From: alex sasabone [mailto:mamsasabone@yahoo.com]
Koh Cu Ong
No, I'm not blogging about ngkoh2, it still about food. Koh Cu Ong is sellingsmoked chicken (available both free-range & broiler chicken) & honey roasted pork. He sells it from a small cart in front of Ngesti supermarket. Koh Cu Ong claims that he has been selling from that spot for more than four decades. We bought some of the smoked chicken & roasted pork. Both of it tasted super duper delicious. The pork was so crispy while the chicken meat was so tender. His stall is going to be my regular destination everytime i go to Bogor .
Koh Cu Ong
In front of Toserba Ngesti Lama
Jl Kesatuan Rangga Gading
Bogor
Kamseng Restaurant
Last month I bought a new book by Laksmi Pamuntjak called Jakarta Good Food Guide 2008-2009, it consist of about 400 eateries from all over the place in Jakarta . One of the place recommended by this book was this sapo restaurant called Kamseng, served all kind of congee 24 hours. The congee selection include : beef, all kind of pork offal, squid, fish, chicken, Guangzhou - Beijing - Shanghai - Taiwan Special, saklon, seafood, prawn, meatball, eel, 3 flavor, crab and plain. Since we're still a bit full from nasi goreng, we only ordered the eel congee 24K with telur phitan 5.5K. The meal came in a hot sapo pot, the congee was very tasty but the texture was too fine. Usually I didn't like this kind of congee but this one can makes me scrape the bottom of the bowl. later I found out that we can choose a coarse type of congee. With this price plus it was much2 more delicious than the famous congee next door, we surely will be back. :)
Kamseng Restaurant
Bubur Sapo
Jl. Mangga Besar I No.26
West Jakarta
+62(21) 6492319, 70766958 ()
Ah Tuan Ee's
The first thing that grab my attention from this place is its interior. Decorated in Malay's kampong house style, using bird cage as their hanging lamp, plus the servant dressed in sarong and kebaya makes this place quite catchy. Located at Pacific Place , served malaysian nyonya cuisine. such as nasi lemak, asam laksa, char kuay teow etc. we decided to order the asam laksa 35.5K, kuay teow28.5K with teh tarik 13.5K and honey lime 17.5K. Actually the food was not bad, but not really suit my taste. the asam laksa's concoction was too thick compared to what I had at Penang . but the taste was OK though. the kuay teow was too sweet and a bit too oily, the teh tarik was good, but my honey lime turn out to bekum quat juice. :)
Ah Tuan Ee's
Malaysian Nyonya Cuisine
Pacific Place 4th level
Kawasan Niaga Terpadu Sudirman (SCBD)
Jl. Jend. Sudirman Kav.52-53
Jakarta 12190
ph. +62(21) 5797 3364
fx. +62(21) 5797 3365
Dimsum @ Samudra
1. Siew Mai (12K) & Kaki Ayam (11K) 2. Bubur Ayam Phitan (14K) 3. Cheongfan Udang (14K) & Cheongfan Cakwe (14K) 4. Lumpia Saus Tiram (11K) 4. cristal seafood (13K) 6. Hakau (12K) 5. 7. 8. Guo Tie(11K) 9. Lobak Goreng Telur (14K) 10. Puding Mangga (14K), Almond (13K) & Alpukat (13K) + Coffee (7K) 11. Talas Goreng (11K) 12. Bebola Kumis Naga (13K) 13. Tan Tat (11K)
Samudra Seafood Restaurant
8th BRI II Center Park
Jl. Jend. Sudirman Kav 44-46,
Jakarta 10210
ph. +62(21) 5713600
fx. +62(21) 5704124
Ting An
This place is one of SC's favorite place. Located at Taman Palem Lestari - West Jakarta , served Jambinese noodle. they served 2 types of noodle : tamie keciland tamie lebar in various size (regular, regular with double topping, big, big with double topping & with soup), they also served kwetiau & bihun. We usually only ordered the regular portion (11K) plus one bowl of pangsit ikan (15K), the noodle came with a bowl of broth soup (fish & meat). What make this noodle special is we can add several condiment to the noodle and soup to enhanced the taste. I usually mixed it with a little black vinegar, fish sauce, chilli sauce, and chilli slices. and it tasted so delicious, but some times too much chilli makes my stomach hot all day long. :p
Ting An Tamie
Taman Palem Lestari
