Sop Saudara, Makassar

Sop Saudara

Sop Saudara is another traditional food in Makassar. the soup consists of sliced beef, sliced potato, tomato, vermicelli, served with coconut milk and beef stocks.

Location: Jl.Jend Sudirman, Makassar, South Sulawesi, Indonesia

Other: -
Taste: 4 out of 5
Ambience: 1 out of 5 (Food Stall)
Price: Rp. 20,000,- per portion
Dress code: Casual
Recommendation: Sop Saudara with Ice Tea

Sop Saudara

Ice Tea

Les Classiques, Jakarta

Les Classiques

A comfy cafe that is good for book reader, chit chat with friends or business colleague, or internet surfer (wi fi available). Les Classiques top choices are Hot Chocolate and cakes. Hot chocolate in here is made from hot steam milk with big chunk of chocolate. Moreover, the strawberry dome definitely great for strawberry lover.

Location: Jl. Kemang Raya No 45B (in Vin + area)

Other: -
Taste: 4 out of 5
Ambience: 3 out of 5 ( No Non Smoking Area)
Price: average Rp. 30,000 per portion
Dress code: Casual
Recommendation: Strawberry Dome and Hot Chocolate

Strawberry Dome

Hot Chocolate with Chocolate Chunck

Blackforest

Konro Karebosi, Makassar

Konro Karebosi

Konro is Makassar traditional cooked beef rib racks. Konro can be cooked in soup or grilled. Grilled Konro is served with peanut sauce (like satay) and clear soup. While, Konro soup is boiled rib rack in clear soup. As always, Makassar food always comes with various Indonesian spices and herbs. The taste is very rich! Try the tenderness of Konro meat combined with rich flavor and great texture!

Location: Jl. Gunung Lompobatang, Makassar, Indonesia (Branch in Jakarta: Boulevard Raya Kelapa Gading)

Other: -
Taste: 5 out of 5
Ambience: 4 out of 5
Price: Rp. 45,000 per portion
Dress code: Casual
Recommendation: Try Grilled Konro (Konro Bakar) with Orange Juice

Grilled Konro Karebosi

Konro Karebosi Soup

Konro Karebosi with its best friend, Orange Juice

Kepiting Surya, Makassar

The jumbo crab of Surya

One of crab that love travel to many city in Indonesia. You can find Surya Crab Thermos in baggage carousel for every flight landed from Makassar/Ujung Pandang. Surya restaurant is famous for their jumbo size crab cooked in Chinese style. Try the Kepiting (Crab) cooked in Padang style sauce, you will definitely miss Makassar!

Location: Jl.Nusa Kambangan, Makassar, South Sulawesi, Indonesia

Other: -
Taste: 5 out of 5
Ambience: 4 out of 5
Price: Rp. 250,000 per portion
Dress code: Casual, Formal (depends on your occasion)
Recommendation: Kepiting Saus Padang with Fried Mantou (Deep fried chinese bun)

Otak-otak (fish cake)

Fried Mantau

Veggies

Kepiting Jumbo Asam Manis
(Sweet Sour Jumbo Crab)

The delicious Jumbo Crab

Coto Gagak, Makassar

Coto Gagak

This is a 24 hour Coto seller in Makassar. Coto is one of Makassar traditional beef soup that is usually served with Buras (steamed rice inside wrapped leave (a.k.a Ketupat, Kupat, Lontong)). Coto is normally has clear texture with cube sliced of tender beef. Coto Gagak is one of the best coto place in Makassar. In here, the chef cook coto with wood fire. It gives different heat and smells to the coto. Coto ingredients consist of various Indonesian spices like pepper and nutmeg combined with fresh beef stock.


Must try this food in Makassar!

Location: Jl. Gagak, Makassar, South Sulawesi, Indonesia

Other: -
Taste: 5 out of 5
Ambience: 2 out of 5
Price: Rp. 20,000 per portion
Dress code: Casual

Recommendation: Coto and Buras.. with Orange Ice.

