By the Beach - Restaurant Review

I've been walking pass through this restaurant for a few times in the last couple of weeks, I was getting more curious each time and I promised to my self to try it out. I imagined my self sitting on one of those chairs by the window in one afternoon and writing an article about the place.

So, I came during weekends cause that's the only free time I have in the afternoon. The place was already packed by the time I get there which shows a good sign, the food must have taste good. It's considered as a good crowd for such relatively new place like this. But my mood wasn't right ever since I walked in, not only I didn't get my spot by the window but they gave my requested spot to other customer even though I already specifically requested the spot 3 times. My mood was ruin instantly and decided to write the article some other time.

They do have a cool decor inside and outside. It look like a typical restaurant that you might find by the beach somewhere, but....what makes it different, this restaurant was in a middle of a shopping mall in Jakarta and they even have few palm trees inside the restaurant (fake ones of course). Well, I admit....the place do have cozy atmosphere, lots of lights (during day time), and comfortable sofas and chairs.

They offer seafood based menu selections from fishes, prawns, calamaris, and even sea shells. I ordered prawns with mayonnaise, grilled "ikan sebelah" with Jimbaran sauce, By the Beach Iced tea and Mango mint Iced tea. I love the prawns the most but everything was delicious, even the iced tea. They have ordinary iced tea and By the Beach iced tea as their signature, it was ordinary iced tea mixed with mint leaves and slices of apple which were shaken together so the apple and mint taste mixed with the tea, created a different kind of flavor to our tongue.

One important thing, If you consider to come with your children, then I suggest you to reconsider cause apparently they do not have separate areas for smoking and non-smoking. So, It is very possible that a smoker sits in the next table of an infant. Maybe they should do something about it cause it's bothered me so much.

Anyways, aside from they lack of service quality and smokey room, I do recommend the meal and the atmosphere, it was great...I felt as if I just came back from a vacation in the beach.

Note:
Prawns with mayonnaise is worth IDR 78k
Grilled ikan sebelah with Jimbaran sauce is worth IDR 79k
By the Beach iced tea is worth IDR 23k
Mango mint iced tea is worth IDR 23k
Rice is worth IDR 9k/portion

Come and try this new restaurant:
EX 2nd Floor
Jakarta
(Located at ex Fashion Bar)


Happy eating sailor...

Cheers,
MissCandyBar
=)

A piece of Mind

Wanna try something new, something different from the previous blog entries. It's okay if you wanna skip reading this entry, but if u thought that u might find something useful out of this, then bear it with me will ya? Just this one time...

Have you ever thought that life is like a series of random chances come together in a destined path and created a history of someone's life? Well, some are indeed random but others aren't so random apparently. It was destiny, it was meant to happen on that particular moment in that particular place, it was fate.

You will come across a lot of people in you life, some touch your life in such brief moment and puff...they're gone. But If you're lucky, then you could keep holding on to those who's eventually be part of your life. Yes, you're lucky my friend.

Life will beat you down from time to time, it's only a gentle reminder that God still loves you, that He would want the best out of you. Cause when life beats you down, it was a lesson of life in progress. Personally, I would call it "When reality hits and the truth bites!".

Sometime I need to be weak for just a moment, a small fracture of moment...in order for me to become stronger. It's like a phoenix bird, it will live a full life and then it dies and burnt to ashes which will reborn and become something magnificent. Well, we all need those weak moment, it's not gonna show how lame we are but it will show how wonderful you really are cause not all people could rise from the fall.

All my life, all these years...I stumbled across a lot of people with different characters. Each and one of those people always taught me something, a lesson of life. You should appreciate everyone in your life, not just your family or your love one, but each and one of them, even people you hate. Well, after all...hate it's just another form of love cause if you hate someone, it means that you care for that person.

Life can be unfair maybe even cruel to you sometime, but if by the end of the day that you have someone to hold you and share all those, then you know that it will all be okay. Life unfolds a mystery each day, it should be something to look forward to when you wake up every morning cause you'd know that something great gonna happen, even though it may happen not according to your plans or expectations. Life is funny that way...

Dear friends, cherish every moment, every person, every obstacle, every heartache, every pain, every happiness, every tiny little things. Live every day like there's no tomorrow, then you could live life at its fullest.

I'm just sharing a piece of my mind which sometime can be very sentimental. Hope you could find something worth of your time in this blog entry.


Happy living people...

Cheers,
MissCandyBar
=)

Food Kulture - Restaurant Review

I tried the Food Kulture few days ago, I was just curious about the place but turns out it was managed by the same management of Urban Kitchen so there's no wonder that they share the same concept only under different name.

So, it's basically you typical food court consists of plenty of dining choices. The plus side is, you could hang out here with bunch of your friends and not worry about the place capacity for both smoking and non-smoking area. Food choices are vary from Oriental, Western and even Indonesian cuisines.

I tried a Roast duck with Hainan Rice from Maystar, it was quite recommendable. Then I had a BananaBerry smoothie as my desert (I'm a sucker for BananaBerry), but this time the Berry is too much thus it's a bit too sour for me, maybe they should add more banana and less on the strawberry.

Unfortunately, the background music was too loud so it's kinda hard to have a decent conversation here, well you have to talk extra loud in order others to hear you. It's a good thing that I'm not run out of voice here. hihi.

Anyways, it could be one of your choice for a hang out place, come to:

Food Kulture
Plaza Indonesia Extension, 5th Floor


Happy dining people

Cheers,
MissCandyBar
=)

Sinou Kaffee Hausen - Restaurant Review

It's the beginning of May 2010 and the bet is on.

Okay, let me flash back a bit to few days earlier. I made a bet with couple of my friends, the challenge was actually came from my self. I dare them, "Do you guys think that I could make it through a month without shopping?" And they all respond "NOOOOOO !!!". Well okay, challenge accepted. I agreed not to shop anything for a whole month, not even a tiny purchase, nothing. So, It's May already and the bet is on.

This bet will obviously effects on my writing, I couldn't make any shopping review. Instead, I will make culinary reviews. Hope you don't mind. Cause I have to win this bet, for the sake of my own pride. (hehehe) crossing fingers.

I think that I'm starting to have a new habit, I'm starting to love writing an article about a place while I'm actually IN the place. I'm at the Sinou Kaffee Hausen as I wrote this, writing in the way that I love the most...with a nice cup of joe by my side.

Now about the place, I find it hard to be comfortable in it cause maybe the atmosphere just not right for me. I admit that they have unique decor, it's kinda look like an old warehouse filled with bunch of cozy sofas and wooden chairs. But I find it hard to find words to write, I even need a mood boost from my itunes and still the words don't pour out yet.

I can't give you any food recommendation thou cause I'm not ordering any food. Just a cup of Hot Cappuccino, just right to my taste and only worth of IDR 22k. Just try the place yourself and maybe...just maybe it suits you better than it suits me.

Come to :
Sinou Kaffee Hausen
Jl. Panglima Polim V No. 26
Kebayoran Baru
T : +6221 725 8569

Happy trying friends

Cheers,
MissCandyBar
=)