kulineran

If you love gastronomy adventures, kulineran might be one of your references. It's quite new and I contribute as one of the bloggers. If you have any suggestions, or maybe information regarding your own favorite restaurants, we are more than delighted to hear it. Thanks!

mie kepiting, lagi!

Iya, gue harus akui kalo akhir-akhir ini gue agak-agak terobsesi dengan Mie, khususnya Mie Kepiting. Sudah beberapa tempat yang gue datang, termasuk salah satu tempat makan di Mangga Besar, yang mana gue harus datang dua kali, karena kali yang pertama, tempat makannya tutup.

Tapi gak apa-apa, kemarin malam, setelah CCF, gue langsung saja mampir ke sana dan berhasil nyicip mie kepiting spesial-nya yang mana memang spesial. HEHEHE. Setelah pergi ke beberapa tempat makan mie kepiting, gue coba menyusun kriteria yang membuat semangkok mie kepiting itu boleh disebut mantap:

1. Mie-nya, gue suka mie yang lembut tapi tidak mudah hancur. Pastinya mie-mie model rebusan tampaknya hanya cocok makan di rumah
2. Jumlah lauk kepitingnya, kalau makin berani (dalam konteks makin banyak) makin mantap kepitingnya
3. Kesegaran kepitingnya, gue sadar kalo kepiting itu termasuk salah satu jenis makanan yang cepat dan mudah terdeteksi ke-tidaksegar-annya
4. Sambalnya, mantap banget kalau yang buatan tangan dengan resep-resep rahasia. Sebenarnya cabe rawit dengan irisan bawang putih dan kecap asin saja sudah mantap. HEHEHE
5. Kebersihan tempat makan, sebenarnya kurang krusial kalau mie-nya mantap banget. HEHEHHEE. *emang susah bawaan jorok ya? :D
   

Tampaknya obsesi mencari mie kepiting sudah berlalu, sekarang lagi pengen makan apa yah?! HAHAHA.

oh crab!

If you're a fan of a crab noodle, come to Sentul. I had my lunch with all my girlfriends: Hana, Ellyca, Natasha and Cici at one of the noodle restaurants here in Sentul. I was having the famous Mie Kepiting, which I have to admit the best I had so far.

I cannot find any other restaurants that serve better Mie Kepiting. Yes, Hendro, not even the one in Pangeran Jayakarta! HEHEHEHE.

lunch on a very quiet tuesday

Today, I was supposed to stay home, but only God knows why I came to work. I spent my first 4 hours designing banners, writing letters and chatting. HAHAHA. I mean it's totally a slow day. Nothing happened. Well, something did happen, just not to me. I felt that I was like in the middle of something and just there to watch. NOT FAIR!

Anyway, since I was in a very lazy mood, I decided to order-in for lunch. I ordered from a Manadonese restaurant nearby where I work. I ordered nasi with ikan tude goreng, (with dhabu) sayur kangkung with daun pepaya and perkedel jagung!

Even though I ate my lunch alone. It's a pretty good one. I just decided I have to write something about it. Yes, I blame my boss for converting me into a manadonese food lover. I tried several places in Jakarta and I have to admit that I still couldn't find a place that serves manadonese foods as good as the one that's nearby my office.

The ikan tude (the fish) was deep-fried in an exact perfect way. I mean, you can still enjoy the fish meat without it being too crispy or too well-done. The perkedel jagung is just unbelievably good! Not too sweet, not too salty and yet it's very crispy. And the dhabu, it's a bit sour, quite hot with Indonesian pepper (cabe rawit!).

I enjoyed the whole thing with a big cup of green tea. My lunch was just heavenly good and I can prove it. There you go.

old chang kee

Old Chang Kee sells mostly fried snacks. My favorite will be Squid Balls and Crabmeat Wrap on Stick. If you check their website, they seem to have a lot of choices, unfortunately, the one in Taman Anggrek (which is the only Old Chang Kee stall that I know so far) does not provide all the choices listed in their website. (Darn, I want those Crabclaw on Stick!!! Groks).

egg rolls

Okay, so it was Thursday morning. Some of colleagues did not come to work that day. I was helping out with some of their works and I actually enjoyed it. Then, a friend shared tiny square snacks, called egg-roll.

Okay, I will not try to exaggerate it in any way, but I can tell you this. I felt that I had a piece of heaven. It is that good. I swear, I could have it for breakfast, lunch, dinner and between meals. That tiny little snacks did bring light to that busy Thursday.

Tiny little egg-rolls.

going downtown

In the 60s, Petula Clark sang about traffic, neon signs, little places that never close. In Jakarta, I would assume such place is the area famously called as KOTA. That's exactly where me and my friends, Ida, Natasha and Lian were heading to, last Saturday, 25 October 2008.

Stasiun Kota (known as Beos for some) was our initial place of meeting. I was 20 minutes late (as usual, nobody really arrives on time in this city, trust me. It's a tradition). There were Ida and Lian. We chatted a bit and then a sms sent to Ida's phone, saying Tasha would meet us at the place we had dim-sum. On our way, I saw this clay-made kitty-bank. I just had to purchase the money box, which cost me 10.000,- rupiahs. Yay!

Located in one of the oldest hotel in Jakarta, Metropole Hotel (around 15 minutes walk from Beos), there was the dim-sum restaurant. We ordered quite a lot of these tiny snacks. For 4 people (that eat a lot), we spent around 130.000 rupiahs, including tax and service charge. The chinese tea is killing. The interior of the restaurant and hotel is a bit old, but hey, we're there for the food. Personally, my favorites are the siomay and the fried shrimp lumpia (yummy!).

From Metropole, we're heading to Pasar Baru. Again, another historical area in Jakarta. We checked out some stores and basically purchased nothing. HAHAHA. Time went by so fast and it's noon again. I remembered someone once told me about this place, Sui Sen, who serves one of the best noodles in Jakarta. This is the first time, we went there and we asked a lot of people to get there and some of them gave the wrong directions. Totally bummer! Once we got there, and had the first slurp of our orange juice, we forgot all the troubles.

Sui Sen Restaurant is located at the backside of the parking building of Metro Pasar Baru (I think so). Well, if it's too difficult to find the place, just go to Gereja Ayam and it's way much easier to find it from there. The famous food is of course, the noodles with grilled pork and sweekiaw (sort of like steamed dumplings). I'm not a fan of the sweekiaw, but I have to say that the noodless is delicious.

We left Pasar Baru and headed to Historical Museum of Jakarta for the Batavia Art Festival. The festival wasn't really that festive (maybe because we arrived quite late), but the scenes of old buildings in that part of Jakarta are just fantastic and we were taking photos like pros. HAHAHA. It was fun really.

If you're wondering how far we would go to pose. I hope the photo above did explain a bit. HEHEHE. Lian, Ida and Natasha climbed onto the window for a shot. I just had to post the photo, I think it's very cute and lovely. Unfortunately, I had to leave at 3, because I had another appointment that day. It was really super-fun and rewarding.