Buras and Coto Gagak

Coto Gagak

Various Makassar Food

Nyuk Nyang, Pisang Ijo, Mie Titi, Nasi Rames Makassar

Datu Musseng and Pasar Ikan Street are two famous culinary spots in Losari Beach region Makassar. In this street, we can try various kind of traditional food such as Nyuk Nyang (Mixed Meatball Soup), Pisang Ijo (Makassar Style Dessert made from steamed Banana wrapped inside soft green flour skin), Mie Titi (Deep Fried Noodle served with thicked sauce made from egg yolks, chicken, and veggies), and also Nasi Rames (Rice with Assorted Traditional Food, see the food stall, fantastic presentation!).

Location:  Makassar, South Sulawesi, Indonesia

Other: -
Taste: 4 out of 5
Ambience: Street Food
Price: Rp. 5,000 - Rp. 20,000 per portion
Dress code: -
Recommendation: Pisang Ijo at Karebosi Link Mall, Mie Titi Datu Musseng

Nyuknyang Makassar

Pisang Ijo

Crunchy Mie Titi

Mie Titi with Chicken and Veggies on Top

Nasi Rames Makassar

Chung Gi Wa, Jakarta

Chung Gi Wa

One of famous traditional Korean restaurant in Jakarta. Chung Gi Wa offers various type of grilled meat and many Korean culinary choices. The venue is designed with traditional wooden Korean restaurant style with griller facility in the middle of dinner table complete with exhaust fan. Banchan is served as appetizer for guest complete with bunch of fresh leaves such as mint leave and lettuce with additional sliced of green chilli and garlic to accompany your grilled meat.Corn tea is served to accompany your meal with authentic korean style stainless glass.  

Location: Jl. Dharmawangsa 3 no 2, Jakarta Selatan

Other: -
Taste: 4 out of 5
Ambience: 3.5 out of 5
Price: Rp. 20,000 - Rp. 100,000 per portion
Dress code: Casual
Recommendation: Try all the korean style grilled meat!

Banchan, Kimchi, Pancake

This is how the food and tea served

Fresh Veggies to Wrap the Meat

Yukhwae Bibimbab

Grilled Chadolbagi

Chadolbagi

Samgyopsal

Sushi Tengoku, Jakarta

Sushi Tengoku

One of the authentic Japanese sushi restaurant in Jakarta. Different from various fusion sushi restaurant in Jakarta, Sushi Tengoku offers various product with authentic Japanese taste. Strong wasabi taste served with sliced pickled ginger are two best friend of your sushi time. For non smoker, try the tatami seating area located at the back side of the restaurant.

Location: Jl Radio Dalam Raya No F11-11A, Jakarta Selatan, Jl Boulevard Raya Blok LB III/19 Kelapa Gading, Jakarta Utara

Other: -
Taste: 4 out of 5
Ambience: 4 out of 5
Price: Rp. 20,000 - Rp. 100,000 per portion
Dress code: Casual
Recommendation: Tengoku Maki, Genki Maki, Salmon Teriyaki Set

Genki Maki

Tengoku Maki

Salmon Teriyaki Set

Suan Thai, Jakarta

Suan Thai Bangkok Taste

Thai food always known because of their spicy and sour. Suan Thai is one of authentic food restaurant in Jakarta. The restaurant also have a branch in Paris Van Java Mall, Bandung. If you come to this restaurant, please try its Tom Yam Gong. Tom Yam Gong main ingredients are galangal (ginger family), citrus leave, cilantro leave, shallots, and lemon grass which produce uniquely taste of Thai food. Tom Yam Gong comes with  fresh medium size of prawn. To accompany your food, dont forget to order Thai Ice Tea. Thai Ice Tea here consist of herbs taste that give you different taste in comparison to other Ice tea. Sometime, we can also meet some Thailand embassy which having their lunch or dinner in here.

Location: Cideng Timur No. 58, Jakarta Pusat

Other: +62 21 3860455
Taste: 4.5 out of 5
Ambience: 3 out of 5
Price: around Rp. 30,000 - Rp. 80,000
Dress code: Casual, Business
Recommendation: Tom Yam Gong, Thai Ice Tea




Tom Yam Gong 

Pad Thai

Crispy Tofu

Imbiss Stube, Jakarta

Imbiss Stube

A small German restaurant is located in Cilandak Town Square shopping center. The environment is pretty relax which is suitable for casual meeting place. Imbiss Stube sells  German foods such as various  type of sausages (Bockwurst, Bratwurst), Rinderroullade, Kassler, and etc. As other German foods, many of foods here are served with Sauerkraut (pickled cabbage) and potatoes. German food would not be enough without beer. Imbiss Stube sells several German beers such as Erdinger, The Dunkel, and Crystal. Moreover, this restaurant also sells Bintang Beer, Indonesian favourite beer.

