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Accompanied by the girlyest settings i've ever set foot on xD

But it was the Gryphon that lured me there. Bloody expensive but i enjoy my gryphon tea. Yeah their tea is my absolute favorite.

Nasi Goreng Hitam

Long John with beef paste, beef kebab, Cheese and Egg.

Ice Durian Ovomaltine

I finally sat down and eat in OTW food street. The recent hip place in Kelapa Gading. Always crowded with people and only open in the evening.

I came with a group of friends who's as curious as I was. So we queued and surprisingly we wait for a while and then we're called to our table. Quite fast actually, i didn't expect that. OTW street food is actually somekind of food court concept. It consist of 4 different food joint - martabak, drinks, dessert (cendol and durian and Kue Cubit) and the main course (noodles, rice and burgers). You order them on the respective seller, pay them first and the food will be delivered to your table.

Getting a table was fast but a different story in queuing to order and food delivery. They really did take quite sometime. The queue for ordering in the main course section was.. not really long, but each customer took sometime to order. Basically because they didn't put a big menu where everyone can see and choose while they wait and not enough menu books. And the cashier was not being helpful, i mean she could really hasten the ordering proses but i find her somewhat slow in responding when i ordered. And the food getting out from their kitchen is really sloooowwww, i didn't count but i'm guessing we're waiting around 30 minutes until we can get our Long John. The rice meal was quicker to be delivered. Kinda weird, because i'd assumed that rice meal needs time to prepare while burger and sandwich is basically half prepared already. But that's what happen. *shrugs*

The black squid fried rice (Nasi goreng hitam) taste quite good in my opinion. This is my first time eating squid ink fried rice. So i can't compare to any other, but i found it taste ok. Different from usual fried rice and to compare them i think i prefer the usual one, but this one quite appetising XD While the long john taste like.. I almost can't taste any beef, only bread and tomato sauce and mayonnaise. Though they did grilled the bun so it's a bit crunchy on the inside but nothing special. Beef patty should be a better choice but they haven't sell the Long John with beef patty yet. And another let down is they don't have french fries!!!! I love to have the burgers with french fries.

The Durian ovomaltine though... YUMMY!!!! i really love it!!!! Shaved ice, durian juice, grass jelly, chocolate ice cream and then poured with a squirt of ovomatine. Apart from the grass jelly, i thought it's pretty good combination. I didn't expect chocolate going well with durian but it does. The only thing annoying is the grass jelly, because i don't think it fits together. And it's quite expensive, durian ovomaltine 30k but still i would go and buy it again XD The service is fast too, either ordering and delivering is fast. so I'm really satisfied.

On the place, I think it's just so so, half of the place is outdoor. But I think it's better to sit outside since the indoor was quite hot, albeit all the air conditioner was on full blast. The place was packed, the seat is small so not so comfy to sit on for a long time. The pricing is affordable, main course ranging from 20-40k, Long John 45-55k, drinks 5-40k, desserts 15-30k. I didn't check the martabak one so i can't say for sure.

All in all, i really love the durian. I'll go back just for that XD

OTW food street

Jl. Kelapa Kopyor Raya, Blok BA 2 No. 1

Kelapa Gading

Jakarta Utara

Opening: 4 - 10 pm.

I've fallen behind for almost a year? But anyway let's start being random again. Bit by bit xD

So here for starting up again.

We are doing tea the right way *thumbs up* (with a few errors i believe xD)

Desserts menu

Hot pure chocolate

Banana Tartin

Plants

Pralines collection

I've found this place by accident, when i was browsing for other chocolate desserts place. But since this one have an open kitchen and built from scratch chocolate, it's intrigue me and i just had to drag Q-tan to this place.

This ended up as the 2nd place we visited after the 1/15 cafe. When we met we spent a really long time sitting in one place, it even feel awkward to order anything after 3 hours lunch would it? XD We found out that this place is close to the cafe so after our initial search and getting lost, we found it. The first floor is the open kitchen and the 2nd floor is the dining place.

Unluckily when we arrived, they didn't have free table for us, since half of the place was closed due to an event. And sadly they didn't have any waiting area, so we awkwardly standing there, waiting. They really should have waiting area, seriously. After a while we thought we should just do a take away and try the drink first, and came back next time if we thought it taste decent. After we ordered the drink and paid, we saw some people just went up and paid, so we got ourself a table... At this point of time i feel that, compared to just wait and being served, i think it's better to be proactive in here, because it seems the staff was pretty clueless as much as we were.

