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Jul, 30 2008

Posted by jeny at 05:45 AM

We found a restaurant called Le Seminyak that serves Balinese dishes in Pacific Place Mall. As we're quite fond of Balinese cuisine, we decided to try it. The place is spacious, with high ceilings and nicely decorated. We ordered their Nasi Campur Bali (steamed rice topped with a seasonal mix of vegetables, meats, satay and sambal) 32.8K and Cram Cam (Balinese traditional chicken soup) 22.8K. In my opinion, the dish was not as good as the decoration. It was decent, but they still need a lot of improvements before they can be compared with the "real thing" :(

Le Seminyak
Pacific Place, Lt.5, unit 38
Central Jakarta
ph: +62(21) 514 00610

Jul, 17 2008

Mangkok Ayam

Posted by jeny at 01:09 PM

From Tizi, we moved to Setiabudhi Supermarket, which is also known as supermarket bule because they sell mostly imported goods. We're planning to have dinner later at some place around Ciumbuleuit. After wandering for a while, I spotted a unique place next to Periplus books store.It is a small kiosk called Mangkok Ayam (chicken bowl). The interior is warm, dominated with wood, and there are chickens all over the place, from the dinnerware to the wallpaper & even printed on the lighting. I'm in love with this place instantly.

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Oct, 09 2007

Hong Kong Cafe

Posted by jeny at 11:31 AM

Lately, I often find myself visiting this place. It is located on Jl. Sunda (next to ATL Hayam Wuruk & Bakmi Gajah Mada). When I first heard about this place, I was thinking of a place with chinese interiors, but I was surprised when I entered the building. It is chic & cool, bit white with minimalist design. It has murals painted on the wall, white & pink furniture and high ceiling. I instantly fell in love with the decor. (plus they have a fast & free wifi, and let us sit there for hours )

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Mar, 08 2007

Xin Wang Hong Kong Cafe

Posted by jeny at 07:00 PM

Last week I was meeting SC at Mall Taman Anggrek, he took me to this new restaurant located beside 'Tawan'. Decorated in a warm ambience and red couch, it was quite nice and the menu was quite interesting. from the menu looks like their specialty is crab bihon (around 90K) - it was to expensive for us so we decided to order some thing else. So we ordered "minced pork cheese baked rice" 25.5K, "fish hor fun" 24.5K, Teh "0" without sugar 5.5K, and mineral water 8.5K (I noticed the drink is quite expensive). In my opinion the taste of the food is just so so.. the minced pork cheese baked rice tasted weird, I don't really get the idea of mixing Chinese style sweet minced pork with cheese, and the horfun was a bit oily. after the meal we still feel thirsty so we decided to order the "red bean snow ice" 18.5K :)

Xin Wang Hong Kong Cafe
Mall Taman Anggrek
Basement LG
Jakarta - Indonesia
ph. +62(21) 563 9217

Jan, 10 2007

Tian Tian Hainanese Chicken Rice

Posted by jeny at 10:24 PM

It was raining the whole day when I started my adventure to find Maxwell food centre, accompanied by chan's street directory I started to go to Ikea at alexandra road first and then headed to maxwell road, it was quite a big food court full with all tempting & mouth watering stall that calling me to sit there, but I made up my mind that I must find this place, so after wondering trough all the stall I finally found it at the back of the foodcourt. it was already passed the lunch time so there's no queue at all, I ordered the big portion $3 of their chicken rice & sat. Turned out this was the best chicken rice i ever had in my whole life, the rice was fragrant and cooked using a long grain rice, not oily at all, and the steamed chicken was cooked to perfection perfection, the meat's color was clean, smooth and so tender i could cry when I was chewing it (my friend said I decribed the chicken rice just like I describe a beautiful women) :P no wonder this place got the number one best chicken rice in Singapore from makansutra, much much better than loykee chicken rice

Tian Tian Hainanese Chicken Rice
Maxwell Road Food Centre, Stall 10
Singapore

Operating Hours :
11am to 8pm Closed on Monday

Oct, 17 2006

Warung Bundaran Renon

Posted by jeny at 08:03 PM

We visited "Warung Bundaran Renon" the next day, located near Bundara Renon, it is one of the authentic balinese cuisine restaurant serving "nasi campur" (chicken/pork) with a variation of "babi guling" (Balinese suckling pig) every Monday and Friday. the visitor were mostly the local people. the price were fare (below 20K) it was delicious - the meal was spicy and the soup have a delicious meatball in it, plus they also have "es daluman" (some kind of cing cao), to bad they were run out of it the time we're there. definitely on of the must visit if you were in Bali.

Warung Nasi Bali sejak 1988
Bundaran RENON
Jl. Raya Puputan no.212 Renon
Denpasar
ph. +62(361) 234208 - 748 2811

Oct, 13 2006

Gemah Ripah

Posted by jeny at 01:11 PM

One of the restaurant we visit while in Denpasar was "Gemah Ripah": a middle class restaurant that served Balinese cuisine such as : the famous Babi Guling (Balinese suckling Pig), sate lilit, ayam/bebek betutu etc. located at "pertokoan Kartika Udayana", the place interior was clean and homy, plus 2 table for "lesehan". we ordered one of their special menu : nasi campur bali (pisah) 13.5K. the meal came with a place of steamed rice accompanied with a plate consist of babi guling, lawar, urutan, usus goreng, kulit babi guling, sate tusuk, rambak and a bowl of spicy "ares" soup. Overall it was delicious, especially the "urutan" (Balinese pork sausage). the most delicious "urutan" I've ever tasted :)

Warung Nasi Khas Bali
GEMAH RIPAH

Pertokoan Udayana No.9
Jl. Letda Made Putra
ph. +62(361) 254327 - 254328
Denpasar - Bali
Jl. WR. Supratman No.83C
ph. +62(361) 263728 - 242454
Denpasar - Bali