Location: Cilandak Town Square, Jl. TB Simatupang Kav. 17, Jakarta Selatan

Other: -
Taste: 3 out of 5
Ambience: 3 out of 5
Price: around Rp. 30,000 - Rp. 150,000
Dress code: Casual
Recommendation: Bockwurst, Bratwurst, Rinderroulade, Kassler, German Beer

Rinderroulade
Stuffed beef roll

Kassler
Smoked pork

Bratwurst

Do'an, Jakarta

Do'an

Vietnam is a country which has been influenced by Chinese, French, Thai, and Americans. The culture of Vietnam can be well understood by its cuisine. Some of Vietnamese famous dishes are Pho Bo (Traditional Beef Soup Noodle) and Goi Cuon (Cold Roll).

Pho Bo is a thin sliced beef soup served with rice noodle. The presentation usually served with plate of coriander leaves, bean sprouts, sliced chilli, and sliced lemon. The beef can also be served half cooked. The soup taste very rich of beef stock with traditional simple ingredients.

While waiting for your main dishes, you can try Goi Cuon a traditional Vietnamese cold roll. This is type of spring roll that is served fresh. The wrapping are made from rice flour. The fillings are consisted prawn, lettuce, corriander, bee hoon (vermicelli). Goi Cuon served with hoi sin sauce with crunched peanut on it.

You can also try Vietnamese Style Coffee. Vietnamese Coffee comes very strong. It is served on glass with condensed milk and ice. The coffee is put on the glass with stainless made filter. Pure coffee will drop from the filter to mix with condensed milk and ice. 

Location: Cilandak Town Square, Jl. TB Simatupang Kav. 17, Jakarta Selatan
Other: -
Taste: 5 out of 5
Ambience: 4 out of 5
Price: around Rp. 20,000 - Rp. 70,000
Dress code: Casual
Recommendation: Goi Cuon, Pho Bo, Lotus Tea, Vietnamese Filtered Coffee 

Goi Cuon (Vietnamese Cold Roll)

Pho Bo (Vietnamese Traditional Beef Soup Noodle)

Pho Bo Fresh Topping

Do'an interior design

Pempek Gaby, Bekasi

Pempek Gaby (Indonesian Style Fish Cake)

Dress code: CasualPempek (also known as Mpek-Mpek) is a traditional Indonesian food that is originaly coming from South Sumatra particularly in Palembang area. Pempek is made from seawater fish called Tenggiri (Scomberomorus commerson). The same fish is also used to make fish cracker, siew may, otak-otak, and meat ball. Tenggiri fish is
also classified in the same family with Tuna and Mackerel fish.

Pempek is served in various ways such as traditional fried, egg fried, soup,and grilled (indonesian: bakar). Commonly, pempek has various shape such as kapal selam (english: submarine, with egg in the middle), lenjer (thin sliced and fried with eggs), bawang (mixed with crushed garlic), and keriting (english: curly). Traditionally, pempek are fried and served with sliced of cucumber, spread of crushed dry shrimp (indonesian: ebi), black sauce that made from vinegar and brown sugar. However, nowadays lot of new way to serve this food such as in bakar (grilled) and soup that is called tekwan (thin sliced served with ear mushroom) or model (served with tofu and sliced cucumber). 

Beside of Pempek, this restaurant also serves great Pindang Patin. Patin (Pangasius hypophthalmus) is species of water fish that originally lives in the river. Patin is boiled with various herbs, spices with pineapple and young tomato which produce great fresh taste.

Selamat Mencoba! (Have a good try!)