Looking at the menu, they really got a lot of creative things going on and all looks so interesting. We have ordered Hot pure choco, which is melted dark chocolate mixed with milk or basically hot dark chocolate for me and Ice Choco Salt Caramel for Q-tan. I got to say i'm impressed with the chocolate drinks they serve here. Mostly in other chocolate parlor, when they say dark chocolate, you will got little bit bitter version of milk chocolate, I would say it's like 30% dark chocolate bar. While in Pipiltin cocoa, you really got your dark chocolate, it;s bitter yet still sweet, my hot pure chocolate taste like around 50-60% dark chocolate bar. It's really a hot chocolate made for adult. It's rich, bitter-sweet, and thick but still easily drink down on your throat. They didn't made fun of dark chocolate and i love them for it. While the Ice choco salt caramel, really does taste like it should, it's salty and caramel sweet with strong taste of bitter chocolate. it really is a very interesting combination. Taste damn good.

Then we've decided to settle ourself with Plants (cookie crumbs cake with honeycomb covered in dark chocolate) along with Deconstructed Banana Tartin.

When it first came into our table, I was simply blown away with the creativity. The first to arrive is the Plants. It looks like a bonsai on top of a big rock with 2 honeycomb 'rock' on the side. The small bonsai tree was really potted in a real plants pot. Really if i'm not in this store and you gave me this, i would assume its actually people trying to play with dirt, because the cookie crumbs does look like a real dirt. The 'bush' is made of cotton candy, a very sticky one, but taste good. A chocolate 'trunk' and the 'dirt' made of layered chocolate sponge and lemon cream (something like chocolate tiramisu just minus the coffee) covered in cookies crumbs. The actual cake actually taste decent, lemony, sweet, a bit chocolaty taste and a surprise of a whole berry fruits inside, but the cookie crumbs taste like mothballs (it's not like i have ever eat mothball but yeah i figure if i do eat them it will taste like this) so when you eat them altogether it give this horrible aftertaste in your mouth. So we try to get rid of the cookies crumb when we ate the 'Plants'. Luckily the honeycomb taste absolutely delightful. Overly sweet covered with bitter dark chocolate, so it's balance well in your mouth. and of course the chocolate itself that they use for the 'trunks' was exquisite. If it's not for that i might trash this desserts quite badly.

Then came the Banana Tartin. As always the presentation itself blew us away. it has two injection tubes, one caramel, one chocolate cream, salt caramel tuiles, banana cream and banana cake. Really looks like food playground, and the way to eat it is start from the tuile and go the left side putting the sauce, dip on the cream before you much them. I never had such fun playing and eating with a desserts XD when i eat them altogether (without including the cake) it taste like banana ledre (a traditional indonesian snack) the banana cream taste so banana, almost feel like you eating banana milk puree.. if that's making sense XD the tuile was soft crunchy, could be more awesome if it was crunchier. Too bad the cake was hard and doesn't taste appetising and fun like the rest of the plate. But still it was fun!

The place is pretty comfy, a little bit too rustique for me and the decor is really raw, and the lighting is pretty minimum (hence the hard time for me to take a picture since it's already dark outside when we finally get a table - should have brought camera) but hey you came here to play with your food XD

Pricing is upscale, our drink is around 44-47k each, their specialty drink varies around 30-50k while the dessert varies around 50-70k. They also have savoury food, which varies around 40-90k. They also sell ordinary slice cake and pralines. They got this promo, tweet pipiltin cocoa picture while tagging their username and show them to the staff and you get yourself a free praline/macarons, which of course i took advantage of, i could say their pralines is pretty good. Basically their chocolate quality is great so it's no wonder at least they can make a decent pralines.

All in all i would really love to come back to just saw the creativity. Taste was a bit arguable, since none of the desserts really blew me away. But if you're looking to have a grown up hot chocolate while keeping check with your childish side, i think this place is a good place to visit XD

Pipiltin Cocoa

Jl. Barito II no. 5

Kebayoran Baru, Jakarta Selatan

http://www.pipiltincocoa.com/

Mocha

Ice Cappucinno

French Toast

Big Breakfast

Q-tan is a coffee drinker and she found this cafe since she went past it a few times. She told me she has interest to visit it and try their coffee (she is a legitimate coffee lover unlike me XD) And of course if it's a cafe i would like to check on it XD

So last saturday we went and visit it. I must say, it did look interesting from the front. There's parking space but parking in south area is always tricky as usual. But we didi get a parking space fine and we went in.

