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

Mie Godhog APJAY, Jakarta

Mie Godhog APJAY (Apotik Jaya)

APJAY is an accidental name for this noodle hawker shop. APJAY stands for Apotik Jaya that means Jaya drugstore.This noodle hawker stall is located in the parking space close to this drugstore (chemist/"apotek").This is the history behind APJAY name to this noodle hawker stall.

Mie Godhog is a traditional Javanese style food that means boiled noodle soup. In APJAY, this mie godhog is cooked traditionally by using charcoal stove. The charcoal stove produces different heat and smell that made this food becomes unique and special. Not only mie godhog, all of the foods are cooked with this charcoal stove. Another secret recipe of this hawker stall is the chicken stock and meat. This stall only use free range chicken (ayam kampung) that produce more taste and healthy nutrition to the food.

Every food offers in this stall are cooked carefully with special care and sufficient heat to the wok. Charcoal is blew by electric fan to make sure enough heat to the food.

Beside of Mie Godhog, this stall also offers several type of Nasi Goreng (fried rice). One of the most favourite is Nasi Goreng Kebuli. Nasi Goreng Kebuli is different from other nasi goreng because of it herbs taste.

There are two locations of this stall in Panglima Polim street and Cipete Raya. Eat mie godhog with white pepper taste hot and spicy in our throat. Moreover, try hot Wedang Uwuh to accompany your meal. Wedang Uwuh is made from various aromatic leaves that could cure some sickness such as flu and sorethroat.

Selamat Makan!

Location: Apotik Jaya, Panglima Polim and Jl. Cipete Raya, besides Bakso Sehat Atom
Other: Open until 2.00 a.m.
Taste: 4 out of 5
Ambience: 2 out of 5
Price: around Rp. 15,000 - Rp. 25,000 per portion
Dress code: Whatever you want
Recommendation: Mie Godhog, Bihun Godhog, Nasi Goreng Kebuli Kambing, Wedang Uwuh :)

Mie Godhog
(Boiled noodle)

Nasi Goreng Kebuli Kambing
(Fried rice with herbs and goat)

Mie Udang Singapore Mimi, Jakarta

Mie Udang Singapore Mimi

Hok Cia! means tasty in Hokkien dialect. That word is a suitable opening word to describe the taste of this Singaporean style noodle soup. The soup taste fully consists of shrimp taste. Fresh boiled prawn with couple of shrimp ball are served with well cooked hokkien style noodle. Another good choices is Mie Terasi. Terasi comes from Indonesian traditional ingredients that is made from shrimp paste. For spicy lover, you can ask for more chilli or sambal to this Terasi fried noodle.

This is a small restaurant located in a residential area. No specific dress code is required to this restaurant as long as comfortable with the weather.


Location: Komplek Greenville Blok BI No.16, Jakarta Barat
Other: -
Taste: 4 out of 5
Ambience: 2 out of 5
Price: around Rp. 20,000 - Rp. 30,000 per portion
Dress code: Casual, the place is in their home terrace, it's sweating...
Recommendation: Mie Udang Singapore (Shrimp Noodle Soup), Mie Terasi (Shrimp Paste Noodle)

Mie udang singapore (Singaporean shrimp noodle)

Mie terasi (Shrimp Paste Fried Noodle)

Boka Buka, Jakarta

Boka Buka

Simplicity is the main theme of this restaurant with artistic decoration such as lamp made from various bulbs and paintings. Chilling water sounds accompany guest lunch and dinner at the outdoor table  beside the small garden. Menu of the day is written on the big size blackboard by using coloured chalk.

French food always identic with butter, garlic, wine, and cheese. French food are uniquely made by using authentic cooking technique and art.

Location: Jl. Cipete Raya No. 7, Jakarta Selatan
Other: -
Taste: 4 out of 5
Ambience: 4 out of 5
Price: Rp. 30,000 - Rp. 100,000
Dress code: Casual
Recommendation: Mushroom Lasagna, Pumpkin Soup, Escargot

Escargot with butter and garlic

Chicken with creme mushroom in crepes

Mushroom lasagna

Apple strudel with cinnamon & vanila ice cream

Tapas Movida, Jakarta

Tapas Movida

A romantic place with Spanish ambience located in Southern Jakarta. This restaurant is one of a recommended place to meet up with friends. Beside of individual main course, Tapas Movida also provides main course and finger foods that can accomodate for several people.

Briefly, Spanish cuisine taste quite different to Indonesian Food. Spanish cuisine use less spices than Indonesian or Asian foods. Their secret recipes exist within spanish gazpacho sauce that is used as base sauce for various menu in this restaurant. 

Dont forget to let your body move after hearing the Spanish live music. However, please mind of its limited parking space.

Location: Jl. Cipete Raya No. 66, Jakarta Selatan (+62 21 7510851)
Other: Monday - Sunday, 10:00 - 23:00
Taste: 4 out of 5
Ambience: 4 out of 5
Price: Rp. 15,000 - Rp. 270,000
Dress code: Casual or Formal (depends on your occasion)
Recommendation: Come along with your mates, so you can share various foods and wine.. 

Champinones al ajillo
Garlic Chilli Mushrooms

Pescado al horno con pasta
Catalan styled baked snapper, served with tomato and paprika provencal on a bed of zucchini 

Pimientos relleros
Paprika stuffed with Spanish rice gazpacho sauce

Signora Pasta, Jakarta

Signora Pasta

A home style Italian kitchen in the secluded area at the South of Jakarta. All the foods are cooked with love ^.^ by Italian Monsieur which is the owner and the head chef. We have tried most of their menus and all taste very good, they use good quality and fresh ingredients with good price. Ensure that the head chef is the one who cook it for you. Better to reserve first.

Location: Jl. Cireundeu Raya No. 20, Jakarta Selatan (+62 21 91264389)
Other: -

Taste: 4 out of 5
Ambience: 2 out of 5, not spacious

Price: Rp. 25,000 – Rp. 80,000
Dress code: Casual
Recommendation: Try fusilli al forno, fusilli al tonno, Signora pizza (the pizza is good, not too oily), gnocchi al formaggi (italian potato dumpling), and refresh your meal with bunga-bunga cocktail.

Insalata Mista

Fussili al Forno

Restoran Miranda, Jakarta

Restoran Miranda d/h Tan Goei

An old style Dutch Indonesian restaurant is located in Central heart of Jakarta. The atmosphere of this restaurant is very casual. Guests can choose indoor table inside the old style building or outside at verandah.

Location: Jl. Besuki No. 1A, Jakarta Pusat

Taste: 2 out of 5

Price: Rp. 10,000 - Rp. 60,000

Ambience: 2 out of 5

Dress code: Casual

Recommendation: Try the colonial of Wiener Schnitzel and jadoel snacks (lumpia Semarang, chicken ragout)

Wiener Schnitzel

Lumpia Semarang

Chicken Ragout