Showing posts with label culinary jakarta. Show all posts
Showing posts with label culinary jakarta. Show all posts

Wednesday, 22 December 2010

Cuppa Coffee Review

Cuppa Coffee is the place where I had these food and drink. I forgot what my drink called; it's either Green Tea Latte or Fraps, I'm not quite sure but theirs is a must to try! I never fond of Green Tea but I gave myself a go and without disappointed with its taste. The price is around Rp. 27.000 ($ 2.70) not too expensive! Oh yeah, you can find Cuppa Coffee in places where Carefour is around ( I think so)! I had mine the ones at Permata Hijau ITC but I know they also have it at Puri Carefour. 


Then at Cuppa Coffee, they offer this main courses menu into several package with a price around Rp. 50.000 ($5.00). Unfortunately, when I went there, they didn't have the stuff I wanted (I forgot the pancake called). But anyway with 3 main courses for a price of Rp. 50.000, then it's cheap right? Mum ate their Mushroom soup while I ate their Sandwich and Pancake. 

I don't know how the soup taste since I hate mushroom but mum didn't complain at all, so I guess it's alright. While the sandwich itself is just too plain but well, you can't expect much for a package right? Their pancake is very good except its just too thin. The oreo cracks, chocolate syrup, vanilla ice-cream and oreo cookies blend very well in sweet pancake. 






Good place too eat pancake and drink coffee while waiting but not a good place to hang-out with your friends. It's good for meeting but I think the way they designed their place it's more like a coffee place for an individual. Grab their main courses package which is cheap (including soup, 1 main course and 1 Pancake). I spent around Rp. 87.000 (including tax) in total and quite full afterwards.

Tuesday, 21 December 2010

Shabu-Shabu Slim Review

 

This Shabu-Shabu restaurant has to be one of my favorites at the moment. I don't know where-else Shabu-Shabu Slim is at, but I eat the one at Central Park, LG. They are Cheap, refreshing, and delicious with three kinds of soup you can choose. I love their Tom Yum soup a lot while their chicken soup is just ordinary clear soup (they should make it much tastier).







With just a price of around Rp. 80,000 ($8.00)/person, you can eat as much as you want with a time limit of 1.5 hours. They have meatballs, fried tofu, the delicious fish ( I don't know what its called), etcs, various of vegetables, few kind of Sushi and some deserts too! If you come down there on Monday or Wednesday, then you must try their delicious Green Tea Ice-Cream (mixed it with Strawberry ice-cream make it yummier!). For me, it's cheap and totally worth it!

And well since I'm sick and too lazy to take a photo, so I just captured mum's face ha-ha-ha. Hey, this is my third visit! The First and Third with mum while the second one with my friend, Devi. You can either eat it in a group or you can just sit in the bar with your own hotpot! The service is also friendly. So, highly recommended to try ;-)



PS : Don't compare them with Hanamasa although the price is slightly different. In here, they only offer Shabu-Shabu and for the taste itself, Hanamasa is far away from here. Hanamasa is good but this one is a lot better!!

Sunday, 19 December 2010

Another Pancious Menu

Pancious has become my favorite restaurant to eat and hang out with for the past 2 years. I love their food, beverage and ambience too although sometimes its too crowded =P! Their pancakes is delicious because of the variety of toppings they have. "Manggo Cheese Double Pancake" used to me my favorite but right now, I'm just picking any random pancakes I feel like eating at that day.

Their pasta is great too apart from the carbonara and my friend recommend me which one to choose. Well, I've tried most of their pastas even the newest one - Chicken Blue Cheese and each of them is highly recommended. So, my friend decided to order "Chicken Blue Cheese" and she likes it :)


While my lunch is a bit different than usual. I decided to eat their burger again after the last one I like. This one I forgot what it's called really but there's bacon and beef and totally recommended!!!! It's delicious although it looks not too big but you'll definitely be full with it!




Thursday, 25 November 2010

My THANKSGIVING food

I got a feeling that today might be thanksgiving and I was so damn right. I checked the calendar it's the 25th November and since we are one day early than America so I thought why not we celebrated it today. Unfortunately, thanksgiving celebration isn't something we really celebrate but you know just for entertainment, why not making this day a bit special somehow :-)

I made this for mum but instead she didn't eat it, sad! It's basically fried bananas with dark chocolate, bit of strawberry topping and butter. Well, of course it's definitely fatty and sweet so I ended up finished it by myself ha! ha-ha-ha-ha!


