2009 Wisata Kuliner (Past Archive)

Tutti Frutti - Mal Emporium Pluit
Tutti Frutti offered 6 different flavours of frozen yogurt with an additional 10-12 toppings to choose from at Emporium Pluit. Unique feature of this frozen yogurt cafe is that you allowed to mix and match any toppings as you like, since you will pay the food by its weight.

Tokigawa - Mall Emporium Pluit
Shabu-Shabu Set - Australian BeefThe typical shabu-shabu set (Notice there's no veggies? Coz its frikin huge that it can't fit one photo! =p)

Tan-Tan - Plaza Indonesia
Misua soup with baikut

Es Merah Delima
I'm not sure whether this es merah delima supposedly to be so sour like this or the kitchen forgot to put the sugar in. Anyway, even with some sugar, the whole dessert still 'tasteless'

Kiyadon Sushi - Mall Taman Anggrek
Tom 'n Jerry sushi -This is what you call 'exotic fusion sushi'. Famous for its quality, kiyadon strive to hold their reputation. It feels like every sushi here is made with passion. Ingredients were found to be very fresh. What can you expect from the restaurant's signature dish? =)

 Again! I forgot the name (I should really upload the food as soon as I finished eating them, since I have such bad long term memory! =p)
Anyway, this one sushi dish is very delicate. Inside you could find mixture of mozarella cheese and soft shell crab rolled together as a sushi. It is then deep fried and was dressed with spicy mayo sauce. To complete the dish, it was topped with small slice of strawberry (but I didn't find the strawberry was well match with the sushi =p)

Carbonara de Waraku -
Spaghetti carbonara with bacon and mushroom topped with half-cooked egg. Very delighted combination, introduce new taste to carbonara sauce

Green float -
They put melon syrup at the bottom of the glass topped with soda and vanilla ice cream. A typical fusion drink, but I don't find it mixed well with pasta (duh! XD)

Spicy Cod Roe, Black Ink Pasta -
Wow! This pasta is very nice, although there are only salmon cod roe and pickled squid as the topping, the pasta itself

Cod Roe and Mushroom Soup Pasta -
Frist time I look at this menu, I was like "ZOMG Soup Pasta, gotta try!" so here it is... =p
taste wise its like 'kwetiaw siram', but with pasta instead, when you mix the cod roe with the soup (and add some chili powder), it taste sooo good =)The half-half set I ordered was worth it for sure...

Pasta de Waraku -

When I look at onto the food display, I stumble upon this pasta with a huge lobster on it. Not sure how it taste, but I'm 100% sure that its going to be expensive (I can't find it on the menu either). So fellows, enjoy the display... =X

Pisa Cafe - Puri Kencana -
Chicken Cordon Bleu -Inside is mushroom pieces with smoked beef. I found that the taste of the smoke beef isn't at its best (suspect old frozen smoke beef).

Involtino di Pollo -
Rolled chicken breast stuffed with mozzarella cheese & smoked beef in mushroom sauce. Similar fillings with cordon bleu, however to be cooked this way produce maximum taste out of all materials. The creamy mushroom sauce also added more taste to it.

Blackberry Season -
This drink is all about sugar, its sooo sweet.......... + the vanilla ice cream make it sweeter even more =/

Sushi Yakhi - 
Smoked beef and unagi roll (Forgot the real name) -The eel was pretty fresh, but the scent of the smoked beef can't be felt as much as the eel. Overall nice food =)

Dragon Roll (Or more like Kecoa Roll since the antenna fell down.. lol) -
Signature dishes of every fusion sushi restaurant. I'd give this 'dragon' roll a 6/10, the prawn tempura wasn't crispy at all, but unagi still taste nice =)

Crispy Spicy Salmon Skin Roll -
The outside layer was crispy and nice, the hint of spicy mayo was perfectly blended with the sushi, however the salmon skin itself taste a bit 'weird'

Indo Food Run 2009 - Segarra

Out of curiousity, me and my girlfriend went on a date go Segarra (Ancol). Segarra is famous for its nightlife bar and dining experience.
We went there for dining, and the food they offer is the kind of mixture of western and pasta food (err.. this kind again, lets call this 'bule food' from now on) where you can find food like steak, pasta, pizza, and even fried rice. The main attraction of this place isn't the food itself, but the ambience of the place itself.

