Review Pelanggan untuk The Porte Eatery and Cafe - FM7 Resort Hotel

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