The place is simplistic, in natural tone and very welcoming. This would be the perfect cafe for working. I spot a few cushion seat but most of the seat is wooden seat some with back support, some only stools. They use a very large glass windows so a large amount of natural light, since i was visiting during daytime. The lighting on the store itself is pretty subdued, soft evening light kinda feeling.

Came in the store and went straight to ordered on the ordering desk. The ordering is pretty challenging on it's own. They only provide, menus on the ordering desk, we pretty much spent quite a while in front of the cashier because of that. (I'm choosy XD) Which make me feel rushed since there are other customer queuing behind us. And after you pay they give us number and then you can choose where to seat, wherever you want to XD.

I ordered Mocha and French toast while Q-tan have Big breakfast and Iced Cappuccino (they have all day breakfast here, which is always get a high point from me XD) Usually i'm staying away from coffee on weekend, unless i really have to drink them. But since we were visiting a place that are well known for their coffee, I thought i should have made an exception.

My mocha was exquisite, creamy, not overly sweet, balance between chocolate, milk and coffee. The coffee itself is not strong, I felt fine drinking it without adding anything or making me nauseous afterwards. Q-tan also said that the coffee was good (that's a certified comment there XD) My french toast was fluffy and soft and lovely, would be perfect if they gave us more maple syrup because i'm such a sweet tooth but it's great. While Q-tan's big breakfast have quite a flaw in my opinion. the corn fritter taste a bit bland, great salsa sauce on top though but the fritter itself is bland and the texture feels like i was eating corn shell. They also overcooked the poached eggs, so there's no melting yellow goodness, which is disappointing. but the sausage taste heavenly, greatly seasoned. Overall was ok but surely it could be better.

Pricing is pretty upscale. Drinks varies between 25-40 (I didn't manage to really learn the menu, i knew they also sell non-coffee drinks but i didn't properly see the drink menu so yeah i could be wrong) Breakfast varies around 50-90k, they also sell desserts and pastries. I spent around 102k for my french toast and mocha, while Q-tan spent around 110k.

The place was pretty crowded when we were there, most of them doing works and meeting to discuss things. No wonder really, the ambience really do support you to do your works XD I'm pretty hooks with this place and would be great place for me to do my works. Too bad it's so far away. at least i will try to come back for the desserts next time XD

One Fifteenth

Jl. Gandaria I no. 63

Jakarta Selatan

ph: (021) 7225678

Working hours: 7 am- 9 pm

www.1-15coffee.com

	~ tokie ~ (@tokiekins)
10/05/2014 11:45 pm Day 16 #100happydays : food hunting (and getting lost and collecting fat) with @aQuacchi <3 pic.twitter.com/wfGC11Zuky

Gluton Saturdate with Q-tan!!! Awesome like usual! 3 restaurant, will review 2 of them soon-ish >.<

Also Q-tan give me candy-like bracelet... It's sooooo CUTE *_* happpyyyy~~~~

Lunch : one fifteenth cafe

Prezzies!!!

Dinner: kaiten sushi by ippeke

Afternoon desserts: pipiltin cocoa

~ tokie ~

Enjoying me time, it's been a while.

Went to LOVE (Lotte Avenue) and having dinner at Blooming Mari, korean fussion food, accompanies with manga and my phone XD

I ordered cheese toppoki with 'four seasons' drink (guava, pinapple and 2 other fruits that i can't remember with grenadine syrup) The drink is lovely, though the i don't really like guava but it's pretty refreshing to drink that especially when you are eating spicy stuff XD not too sweet and mixture of refreshing fruits juice. I quite like it. Cost: 35k

Cheese toppoki was sooo cheesy XD a big dollop of mozarella cheese on top of korean toppoki, spicy really. The portion is big but it is expensive, 80k for a big plate. Well korean food is always expensive. It taste like it original toppoki sweet and spicy. A little bit challenging to eat the cheese but it's all fun XD I came pretty hungry and i thought it taste great until in the middle of enjoying them i feel really hard to continue eating. Having the cheese in it help big time to fight that sweetness of it.

They come with a little complimentary radish pickle with kimchi... In a tiny sauce cup which i found hilarious (too small!!!)

It's a ok experience, not something memorable. I saw the rest of the menu, i didn't really find anything that grabs my interest so i'm not sure about a 2nd visit but when i'm craving for toppoki maybe i will. But i will drag someone with me for sure!

