Jakarta (Culinary) Trip in June 2013: Tours Les Jours

French bakery is always famous with their delicate, soft and fluffy bread, and this bakery is not an exception. First introduced to us during our trip to South Korea, we quickly fall in love with their creation, as it always provides us with tasty and fulfilling joy of french bread.

Today's selection including their bread with cheese, chocolate, and other various stuffing. We got a feeling that the bread might not last until dinner time :).

Enjoy!

Tours les Jours
Central Park Mall
Jl. Let. Jend.S. Parman kav.28
Jakarta Barat 11470
Website: http://tljus.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/touslesjoursindonesia

The Bread!

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Jakarta (Culinary) Trip in June 2013: Omo Chicken

We always loved to eat South Korean food, and after our recent visit there, the appetite grow bigger over time.

So, when we are familiarizing ourselves to this Central Park Mall, we decided to eat in a restaurant that serves a familiar dish: South Korean.

This vendor in particular serves a twist of South Korean food with the presentation of Japanese fast food. Notice the rice balls that look familiar like Onigiri and the use of paper plates? To us, it is very simple. Just like Japanese restaurant.

We ordered their Chicken wings, Pom Pom Potato Balls, and rice balls. Overall the taste is alright, and gives us fuel to make a secondary round trip all across the mall :).

Enjoy!

Omo Chicken
Central Park Level 3 -121
Jl. Let. Jend.S. Parman kav.28
Jakarta Barat 11470
Phone: +62 21 5698.5776
Website: http://www.omochicken.com/
Twitter: http://twitter.com/OmoKitchen
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/OmoKitchen

Full Complete Menu

Potato Balls

South Korean Chicken Wings

Rice Balls!

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Caffe Bene: Korean Coffee Shop in Bandung

Alia has been craving to visit this place for a while, so when the time comes to visit she was delighted. We visit the place accompanied by two of our small nephews during a car free day event in Dago area.

The place is just opened for less than a month. Located beside TBI in jalan Dago, it has spacious parking lot and spacious interior.

The menu they sell here consisted of honey bread, waffle, coffee, and their specialty: Bingsu.
We ordered the Green Tea Bingsu and Waffle.

The Bingsu comes in large portion. It can serve for up to four people. The waffle tasted fresh and light. Perfect for enjoying at with your friends.

Enjoy!

Caffe Bene
Jl. Ir. H. Juanda No. 155
Bandung
Twitter: https://twitter.com/CaffeBeneINA
Web: https://www.facebook.com/caffebeneIndonesia



Caffe Bene, it has spacious parking lot and spacious interior.


Look at the size of that Bingsu


Walnut Waffle


Hot Cappuccino 


Green Tea Bingsu with unique table number on the background

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Enjoying Original Korean Fried Chicken at Myeong Ga Restaurant

One thing that we missed during our last trip to Korea, is trying their original fried chicken. After we returned to Bandung, we have made the search to find the best Korean fried chicken as one of our obsession.

Searching ups and down. left and right, we came to visit this place: Myeong Ga Korean Restaurant. We are very familiar with their branch in Papaya, but never ever tried their main branch in Jl. Prof. Sutami. 

The place is very well designed. When we entered, a similar feeling begin to come to us, as we entered a restaurant during our trip to Nami Island and Seoul. The greetings of "hwan-yeong" are said by the waitress here. The traditional dress by the waitress. The calm and relaxing ambiance. And even the guest are mostly Korean.

As our main purpose is to try their fried chicken, then we quickly ordered their fried chicken, 2 bowl of rice, Jjajangmyeon , Mango Juice and Aloe Vera drink. While we are waiting, we are served appetizers of kimchi, fried tofu, mushrooms, and other delicacy. Also, when we ordered, we got free flow of Korean tea, just like we experienced back in Korea.

When we faced the serving, we are amazed with the size. It should be enough to served up to four people! Wow, amazing!

The chicken tasted very good. A combination of familiar breaded fried chicken, but with an Asian twist. Yum! The noodle also tasted delicious. Happy tummy and happy face.

And for a while, we feel like returning to Seoul again.

Enjoy!


Myeong Ga Korean Restaurant
Jl. Terusan Prof. Dr. Sutami No. 52A
Phone: +62 22 2007 363

The Appetizers

Mango Juice

Aloe Vera Drink

Jjajangmyeon

Korean Fried Chicken

Hungry (Happy) Face!

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South Korea (Culinary) Trip in November 2012: Farewell Meal

We were on our way on the flight to Indonesia.
Good bye South Korea. See you again next time. Looking forward another trip to this country again. 

Enjoy!

Lunch set

Onigiri

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South Korea (Culinary) Trip in November 2012: Dinner at Daepyeong Galbi, Seoul

It was our last night in South Korea, so we must celebrate the farewell night with something unique that is their famous cuisine, Kalbi or Galbi. According to Wikipedia, kalbi or galbi generally refers to a variety of gui or grilled dishes in Korean cuisine that are made with marinated beef (or pork) short ribs in a ganjang-based sauce (Korean soy sauce). In the Korean language, galbi literally means "rib" and can refer to cooked or uncooked ribs. Although the dish's full name is galbi gui, the word "gui" (grilling) is commonly omitted. It is listed at number 41 on World's 50 most delicious foods readers' poll complied by CNN Go in 2011.

The restaurant located on the way from downtown to our hotel. The place had rustic atmosphere and quite traditional, we sat on the floor, and as usual the eating done in communal consist of Beef Galbi and the side dishes, they also served lettuce as a wrapper. Well, I love this food, actually I love Korean food in general.

So, it was sad to have to leave South Korea because we had so many amazing experience. We LOVE South Korea, their food, their cultures. Hopefully we had a chance to come here again!

Enjoy!

Daepyeong Galbi

153-1, Pyeongchang-dong,

Jongno-gu, Seoul

South Korea

The Beef Galbi #1

The signage

The stairs to the restaurant

The corridor

The seating area

Our group

Exhausted

The Beef Galbi #2

The Beef Galbi #3

The side dishes

The set menu

The salad

The sea weed

The side dishes

The lettuce

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South Korea (Culinary) Trip in November 2012: Coffee Addict

Do you know how Korean loves coffee. Just take a look at the pictures. :)) I love coffee too, but I find their coffee too sweet for me. 

Enjoy!

Coffee all over

South Korea

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South Korea (Culinary) Trip in November 2012: Ilpum Shinto Duck, Seoul

After we had gone to few of tourist attractions, including cosmetic shop, we had a barbecue as our lunch. The barbecue consisted of duck and beef meat. It was quite expensive as we looked in their menu, for a set menu they charged it for KRW 63.000 around Rp 630.000. Wow... But it was good, of course it good. We ate the barbecue with rice wrapped in lettuce like I always saw in Korean Drama :P For the dessert, we had red bean ice or it is called patbingsu, well it was also delicious. Well, maybe it was the holiday atmosphere made all the food taste good.

So, we were continuing our trip in the city of Seoul. It was our last day in Seoul after all. Enjoy!

Ilpum Shinto Duck
349-1 Namgajwa dong,
Seodaemun- gu, Seoul
South Korea Ph. 02-306-2345~6

The signage

In front of the restaurant

The menu #1

The Menu #2

The seating area #1

The seating area #2

The menu set #1

The menu set #2

The barbecue #1

The side dish: Onion

The sauce

Green vegetables as a wrapper

Tofu (?)

The side dish: the infamous kimchi

The rice

The soup #1

The soup #2

Patbingsu

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