Jakarta
(closed every monday)
Bihun Bebek 75
Last week, SC drag me to tried Bihun Bebek 75 located at Pluit Sakti Raya, we heard that this place served 'duck beehon' with soup made from chinese herbs. So although we're still full from previous lunch at dapur umum & ragusa , we entered and ordered a portion of bihun bebek, the meal came with a bowl of beehon topped with steam duck slices, spring onnion & cilantro, the soup was put in separate bowl. I tried the soup first, since the soup smells so good, the soup itself was really delicious. next I tried to mixed the soup with the duck beehon, the meal was delicious, but the soup became a bit salty :)
Bihun Bebek 75
Jl. Pluit Sakti Raya No.49
North Jakarta
ph. +62(21) 6693 980
Bakmi Keriting Siantar 19
Last weekend I craved for Bakmi Keriting Siantar. A lot of noodle stalls claim that they sell this kind of noodle, but finding an authentic (and tasty) one is quite difficult. After asking a friend about this, SC took me to a restaurant at Muara Karang called "Bakmi Keriting Siantar 19" (still in the Muara Karang traditional market area) and we had a bowl of Bakmi Keriting Siantar 12K and Bihun Kari. It was very delicious. The minced meat was juicy & generous, the wonton was also not bad. I think we will be back again this weekend for more :)
Bakmie Keriting Siantar 19
Jl. Muara Karang Blok Z5 No.10-12
Jakarta 14450
ph. +62(21) 66690622
Suncity
We had our last dimsum last year at SunCity Luxury Club located at Lindeteves Trade Center. From the interior and ambiance we can guess that it is a fine dining chinese restaurant. We arrived late so our friends have already started ordering and we just sat and dig in. One of the orders that I found quite special was the roasted baby duck 118K (4pcs). It was pricey but tasted good.. and to eat it, they provided us with a set of plastic gloves, so our hands wouldn't get dirty. The other menus were also delicious, such as the fish porridge 28K, xiao long bao 13.8K, talas goreng 11.8K, lobak goreng tauge saos XO, tan tart 11.8K. The desert was great too. We ordered puding sago mangga, pudding mangga, tim ginseng dengan kurma merah 22K and gui ling gao.
Sun City
Lindeteves Trade Centre 5th Floor
Jl. Hayam Wuruk No. 127
Jakarta 11180
Indonesia
email. luxuryclub@suncityjakarta.com
phone. +62(21) 6220-1900 (hunting)
fax. +62(21) 6220-1669
May Star
2 weeks ago we had a family dimsum brunch at this new restaurant called May Star located a Le Grandeur Hotel (ex Dusit Hotel). I don't really like the interior (imho the romantic & flowery decoration just don't match with Chinese cuisine), plus it was so cold there. The restaurant have a vast selection of dim sum, and they offered a portion of roast duck for only 1K if our bill reach 500K. Overall the meal was good, I especially like their "chrisanthium pudding" and "Chinese snake soup" but not their "almond pudding". Overall we spent about 75K per person and it already include the roast duck. :)
May Star
Le Grandeur Hotel 3rd Floor
Jl. Mangga Dua Raya
Jakarta 10730
Indonesia
Dimsum at Ah Yat
3 days later, still in a holiday mood, we went to Ah Yat again for dimsum (they offer 50% discount on weekdays & saturday, 30% on sunday or public holiday using BII card). This time we arrived quite early, but the place was already full with people. We sat and ordered everything from the dimsum list: chicken claw with black bean sauce 9.8K, steamed pork ribs with garlic 13.8K, xiao long bao 15.8K, deep fried crispy wan tan dumpling 15.8K, deep fried yam dumpling 13.8K, pan fried carrot cake 13.8K, baked BBQ pork puff 13.8K, deep fried man tao, baked egg tart 9.8K, steamed prawn cheong fan 15.8K. We also ordered several plate of cold dishes: kaki babi 45.6K, kuping babi 22.8K, sapi dingin 22.8K,lidah bebek 22.8K, century eggs 22.8K, and also non-dimsum items such as iga babi saus spesial 32.8K, ikan teri Jepang 39.8K, tahu goreng lada garam 22.8K and beef with japanese sauce 68K.
