Wedding Party

This is a wedding party held in Bandung at a Military School(forgot the name) for who want to become a General.


that's the bride and the groom who will hopefully live happily ever after,hehe. The ceremony held in a Javanese traditional wedding ceremony, with those "arakan", "salaman"(shaking hand to the bride and groom), and praying. This is just before the "salaman" start.

The foods are served in two different rooms, the first room consist of appetizer, buffet, dim sum, kebab, sukiyaki, and tea & coffee bar section.


Those are few of the appetizers. Not to good, the calamaris are cold, soggy, and chewy, the sandwich is dry,but the salad is OK.


The Buffet section. Good foods here, there are rendang, sweet sour fish, salad, and few other meat dishes. There are two section of this, one in the other room.


This is the tea & coffe bar. It's really like a small cafe, with round wood tables and chairs in front of this. They serve tea & coffee(obviously),popsicles, and many side dishes to accompany the drink.
I don't take pictures of the dim sum, kebab, and sukiyaki. The sukiyaki is rather to salty. The dim sum are good, even the siao mai and beef XLB are dry outside,but juicy inside.

Now let's go to the next room, where most of the foods are served. :D


This is the mixed grill. I like this, they don't taste overly salty as most catering would do. The lambs are tender yet easy to cut.


The chicken cordon bleu is good, the meat is moist and the veggies are cooked right.


The smoked beef quesadillas, taste OK. :D


This is good, a lot inside,hoho..


this is one of the traditional foods, "rujak" and "asinan". Love the peanut sauce,hehe.


Many kinds of traditional "bubur" for dessert.


This is the puddings,many kinds of it. There's also klappertart.


The fried ice cream. Well, it's basically a fried bread with ice cream filling, not the Italian fried ice cream and the Japanese ice cream either.


Strudels, pancakes, and ice cream. The ice cream taste is somehow rather watery,not milky.


Overall,the foods are good and decent. I think this is the best wedding catering so far i've taste.

Thanks to Dewi and Erlan for the invitation. Hope the two of you will became a great partners for each other and ever after. :D

My Trail : Steak

Wow..It's time for meat..so what will we cook today?let's make a very simple dish(again) yet good to eat, a simple beef steak.



What do we need here is :
- lean meat(a little fat is better)
- vegetable oil(any kind but olive)
- salt&pepper
- butter(optional, i don't use it but it's better to use it)
+ frying pan
+ fork
+ tongs
+ cutting board (for serving)
+ knife (for serving)


How to make?
1. prepare your meat, use fork to soften the meat by sticking on it. make sure the meat is at the room temperature
2. prepare the frying pan, put oil there and make sure you use a very high heat
3. season your meat with salt and pepper, don't hesitate on seasoning, the seasoning mostly will just dropped to the pan
4. if the frying is already in a very high heat(when you can see a little smoke come out of the oil), put the meat at it
5. just let the meat cooked for 4-5 minutes on one side, then turn it and let it for another 4-5 minutes
6. *if you use butter, then put the butter in and splash the meat with the melted butter
7. cook the side of the meat for a minute
8. take the meat from the pan and rest it for about 10 minutes
9. put it on the cutting board, cut it but don't do it thinly
10. ready to be eaten, enjoy.. :D


This is a medium-rare steak from above recipe. :D It's good. The meat is juicy and no blood taste at all even it's bloody pink. Eat it as it is or use any dipping or sauce you like.

Argo Parahyangan

This is actually a long story to tell, but let's just make it short for the good of ourself(i'm to lazy to write too long and you'll be lazy to read) LOL.
This is the day i go to have an interview at Jakarta. So i decide to go with a train for a more comfortable trip.


This is the executive class of Argo Parahyangan. You can watch some program on the 2 plasma TV placed at both end of the section, and you also get a free reading of today newspaper. What a nice ride with just Rp 50.000, is'nt it? :D

Now, after i had the interview, i just go straight to the station to get a train back to Bandung, it's around 03.00 PM when i arrive to the station. The train i want to go is at 04.15 PM, but unfortunately all the seats are already bought and the next train to catch is at 06.00 PM, to long to wait. So i decided to just buy the ticket for the 04.15 PM train as a "no sitting ticket". But fortunately, very, i got a seat in the kitchen section so i don't have to stand for about 4 hours,oho..


