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I must admit, finding this place was one of my most pleasant experience I've ever had in my culinary life. We arrived at one part of the hotel, and asked where was this Porte located. The bellboy told us it's on the other side of the hotel. They had few golf cars, really nice condition, ready to take us there. The driver was a nice young woman, dressed in white. Hmm. Pretty good service.

When I first arrived there, I thought, this was certainly not a 4 or 5 star hotel. But the restaurant was indeed nice! Oh, so this is where I start the review about the restaurant :)


AMBIENCE:

The place got jazzy-lounge ambience. Dimmed light, cozy furniture, modern lamp, and jazzy music. All was neat and tidy, and the music added a class to its ambience.

FOOD:

[Gai Ping Rp.45.000]

Those grilling sound it made was just wonderful. The presentation of the food, already caught my eyes. This very first food I ordered here, brought a pleasant joy. I thought, oh maybe it was just the look. So I gave it a try. And boy, it was amazing! Juicy, tasty chicken dipped in amazing sour-spicy sauce! And the best part was that the chicken has never been cold since the cute cubical grill was still on even until the very end.

[Kway Pad Kee Mao - Gai Rp.55.000]

This was like a kwetiau. They put in their description as a spicy, fried drunken noodles. We chose chicken, in Thai is called Gai. They had 3 seasonings to accompanied this dish: some kind of vinegar and chili, chili powder, and sugar! I mixed every bit of all into the dish and landedy first bite. Oh my God! Foodgasm. The sour, the sweet, spice, all just danced so well with the tasty Kway Pad. I was enjoying this food while by bf said that he's too having a really great time with his dish. After eating half, we exchanged our food. Oh, any they gave a really generous portion for this one so don't worry coming here with an empty stomach.


[Khao Pad Tom Yum Rp.70.000]

This is a Tom Yum Fried Rice. They gave some kind of vinegar with green pepper / chili for the sauce. Another one to enhance the sour. I love sour food so I definitely loving this. Oh anyway, if you don't like sour food then maybe you just try the Gai Ping, if you wanna try something not too sour, or their mango sticky rice. Since any other Thai food here were probably sour. But in a great way!! The fried rice was just amazing! Tom yum taste, nice and gigantic portion too! So basically, when I went to a nice restaurant with this price range, if I already found that their place was nice, their food was incredibly delicious, I mostly got a regular or small portion. But this restaurant just got it all. The generous portion? The amazing taste, pleasant place, really good service too (later I'll write more about this). Me and my bf was just so very full adter eating 3/4 of our dishes. We still got dessert! I told my bf, this place kept surprising me, if their dessert is delicious, I'll definitely give 5 on my rating. (Whoops, spoiled the ending :p)

[Khao Niao Mamuang Rp.45.000]

Dessert. The tie breaker. Mango sticky rice. Last time I tried this kind of dessert in Indonesian restaurant which specialized in Thai food, the taste was absolutely not yummy. So much different than the one that I had in Thailand. So I lost a little hope on good mango sticky rice in here. But when I saw the presentation of this dessert, I gained a little bit of hope. Hmm, this looks yummy. I gave it a try. And again, oh. My. God. Amazing!!! The sticky rice was so gooey in a good way, the coconut milk was high quality, so thick and smooth and delicious, and the mango was fresh. Altogether they and I had my last foodgasm here. God. Just. Godddd thank Goddd you created a human that could made this heaven's food be tasted in my very tounge. I just. Can't just. Ahh.

[FM7 Cooler Rp.34.000]

Peach syrup, passion fruit syrup, orange juice and soda water, plus cherry on top. Refreshing! Sweet and sour, but a little hard to slurp with little straw since there's quite a lot of passion fruit inside.

SERVICE:
What a lovely waitress and waiter they had! They were polite, responsive, and so nice. They cleared up the plate without being asked, offered to bring out the dessert after seeing us slowing down eating, and almost finished our main dishes, and fulfill our request fast and politely.

What a little hidden gem, this restaurant is! In the midst of nowhere, you'll never think that you could find such a nice restaurant, with amazing ambience, food (taste, presentation and portion), and service. Having such a wonderful time here. Definitely will recommend this to anyone I've known, and will be back soon <3

This restaurant is one of a kind. Some of the restaurants give you a total foodgasm experience, that I always see as the number one priority as a base of giving rating. But there are certain factors that must be taken into account. For example, you want to rate an ice cream that is the best thing that ever happened to your tounge, but its price was 100x than what it should be, which is totally a ripped off, and its service and ambience was bad. It doesn't deserved a 5/5 although their food haunts you at night. You'll probably took away 0.5 - 1 of their rating. You see what I'm talking about, right?