Overall, the meal were all delicious, especially the century egg (there's only a small trace of ammonia) and the yam dumpling (it's talas goreng, not perkedel talas!). However, we felt very thirsty afterwards, probably due to the savory meal. We will be back next week to find out more :)
AH YAT ABALONE FORUM RESTAURANT
Golden Boutique Hotel
Jl. Angkasa No.1 Jakarta 10720
ph. +62(21) 6220-2338
fx. +62(21) 6220-228
Bihun Bebek Beijing
Last Friday, we're planning to have dimsum with some friends at Ah Yat, but when we arrive at the Golden Boutique Hotel around lunch time, it was filled with people, and the waiter outside the restaurant informed us that the Dimsum menus were already sold out. We decided to go to ITC Mangga Dua and have our lunch there instead. Since it was 2 days before Eid-ul Fitri, some of the eateries there were closed. Fortunately, we found a place called Bihun Bebek Beijing that was still open. We got a table and started to eat everything put in front of us as we were very hungry. There were bakso ikan & talas goreng, 4 packs of tape singkong @3K, 6 portions of bihun bebek @26K, 2 portions of nasi kari, 1 roti cane + kari kambing 20K, 2 portions of rujak @15K, 10 glasses of liang teh. Overall, the meal was delicious, but we were quite shocked when we paid as it was quite pricey. I don't know whether this was because the coming Eid-ul Fitri made the raw materials expensive or because this place does have a higher price tags.
Bihun Bebek Beijing
ITC Mangga Dua Lt.1 A No.10-11
Jakarta
ph. +62(21) 6016441
Hong Kong Cafe
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 )
The menus are quite extensive, there are various choices from HK style fried rice, noodles (there are also instant noodle, don't know whether it's the kind we know about :P ), baked rice, baked spagetti, hot plates, soups, bread and sandwich for breakfast, dim sum, and chinese style dessert such as mango pudding, coconut pudding, durian pudding. From my several visits, I always ordered their lamien noodles selection (not in the menu book and you have to ask for it). Their wonton noodle was delicious. Tried their sichuan noodles too, but not impressed. For the drink, I always order their 'hot honey lemon' 7.8K. Once I tried their 'seafood mushroom cream sauce baked rice' 26K (so so), SC tried their 'fried seafood HK e-fu noodle' (so so juga), but we both agreed that their 'durian pudding' 15K was awful and one of the dimsum items, 'steamed crystal chives' 9.8K was seriously delicious. :)
Hong Kong Cafe
Jl. Sunda No. 5
Jakarta 10350
ph. +62(21) 310 7868
fx. +62(21) 310 7883
Jun Njan Restaurant
About 2 months ago, Jun Njan opened their new branch at Pluit. So we decided to have a family lunch there. The place was quite crowded at lunch time, but fortunately we managed to get a table. I don't really like the interior design. It looks like that the designer was aiming for a minimalist look but ended up with numerous ill-suited chinese decorations. It makes the restaurant looks more crowded that it really is. So we ordered: ayam garam, fish, prawn, kepiting telur asin, tofu, and fried noodle. Overall the meal was OK, except the ayam garamwas way too salty (the restaurant manager promised to remedy this), while the tofu and kepiting telur asin were delicious. We will visit this place again someday.
Jun Njan Restaurant
Jl. Pluit Utara Raya no.41
North Jakarta
ph. +62(21) 9828-2250, 9126-5353
Dimsum at Happy Dragon Pub
Last month, we have dimsum at Happy Dragon Pub located at Le-Grandeur Hotel (Dusit). They offer dimsum buffet for only 42K++ (including chinese tea) every Monday to Saturday (from 10.30am to 2.30pm), and 09.00am to 02.30pm every sunday and public holiday. The restaurant ambience was quite unusual, it was decorated to look like an ' Old China Town '. it was quite colorfull, but I still feel weird when I saw a singing dragon band painted on the wall of the stage.
