Jakarta Indonesia

[Froggy]

So let's talk a little about Ramadan in Jakarta. Yesterday was the first day of fasting and I already have a taste of what is it here as far as the food scene and entertainment is concern.

- First of all most restaurants don't serve alcohol during this period.
- Pubs and entertainment like night clubs and "bath houses" are close at least for the first week and then slowly open by the back door, so the front of the establishment will look like its closed but its party inside.
- Inside hotels its business as usual.
- Muslim restaurants mostly close and opens late afternoon for people to buy home and then almost breaking fast like 5pm they will open for patrons to sit and wait. These restaurants mostly open till after midnight.
- Muslim restaurants in malls will be open. Like all restaurants including fast food restaurants and also coffee shops a curtain will be installed across the dining area.

I was in a mall for lunch yesterday and here’s the scene of restaurants in the mall.

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Just took the following photos at the Seokarno Hatta Airport:

Outside airport


Inside Airport

 

[Froggy]

So was in the mall shown in the above video. Had lunch with my muslim driver.

Lots of sambal lunch



Beef soup, the stock is very rich very tasty


Ayam goreng resting on a pile of very spicy sambal. Behind is taugay fry with silver fish


Bringal


Beef rib


Tahu goreng

 

[Froggy]

Fajar Restaurant is a Chinese restaurant found in many locations in Jakarta. They are popular for their kampong chicken rice. Was at one branch in the PIK area of Jakarta



The boiled chicken


Fish maw soup this is very delicious


Beansprouts with salted fish


Tilapia braised with black preserved beans
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[Froggy]

Lunch at a Padang joint yesterday - damn shiok

(anti clockwise) The green sambal chili is very very very shiok ; tahu ; egg ; beef rendang ; begedil




Brinjal


Kua sayor


2 pcs of delicious freshly fried chicken - this stall fry the chicken only if have order so each order have to wait a short while

 

[Froggy]

The Indonesian Chinese population is predominantly Hokkien, many older Chinese can speak but then like the Thai Chinese their younger generation are not able to speak any Chinese Mandarin or dialects. The second largest dialect group is Hakka which the Indonesians call Khek. Besides yong yau hu one can easily find other Khek food around.

Went to one such shop this morning for breakfast, khek noodle

The outside


Inside the shop


Breakfast with my staff


Khek noodle with mix pf pork, chicken, mushroom


Colleague had kway teow


Shui jiao soup

 

[The_Hypocrite]

Tat is y Jakarta is still a 3rd world city like Manila. Occupied by Hokkeins n Hakkas. With their shit attitude n local customs its a perfect storm for remaining in the 3rd world. Good food thread mate. N when u showing the entertainment side of jakarta like Blok M.?

The Indonesian Chinese population is predominantly Hokkien, many older Chinese can speak but then like the Thai Chinese their younger generation are not able to speak any Chinese Mandarin or dialects. The second largest dialect group is Hakka which the Indonesians call Khek. Besides yong yau hu one can easily find other Khek food around.

Went to one such shop this morning for breakfast, khek noodle

The outside


Inside the shop


Breakfast with my staff


Khek noodle with mix pf pork, chicken, mushroom


Colleague had kway teow


Shui jiao soup

 

[Blazars]

Bro Froggy... the makanan that you shows here are all very delicious. Its making me lau nua. I am interested to go bandung. Do you know if i can find the same types of food in bandung?

 

[Froggy]

Bro Froggy... the makanan that you shows here are all very delicious. Its making me lau nua. I am interested to go bandung. Do you know if i can find the same types of food in bandung?

About food in Bandung I have only one thing to say - super delicious. The street food is great and food is quite different from Jakarta but better. Its a food paradise. Some of my posts here indicated its in Bandung.

 

[Froggy]

At a Chinese tzechar shop for lunch this afternoon in Jakarta was surprised this Indonesian guy could whip out such great Chinese food. Told me he used to work in a Chinese restaurant.