We were VERY VERY lucky to get a spot on one of this egg shaped tent. This tent is the best spot for couple dating dining (In my opinion at least), however was famous for its 'impossible to get unless you book' situation. My girlfriend's sister had tried to went here several times, however couldn't get into one of these baby. Nevertheless, once you decided to dine in the 'tent', the waiter told you that you will have to spend at least 300k rupiah on food and beverages as part of the rules of using the 'tent'. And guess what, it wasn't an easy task for 2 people to spend that much money on food, since the price tag that the food itself bear is standard high (pricey, but not very pricey).

AGAIN... no main food shot (sigh, sorry, I know!). However here, you can see the infamous longan ice lemon tree (pictured left) and a glass of vanilla ice cream (right).

Indo Food Run 2009 - 3

Pancake and crepe culinary approach has been very popular in Jakarta since last year. This one especially is one of the best of its kind. Pancious (Permata Hijau) is a house-based restaurant offering variety of sweet and hot pancakes. I can assure you they are delicious!

Too bad.. for the ... times I haven't take a detailed pictures of the food itself =( However as you can see from the picture above, the place is very nice for small meeting or regular outings, whether its lunch or dinner, or even just for snacks or supper.

Here we have Gelare (Plaza Indonesia) Gelatto Bar offering various gelatto ice cream. Their ice cream is so deliciously creamy (something for a gelatto kind) and sweet. Bearing an okay price tag, this place is one perfect place for a shopping mall meetings.

Ahahaha... need proof? =) Look how well the display ice creams took attention of my girlfriend even when we were taking photos! (Peace Sanny ^_^__v)

Indo Food Run 2009 - 2

Wee.. Duck King Restaurant. It offers variety of Chinese food (sorry no pics =( was to busy eating the delicious food), but of course as the name suggested its specialities is their Peking Duck. Once you order a pecking duck, they asked you how do we want the duck meat to be cooked (there's variety of it, as far as I remember we want it to be sauced black pepper or something...). The duck skin, is as per usual, wrapped into a small kebab layer and was mixed with slices of cucumber and duck sauce. Together, they create nasty (good!) taste of peking duck =)

Hmm.. This one was found on the entrance of Duck King Restaurant. Not quiet sure what it was, but my dad said its nice... Being a nice food, he also mention its very priceyy... But lol, why didn't I feel like eating it? =p

Marche restaurant (Plaza Senayan) is an all new concept of food court in Jakarta. When we enter, we greeted with a swedish (?) language for Welcome to Marche! Very warm welcome, we then given a card for us to order our food. The card itself has a price tag. If you ever lost it, thats 1 million rupiah of your pocket. Everytime you order food or beverages in this restaurant, they will stamp your card in according to what you order (simple concept). You then bring the card to the cashier on your way out after dining. The place overall is the best design for food court I've seen inside shopping mall. It replicate the live of market in Europe (even with the houses!) with people shouting and the loud sound of cutting and cooking meat.

The Pizza! and wow, this pizza has a very nice taste (I think it was chicken pizza). I put a lot of chili powder on top of it if you have noticed =p ahaha..

This is what my girlfriend order. I believe it called rosti (its basically a omelete made of pure potatoes) with beef sausage. It's very nice food!

Overall the food has high standard of taste, however it also come with a high standard of price. Not cheap, but a good place to have a dining at =)

Indo Food Run 2009 - 1

We were just too late to took photos of the food before our stomach rapidly digest them =p However this SOHO restaurant (Senayan City) provides good food for its type (umm.. typical makanan bule: pasta, steak, etc.. ahaha, not sure what type would have been called =p). Place is cozy for date, since face to face sofa is provided with the view of busy city of Jakarta. Price? Not too expensive, and even cheaper with BCA Card! ^_^

Anyone see this pictures at first time would've guessed where I went. Yes, we ate at Fish'n'Co (Pacific Place). The que is hectic, but food is nice, and again main reason we ate here because of 50% discount from BCA card! wee...

Not sure what its name (lupa..) but it looks like a full plate of a live fish deep fried (Not my menu, so not sure what it taste).

This is my food, hmm... too long to remember what it name, but it got nice taste of mixture of chili and coriander (the sauce!).

More unknown name food, but its also another variety of fish dishes =X

Now here, here... the main dishes of the day. Its a stingray fish with black pepper sauce topping. My girlfriend wasn't so sure how do you eat a stingray fish, then we ended up eating so messy with a lot of fish bones to get rid off. We also found that the fish smells so bad (not fresh?!), but would have been a gread food if not.