Location: Jl. Cut Meutia, Bekasi, close to Cut Meutia and Siliwangi intersection
Other: Payment with cash only
Taste: 5 out of 5
Ambience: 2 out of 5, hot inside
Price: around Rp. 3,000 - Rp. 10,000

Recommendation: Pindang Patin, Model, all kind of Mpek-mpek

Mpek-mpek: bakar (left), sayur (middle), bawang (right)

Model

Pindang Patin

Pyongyang Restaurant, Jakarta

Pyongyang Restaurant

Pyongyang is a capital and biggest city in the Demoractic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), which also commonly known as North Korea. Pyongyang restaurant offers various authentic North Korean foods. Some of common foods are mostly similar with South Korean cuisine such as Japchae (jabchae, chapcae), Tteokbokki (Ddeokokki), grilled meat/pork, with Banchan (small Korean style dishes) served as side dishes of main course food.

Japchae is a Korean traditional food made consists of Korean glass noodle that is stir fried in sesame oil with various vegetables (usually in form of thin slices of veggies), thin sliced seafood (shrimp and squid) and flavoured with Korean traditional soy sauce. In presentation, japchae is garnished with sesame seeds on top.

Tteokbokki (also pronounce as Topokki) is one of popular Korean snack food that made from rice flour (rice cake). Tteokbokki is cooked with red sauce made from traditional ingredients, sliced green chili, and sliced onion. The sauce tastes a bit spicy, but the Tteokbokki tastes a bit salty.

Banchan in Pyongyang consist of various small dishes such as spinach with sesame, kimchi, mushroom, and crispy bean curd.

Various grilled meat are usually served with green lettuce, thin sliced garlic and green chilli. The way we enjoy this grilled meat are by wrap it inside the lettuce, put garlic and chilli, and put some sauce on the meat. Close the wrapping and enjoy the meat taste combined with fresh veggies.

Good experience to try these popular Korean foods and you might meet some people from North Korean embassy here.

Location: Jl. Gandaria 1 No. 58, Jakarta Selatan
Other: +62 21 72800885
Taste: 4 out of 5
Ambience: 3 out of 5
Price: Rp. 60,000 - Rp. 350,000 per portionDress code: Casual, suitable for family occasion
Recommendation: Tteokbokki, Japchae, Grilled Korean Beef

Banchan (also spelled panch'an)
Various foods served on small dishes

Tteokbokki / Ddeokbokki

Japchae

Korean style grilled beef

The restaurant

Huize Trivelli, Jakarta

Huize Trivelli

"LAAN TRIVELLI is name of a long avenue during dutch colonial era which is presently known as JALAN TANAH ABANG DUA" quoted from Huize Trivelli website.

Huize Trivelli is a place that still keep piece of Dutch colonial history in Indonesia. This restaurant is designed to preserve many historical goods that harmoniously integrate all cultural elements from Dutch, Javanese, and Chinese.

Not only the environment, Huize Trivelli also serves various great foods with mixture of pluralism in Indonesia. One of recommended food is Ayam Bumbu Rempah (Grilled Chicken with Spices). Ayam Bumbu Rempah is cooked with combination of Indonesian traditional spices with European grill technique. Another unique food is Steak Lidah (Tongue Steak). For snack, you must try their Bitterballen that is served with mustard sauce. Huize Trivelli's bitterballen is perfectly cooked without any remaining oil at all.

Your food would not complete without great beverage, try Bir Pletok. Bir pletok is different from normal Bier/Beer that usually made from fermented malt. Bir Pletok is traditional Betawi (Jakarta) drink that is made from combination of various herbs and Vanilla Ice Cream. Bir Pletok is best served cold.

Location: Jl. Persatuan Guru No. 7, Jakarta Pusat
Other: -
Taste: 4 out of 5
Ambience: 5 out of 5
Price: Rp. 20,000 - Rp. 100,000 per portion
Dress code: Casual, Formal (depends on your occasion)
Recommendation: Ayam Bumbu Rempah, Bir Pletok, Steak Lidah, Bitterballen

Wiener Schnitzel

Macaroni Schotel

Old style interior

Steak Lidah
(Tongue Steak)

Poffertjes

Bitterballen

Nasi Tahu Telor
(Traditional Indonesian Tofu, eggs and veggies served with steam rice)

Fish with lemon butter