In Singapore and Malaysia we have this root beer drink known as sarsi, here there's no such drink offered by the major soda suppliers like Fanta, Coke, Pepsi etc however there's this Medan local company making this traditional "Sarsi" drink but is very rare to be found outside Medan, it's called Padak (rhino) so it's a pleasant surprise that we found it available in this shop which we later came to know has a Medanese owner.


Ok this shop is very generous with their crispy lard.

fried Meesua is super delicious


fried rice, Indonesians like this so have to order


Bitter gourde with eggs


beansprouts with


Ayam goreng mentega


ayam lada garam


Ngor hiang


total only S$45 for 5 people

 

[Froggy]

Breakfast nasi uduk at Chinese stall



serve babi rendang I believe most of you have not tried this have to say pork rendang is actually very ver nice

 

[Blazars]

About food in Bandung I have only one thing to say - super delicious. The street food is great and food is quite different from Jakarta but better. Its a food paradise. Some of my posts here indicated its in Bandung.

Bro.. thanks! I will try to post some pics here if i get to go bandung.

 

[Froggy]

Finally came back to Jakarta after the long Hari Raya break.. Brought staff to a very big restaurant for lunch today Talaga Sampireun

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[Froggy]

Chendol


Nasi liwet


Mushroom wrap in leaves


Ayam bakar in leaves

 

[Froggy]

Deep fried gurame


Crispy sotong


Sotong cook in ink


Taogay


Tahu tempeh


Brinjal


Soto ayam


Catfish in bamboo


BBQ Prawn

 

[Froggy]

Tonight drop by a roadside group of stalls for dinner





Mei Ayam - quite similar too our soto cost ($2.50)


Chee cheong fan - funny, they eat it cold and with lots of fried shallots ($1.50)


Lao Choi - very similar to our ngo hiang guan chiang ($3.50)


Notice price almost like Singapore

After watch a stall make kueh kueh
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[Froggy]

Porridge in Indonesia is called bubur. Bubur is a very popular quick snack or meal for the Indonesians and it can be eaten from morning to night.

Found one traditional bubur ayam stall near office and went to try for the first time today its in a carpark area



Bubur when served - include a generous helping of shredded chicken, parsley, yew char kuay, peanuts and a plate of koropok

This costs $1.00
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This with extra chicken is $1.50


Inside


After mixing the bubur - actually add sweet sauce, chicken stock, chilli sauce to mix

 

[Froggy]

In Surabaya yesterday and had lunch at a very local coffeeshop setting specializing in mixed rice meaning rice with meat and veges all comes in set.



Had this Nasi Remes - beef, chicken, potatoes, tempe etc


Ordered their special keluak beef soup which they call it sup-rawon - those who like keluak will like this soup


Java coffee


Desert is ice kachang I have no idea what they call it

 

[Froggy]

Went to Bintaro, a district of Tengerang for work yesterday and chanced upon a very local market with traditional local food stalls.

Had this soto which is full of shredded chicken only $1.40, this is one the best so far


After makan the above saw this strange stall selling - toge goreng literally deep fried bean sprouts


In reality its not goreng or deep fried at all this is how its prepared

Bean sprouts and some vege and a little yellow noodle is mixed on a tray and cooked in water then mixed like this


Then prepare the ketupat




Covered with peanut and fermented soya bean sauces




Finally with koropok


Have to say it tastes great like rojak or gado gado

 

[Froggy]

Saw a lady selling roti prata on the roadside and had it for dinner


Ordered a murtabak - its cook without any meat but full of onions, spring onion, little chunks of potatoes and egss.


Spread on both sides which finally made it very think.


Ordered chicken curry to go with it.


Total $4

 

[kezgtree]

Saw a lady selling roti prata on the roadside and had it for dinner


Ordered a murtabak - its cook without any meat but full of onions, spring onion, little chunks of potatoes and egss.


Spread on both sides which finally made it very think.


Ordered chicken curry to go with it.


Total $4

Thanks Froggy for sharing All the nice photos...cheers