After seated, I start with a bowl of porridge, there's a lot of condiment to add to the porridge. after that we start picking steamed & fried dimsum, there we also several type of cheong fan. Noodle stall & dessert stall. Overall the food was OK, not too bad, but nothing special too. I was more interested in the place decoration, and checking the painting of Master Q (Lao Fu Zi) at the restroom :P
Happy Dragon Pub
Le Grandeur
Jl. Mangga Dua Raya
Jakarta 10730
Indonesia
ph. +62(21) 6128811
fx. +62(21) 6128822
For reservation, please contact ext. 82058/82059
www.legrandeurhotels.com
Dimsum at Sands
Enticed by a promotional banner that Sands is offering 50% off for Dimsum, we decided to try it one Sunday morning. We arrived quite early so we can still get a table without queueing. After being seated, we were given a piece of paper to order the dimsum. We found out that the discounted items was only a small selection from the list, so we ordered the discounted items plus a pot of Chinese Tea (Oolong, if I'm not mistaken). The orders seemed to take forever to show up that we have to nag the waiters several times for our order, but other higher priced items were plentiful. There are stalls serving noodle, porridge, etc on one side of the restaurant and carts moving in and around the tables. I wonder if this is a tactic to "encourage" starved guests to go for the pricier items? We ended up picking up some of them. They tasted quite delicious, but as expected, expensive. We really disliked our tea because the water tasted so weird. It was salty. For a place of Sand's caliber, using contaminated water to brew its tea is simply unforgivable. Overall, not recommended if you're looking for an affordable dimsum.
Later, we went downstairs (to the Carrefour's level) to a Chinese Tea Shop calledSiang Ming Tea Shop (a branch from the one at Bungur's), They got a vast selection of quality Chinese Tea and nice Yi Xing tea pots. Bought a pack of rose tea, and had several a cup of very decent tea prepared & poured by the owner herself.
Sands
International Executive Club
Mangga Dua Square 5th Floor
Jl. Gunung Sahari No.1
Jakarta
ph. +62(21) 6231 3300/2888
Liyen
Visited this restaurant for dinner several weeks ago, This place was an Old Chinese Restaurant located at Kota served authentic Chinese Cuisine especially Hakka Cuisine. Their 'Udang telor Asin' is one of my all time favorite dishes, but since it was too expensive, this time we didn't order that. We order one of Liyen's signature dishes besides 'udang telor asin' is 'Ayam Garam' (salted chicken), 'Babi Hong' (kiu nyuk), sapo seafood, fish soup and noodles. Overall the meal was good, Their 'ayam garam' was so delicious, their 'babi hong' was delicious but still not as good as the one from Angke Restaurant, and if you didn't order 'udang telor asin', you'll be surprised to find that this place was indeed quite affordable :)
Liyen Restaurant
Authentic Chinese Cuisine
Jl. Asemka Raya no. 168A
Jakarta Kota 11110
ph. +62(21) 693 0108 - 693 0208
fx. +62(21) 693 0189
Hao Chi Dian
This place was recommended by one of this blog's reader. From the menu, looks like they offer Singaporean hawker cuisine although there's several choices of Malaysian, Hongkong and Indonesian cuisine, so we ordered : 1 "mie pok" (flat egg noodle topped with minced meat and black mushroom) 13K and 1 "kwetiau siram telor" 12K. My "mie pok" came with a bowl of seaweed soup (love it so much). I don't really like the noodle since I think its a bit soggy, the "kwetiaw siram" was not bad, Overall the meal was good but most of all the price is really reasonable, I think we'll be back to try some other delicacies like : laksa bihun Singapore & fish cake :)
Hao Chi Dian
Muara Karang blok O 8 T no. 42
Jakarta
ph. +62(21) 705- 88688