This picture is taken just exactly where i sit. Lucky to have this sitting in a crowded train(not seen but it is).


It's already 05.15 PM and i haven't had lunch yet. So i order one of the available menus, Nasi Goreng with sunny side up, the other menu is instant noodle. This is basicly a bland taste nasi goreng even with a little trace of chicken taste. But i don't expect any better nasi goreng on the train, though, it's very hard to prepare foods on a moving train, it's kinda like a 5 SR earthquake happening right at your place,haha..Well, i'm hungry, so all food is just great. :D The food alone is for Rp. 15.000, plus Rp. 3.000 if you want a hot sweet tea.

Argo Parahyangan Train
serve Bandung-Jakarta and Jakarta-Bandung rute
available in Bisnis class(Rp 30.000) and Executive class(Rp. 50.000).
departed 7 times a day

Martabak Telor Sarinah

Sarinah? No, this is not Jakarta, We are still in Bandung,ho..This Sarinah was a Mini Market located inside Margahayu Raya. Anyone who lives in the neighborhood might know this.


This is the martabak telor special, with both chicken eggs and duck egg. This one is taste rather OK. Just the usual taste of good martabak telor, nothing special actually, but still, it's nice. :D The skin is a bit crunchy and the minced beef meat is well braised, even it's mostly salty in taste.


This is the usual side dishes, some "acar" and the special sauce(mix of sweet soy sauce, vinegar, and another ingredient).

Javan Waroeng Steak & Pasta, The Main Store

Again..We decide to go to Javan Steak that's at Jl. Sulanjana to make sure that they don't just move to GerLong, and there it is..They still operating, in a rather small section of the place, sharing with 9 Square Bar&Resto.


Because both of us are on diet, so we choose to order chicken steak with spaghetti instead of the beef one with chips,oho..This is one of our order(as always, we do the Ritual thing :p ), Chicken Gumbo. Well, it's originally a stew kind of dish, but they turn it into a steak with gumbo sauce. The same with other menus, they tried many kind of recipes that's originally not a steak dish and made into one. This is a spicy(you can guess from the pic) and tasteful dish. The chicken is good as usual, well cooked but still moist inside yet not soggy from the sauce. The spaghetti is rather sweeter than the gumbo, so it helps balanced the spiciness. As usual, you won't get any al dente pastas if you don't order it so. I think this is for Rp 13.500.


This is the other order. Don't imagine anything, this is absolutely a chicken cordon bleu dish, Javan Steak style, ahaha. They don't use any crispy outer layer, and just use egg instead, but it's still good, though. The inside is a normal cordon blue filling, smoked beef and cheese(a lil bit melted). The sauce is a sweet version, which is a good combo of order, a spicy one and a sweet one, both balanced each other yet add a nice combination of taste if mixed,ahaha..This Cordon Bleu is for Rp 15.000.

This is absolutely a recommended place to go for a good value for money dish. Wanna eat something nice but don't have much money on you, make sure you visit this place. :D
*Worth a comeback*

Javan Waroeng Steak & Pasta
Jl. Sulanjana No. 9
*share place with 9 Square Bar&Resto
Bandung, Indonesia
Open daily from 10.00 AM until 22.00 PM

Take Home from Hospital

My aunt is in the hospital and i can't go visit her, so it's my dad who is going to Jakarta. When my dad come back home after visit my aunt, he brought back foods. He said that this is from my aunt in the hospital, he said that my other family had already visit her and gave so many food that it's to much for her, so she gave a few to my dad. Thanks aunty, sorry i can't visit you, glad you're okay now and hope you don't need to see any doctor any more, just healthy ever after. :)


This is a lots of layers pastry with a mix fruit vla custard filling, topped with whipped cream, raisins, and a red cherry. I don't know the name, this is actually good if only it's a fresh baked one, but it's still good even it's not fresh. :D arrgh, i forget the name of the place sold this, the package is already thrown away. :( The only things that i remember are the name is *something like a person's name* Cafe Pastry&Cake, the place is in South Jakarta. What a wide range of possibility LOL.


