NINETY NINE

After tired walking around Grand Indonesia, we finally made up our mind to dine in Ninety-nine. Beneath the east mall drop-off lobby. We strolled around while he was showing me some renderings about Grand Indo (which was very berry uber cooll...!!)

Filled with pretty people, as usual. Loved the Javanese tegel floor and sofas.

RAP ordered "Medium well - Sirloin steak with mushroom sauce and roasted cauliflower" (??). The texture of meat was very nice and delicate. The sauce was a bit too sour, but of course the sauce shouldn't be left by itself. It complimented the roasted cauliflower.

I did not feel like eating a main course. So, I ordered a dessert. Yeah, after I stole a bite of his steak, i went straight to the "Creme brulee with pistachio ice cream" (36k). I love love love love it.

Cracking the crunchy caramel with my spoon and scrapping the creme while topping it with the pistachio ice cream...omg...really lifted up my mood. They were not too sweet.
But after 5-6 small spoon, i kind of felt bloated. Very understandable because it consists heavy cream. Luckily I have RAP to finish it. As always. Yeahh...=)

SIEM REAP BY INDOCHINE

This is a story from someone whose taste i trust really much. He stays in Singapore and loves to explore foods around him.

This time he went to Holland Village. And here the fling goes....

This is the first time i went to holland village, a street dedicated for more adventurous culinary journey in Singapore (beside the hawker center of course). After a couple mins walk,I picked random restaurant called Siem Reap by Indochine. justifying the name they supposed to serve Cambodian dishes, I walked in to be seated in an asian themed cafe with Budha statue and other asian influenced ornaments, reminds me of Budha Bar but in smaller scale.

 (omg..only 3 pieces???)

I started with the Tam Som, which i found a bit irritating, because of the extreme level of acidity and a bit of bitterness that come from the shredded papaya and lemon juice. its quite refreshing at first bite to be frank, but i couldn't carry on longer. This maybe suitable to person who like to eat unripe mango.

Moving to the chicken, it was grilled properly, but I couldnt find anything special with the chicken, it was like ordinary grilled chicken, quite disappointing since I was expecting more than this, I was expecting the flavor that comes from lemongrass, coriander rootm and white pepper that didn't show quite strongly in this meal.

To my amazement, the star of this dishes is the rice! the fragrant Jasmine rice had a perfect texture. It had the crunchy texture that came from Thailand rice yet very soft inside. I could also control the rice perfectly using chopsticks, the thing that I found it a bit difficult to do with rice other than Japanese rice (which is very soft and sticky).

So overall the dishes wasn't quite an amazement. For 16$ seems that I could find anything better than this.

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BOKA BOKA FRENCH RESTO

Last week, I sneaked out from the office for lunch with Lea and Jess. Finally I have lunch mates who work in south Jakarta area that closed to my office. Yeay.

I proposed to try Boka-boka French Resto. Located on Jl. Cipete Raya no. 7.
Another place that I have wanted to try for so long.

This small resto has a small,homy and comfy ambiance. With red painted wall, wooden chairs and tables, and beautiful little water garden at the back. Apparently, we were the only guests there.
I ordered 'Special beef fillet with mushroom sauce n potato gratin n vegetable'(98k). The gratin was soooo niceeee. It balanced the taste of the mushroom sauce. Would be much better if the meat was more tender and juicy.

Jess ordered 'Grilled beef with cream cheese'.
( 98k). The cream cheese bought her straight away. It was really yummy in fact.


Lea ordered the sounds healthy one, 'Salmon with lemon sauce'.(95k).

Cute plates. A quite nice place to hang out overall. The waiters were very friendly too.

DELTORO'S BBQ RIBS & STEAK + CHURRERIA

Yesterday, I went to meet my old high school friend in Grand Indonesia. We dined at Del Toro's Bbq Ribs & Steak. The place was quite warm with the wooden panel and frames of mirror that made the place even bigger. I ordered the speciality menu which was the Del Toro's bbq ribs. Unfortunately the US ribs was run out of stock, so i had the local one (90k).

The sauce was too sweet for a ribs sauce. Way too sweet. But the meat was very tender. I had the half rack and the portion was very satisfying.I forgot to take picture because I was too hungry.


We continued with dessert. We decided to try Churreria. Very prominent location as it sits in between west and east mall. I tried the orriginal churros with 2 dips. Dark and white chocolate melt. (48k). Quite nice.

But they still cannot beat the churros in front of Flinders Station in Melbourne=)

The place was quite crowded. Lots of people waiting for an empty table. And the waiters, in my opinion, were not so friendly. As they keep asking to pick up our empty plates and glasses, right after each of us put aside our fork.

MIITEM - PLAZA INDONESIA

Yesterday I went out with Lea. We were supposed to have dinner at Red Tomato ( That 's what I thought ) but we had to get out as the place was over-packed. Nowhere to sit or stand still.

Hooray to our luck, we found this 'miitem', the resto that I wanted to try for so long, but always forget whenever i am in Plaza Indonesia. Always have other destination to go.

'Miitem' uses squid's ink infused noodle for their cuisines. At first, we intended to share the 'Miitem in Tom Yum Soup" (48k)..I wished the soup had stronger taste.But we love the texture of the noodle! hoorayh!

But wait....it's not enough. We ordered this Chicken Cajun in Pita bread (50k) This one was actually very satisfying. Reminded me of Flemington kebabs in Melbourne.


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I took away "Miitem Pesto with Salmon" (66k). Either i ate it the day after or it was just not good enough. The noodle was too dry.  I always have my heart on pestos, but not this one.

Miitem, I will be back to try the "mie tektek"!

POTATO HEAD - PACIFIC PLACE

I went to Potato head last night. Even though Potato Head has been there for a long long time...but yesterday was my first time having dinner meal there. But as usual, hip environment filled with pretty people=)

Sitting on the upper floor. Dining by the ramp and beautiful old 'krapyak' window, RAP had the "imported large sea scallops n prawns riviera served with garlic n linguini pasta" (180k),

while I had "Slowly roasted pork tenderloin stuffed with pruneaux. Served with a forest mushroom cream sauce n potato crust paillasson" (120k)

I love my food! Especially when I bit the potato crust, the tenderloin and the pruneaux (with the sauce of course) altogether. They completed each other very well!

Not a big fan of the linguini pasta tho'