Wan Wei Xiang Suki
Two days ago we had dinner with several friends at a newly opened restaurant located at Lokasari Complex, Mangga Besar. There's no obvious signboard in front of the restaurant (there's an almost similar restaurant called 'wan li xiang' something just 2 doors away). From the name 'Suki' we knew that this place served suki/hot pot, but they also served Sichuan cuisine (a style of Chinese cuisine originating in Sichuan Province of southwestern China which has an international reputation for being hot and numbing ($BKcme(B), because of the common ingredient : Sichuan peppercorn) There are over 100 choices of fish, chicken, duck, pork, beef, mutton, bird, cooked in Sichuan style. We started by ordering 2 portion of dimsum 15K with Chinese Tea 4K while waiting for our friends to arrive. The meal came accompanied by a bowl of freshly made chilli oil for dipping (not really hot). Then our friends arrived and we start ordering, since none of us can speak "Mandarin" properly, we choose the food using sign languages (pointing at the pictures of food) :P And we ordered : 2 prawn herbal soup cooked in bamboo at 68K each, 2 Keong Macan (their specialty) 68K each, Pork parts cooked in special sauce 42K, Spicy Frog 45K, Steamed "ikan kerapu" 158.4K, Kung Pao Chicken 48K, hot & spicy beef 42K, duck soup 55K. All of the meal were delicious (if you like hot and spicy meal) and we really have a good time trying to pick out the "keong macan", plus several glass of sangria and red wine and chocolate from chocolat factory & royce & pisgor kalimantan from sari rasa, Good friend & good food, it was a heavenly dinner :)
Wan Wei Xiang Suki
Komplek Lokasari Blok A/6
Jl. Mangga Besar
West Jakarta
ph. +62(21) 6252689
Xin Wang Hong Kong Cafe
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
Nan Xiang @ Mall Taman Anggrek
Several weeks ago, we had late lunch at NanXiang restaurant located at the top floor of Mall Taman Anggrek. Since I was so hungry, we didn't order their specialty (xiao long bao), but ordered 1 portion of "Mapo Tofu" 38K and 1 portion of "fried prawn in salted egg yolk" 45K with several bowl of rice. In my opinion the dish was not bad at all, the mapo tofu, although not as spicy as I thought, is still acceptable lah, and the fried prawn was delicious and it came in a very reasonable price. I think this place's price is cheaper than nanxiang at lagoon tower or Senayan City .
NanXiang
Mall Taman Anggrek lt.4 Lot 415
ph. +62(21) 56998550
fx. +62(21) 56998551
Nelayan
One of the restaurant we visited when we're in Medan is Nelayan, Apparently this is quite large Chinese restaurant chain in Medan , they have several restaurant located strategically at shopping centers. The one we visited was located at Sun Plaza . when we arrived, around 2PM the place was still very crowded, we have to queue for a while to get a table, as soon as we were seated, their waiter came with a tray of dimsum selection and asked us to pick. We didn't even have time to read all the menu listed in the paper :( so we picked : lumpia udang saus jamur 8.5K, kaki ayam saus tiram 8.5K, leng hong kien 12K, soup tim ayam obat 14K, sayap ayam panggang 12K, kepiting lunak mentega 21K, keladi special (u kok) 8.5K, ha kaou udang 12K, lumpia ayam sayur hitam (I guess what they mean is nori) 8.5K, bakso kepiting kulit tahu 12K and nasi tim ayam dalam bambu 11K. Overall the meal was only so so (some of the item we ordered are cold already, some taste weird), but I like the chicken rice cooked in bamboo and the chicken herbal soup. Other than that I really don't like their service style, kind of push you to pick the food as soon as possible and leave quickly because they have other customer waiting :( that's not what I had in mind if I want to eat dimsum.