The other food is this dozen of Dunkin' Donuts. As always, Dunkin' Donuts will still edible even days after made. :D I love the chocolate filling one.

My Trail : Onion Rings

Now, i'm gonna try to make onion rings. This is actually a simple dish to make and a good snack to accompany you while watching DVDs(well, that's what i do). :p


The ingredients are :
- all purpose flour
- vegetable oil
- an egg
- a pinch of baking powder
- salt and pepper
- a pinch of sugar
- cold milk (mix with cold plain soda would be better)
- breadcrumbs
+ cutting board
+ 2 bowls
+ spoon
+ spatula
+ deep frying pan

How to make :
1. mix all purpose flour with salt, pepper, baking powder, and a pinch of sugar
2. cut the onion into rings and dip it in the flour mixture till covered with it, knock off excess and put a side
3. break the egg, put it in a bowl and mix it with milk
4. mix the egg mixture with the flour mixture, make a batter
5. put breadcrumbs in a seperate bowl
6. prepare the frying pan with vegetable oil in it, use medium heat
7. now, dip the ring into the dough then dip it again into the breadcrumbs and put it in the oil. do it to the rest of the ring
8. cook it until golden brown. don't forget to turn the ring in the oil while cooking so the color will spread evenly.
9. take the ring off the pan and dry the excess oil
10. ready to be served with your favorite dipping :D

oh i love onion ring. The onion inside is still crunchy and sweet, the batter is also crispy, the breadcrumbs made it so. As my other trial, this one to doesn't has any measurement on the ingredient, just use your feeling. ;p
It's easy isn't it? so why don't you try it on your own. Happy cooking.. :D

Punclut

We actually want to eat at Serba Tahu, in the far end of Jl. Ciumbuleuit, but seems it don't do the business there anymore. So i think we can try to go to Punclut, this area is actually well known for their weekly market named "Pasar Mingon" which means a market that only open weekly on Sunday. The place we are visiting is located in the peak of the area, just in front of RRI radio station.


You can see a nice view of Bandung. Can you see the blue building a little to the right? That's the downtown. :D


The place is located in a cliff with an open air and "sitting in the floor" eating place. This is what we order(minus the rice and sayur asem), Ayam Bakar(Grilled Chicken), Pepes Oncom(Steamed Oncom), Sambel Terasi & Lalap(Prawn Paste Chili Sauce and Vegie), and a whole young coconut as a drink(we are also served free hot tea in a plastic pot).


This is the Ayam Bakar(grilled chicken). Actually, this chicken is good, it's moist inside and in a big size too. The only problem is the sauce, the use a very-sweet sweet soy sauce, which the taste is rather overly sweet. But if you eat it with rice and don't take much of the sauce, it's good. :D


This oncom is quite good, but they reheat it by fry it in a lot of oil, so it makes the leave to oily, but it's ok.


The sambal is good, it certainly hot, as Sundanese usually prefer. :D (this picture is actually taken 2 days later when i revisit this place with my folks, but it's just the same :D )


Now, this is the rice we order, Black Rice. When i ask to the black rice seller in the street, she said that this is actually a mix of black rice and white rice in 1:2 portion because if they only use the black rice, it will a little hard to eat and won't taste good, so black one for health and white one for taste. :D What really surprise me is that a basket of this rice(shown in the pic above) is priced only Rp 3.000. woww..it's so cheap, in fact that this can feed up to 3 person in big portions,ohoo. (but later i found out that in Saturday and Sunday you won't get as cheap as this, for Rp 3.000 you'll only get a single portion, so this Rp 3.000 per basket only work from Monday - Friday).