Now, there are few restaurants, that I quite admire. The gap between their price and quality of food, drinks, service and ambience was a lot smaller than other restaurants. Kopiplatinum is one of them. 

AMBIENCE:
Kopiplatinum is actually an improved version of platinum. They moved downstairs, and made the ambience classier than before. Glasses, simple plain sofa's and chair with wooden accessories, yellowish lighting, and minimalist-a-bit-vintage decoration nailed to the wall. 

FOOD:
Not only the room, they renovated the menu too. Now it's a lot simpler, modern, and they sold a lot variation of coffee too now.

[Teriyaki Chicken Noodle Rp.25.500]
The noodles was well-cooked so that it's not soggy or too gooey, and you can taste the salt and seasoning to the core of the noodles, which is great. The teriyaki chicken was not bad, and the portion was okay.

[XO Fried Rice Rp.28.100]
They gave you gigantic portion of this one, tasty and good, and the plus point is they didn't give too much msg, I always feel so thirsty after eating most of fried rice I bought from a restaurant, but after eating this one, I feel ok.

[Hong Kong Spring Rolls Rp.17.300]
It was tiny. We get 6 little spring rolls, that was cooked quite well actually. The outer part was golden brown and crispy, with a lot of veggies inside, it was not too tasty, but I think they made it that way so when you dipped it into the sauce, the taste could blend well. Although the portion was small, I think the price was relatively cheap.

[Strawberry Juice Rp.19.000]
Regular strawberry juice. They use sugar and probably a little bit of syrup to made it so yummy. But I can feel its freshness blender too with ice.

[Ca Phe Da Rp.24.500]
I'm so happy to find this! It was a Vietnamese Iced Coffee, with unique presentation of how they made it, and the taste was just wonderful. The coffee was bold enough, but they put enough milk and cream in it so you can still feel just a little bit of sweet. One of my favorite coffee, that I declared! And only for 24.500, you'll have the same quality of coffee you get in coffee shop.

My friend also ordered their Banana Milk Soda (Rp.20.000) which is the downside since we can't taste the banana at all. Marjan syrup with milk is all we can taste. There's also Crispy Hot Chicken hot+sour sc Hainam (Rp.28.100), soft and smooth rice and tender chicken. And also, Eiskaffee (Rp.24.500), some kind o affogato, with less coffee than usual, but again, the title isn't affogato, it said Eiskaffee, so sensing ice cream with coffee is quite just.

SERVICE:
Nice and quick service, and one thing that caught my eyes is they didn't charge service on the bills. Only 10% tax. So you could leave some tips :)

Saya udah beberapa kali pesen takoyaki, nah kali ini nyobain takoyaki ini enak sekalih! Rasanya enak, teksturnya pas, rasanya gak berlebihan dan yg terpenting gak amis! Dalemnya pun lumayan banyak dan tepungnya ga lebay. Luarnya crispy dan dalemnya lembut. Harganya juga murah lagi! Mau nyemil2 dikit eh malah jadi pengen :p Yummy!

Saya setiap kali kesini selalu puas sama makanannya, side dishnya pelayanannya, dessertnya, promonya, mostly everything. Let me start from the place. San jung ini tempatnya cukup luas, dan you can choose your own place yang menurut saya pretty convenient tempatnya, and there's this huge glasses on the walls too jadi ruangannya gak terkesan sempit. 

Setelah masuk dan pesan makanan, keluarlah side dish. Selain side dish yang sudah keluar yang actually way more than restoran korean bbq para umumnya (disini mereka menyediakan berbagai jenis salad juga yang saya liat gak umum), kita juga bisa mesen soup, and they give it buat individually, jadi masing2 diberi soup tambahan for the side dish. Great!

Kami pesen daging sapi (U Sam Gyeb Sal)  as well as babi manis (Doi Ji Gal Bi). Bisa minta supaya mereka siapin di luar, jadi setelah mereka selesai BBQ, yang udah jadi baru dimasukin ke ruangan kita biar ga bau asep. Daging sapi mereka was really delightful. Ini dagingnya banyak lemaknya, but tipis2 dan extremely tasty and juicy. Love! Oh ya, disini sausnya juga ada 3 jenis, yang sejenis cabe2an, wijen, and one more thing yang ada garemnya. I suka banget ini yang pake garemnya, combined with the meat creates such an appetising and colourful taste. Babi manis mereka not bad.

