Archive for March, 2009

Jakarta continues with food

March 25, 2009

Good morning Jakarta. It’s day 2 and we’re all out to hunt for food, interesting places, the walks of Jakarta and whatever that comes in the way. Set out considerably early although we missed the breakfast, walked out on the streets of Blok M and the weather was all shiny and the clouds were mesmerising.

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Walked into the Blok M mall and sneaked around for breakfast. Came across this really funny bunting which says Nasi Goreng Gila!! You’ll go crazy eating our fried rice or our fried rice is crazy, vice versa. You go figure~

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Ended up in some crapppy restaurant eating soto ayam with some weird name bite snacks called cireng or something. But we just belasah cos damn hungry… Them exchanging sunnies and posing :D

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We walked in the mall abit, saw alot of cheap stuff. Converse/puma sneakers at RM50 – 70 bucks , Adidas warehouse sales, chicsss :P and everything else. Roze bought these mini ice cream at one of the stalls inside the mall. They gave us a membership card too, hahah damn cute.

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We set out on the roads again, wandering aimlessly. Blind leading the blind, so we called ourselves. Saw a couple of bajaj’s racing on the streets. Apparently, it’s the cheapest mode of transportation around here. Rp 5,000 for quite a distance = about RM1.50?

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We saw this interesting street stall selling these kuihs so we bought em to try. There were pandan and kaya flavour i think, and both were delicious. We later found out that they call them ‘kuih tetek’. wtf

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Walked non stop and went in and out many many many malls until we sweat like pigs and almost break our legs, we decided to stop for lunch. We opted for nasi padang which the locals recommended and they told us to head to this famous restaurant ‘Nasi Kapau’. And we were served with loaaads of dishes, we ate like nobody’s business and it was indeed a very fulfilling lunch.

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Then we went back to the hotel to freshen up, ended up pigging for like 2 hours cos we were all exhausted. After recharging we were all set out for our dessert in the late evening. We went to the Cheesecake factory cum super nice cafe.

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We ordered each a different kinda cheesecake and drinks to go with our teatime. There were American cheesecake, tiramisu, strawberry cheese, choc cheese and so many other delicious cheese based pastries. The one below is damn delicious we can’t get enough of it.

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Roze and Andrew

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Roze and Tiki with their wide smiles

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The boys with their satisfied faces

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Next Bongky came and had his share of choc cheese and off we headed to the eX mall, one of the luxurious mall in Jakarta. We first headed to Hard Rock Cafe where I bought some souvenirs and collectible items. We later ended up in this posh restaurant dining to Masakan Manador, a delicacy in Indonesia. Can’t remember what’s this called but its corn deep fried and it’s super crispy to go with rice and dishes.

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Sate manador, both spicy and honey coated ones. They are absolutely scrumptious. There were many other dishes like the fish with spices, squid, veg, spicy chicken etc etc.

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After the crazy dinner, we headed out for some jolly good time experiencing the crazy night life in Jakarta. Went club hopping, saw one of the largest clubs in Jakarta, crashed into a friend’s private party with DJ, drank tequila right from the bottle and sat on a fast and furious ride.

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All in one night and before we called it a night, we experienced the street food which was pretty interesting.

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Good night folks, I’ll write more soon.

random.

March 20, 2009

Haha.. I’m just bored. Catching up on my tv series. Had Sub-of-the-day from Subway for dinner and a java chip frap take away to go with Claire Bennett & Peter Petrelli saving their species..

Anyways, just random.

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Reminds me of koala bears and how Kun relate to how they’ll die of heart attack if you clap your hands real loud in front of them. Apparently they’re weak creatures. But still, koala rocks wtf. hahaha

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When life throws a lemon at you, you give them an indifferent orange. Whatever…

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Shit this one is freaking funny. Reminds me of my dad who just can’t stop watering his garden day in day out since young. He just love the greeneries, it’s in his blood.

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Last but not least, peace yo! Make love not war.

Jakarta voyage

March 19, 2009

Has it been that long since we came back from Jakarta? Haha.. The trip was in short, fantaboluous. We crashed and had a sleep over the night before, we killed lotsa zombies along the way, woke up really late and rushed to the airport. The usual PD routine! Muahahaa…

Anyway, let the pictures do the talking.

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Boys be boys, act macho and posing at the airport while Roze did the honor to check us in.

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Our flight there was of course via Air Asia, cheap ma now everyone definitely can fly. But this plane we got was from Indonesia cos the flight no was QZ xxxx and I tell you it suck. Not because AA sucks but this plane was honestly the worst aircraft I’ve ever sat on. Dirty and old, even flying on a F50 is better. Ya da ya da.. stop complaining I know.

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The moment we arrived, checked out and met our old buddy Chandra who did a big favour coming to pick us all the way at the airport. The first thing we did was Hoka Hoka Bento, the meal which I missed the last time we were in Jakarta. Tell you, the meal was totally ONZ! At less than RM10, you get a bento set with your choice of fruit juice.

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Remember I said Chandra did us a big favour? Because after dinner, we travelled into the city to look for a place to crash and got stuck in the blooody Jakarta jam for 3-freaking-hours! It takes only 30-mins to return to airport on our last day during day time on a Sunday, imagine….

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The crazy jam thus led the smart authorities in Jakarta to declare a new road law. 3 or you’re out!

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After checking in the hotel, our other old friend whom we nicknamed Bongky came and brought us to eat nasi uduk with their local dishes. They were ayam penyet, crunchy beef slices, stinging spicy sauce, kacang gravy, es-jeruk and etc. What a fulfilling dinner. After dinner, there were more.

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He brought us to a niceee cosy coffeeshop and little did we know they had an awesome lounge at the top floor. Decorated with nice japanese lookalike table with comfy sofa, we just chilled and had a good time catching up the old times. There was also a pretty cool concept whereby the tables were coated with large plain white papers and crayons to allow their customers expressing their creativity whenever they like.

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Caramel ice blended coffee. Damn onz.

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Last but not least, the boys with Chandra. Honestly, I think this place beats Starbucks anytime for a local coffee franchise. We should have outlets like this in Malaysia. Oh well, there are a lot of things we don’t have. Or should I say we just can’t have them all.

Anyway, More to come :)