came later to take our wine order. And then there was another waitress who actually brought the food to the table and took our dessert order.
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Bloody sausage is a famous bistro dish. I would like to try too since your description is very nice.
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