Jakarta

The Fatahila Square in the old town of Jakarta is the center of the Dutch colonial city. The main building in the center of the square is the former Governor's Office. The European architecture that was built more than two hundred years ago is still well preserved. There are a large number of pigeons on the square that are not afraid of people. There are bicycle rentals on the street. The bicycles are a cartoon color with big wheels. When riding up, the stall owner will also attach a big straw hat of the same cartoon color.  The tourists who come and go, the local men who sell the ice water, the special food stalls all make up the charming temperament of the old city. If you feel tired, you can go to a coffee shop. Café Batavia is a good coffee shop that gave me a nostalgic feeling. Going in is like stepping into an old Hollywood movie. They have juice, coffee, snacks and afternoon tea time that is very enjoyable.

Acaraki in Jakarta tasted a local medicinal tea in Indonesia. It feels similar to the Chinese medicine in the mainland, but they are not tantalizing, but they are putting together various raw materials, adding water like a drip coffee. It takes a little time, after being filtered, it is poured into a glass and tasted. The taste is a bit sour, and the taste of the medicine is said to be good for the body. PS

Today's lunch will be the chef's current school selling Balinese specialties - dirty duck meal. Asleep, we went to the cooking class, and today we will experience the Balinese cuisine. As long as it is about eating, I am a little excited~ I thought it was a chef school. The result was actually an open-air hotel restaurant. When I entered the restaurant, I was fixed by the wood carving on the pillar. The pillars are carved like this, this is too Tema's art! I really want to move home~~ The teacher has been for us for a long time, oh no, in order to vigorously prepare the console for the show, the pots and pans have been placed properly, and the chef is stationed. All ingredients and kitchen utensils are ready, with ingredients such as chicken, beef, fish, and various sauces. The most important dirty duck is already baked, just need to fry it. The main event is coming, fried dirty duck~ Speaking of dirty ducks, in fact, Chinese people rarely put these dirty words in the name of the food. In fact, dirty ducks need to be fried because of the carbon, so the ducks will change color. It is called a dirty duck. The whole Bali is best known for its dirty duck meal in Ubud, because it is surrounded by large areas of rice fields, with good water quality, many fish and insects, and the ducks are particularly fat~ dirty duck meal is good A variety of side dishes with a set menu, with green vegetables, color matching look makes people appetite. Today's dirty duck meal production is a big success!

📍Copper Club, Kelapa Gading This hidden coffee shop in North Jakarta is really worth the visit. Beside the home made dessert they made that tasted delicious, their beverages (especially coffee) was tasty too. Also their interior and decoration, I was so in love. Taking pictures is a must here.

📍Angkringan Boy, Kelapa Gading Disclaimer: this place contains all pork. So if you’re vegan or if you’re Moslem, this place is not for you. This place is called ‘Angkringan’ which means like a small shop or a street stall. This place is located in front of a car shop and this place opens at night. In the afternoon this place is an automotive shop. All the food i ordered, none of them was bad. All were so delicious. The siomay was so big and tasty. The sweet and spicy satay, the pork rice. Everythinggggg was good!!!

📍Fat Straw, Kelapa Gading I always came to this place when i was in high school. At that time, not many bubble tea places like now. It wasn’t a mainstream drink and you only could get bubble tea at certain places. The old place was smaller than this, then they moved to this bigger one and decorated it with yellow paintings, bees. Ordered strawberry milke tea (my favorite), it was so perfect, not too sweet and you could taste the strawberry. the bubble was chewy and sweet.

📍Radja Gurame, Central Jakarta This restaurant is a Sundanese restaurant and used to be my family’s favorite restaurant. You know how Indonesian like spicy food so much. we ordered smoked spicy fish, smoked fish, some green veggies and indonesian sour soup. Over all the food was tasty and the taste was just perfect. my mom spent her childhood in Bogor and they spoke, cooked Sundanese food. so if she says this Sundanese restaurant is good, means it’s good.

📍Kota Tua, Jakarta Kota tua or Old city of Jakarta is one of the oldest place in here. Indonesia was colonized by holland for 320 years no wonder if some of the buildings were influenced by them. you can tell from the architecture itself, it looked so old and vintage. This is the place where you should pay a visit to everytime you come to J town. so many street food around this place and people are everywhere selling souvenirs. be careful if you want to eat the street food, you need to really take a look at them. it might be really dirty.

📍Tredici Ristorante, Senopati, South Jakarta Place wasn’t too big. however, they managed to have a second floor. I ordered Petto Di Pollo Alla Parmigiana. Chicken breast just tasted so so. I liked the salad and the mashed potato better. Mashed potato wasn’t too salty, salad was just well seasoned. The portion was so small, but for me that was enough. For the beverage, i tried ‘Isabella’ and yuck! Didn’t like it at all. It’s basically green apple, strawberry, and watermelon, i know it was healthy but it’s just weird. The panna cotta wasn’t even a panna cotta. More like a pudding. Service was great. gotta give this place 3,7/5. #givethanks #givethanks