Kafe Betawi

When i got back to Jakarta, unfortunately i was sick for 2 days and did not eat properly. After i thought i was getting better i went to Kafe betawi to get to some good food, i ordered the iga kambing bakar, babat goreng, emping satu porsi and a rice. Man i ate so much but i didnt care, i was just THAT hungry. The iga kambing was superb, i didnt expect it was that good, the meat was tender, the taste of the lamb was really meat-y, dont know if thats a proper word and they gave me a lump of fat, i didnt care and i just kept eating and eating. The babat goreng is good also and i just learned that "babat" is actually the part of meat from the stomach from a cattle and the one i ate was fried. I dont know why i like the weird parts of the body but its just good. The meat is so juicy and plump not to mention i love the texture. I love the emping which is a snack that is made from biji melinjo that is crushed and then shaped will dried under the sun. The taste is just like a krupuk and i love it when you mixed it with soup which becomes soggy and has absorbed the taste of the soup. The drink that i had of course was teh botol, my favorite classic Indonesian drink! Well i enjoyed eating it but the day after that i got sick again, oh well it was so worth it!

Babat Goreng

Emping Goreng

 Iga Kambing Bakar

 Soup with Emping

 Teh Botol Sosro

Bubba Gump Pictures

Bali Trip 6 "Bubba Gump"

This will be my last Bali trip food, Bali was the perfect summer anyone needed to get their tension off and just a good break to have with friends. For the past 5 days, i have enjoyed my days in Bali, there was the occasional dramas, good food, watched the sunrise, had an all night party, good late night chats with special people and of course got a good deal of tan, lots of laughs and got to just chill. The food that i chose for my personal project is a restaurant that i really like that is called Bubba Gump and located in Kuta Square. My friends were all hungry so decided to order loads of appetizers and i also ordered the pasta to go with it. The unique quality of this restaurant is the way how you order your food, you do not need to call out to order instead you just need to put this sign at the table "stop forest stop", the workers will scream "stop forest stop" and a waiter will come to you and if you do not want to order anything, you just need to put the sign "run forest run". I ordered the Onion rings, Shrimp & Salsa Cocktail…Shaken, Not Stirred!, Old Fashioned New England Clam Chowder, "...Of Course We Have Scampi!", Best Ever Popcorn Shrimp and Steamed Clams & Mussels. All of them are really high recomended, the onion rings were served with mayo sauce or something mixed with mayo sauce which taste incredibly good, the shrimp and salsa cocktail had the wine after taste which i love...the sauce that they used was incredibly good and the food itself is fresh. The clam Chowder could have been better though, i expected that it would be better but it just tasted the same and they gave me a small portion for a high price! My main course was the "We have Scampi!" The name was uber cute that i just have to order the food, basically the food is Tender Shrimp sautéed with Capers in Lemon-Garlic Butter, served over a bed of Linguine. I love the lemon garlic butter that they used, it lessen the creamy flavor and makes it more delicious. The shrimps was a good combination with the linguine and i must ask you who haven't tried this to order it! Whats good about the steamed Clams and mussels are the French toast bread, the crisp combined with the clams and mussels makes it so good to eat, i just love their food...The service was really good also, they were open, explained how the serve the food thoroughly and even gave us card tricks! 

Bali Trip 5 "Warung Italia"

I just had my tanned in Bali and seriously my eating schedule is messed up, my friends and i had lunch at around 5 in the evening. I wasn't that hungry though because i really wanted to just have a sip of margaritas and just lay down to watch the sunset. Oh well, since the majority was really hungry, my friend recommended an Italian restaurant in Seminyak and after around 20 minutes searching (considering that we were lost too) we ended in the place. At first i had my doubts, when i heard "Italian" in my head, i imagined it to be more classy and expensive but instead it was this dodgy local restaurant with a bad taste of music because well the music was like cheap dance song and "dangduts" which i am not a fan of, but then i had my hopes because i saw this gigantic oven that they use to make the pizzas traditionally which is great because i love the authenticity and the respect for continuing tradition. We ordered two types of pizza, one was the mozzarella pizza which basically is the classic pizza filled with cheese, tomato and meat. The other one, i didn't remember because i had to do nature's call, well don't blame me for being human. Basically the other pizza was just as similar as the mozzarella except that it was more vegetarian and a different meat was placed in the mid layer of the pizza. On top of it was put with various type of vegetables and sliced tomatoes. Amazingly it was really good, the pizza is thin and for the price they are giving us, its really cheap but was much more worth it because the taste is scrumptious. The crust was soft, meat was tender and the cheese is tickling in your tongue which makes me want to grab more. Personally, i like the mozzarella one, but if you prefer vegetables than meat i suppose you would choose the other but hey at least our pizzas selections were balanced. For my pasta i ordered the ravioli which is they type of pasta that is composed of a filling sealed between two layers of thin pasta dough. The word ravioli is of the Italian verb riavvolgere ("to wrap"), the one i ordered is the bolognese, the sauce is sweet and salty which makes me more hungry as i grab more, the filling is spinach which is my favorite vegetable. Overall my experience here was entertaining, the price is great even though the atmosphere wasn't so great but at least i had good laughs with my friends and could just relax with a couple of cigarettes.

Source: http://www.barudibali.com/warung-italia

 Mozzarella Pizza(Left) and Italian(I did not get the name sorry!) Pizza(Right) 

 Bolognese Ravioli

Bali Trip 4 "Gelato Ice Cream"

Let me tell to you all of my dessert lovers out there, for me eating "desserts" is the same as inhaling air. That's just because desserts are simply so enjoyable that you cannot get enough from it. Well in Bali i had an ice cream, i know right why am i writing on something as simple as ice cream but maybe you all should should continue reading it because the ice cream that i ate is a different one, well i know for you sweet tooth out there you probably already know why i chose this particular brand of ice cream but bear with me for those newcomers who will soon become one of us. I ate a vanilla ice cream from Gelato, and as you might have noticed Gelato is an Italian word meaning "frozen". I do not get why sometimes people would have the misconception for the word of "gelatin" which is for another different use of purpose because a Gelato ice cream is fully made out of milk, cream, sugar, eggs and occasionally fruits as their main ingredients. Anyways Gelato is a good brand of ice cream because of its popular use of lower butterfat content. When a normal ice cream would use about 14%, a Gelato ice cream only uses 4-8%! See and the taste is just as exquisite and lighter than a normal ice cream but still overall sweet enough that you can enjoy it. The vanilla ice cream had this milky taste which i love very much! So overall i think Gelato is a good choice for ice cream because not only it is lower on the fat content which is healthier it also taste good.

Vanilla Ice Cream