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As you know it is spotted at foodlover area, somehow it is need more effort to get seat while dinner time. At weekdays they are offering special set of menu. I really love the Rendang set. It is consisted of white rice, vegetables, pickles and rendang also tea.

Rendang absolutely recommended, great taste, nice texture. During office hour this could be good choice for lunch especially it is much reasonable price. 

Sunday night before start another weekday, suddenly i thought about soup i could get for dinner. Especially caught the cold day. While exploring Central Park Mall, i decided to go to Shabuya. A Japanese restaurant at there on level 1st Central Park Mall. It is spotted at the corner front of mall, next to Sushi Tei.

At 7.00pm, this restaurant seems quiet.

I just get in there, and waitress start offering the menu and i tend to look a while for the menu. Actually they are serving shabu set with some kinds and also an ala carte menu. I am think it would be convenient if i taking a shabu set which is got a set of meat or seafood, bowl of vegetables and free appetizers also fruits dessert.

First come out is Pozhu sauce, it is dipping sauce for the dishes.

While we are going to get an appetizers like sweet potato, kimchi, gyoza, fried nugget and bunch of sushi. 

Sweet Potato has sweet taste  and firm texture, nice bite for this. Kimchi has authentic taste, it fresh, bit cold when it served. then has gyoza with minced chicken filling. Gyoza has crunchy texture outside, but meat inside is quiet dry. then has a fried nugget, Just like common chicken fried, well it does crispy though :-) and last appetizer i have is sushi rice. Sushi is just fine, nothin g really special about this one. Then the waiter is serving each ingredients one by one comes out, from the slices of beef meats, variant of seafood,  and the vegetables.

I picked two flavor for the soup which is chicken broth and kimchi. First step how to eat shabu is put in the ingredients with longer time cooked like carrot and corn. Took couple minutes, then next ingredients are green mustard and white mustard veggies with shitake and cremini mushrooms also udon. it takes shortly in minutes then i am ready to get in the beef, all together in both side of soup.

What i can say i am having a great warm dishes for my dinner, but soup is too plain i think. what i taste between the chicken broth not really tasty and kimchi flavor just too salty. When i am finished the foods, last dish i may have is desserts by cut of melon and watermelon. 

Over all this restaurant is fine, all food ingredients are good, fresh and all you can eat appetizer is quiet fantastic though. Fruits also great, it absolutely fresh! but what been missed is the soup flavor, it is little under seasoning. But i am thinking this is Japanese restaurant, maybe they are trying to create a real Japan taste where we know people not really like too much seasoning or spicy. 

Tempatnya cukup ok, kita bisa melihat pemadangan laut, namun sayangnya laut kita ngga sebersih yang diharapkan. hidangan lautnya bervariasi dan masih segar. Kita bisa memilih spot bagian luar dengan udara laut atau di dalam ruang ber-ac. Hidangan yang ditawarkan juga dilengkapi dengan bermacam2 bumbu dan pengolahan mau dibakar, digoreng dengan bumbu manis atau pedas. Yang sedikit mengecewakan pelayanan yang kurang cekatan dimana sangat banyak sekali waiter.waitress di restoran, namun saya bahakan harus menunggu 30 menit untuk segelas minuman.

Another Fushion Restaurant just open in town. Olivier at Grand Indonesia Mall has been run about couple months. From it name, it is bviously Western style restaurant, but in fact they also serve variant of Asian cuisines.

From the outside, european typical elements is really strong wooden with glass door, dark color either brown or dark brown, we may see a pastry displayed when come inside restaurant, and then we would approach the receptionist counter after pass through it. At dinner time, this place is quiet crowded at the bar, for note in this restaurant we would see non-smoking area is close with the window and side door, for smoking are would right inside the restaurant since they also has a bar corner.

Since i am prefer non-smoking area, so waitress lend us table just right next to the window where we could see outside of the streets, building of Grand Indonesia Mall. Before start our main dish, welcoming bread is come out first. what is bit funny is, waiter is asking "do we order one or two welcoming bread". Actually we didn't order any of it, thought it is for free. :-) So it is free, probably waiter bit confused how many bread do we need.

For note, maybe it is our culture while serving appetizer, main course or even dessert in a same time. What i expected, it should be served literally one by one. So Welcoming bread was came out along with the Spaghetti, quiet huge bread, at least we need 10-15 mins to finished it. While that, i supposed spaghetti would be cold then. Neverming, just go with it.

Bread is fine, what rarely you found in town is butter mixed with cut of chillis. Main taste is butter with spicy. Done and start with the spaghetti.

It is Spaghetti with Prawn, Spicy Tomato Sauce and Sambal Terasi Paste. It does Red color indeed! looks spicy obviously. It is very tasty, spaghetti has been blended well with the terasi paste. and not too spicy which is well done. what i ordered next is Dory Meruniere A La Grenobloise, Sauteed French Beans and Cherry Tomato.