This is Sayur Asem(sour vegie soup) that's taken 2 days later. The taste is good, just as a sayur asem should be. But the only missing thing is that there's no peanut inside, but they rather generous with the nuts and the leaves of melinjo. There are also squash and corn.

Saung Punclut Sangkan Hurip Ibu Diah . Bapak Idas
Jl. Komplek RRI, Punclut, Ciumbuleuit
*in front of RRI radio station
Bandung, Indonesia
Open Daily

Javan Waroeng Steak & Pasta at Geger Kalong

We thought that Javan Steak had move to this place, but this place we visit now is actually a branch from Javan Steak at Jl. Sulanjana. The place is smaller, it took place in the front part of a photo studio. (why they always choose a shared place with other business?the main used to share with a Factory Outlet, now with a cafe&bar,oho..)


This is what we order, Chicken "Stanley". Because we are in a diet, so we just share this. :p They made chicken a la stanley into steak version(later i realize that their menu mostly is a non-steak menu made into one,ho..). The taste is still good as the main does, the chicken is quite moist but not soggy from the sauce, but somehow it reminds us with fried chickens from KFC,oho. The stanley sauce itself is indeed good and very generous for it. They use onion and mushrooms in it, just like a traditional "a la stanley" does. I can taste a bit of spices in the sauce, don't know what. We choose spaghetti as the side dish rather that french fries. Unfortunately, the spaghetti is not al dente, but i think you can order it al dente if you like, and aslo very generous with the sauce. The sauce is good, topped with cheddar cheese, and Oh, i found a chunk of sweet potato inside,haha. They always generous with the sauce in every menu, which i like. :D Oh ya, if you want both spaghetti and french fries as the side dish, you just have to pay +Rp 2.000 for it.

This place is well known for their "good value for money" steak. The menu is ranged from Rp 13.000 to Rp 15.000, and that's certainly cheap for a good and satisfying dish you'll get.

*Worth a comeback*

Javan Waroeng Steak & Pasta
Jl. Gegerkalong
*share place with a photo studio
Bandung, Indonesia
Open daily from 10.00 AM until 22.00 PM

Tragedy at MieMoMie

What tragedy?is the food so bad that it become a tragedy..absolutely not..the food definitely great..me and sweetheart are eating without regrets at all. LOL
So what is the tragedy? It's after the dinner. when we wanna go home, my motor bike's key hole is jammed, i don't know why. It's rained where i park my bike, and the place is just gonna close at that hour. Took about 20 minutes(after praying) before the key hole is fine,hoho..
okay..who cares if it's raining and my motor bike's key is jammed..let's go to the food..

This place is called MieMoMie. The place kinda hard to notice, it's below the Pasupati flyover, there's no eye catching sign board, and they only open on Saturday and Sunday from 10.00 AM to 06.00 PM, perfect. They said that they had other things to do on weekday, so they only open on weekend.


How about the food?Now, this is one of them, the Mie Rica. Wow..the rica is good. Not like any other place who sell rica that doesn't have any spicy taste, this one is spicy enough(even it's not the real spiciness of Manado rica). The meat is grounded pretty well so if you stir the noodle, it almost like coating the noodle perfectly. The noodle used is a yellow egg round noodle. The texture is good, i can say it's al dente, and the sweetness is just right, not to sweet but not less either. The fresh chopped spring onion is not just a decorative one, it definitely add some flavor to the whole dish, make it taste more fresh. I think this is better than Mie Bejo. I order the set that consist of Mie Rica and a bowl of dumplings in broth, it's for Rp 18.000.


