While growing up, SC & his family has many fond memories of eating out at Siauw A Tjiap, one of the old school Chinese restaurants in Jakarta. He kept saying about how good their food were. We tried it once last year by ordering take outs from their Taman Ratu branch and the result was disappointing. Some of the food even tasted weird. But still, SC assured me that maybe the old one located at Pancoran would taste better. So last month, as I passed this area, I entered the place and ordered one of their specialties: Lindung Cah Fumak (about 43K) to bring home. This time I was not disappointed, the dish really tasted delicious. The eel was deep fried until crispy and they use some fermented red rice wine in the sauce. I guess I'll be back later for more :)
RM Siauw A Tjiap
Jl. Pancoran No.64 Glodok
West Jakarta
ph. +62(21) 97909853, 081808140033
I read about this place on Jalansutra mailing list about 2 months ago. Several members said that Saji serves up decent and very reasonably-priced Thai cuisine. So one day, along with some colleagues, we went there for lunch. The restaurant is located in a shophouse in Sudirman Park Apartment area. The interior is very spartan, just like a cafeteria with a bit of Thai accent in the corner. 
Last weekend, we visited Adira Kenduri Kuliner Nusantara event held at Gedung Arsip Nasional (Jl. Gajah Mada 111, Jakarta Barat). The entry fee is 20K per pax, and to buy the food we have to use coupons (5K per coupon). There were a lot of interesting food selection offered, such as : 
Since we stayed at Legian - Kuta, we had a chance to try so many restaurant in here, and I decided to make a summary of what we have here. Some of it was international cuisine : greek/Turkish at Kebab Palace, Italian cuisine at Kuta Puri Restaurant. We also found Balinese buffet at glory restaurant. Most of the night we just wandered around Kuta traditional market where there's a lot cheap food choices : nasi pedes (java), bakmi ayam, soto ceker, several nasi lawar babi seller, nasi jenggo. All of it were very cheap (from 2K - 7K).
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One of the food I tried in Medan last holiday was Bihun Kari Ayam (Chicken Curry served with rice noodle) at RM Tabona. I insisted to have lunch here the first day I arrived. RM Tabona served a delicious Chicken Curry & Beef Curry, usually eaten with rice or bihun. The curry tasted so different from the one I tried at Padangnese restaurants. It tasted richer and spicier.
Last night on our way home, SC & I stopped by a small road side cafe for dinner. The place have some food cart that sell various meal such as "nasi goreng, mee goreng, etc", "sate padang", "pisang goreng" and "putu". after browsing around we decided to order 2 portion of kwetiaw goreng ( so standard - nothing special :( ) and then SC ordered putu for dessert.
I have been very lazy lately :P 2 weekes ago I found this delicious snack at "Hero" Supermarket's snack counter, bought it & love it. Actually I didn't notice it at first, until SC pointed it out to me, so I bought a pack.. and 2 days later back for more hehehe
One of my must have item when I went shopping was a pack of "Lo Han Kuo Infusion".Lo Han Kuo is used in Chinese Traditional Medicine to cool the body down.
Last week, a friend of mine got me a box of Royce's Dark Chocolate from her recent trip to Singapore. I have been longing for royce chocolate for so long, but couldn't found it in Jakarta. The box consist of 25 cubes of the smoothest chocolate, in fact it was the most delicious chocolate I had ever tasted... the chocolate was so smooth it melt in your mouth.... mmmm I think I'm in love with Royce, Thx alot zink :)
On Saturday morning, I wake up very early because I had travelling plan to Bandung - West Java with some of my colleagues. Bandung also known as the "Paris Van Java" city was a beautiful mountain city at west Java which became a very popular tourist destination every weekend. We arrived there about lunch time so we headed straight to "Nasi Timbel Dago" and had Nasi Timbel Komplit + Ayam Bakar Dada. after that we are ready to explore the city. :)
This morning we headed to Penang Traditional Market near Komtar. At first I want to had some dumpling there but couldn't found the coffee shop serving that, so i gave up and enter a coffee shop and ordered Oyster Porridge while my Mom ordered Chicken Rice. 
Penang is famous because of its food heaven :) but they also famous for their medical facilities, there is some big hospital here such as Island Hospital, Gleneagles, Adventist, Loh Guan Lye. This morning, I force my mom to had a complete medical check up at heart and valve centre at Adventist Hospital Penang and then headed to Gleneagles Hospital for Eye Check Up. We had lunch at the backside of Gleneagles Hospital.. not bad actually with a selection of delicious homecooking and very cheap price too :)
We arrived at Kuala Lumpur at dawn, lucky for us our hotel was right in front of the Puduraya Bus Station so we don't have to take taxi :P But the hotel won't check us in until 7AM, so we wandered around the hotel and found a small coffee shop nearby the hotel that still open, so we sit there eating "Nasi Lemak" and drinking Tea :)
