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This place was quite cozy to hang out. They serves you delicious desserts as well as drinks and other foods.

Cheesecake factory is the place for you if you're in for good, thick and bold cheese. The consistency and quality of the cheese is one of the best in town. It's not too sweet, not too creamy, and you'll taste enough cheese in every bite. Usually I tried their Oreo Cheesecake.

This Roti'O is kinda like its competitor, Roti*o*. The place was quite small. Bread stall. But you can smell their good coffee when you're passing by.

They got a pretty good coffee bun. The portion was okay. The coffee is not too overpowering, the aroma were really nice. It was soft on the inside, and crispy on the outside. But I taste just a little butter inside.

So when you eat at Zenbu, you gotta pick the right time and menu. If you come here at peak hours, the waitress were just not delightful, but if you came here while this place isn't so crowded, you'll get a fast service. The food is quite delicious too. And has a very appealing presentation. The rice is soft and smooth, the veggies were much, the beef were soft smooth and tasty, and the eggs were delicious!

J.Co serves you a very light airy doughnut. Which I love! Sweet, light dough and playful toppings. The dough melts in your mouth, and were smoother that its competitors.

My favorite were the chocolate glaze and almond. Their chocolate were so amazing, not too sweet and the glaze were so attractive too. Their almond were crunchy and delicious!

Their price was affordable too. It only cost you around 70K for a dozen, or 119K for 2 dozens.

It was my friend's birthday. So we booked the VIP room, to give awesome surprise, plus there's no smoke here, thank God. There's dart machine, sofa, tables and chair, and beer pong's table set up afterwards. We play darts, ordered beer tower (sold out, so we changed it to 2 pitcher of beer) so that they would set up the beer pong's table. The room was actually a bit dark, dimmed light. Outside, was very loud and lots of smokes. I wasn't so comfortable about that. Luckily, the only noise in our room was us shouting fun. I got red too easily, as usual. Even after only drinking 1.5 glass (of 1/5 full each loly lol). 

Okay, talk about food. We ordered their Mushroom Popcorn, Chili Fries, Pepperoni Pizza, Pork Belly Supreme, Cream Fungi, and also some karage chicken wings. One that stands out is the Mushroom Popcorn! The mushroom was so juicy and it was deep fried outside with crunchy, tasty flour. You can also dipped it in tomato-herby sauce which was delightful. Their pizza was thin crust.

To fulfill minimum kuota for VIP room (2million rupiah), we ordered some cocktails and mocktails too. The kiwi one is my favorite. Yeah, it has no alcohol. Lol.

Cake a boo was quite popular for its cute innovative cake. We tried their cake bomb while celebrating our dear friend. They were flexible about little customization, so we ordered two (smaller version?) of them instead of one. It was yummy! The mouse was delicious, and inside you can find MnMs, with dark chocolate liquid. We actually put it outside for 1-2h before we ate it but it turned out just fine. Anyway, so my review here was based on this cake alone. Which, I think was quite a great, and creative cake. For the taste alone I actually gave 3.5, another 0.5 goes to its creativity.

I love love love pistachio gelato! It's been quite long for me searching this particular taste. So when I went to this place, I was thrilled to read there was pistachio gelato-based popsicle. So of course, I try one, dipped half in dark chocolate [Rp.29.000]. It was yummy! I actually regret to dip it in dark chocolate since I couldn't taste the whole pistachio. So I enjoyed another half of rich and bold, bit creamy pistachio. You can actually still feel the ice, but not too much that it disturbed the whole pistachio gelato experience. It's a popsicle after all, right? Love!

Okay let's do some comparison here. Two things that differentiate Hot Star from other large fried chicken are the sauce and the chicken. Their price is more expensive than their competitors. It ranges from Rp.50.000 - Rp.56.000, while market price in Jakarta for this item is around Rp.38.000.

Okay I'll be honest, two of relatively better things that I found in this chicken are:
1. Their sauce. If you choose BBQ or Black pepper sauce, the sauce is liquid-base, not powder. Actually there are pro and cons about this.
Pro: personally, I think it tastes better, more tasty and yummy for fried chicken. Like glaze korean fried chicken.
Cons: since the sauce is liquid, it'll become easier to make a mess. The wrapping paper soon became a bit soggy, and I just don't like it when it became soggy and mess your hands.
2. They don't really chop the chicken.
Pro: it's actually easier to eat since you only need to bite it.
Cons: it's harder if you buy this to share with your friends. And you actually have to grab the wrapping paper in certain way in order to bite it, so that the sauce makes the wrapping paper become soggy quickly.

Now. There are also two things that made me not falling in love with this chicken:
1. There. Are. Bones. Damn, I'm enjoying this chicken until I bit its bone. It's just not pleasant. Just do fillet please.
2. Since this is not a boneless chicken, it just doesn't make sense that it's actually more expensive than their competitors that are boneless. And it's not only 1-5% more expensive, it's around 35-40% more expensive. Why? Why and why? I've seen the chicken, it's actually smaller too compared to others.

This place were located on Sudirman. Since we're feeling to eat some cake, we tried their red velvet cake. 

What's different about this red velvet is, not only cream cheese, they also put some Nutella too. And amazingly, it worked out wonderfully. The cream cheese and Nutella was smooth and delicious, the cake was not too dry, both made a delicious dessert! :9

The ambience were pretty good, the lighting was enough to make good picture, but you need to sit near the window since they haven't turn on the light just yet.

I ordered:

[Lost Frenchmen Rp.115.000]
The presentation was nice, big stacks with a knife as a glue holding them together. The taste was okay. The patty was soft, the beef was gourmet made, juicy, and the apple on top was really nice. The portion was generous too.

[Veracruz Redsnapper Rp.90.000]

Not my favorite. I expect more like herby aroma and taste. Well, the fish was actually cooked well. Tender and nice, the mashed potato was soft too. But the taste wasn't the best. I could still smelled the fish unpleasant aroma too, although just a lil bit.

[Pomegranate & Cranberry Juice @Rp.25.000]

I love the drinks. So refreshing. Sweet and sour, a perfect companion to our food, and a serious relieve of thirst.

Ohya, saya juga cobain salmon pizza buat bareng2. Pizzanya sendiri sih rasanya biasa aja, dan doughnya keras!