My mom made this, Lemongrass with lime

This taste really gooooooooooodddd!!!! No matter if it's hot or cold, taste really good XD

Id it's warm it's soothing, if it's cold it's refreshing!!!

More!!!!

Went to s*bucks for take away and they put this to prevent spillage.

First time seeing it, i thought it's cute and also good idea, although now the liquid spill from the small hole on the lid XD

A colleague from Bandung came to Jakarta, so we meet up at my fav cafe to discus about our work so far.

First time meeting face to face after months of only knowing from internet. Surprisingly the meeting ended up quick and i have a lo of spare time. Though i still have some work to do now.

Ganbare me!!!

Met up with Q-tan and had food hunt over at PIK area XD

First stop, dessert parlor, Sumo boo.

Actually we wanted to pay a visit to coffeebar but when we went there and passed this cute little store with a long queuing line and saw what they had to offer, we decided to just visit them instead.

So we obediently wait and then when it's time they ushered us in. Upon the first look, the decor is really what i really love. Cute and very girly i guess. It was really japanese cafe type. The menu which is also the dining mat has cute drawing in it, and almost make me want to bring them home. They got a wide veriety of menu to choose from and they all look interesting.

So we decided to try the sumobomb complete dessert (the one that have everything in it) consist of sumo bomb - something like sweet potato mochi, taro, tapioca ball, red bean, mochi, pudding with matcha ice cream. They taste good. I quite like it. The matcha icecream taste good, not overly sweet but still sweet nonetheless. I enjoyed the yellow sweet potato sumobomb, i quite like it.

We also ordered tori popcorn, whiv i really like. Crunchy and salty as it should. Don't pay attention to my pic, i only remember to take a photo of it when it was almost finished XD Then we ordered nutella sumobomb. That taste really good! But it's small, only 3 small pcs per portion and the nutella not as much as i thought it would be. Though on second thought it was almost the same like chocolate mochi just the warm version of it.

The prices vary between 10k-60k, which i thought pretty standard for the desserts. We spent 95k (35k for desserts, 35k for tori popcorn, and 12k for nutella sumobomb).

Though what was really ticked me off is their services. They ushered us in but they leave us without menu, then when we wanted the order the waitresses keep throwing us aming themself. Then we had to wait for 45 minutes for our nutella sumobomb which really doesn't look like need a lot of effort in plating those, except they are really making it fresh when we ordered. Just crazy! They have a lot of people who work at that time, granted it's crowded and full pack store but still i saw a lot of complain here and there and with that many staff working, they only had one person who's in charge for taking order. Pretty disorganise in overall and really kinda frustrating to see.

I would like to go back but if it's packed i would prefer to stay away from that place.

Sumo Boo
Rukan crown golf blok D no. 17
Bukit golf mediterania
Pantai Indah Kapuk
Jakarta
Indonesia

Hmm...i just glad i didn't buy more than one pack.

Yesh buy in the store is way better than this.

But i might have been mistaken in making it... Stilll too many milk D:

Should i call this instant? Should be... But it such a drawback to have to add milk for a person who rarely (or even can be called almost never) buy milk like me.

I would preffer instant that only need to add water instead of milk. But with that being said, this is actually taste really good. Just like what they sold at the stores. I only have one box though D:

I should try my peppermint mocha tomorrow!!!

Was going to make coffee but the instant that i bought require milk and because i put milk inthe freezer... It freeze.

So yeah back to tea. With the buttermilk waffles, my all time favourite XD

Pisuke called me put for dinner meeting XD

So i asked her to meet me in Kenji sushi fusion restaurant. It's been around for quite a while but i haven't got to try them out. So we went and try.

When we entered the restaurant and the cute plate greet me from the start, i was about to squeal XD for those who knew me will understand why. I'm a sucker for cute plate and cutlery and all that jazz XD so when i saw they used all cute, different plate on each table i just got hype up to eat XD

Fancy restaurant, funky decor and all unique detail touch. Me so likey, but unfortunately it does not follow with other aspect. We decided to order 4 sushi. Most of their pricing for the fusion sushi range around 20-100k depends on what they have on the roll. They use fancy ingredients such as lobster, variety sashimi, caviar, etc they mix it all together. They got two different menu. One on their fancy menu book are the creative fusion roll which consist of those fancy ingredients, range around 40-100k they got full (8 pcs) or half (4pcs). They also got economic roll menu (which they didn't gave us until a while later. I think they forgot about those) the price range for these economic roll is around 20-50k which have the 'basic' ingredients without fancy creative add up.