Mie Jaring
Nelayan Dimsum, Noodle & Tea House
Sun Plaza Level III
Jalan Zainul Arifin
Medan
ph. +62 (61)4501192
A night at Mangga Besar
Mangga Besar street at night are full with all range of food you can imagine, from street vendor that offering a lot of chinese food (Medanese) delicacies to sea food restaurant, sichuan food, and even some extreme food like snake satay/soup/blood, "biawak", monket meat - can be easily found in here. But that night we decided not to go with the extreme line, but just have some easy meal like "kwetiau akang", "a kiaw baso", and "roti canai"
Kwe Tiau A Kang Medan
I already heard about this famous kwetiau by A Kang from Medan for a long time but never had chance to try it until now, so when SC headed to ordered his fav "kwetiau sapi kuah" next door, I went and sit at the kwetiau a kang and ordered 1 portion of their famous 'kwetiau goreng' (cost about 20K) + 2 glass of 'liang teh', the place is considered very clean, and they cook outside the restaurant. In 5 minutes a plate of kwetiau was served on top of my table. when I first taste it, it felt it was a bit tasteless, so I tried to add the condiment such as, soysauce, pepper, chili sauce & 'acar bawang' and mix it all together. at it taste quite alright, not bad but maybe I was expecting too much :)
Kwe Tiau A Kang Medan
Jl. Mangga Besar Raya No.2C
West Jakarta
ph. +62(21) 62317072
A Kiaw Baso
After my not so fortunate event with 'kwetiau akang' I turned to SC's bowl. His bowl looks more interesting than mine (I guess 'makanan tetangga emang lebih enak daripada makanan ndiri hehehe'), his meal consist of 2 bowl which had kwetiau tops with cilantro and a spoon of fried garlic in one bowl, and another bowl full with beef meat and a very tasty soup. it was so delicious i can't help my self to help him clean his bowl :P The origin of this restaurant is from the famous 'baso lebong' located at Lebong street at Medan which also my friends favourite.
A Kiaw Baso
kwetiau sapi kuah khas daging sapi
Jl. Mangga Besar Raya 2B
ph. +62(21) 6291419
opening hours : 15:00 -24:00
Monday : 13:00-24:00
Roti Canai
After that we walk around mangga besar street and saw alot of of Medanese food stall (nasi campur pasar ramai, kue2 basah ala Medan ).. after that we decided to tried roti canai (@5K) & kari kambing (15K) sold by an Indian guy, not bad and the curry taste so delicious served with 'acar timun & bawang', the 'roti canai' tasted more delicous that any 'Penang restaurant' I had ever tried in Jakarta. After that we tried... hehehe just kidding, we already feel very full, we just go home :)
Ta Yang Suki
We had another hotpot several weeks ago at Tayang Suki restaurant located at Pluit. Actually there were several hotpot restaurant along this road that always had a lots of customer (knew it by the number of cars park outside the restaurant and cause the traffic along this road became very slow during dinner time). It was already passed the dinner time when we arrive, we get a table easily and ordered : 2 types of soup : tomyam & Chinese herbal soup (23.8K). after that we shops for the ingredient to put into the pot : pork wonton 12.8K, pork intestines (tito) 14.8K, ox tongue 16.8K, fish meatball with nori 12.8K, and 1 pack of ginseng leaves 5.8K. after that we went back to our seat at watching the friendly waiter prepare our meal, she put all the ingredients inside the pot and after several minutes put it into our bowl. overall it was a nice & warming dinner, plus a good service & reasonable price :)
Ta Yang Suki Restaurant
Jl. Pluit Putra Raya No.21
North Jakarta
ph. +62(21) 6693679
fx. +62(21)6690918
Golden Century Seafood Village
Last year we ended our dimsum marathon at a place called : " Golden Century Seafood Village" located at SCBD (the same are with Club Store). When we arrived around noon, the restaurant already full with lots of family chatting while having their dimsum. This place served all you can eat HALAL dimsum for only 50K, and charged only 5K for chinese tea. the restaurant ambience it self was not very impressing, the red wall combined with greenish light, + several fish swimming sadly in the aquarium at the corner. overal it makes me feel that I was having dimsum underwater :P
The dimsum menu was listed in a piece of paper, its about 35 item to pick, since we were too hungry to choose, we just ordered it all. from steamed dumpling like : "steamed siewmay with mushroom", "steamed shrimp dumpling", "steamed BBQ chicken bun", several deep fried dumpling : "deep fried shrimp dumpling", "deep fried sesame dumplinh", "deep fried shrimp puff" etc, and ended it with a bowl of mango pudding. (I don't think they gave us all of the dumpling listed in the menu) In my oppinion, the dimsum here were just so so. not too bad but no too good, but some of the dish like : "compoy soup dumpling" is simply delicious.