It looks stunning, nice color of dory. It is nice seasoning, good texture along with olive. Each bites has pleasure and French beans is crunchy, nice bite and great seasoning as well. I absolutely love this one.

So all over this restaurant has nice concept, European-Asian Fushion, even though service not that good, but at least i could taste pleasure of the dishes.

Talking about my favorite food, absolutely Seafoods! I love seafoods so much. various creatures e.g. fish, prawn, squids, crabs, and others friends. This time i try seafoods for my dinner at Pondok Pangandaran at Greenville, West Jakarta Area. Actually i had another branch at Kelapa Gading quiet time ago.

These time, Greenville has become one of restaurants street in town. Many opening new spot either local or international foods. During weekend, this area have lot of car park around though. Good thing, there's left one space while others keep looking for parking lot.

This restaurant has average place i think, like family restaurant, not a small place, but it does looks just fine, from wall painting, chairs and tables it just ok, nothing really beautiful i can say :-). In fact, it seems this restaurant has been runned by family management. It has quiet many customers, very noisy and loud both of customers and even the waiters or services back at the kitchen. we may hear loud voices from everywhere.

I start order for my dinner by Pangandaran Prawn, Grilled Squids, Morning Glory with shrimp paste and glass of mango fushion water. I can tell, prices of menu is good. commonly we need to spend quiet much for seafoods especially for prawn. But in here, i assure you it is happy by look at the price. First came out is morning glory with shrimp paste.


it is good from it smell, nice color of shrimp paste looks spicy and absolutely smell tasty. It served along with slices of tomato around the top. Actually it is taste good, veggie is perfectly seasoned, strong shrimp paste made really authentic taste and spicy well done. But tomato is unnecessary i think, what a sour has become really strong and bit covered up the shrimp paste flavor. Next dish is Prawn Ala Pangandaran, which i asked before to the waiter, it is similar with prawn padang sauce, and he's not really sure what difference of these two dishes :-D. As it sounds interesting, Prawn cooked by their own style, so i ordered it.

It does tempting me alot when served on my table. Thick red color shows spicy flavor, and bunch of fresh prawn is absolutely fabulous. Prawn taste really good, nice cooked texture and sauce is spicy. I am not sure what does really different with Padang sauce. But overall this dish is recommended there. Last dish i had is Grilled Squid. 

It looks grilled well done with soy sauce i assume. It served with slice half of lime, most people like it to give anoher flavor to seafoods and quiet reduce fishy smell. The squids has good texture, grilled nicely.

After finished dinner, should be closed with cold fresh drink. so i order Mango fushion water sounds interesting. It is beautiful color, and mango looks nice. But what it taste just sugar water with slices of mangos, and i think it's just pickled mango that we may buy at the supermarket. No matter, cold gave me a pleasure after finished my foods.

Been lately, i always do little experiment of cooking. find new recipe by online is one of easiest thing to do. What major problem is looking for unfamiliar ingredients at supermarket. I tend go to Ranch Market and Foodhall where we could find more imported products and ingredients. Even though not all ingredients are completed, but at least we may found some other alternative.



This time i am looking for double cream to make a Tiramisu, actually i had been some of supermarket in town, but what i found only whipped cream, cooking cream, sour cream and i couldn't find the double cream. So i decided to just use whipped cream, i assume it's not thick as double cream, but it may useable.



I went to Ranch Market around Pesanggrahan area, it has huge Ranch Market there, got a Starbucks next to supermarket and there completed with Ace Hardware in one building. Also in this supermarket has a restaurant on second floor. It is Ninety Nine, what i know is this restaurant is part of Ranch Market Group as well, two of this place are under same roof owner. Ninety-Nine is European-Asian style restaurant, based from the menu, they are serving various of western and Asia-Indonesia Menu. 

It's quiet late of night, 9.00pm so i just order basic main menu without any starter or even dessert. i ordered two menu by Norwegian Salmon on western menu and Crispy Pork knuckle on asian menu also drink Berry Crush Ice Tea.

Norwegian Salmon coming out. It is a grilled salmon with roasted vegetables and bearnaise sauce. Salmon is in good color, nice texture and juicy well done. This bearnaise sauce taste bit sour and various roasted veggies are consistent.

Another dish is CRISPY PORK KNUCKLE. It is a Slow roasted pork knuckle, buttered rice, vegetable, chili flakes. Well, this one not really great i may say.

Pork has nice seasoning, but it is too dry and need more effort to have another bite of it. Rice is just average and veggies is unnessecary when only 2 bunch of it. I am quiest disappointed with this one. What i may recommended, Western menu is better in this restaurant i guess. Drink is good, it is delightful Berry Ice Tea

It is has lovely flavour and beautifully mixed with slices of strawberries. Allover, this restaurant just fine, they have good concept, kind of western style interior but we may found little asia ambience around the restaurant. Service is enough, not awesome. when first came in restaurant, no one waiter or waitress are welcoming, even we need to find seat ourself. And i really recommended to just have western menu at there.