Our 4 sushi that we bought is 3 creative and 1 economic. And none of them satisfied me. I can barely remember what i ate right now. I know we ordered one with mango (manbo mango) i think it was one that was put on the long with round separation plate (Did i describe that right? ), stacey roll (crunchy spicy salmon with avocado) and mystique ( i only remember they got tortilla on those) and one tamago kyuri mentai, which i forgot to take pic of. I can barely recall anything. I only remember that the mango, since it was drizzled with a bit of mango juice, it taste sweet. A little bit salt on rice for the tamago mentai, crunchy tortila among rice and a hint of salmon with mayo.

And since i thought we already there i should try their desserts. They only got 2 desserts, tempura ice cream and matcha pannacotta. Now desserts is something i can remember well. Theirs version of matcha panacotta is actually quite good. Bittersweet green tea but too overly fragrant and dry and tough for me. It's very matcha XD but still not something i enjoy a lot.

The only thing i do love is their ocha. Bitter like the way i like it, and it's only 8k XD the service is good but i just don't like the way they clean up, they took each empty plate just after you picked up the last remaining roll on that plate. The waiter/waitresses came 4 times to picked up the plate just after i took the last roll on that plate. They were polite though but i feel like they're kicking us out. Though we did took our time there XD

Beside sushi they also have the usual Japanese dish like udon, curry etc but i was a bit discourage to come again. I'll miss the cute plate!! But well maybe not the food.

Kenji modern Japanese
Kelapa gading boulevard RA 1/10
Kelapa gading
Jakarta
Indonesia

This week i got 3 different gift from 3 different people from 3 different country.

Kitkat green tea from my uncle who's just got back from Japan.

Green tea latte from pisuko's sister who's just got back from Korea.

A cute bracelet from Kazzchan who's just got back from Thailand.

The green tea coincidence is amusing xD i don't have much liking for them in kitkat or the tea with milk but i kept receiving them XD

The bracelet has become my latest favs among the others XD isn't it so cute?!

I feel so loved!!

Been quite a while i want to visit this place since i learn about their quirky name. Dialogue can also be read as Dia (he/she), Lo (you), Gue (me) in jakarta slang. Genius! And finally i got a reason to go there XD my cousin asked me to buy a radio made of wood for her. And the sell it in this store. So i drove way to Kemang.

I met up with 'birulangit' a friend of mine who live in Kemang area to have lunch there as well. The place is a bit hard to spot at first because they are close to the corner and their sign is on the side wall, they didn't have high billboards and a little bit hidden. I almost miss it but i manage to notice their sign right on XD. And their entrance door is a bit tricky. They are located on the left side of the building, almost seems like house door because it made of wood without glasses, i thought it was wood wall XD

So i manage to get in, swoon by the goods that they sell and almost scream here and there before i manage to find the radio right in the middle, paid them and head inside to find this huge place. Not many seat, and more accommodate for the art space. And the green open room at the back. It was raining so it's a bit cool and relaxing on the back.

They serve all day breakfast so of course that's what i ordered. With hot chocolate to complete my breakfast. While birulangit ordered fish and chips with lemon tea. They really came in big size although the size is so so. My scrambled egg need more salt and my bacon need to be more crunchy but my chicken sausage was tender and they use a good butter. While birulangit fish and chips... I thought they ought to serve sauce with it and of course salad dressing to accompany them. I ended up asking for sauce and they came in tiny saucer XD i love ketchup and chilly sauce... So of course i need much more sauce XD

The lemon tea is genuinely lemon and tea, that's a plus. But the hot chocolate remind me of some chocolate milk brand, which is too sweet for me. I prefer dark chocolate and this one is nor for me.

The price range for food is somewhere between 25-60k with drinks from 15-40k. I think they are quite alright. Pretty decent compared with the quantity.

But i really fell in love with the place. I would love to go there and do my work there. I would probably go there often if it was somewhere near my home. Too bad they are far away. I love to go there again though, just for the art and the cozy place (not the chair though, mind you XD)

When we dine there i did notice in glance that they're closing around 6, i assume they got private event on the night and we did told that last order is at 4.30 pm. So do take note or call them if you plan to go there. And of course do take a look on their shop too before looking at the art XD (they are at the front so of course you won't miss them XD)

Dia.Lo.Gue
Jl. Kemang selatan 99A
Jakarta
Ph: 021 7199671/72

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