Golden Century Seafood Village
Kawasan Niaga Terpadu (SCBD) Lot No.12
Jl. Jend Sudirman
South Jakarta 12190
ph. +62(21) 5153478
fx. +62(21) 5151822
IzakayaLast week when I wrote about Chonging Hotpot, there were several comments suggesting me to try a restaurant called "Izakaya" at Pesanggrahan road. I've already passed this restaurant several times but not interested to try it because the place was so deserted and the name "Izakaya" supposed to mean "Japanese drinking place which also serve food", but instead of serving Japanese food, they offered Chinese food & dimsum. However, those comments made me reconsider and eventually decided to give it a try.
So last Monday, SC & I drove to Izikaya. We arrived there at around 8PM, but we were their only customers at that time. I asked for "ma la tang", which they have, but we can't order it in the same pot with the chicken broth, so we had to order malatang & chicken broth in 2 different stoves, and select about 5-6 inggredient to put in the pot. (btw the price of malatang is almost twice the price of chicken broth, and they didn't even state their prices on the menu). Overall the meal was not bad, but not that special either. The "malatang" was so hot and spicy with lots of dried chillies and sechuan peppers in it, but aside from the spicyness I couldn't taste anything else. I supposed malatang should have more taste than just hot and all of those dishes cost us about 175K (I don't think that was cheap).
Several days later, I put my comment about Izakaya here, and said that I preferred having hotpot at Haytian than Izakaya even though Haytian didn't served malatang. That remark prompted a flurry of comments vilifying Haytian (i.e. they put tons of MSG in their soups, the soups contain lard that will makes you 'eneg') and praising Izakaya. I began to wonder whether these are honest comments? So I checked the IP addresses of those commenters and sure enough, they turned out to came from the same IP address and they are using different names to comment in this blog. I don't like that kind of people, it's so malicious. So I erased their comments and promised not to return to that place again. Jakarta has plenty of decent and better hotpot restaurants than this one.
Tian Tian Hainanese Chicken Rice
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 betchicken rice ter than loykee
Tian Tian Hainanese Chicken Rice
Maxwell Road Food Centre, Stall 10
Singapore
Operating Hours :
11am to 8pm Closed on Monday
Ah Kow Mushroom Minced Pork Noodle
I knew this place from makansutra, and I went to search for it with zink, luckily we found it at last around lunch time, there's a long queue in front of this stall, so we joined the queue and after about 15 minutes, I sat in the table facing my first "bhak chor mee" (mushroom minced pork noodle) $3, the noodle is served with a soup ( a combination of soy sauce, black vinegar, chili, pork oil) and topped with : minced meat (pork), sliced mushrooms (hioko), celery etc. resulting quite oily but very tasty & delicious soup. :)
Ah Kow Mushroom Minced Pork Noodle
block 531A Upper Cross Street #02-43
China Town - Singapore
The Chinese Feast
Last week, I met Flona from NasiUduk, and she took us to this restaurant for dinner. This place speciality was ChongQing style hot pot (anyone know where this kind of hotpot can be found in Indonesia ?). Decorated in modern Chinese interior, with several Chinese opera mask pasted on the wall. since its a buffet dinner, we can choose from a big list of dish (seafood, pork, chicken, mushroom, vegetables) to put into the soup, we choose 2 kind of soup base (Ma-La Tang andFaithful Chicken Soup), edamame was served as appetizer, an we also got several sellection of Dian Xin such as "Xiao Long Tang Bao", "fried buns" etc. ( I didn't know all the 'dian xin' name :P ) and ice cream of the day for dessert. Overall it was a wonderfull experience, the 'Ma La Tang' was so delicious, tasty and hot. but I still wish it was hotter than that. They also have 4 types of dipping sauces, btw they also served the most delicious tea : "Ba Bao Cha" (eight treasure tonic tea). Thx alot ya Flo *hugs*
The Chinese Feasts
- Chong Qing Hot Pot @ Suntec -
B1-061 Suntec City Mall, No. 3
Temasek Boulevard
Singapore 038983
Nice sir.. ^^
BalasHapus