Then, there's a pack of whole corn and I had no idea what to make so instead I just boiled the corns and added cheese afterwards which is delicious. But my tips is to add butter to make it tastier! Butter and Cheddar Cheese! Another fatting desert for me today *stress invasion dot com*



And well, seriously for Thanksgiving instead of made Turkey, I decided to grab Domino Pizza at Central Park. I wanted to bring my mum for dinner but I was kinda tight on budget so Pizzas shall do and I know she loves it too. I forgot to tell my driver to make it crispy but then Domino's Pizzas crust is a lot better than Pizza hut, so I don't really mind. It tastes good though. I got two pizzas and the first one is : America Cheese Burger and you gotta love this medium pizza each of its slices especially if you ordered the thin crust!




Look at at my mum's pretty face! Supposedly she smiles but it's hard to capture that priceless smile of her! But anyway, I know she's happy eating those pizzas at thanksgiving ha-ha-ha-ha! 


Then the second pizza is " American All Stars" , which basically the same except they are using mustard and Jalapeno, nothing else. 




Since, it's just me and mum who ate, we decided to just put two of the pizzas together and you won't even know the different! ha-ha-ha! it blends well, isn't!



You don't want to miss out Ketchup and Chili sauce, don't you?

And if you wonder why I put Canon next to the pizza is because of Canon's slogan " Delighting you always " and these delicious pizzas though the crusts aren't crispy delighted me and my mum on thanksgiving :-)


Happy Thanksgiving you each of you and thank you so much for visiting my blog over and over again. Extremely thankful ^-^

Monday, 8 November 2010

Yoshinoya's Food Review

I ate at Yoshinoya in Grand Indonesia. Saw the que was kinda long so I decided why not give it a go anyway. I like beef bowl at this old Japanese restaurant that I used to eat since I was on the 6th grade called Goiza. I wonder where Goiza is at nowadays in Jakarta? :-) (Do tell me if you know, thanks)

So I decided to eat the same menu "Beef Bowl", one of the house's specialities. Personally, I found it just alright - too plain I think. Even Hoka-Hoka Bento's Beef teriyaki tastes better. I tried to eat it with their Mayonnaise and it tastes a lot better but still I was expecting somehow the same taste as Goiza does. The price it's around 22 Rb ($2.2) for the Regular Size; not too pricy but still better eat at Hokben if you are a food lover. 



Then my friend ordered their "Teriyaki Chicken" rice bowl. Shockingly they only gave 4 pieces of Teriyaki Chicken slices and the bowl is just full with vegetables. Okay! this one is highly NOT recommended whatsoever. It seriously tastes crap! At least when I tried it did.


Honestly, go to Hokben is better or if you really curious about how they taste just try the Beef bowl for safety. My other friend also tried their "egg rolls" and she was totally hated it. The beef bowl is alright but you know, the tastes is just too plain. I don't know why the que was long each time I saw but for me, I kinda mind on going back there. I still want to try their Yakiniku Beef Bowl though but later sometimes when I have no other option at Grand Indonesia! ha-ha-ha!

For the price itself, it's reasonable starts from 20 rb and the place is not that bad too for hanging out with your friends. What else? Oh yeah you'll also be getting Miso Soup. Well, that's all about it. But really if you ever tried Goiza (though their place never look cozy), you would be disappointed by this taste. Or might be I've a high expectation? 

It's still eatable and since the price is reasonable, so it isn't a bad place to hang out. But if you are foodie lover like myself, then just bare by its tasteless food. And don't forget to ask for Mayonnaise and ignore that "looking weird" face that the waitress might given to you because she was giving me 'what-the' face to me when I asked for her to put Mayonnaise on top of my Beef Bowl! >.<!

Tuesday, 19 October 2010

Peach Garden

Mum was insisting me pretty badly to eat at this Chinese Restaurant for Dim-Sum. I think "Peace Garden" have several branches but I ate the ones at PX (St. Morris). My aunty told my mum that their Dim Sum is somehow cheap and not that bad neither; so we gave it a try anyway. Here are the food we and I didn't take a photo of their Prawn Chong Fun had no mood of doing so!






My Review :

I'm so sorry but this looking classy restaurant is just not worth to spend your penny at. For the pork itself, it costs around 48 Rb ($4.80) and it tastes like crap. Their whole Dim Sum is also tastelessly crap. And their service? Oh! You really would be so disappointed especially on how it took around 15 minutes or more to serve Chong Fun!! Its kinda over-priced but as long it tastes great then it shouldn't be a matter. The one that has a better taste if those 3 pieces of skinless small bread with egg yolk. Seriously, HIGHLY NOT RECOMMENDED , crap tastes and slow service. NEXT!