This is the dumpling in broth, part of the my ordered set. This is quite nice, and i prefer this dumpling here than the one in Mie bejo, it's because the skin is nicer here, paper thin and soft. The meeat inside i a bit funny. When you cut the skin, the meat will just rolled out of the skin as the meat is in a chicken meatball shape, it's really round in shape just like a meatball which is unusual, but the taste is nice, though. The broth is just a regular bakso broth, with the MSG is less detected, which i like. :D


This is sweetheart's order. Well, actually i don't which order is who, because we almost always do The Ritual when we eat, which is that two for one and one for two. It's a sharing method that we sit face to face and place both our order in a straight horizontal position so that as if both the order is mine, and the same with her. :D Anyway, tastewise, this dish is as good as the previous. Well, not actually the same, i prefer the spicy, it's simply more flavorfull. :D This dish also came with a friend, a bowl of meatballs in broth.


This is the meatballs. It's good, bouncy and juicy inside. This set(with noodle above) is about Rp. 16.000(CMIIW).


Now, this is the drink, Es Cingcau Hitam. It sure is refreshing and good for your health too. :D The sweetness is just right, not to sweet as sold in a street seller.

Overall, the dishes are great. The place is also nice and has a friendly aura, don't know why. Now, there's a photo studio at the back of this place, the name is Cubic. The owner of the photo studio is actually the son of the lady who own MieMoMie. This place also serve gado-gado, lumpia, lomie, and other things.

MIEMOMIE
Jl. Pasteur No. 19 (near the junction between Jl. Pasteur and Jl. Cipaganti)
Bandung, Indonesia
Phone (62)022-4235370
Open on weekend only from 10.00 AM to 06.00 PM

Solaria Dinner and Honeymoon Dessert at PVJ

After watching a movie in Blitz upstairs, me and sweetheart decided to have a dinner at Solaria. This is a new Solaria place after renovation in PVJ. Solaria move to a more hidden place at the East side of the underground floor.


This is what i order, it says "Mie + Ayam Katsu" in the menu, or it would be Chicken Katsu Noodle in English. This is from Special Menu section for Rp 24.000++(CMIIW). Hey..this is good, no doubt. The Katsu is crispy outside but moist and tender chicken inside. Even the noodle looks dry and a bit bland in taste, but after stirring you will get a nice noodle(not al dente but not to soft either) covered in a teriyaki sauce. Completed with a chicken broth that use real chicken without a hint of MSG, and i even think that the coleslaw is good,ho..


This is what sweetheart order. She's on diet, so she order this a la carte menu for Rp 18.000++(CMIIW). This menu is usually ordered by us and became our favorite when we eat at the previous Solaria place before renovation. It seems that it has gone downslide. She noticed a little burn mark on the cauliflower. It's even has a MSG taste more appealing, not as usual. I don't know what's wrong with the chef, but i think i'll try it again next time, hope it will be back as usual.

The new place is better with the ambiance, a little cozy romantic even with a small space. And what i like the most is that they place a smoking section upstairs(it's two story in floor)but i think they lack in the music taste,hoho.

After that, we think we want something sweet for dessert. So we to go to Honeymoon Dessert, still in the same floor with Solaria.


This is the Durian Pancake for Rp 26.000.


This is what it looks inside(sorry for the messy cutting :p ). I think this is worth a comeback. The sweetness came only from the durian pure. The skin is so soft as if it is melt in your mouth. They use a non-fat whipped cream, and it has a very little hint of sweetness(i think it's a contamination from the pure). Both the skin and cream is way plain compared to the pure, which is good to balanced the strong taste of the pure. If you are a durian lover, you'll definitely like this, just don't eat to much, sometimes you'll get a little dizzyness from it,hoho..

Do You Know?
Honeymoon Dessert is a Hongkong franchise shop, established in 1995, that focused on home-style dessert. You can find Honeymoon Dessert only in Hongkong, China, and Indonesia. There are only 9 place in Indonesia, 3 in Bandung.

SOLARIA & HONEYMOON DESSERT
Paris Van Java Glamour Level
Jl. Sukajadi No. 137-139
Bandung, Indonesia
Honeymoon Dessert phone :(62) 022-82063762
Open daily from 10.00 to 22.00

Bakso Malang at Bakso Enggal

After accompanying sweetheart's sis to buy some her school project, me, sweetheart and fams finally decided to go to Bakso Enggal, one of the most well known Bakso Malang in Bandung. Originally we want to go to MieMoMie but the traffic is just to jammed at lunch hour. Bakso Enggal gain its popularity by their buffet style bakso malang.