Setelah selesai, jangan lupa minta dessert semangka and kopi. Kami nyobain yang mixed coffee and black coffee. Yang mixed coffeenya enak sekali! Kopinya cukup pekat, tapi cream and susunya juga thick. Bold in every level, kind of thing that I love. Nah, untuk yang kopi hitamnya ini yang tipe asam. Not really suits my appetite. 

Overall pelayanan ramah dan cepat, setiap belanja 500.000 dapat vocer 50.000 and bisa dipakai sekaligus vocernya tanpa minimal pembelanjaan. Makanan enak2 and side dish melimpah. One of my fav korean bbq place :)

Saya pesan Salmon Aburi Don disini, pertama-tama kami yang unik dari menu yang satu ini adalah cara pembuatannya. Salmonnya sendiri dari salmon mentah, di scoop diatas nasi, diberi saus, lalu dibakar di depan mata kita. Saya pesan garlic butter buat saus tambahannya. Rasanya uenaaakk! Salmonnya pas matangnya, sausnya terasa, dan garlic butternya juga seriously good. Probably one of the best donburi I've ever tasted.

Karena lagi ada vocer groupon, saya sama teman2 saya pada tertarik buat nyobain restoran seafood yang satu ini. Tempatnya ya not bad, disini kita bs langsung milih dan mesen menu2nya, kami pesen lumayan banyak seafood disini. Porsi mereka lumayan banyak, gak terlalu kecil2. Seafoodnya smua fresh2 dan rasanya juga lumayan enak2. Gak bau amis. Lumayan kenyang dan puas habis makan dari sini.

Saya pesan milk with honey disini. Tempatnya sangat pewe dan cantik, pelayanannya super ramah dan baik, mereka salah kasih order dan kita dikasih gratis satu kopi tambahan :') Milk with honey mereka enak, tidak terlalu panas, manisnya pas, honeynya berasa, milknya juga with right consistency. Good place to hang!

This place is just so sweet, I bet boys will feel wrong to come to this place without girls :p I heard their pasta was amazing, as well as their rice pizza. Yes, you're not reading it wrong. Rice Pizza! So here're the things I ordered:

Beef Teriyaki Rice Pizza
The appearance looks cute and tempting, especially because of the famous japanese dried tuna, called Katsoubushi moving on top of the pizza. The beef was quite sweet, since it's teriyaki. The rice wasn't so sticky, they didn't put any ketan in it but they way they pressed it against each other made them easy to take a slice. The taste was nice, toppings were okay.

Chicken Carbonara Rice Pizza
The only difference was their topping. On top of the rice pizza, they poured some chicken, with cheese and milk cooked together. I personally love this because I love carbonara (pasta toppings usually on my love list :p). Their chicken is tender, the carbonara was delicious.

I was here on a Saturday night, and this place was just packed with people. We queued for a while (approx 10-15min) before being seated. The decorations were quite authentic.

We tried their minced katsu with curry and sweet & sour chicken potato. The portion was quite big and generous. The wood plating was really nice as well. Their katsu was crunchy and delicious, sweet and sour chicken was yummy and tender, and one of the highlight of today meal was certainly the miso soup! It was so fragrant and so unique. They put oyster in it so it could taste like a thick, aromatic seafood miso soup. So much for the authenticity. Although the place was packed with crowd, our food was served in an acceptable serving time.

Midori ini salah satu Japanese restaurant yang kayaknya orang2 gak terlalu banyak tahu ya, mungkin karena lokasinya yang bukan di dalam mall. Midori selalu satu gedung dengan Resto Ngalam dan tempat pijat Bersih Sehat. Disini actually tempatnya lumayan dan makanannya enak-enak, harganya juga gak mahal.

Untuk appetizer, kami nyobain Enoki Salmon, dan Volcano roll. Enoki salmonya uenakk! Enokinya pas matengnya, gurih dan enak teksturnya gak kelembekan, dibalut dengan salmon yang dimasaknya juga pas. Mantep banget ini rasanya. Volcano rollnya ya not bad, agak kecil sih dibanding volcano roll pada umumnya.

Buat makanan beratnya saya pesan Gyu Ramen. Ramennya sendiri porsi regularnya lumayan, kuahnya bening dan aroma dagingnya cukup berasa. Dagingnya sendiri empuk. Not bad.

Tempatnya enak, pelayanan juga baik :)