Oct, 10 2006

Warung Satria & Warung Wardani

Posted by jeny at 07:15 PM

One of our missions in Bali is to try out authentic Balinese cuisine, so the next day we jumped on a bemo and headed to Denpasar. We wanted to try 2 restaurants serving halal version of 'Nasi Campur Bali': "Warung Satria" and "Warung Wardani". Our first stop was Warung Satria. The place was still empty since we arrived early. So we ordered 'Nasi Campur Special' (steamed rice served with shredded chicken in spicy sambal, lawar, balinese spicy egg, plecing kacang panjang, sate lilit ikan, fried prawn, complete with sambal matah) 16K. The meal came in quite a generous portion + a bowl of 'ares' (edible banana stem) soup. It was delicious and the 'sate lilit' (Balinese grilled fish satay) is the best compared to sate lilit from all other places we've tried in Bali.

Warung Satria
Jl. Kedondong no.11 A ph. +62(361) 235993
Jl. WR. Supratman no.254 Tohpati ph. +62(361) 464602
Jl. Koripan No.2 Kuta ph. +62(361 762496
Bali

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Aug, 11 2006

RM Galung

Posted by jeny at 01:33 PM

We went to "RM. Galung" for lunch last weekend. This restaurant served an authentic food of Pematang Siantar : Nasi Galung (which is kind of "nasi rames/nasi padang" from North Sumatra ). I guess the meal had Malay influence but tasted hotter and spicier. Some of their speciality is "Ikan Pari Goreng", "Ikan Mayong", "Gulai Kepala Ikan". "Sop Sapi" . I tried their "miso ayam" (Medanese chicken noodle soup) too, and it was really delicious especially if you eat it with a glass of cold "liang teh" or "jus terong belanda" or "markisa". I used to have this kind of "nasi" back in my home town but never know that it was called "Nasi Galung" untill now. :)

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Jun, 07 2006

Nasi Gandul

Posted by jeny at 09:50 AM

Last week, after visiting some friends at the hospital, we decided to have dinner at Pesanggrahan. Since its already late, I only want something light for dinner, so we didn't looking for some fancy looking restaurant and just look for street food instead. We stopped by a small warung called "Rumah Makan Nasi Gandul, masakan khas Pati Jateng". my first experience with "Nasi Gandul" was at "spice garden" Sogo foodcourt which was quite expensive & tasted so so. So we ordered 1 portion of "Nasi Gandul Campur" & 1 portion of "Nasi Ayam khas Semarang". On the table there's a display of various "jerohan", perkedel, bakwan jagung, tahu, tempe, tempe bacem etc to choose to accompanied our meal. Overall our ordered tonight taste much much more delicious than the one we had at Spice Garden & very reasonable price too. We will be back there soon to try another menu like : "Nasi Pindang", "Tahu Telor", "Soto Ayam Kemiri", Mangut etc.. (nyam nyam bgt deh pokoknya) :)

Warung Makan
Nasi Gandul
Masakan Khas Pati Jateng
Jl. Pesanggrahan No.13 Meruya Illir
Kebon Jeruk - Jakarta Barat
ph. +62(21) 9122189

May, 31 2006

Nasi Tutug Oncom

Posted by jeny at 11:34 AM

Warung Nasi Bu Elly
Masakan Khas Sunda
special Tutug Oncom & Sambal Dadak
Jl. Satrio d/h Karet Depan 64-A Kuningan
South Jakarta
ph. +62(21) 5253047

Mar, 03 2006

Nasi Uduk Kebon Kacang

Posted by jeny at 05:15 PM

Nasi Uduk / Ayam Goreng
KEBON KACANG
HJ. ELLYA
Jl. Pessanggrahan No. 169
Kembangan
West Jakarta
ph. +62(21) 709 78034 / 707 51712

Nov, 23 2005

[CLOSED] Nasi Uduk Babe Salam

Posted by jeny at 05:28 PM

Last Monday before the movie, we starts to look for something to feed the dragons in my stomach :) So we stopped by " Nasi Uduk Ummat Babe Salam" and ordered Soto Betawi (15.5K), Paket Babe Salam 3 which include soto daging/babat + perkedel (15,5K), Paket Babe Salam 4 (Nasi Uduk + Ayam Bakar) 15K, and for desert we ordered something sweet "Pisang Tape Gencet"(7.5K).

In my opinion the food itself was not very special, I would prefer to have this kind of food at Amigos (Agak MInggir Got Sedikit) :P it'll tasted better I guess hehehehe... but the desert (pisang tape gencet) was delicious... :)

Nasi Uduk Ummat
Babe Salam
Sarinah Building
Jl. Thamrin - Jakarta

Oct, 31 2005

[CLOSED] Aishiteru No More

Posted by jeny at 12:09 PM

Yesterday, I went to Puri Indah Mall with SC. Since we arrived near 18:00, every restaurant already full with people ending their fasting. So after browsed for some restaurant, we decided to tried "Aishiteru Japanese Restaurant". The interior didn't look very promising, typical fastfood restaurant.. we ordered "Oyakodon" ( I was crazy about all type of donburi), Original Udon, Miso Shiru and Ocha.

When It came, the meal appearance didn't look so bad, but when I dipped my chopstick into my bowl, I found out my donburi was a disaster, the rice under the eggs was soak with alot of soup, no taste, and there is alot ingredients that I didn't expect like paprika & carrot (emangnya gw sinchan?) :( hiks.... my dinner was ruined.... I WAS VERY VERY DISAPPOINTED, HOW COULD THEY SERVED THIS TO PEOPLE :(( I WILL NEVER COME BACK HERE AGAIN EVERRRR HUH!!!!!!!