Bakso Malang consist of fried and wet stuff to choose. The fried one are bakso goreng(fried meatball), pangsit goreng(fried dumpling), and pangsit gulung(fried rolled dumpling). Oh, i like the fried meatballs the most. It taste crunchy outside yet soft inside. The others are OK, i love to eat them with sweet soy sauce, lovely. :D


In the end of your queuing to pick your own items, you'll get a nice hot beef broth(that you can ask for a second, third, and so on) in a bowl you pick before. The wet stuff consist of dumpling, meatballs, and "baso tahu"(meatball dough stuffed in a half yellow tofu). There are actually 3 kinds of meatballs available, soft, medium, and "urat"(tendon meatball). Oh ya, i forget to tell you that you can have as much fried shallot and celery as you want. :D


After eating those hot dish, it's very refreshing to have this Strawberry Juice. This is one of the best strawberry juice i ever had. I think they use strawberry syrup as the sweetener, which is nice. :D

This place is actually the Pasteur joint. The main is in Jl. Burangrang No. 12, near BPI high school.

BAKSO ENGGAL
Jl. Pasteur No. 61
Bandung, Indonesia

Mie Jakarta in front of UNPAR

Me, sweetheart, and her sis kinda hungry that day and Mie Jakarta is just below Gubuk Dongeng, the place where sweetheart and her sis rent some comic books and magazines.


This is Mie Ayam Bakso for Rp 10.500. I actually not a fan of the noodle. It's to oily and a bit bland for the taste. The spring onion won't gives you any significant flavor to add to the whole noodle, i actually hope it will. I think you need to add more sweet soy sauce or chili sauce to give it more flavor(i like it this way than eat it as it is). Fortunately, the meatballs and the broth is OK. The meatballs has a bouncy effect when you bite it, which is good, though the broth is in the MSG side.


This is the dumpling you'll get when you order Mie Ayam Pangsit. I think this is good. The skin is paper thin and the inside is soft while it gives you a nice juicy taste of chicken when you bite it. This dumpling is surely better than the one in Mie Bejo, i like this. :D

You'll easily find this place in front of UNPAR campus. Overall, this place is OK, but i still prefer Mie Bejo even the dumpling is better here.

MIE JAKARTA
Jl. Ciumbuleuit
*in front of UNPAR
Bandung, Indonesia

Snack at Sushi Tei

Sweetheart said that salad in Sushi Tei is good and fresh when she eat it at the Plaza Indonesia joint. So i think i need to try the in Bandung.


This is the salad, or Wakame Salad to be more precise. This is indeed a very fresh salad that consist of wakame(edible seaweed), lettuce, carrot, cucumber, red cabbage, onion, tomato, and lemon for dressing. The dressing sauce is more like a lemon based sauce. The lettuce is crunchy and a little bit watery, which means that the lettuce is fresh. But the main point is the wakame, fresh crunchy and sweet wakame. ohh..lovely. :D This bowl is for Rp 28.000,no tax and service charge included.


You won't find this drink in the menu list because this is a free drink served when you order it.


The lady who take the order ask us if we want a dessert to close our meal. We were offered 3 kind of dessert that's not in the menu book. This is one of them, Choco Chiffon, a chocolate ice cream sandwiched by chocolate flavored chiffon cakes. This is a good dish for dessert. It has a light taste, more to the chocolate side than sweeet, that neutralize your taste bud after eating the previous dish. Has a little chocolate chunk inside. Most of the dessert is prized Rp 20.000, including this one.

The food is good and the atmosphere is cozy. This is a good place for you to just sit and relax while you enjoy the food slowly. :D Hey, i didn't know that this is actually a Singapore franchise restaurant,hoho.

SUSHI TEI
Jl. Sumatra No. 9
Bandung, Indonesia
022-4223181