Scatter-Brain

Try this today and hmm... Too sweet!

Well i don't like green tea kitkat so i don't really expect much from this. It does taste a little bit different from the normal matcha but hmm i'm not sure what's the difference .... Just too sweet for me >.<

I eat way tooo much today.. I'm going to get fat again D:

Lunch: chicken katsu curry @ daisho

Tea time: banana chocolate parfait @ Tokyo belly

Dinner: Shio ramen and grilled salmon and salmon roe rice set @ Santouka ramen

And i'm still craving for curry...

Curry @ taichan ramen, Plaza Senayan

When i have a terrible cravings for curry, this was my menu for the day

Lunch: curry
Dinner: curry

XD i hope i didn't smell like curry

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

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

Tonights dinner, curry!!!! XD

I ordered curry rice again... In udon-ya XD

I was actually wanted to ordered curry udon but my father advising me to get rice instead so we got one niku udon and one beef curry rice. And add veggie tempura (kakiage), skewered tofu roll, chicken meatballs (tori ball) and egg tempura.

I must say i'm impressed, they keep simple things simple. No complex food with much elaboration just simply udon in dashi. The niku udon is light in taste but by all means it still delicious. The udon fresh, cooked nicely, topped with sweet salty beef slice. While the curry rice was rich, heavy bold taste of curry sauce topped with the same beef they used in the udon. I really love their curry sauce... Actually they should put chicken katsu on the menu since they fry things anyway or even make tempura curry XD i just don't think beef bowl type of beef if the perfect match for curry. But still i enjoyed it.

For the side dish kakiage consist of onions, paprika, carrots among all things, cooked with batter and come out crispy just lovely to eat it with the tempura sauce that they serve at the dining table. The skewered tofu is mushroom wrapped with tofu skin and fried together. Nice! The weak dish that i ate tonight is the tori ball, i think it was overly salty, the taste is actually unique, the meatball has onion with chicken in it but the taste doesn't suit me, as it was to strong for me. But my father enjoyed them immensely.

Price range from 33-60k for the main dishes and the sides from 8-15k and drink 10k (refill), really not so bad. You need to order first before you can sot down and usually there's a queue but they serve fast so you'll get your food quick enough and the staff was all work efficiently so i think you'll get your table when you're done ordering.

I thoroughly enjoyed eating here, simple is the best here :)

Marugame udon & tempura
Gandaria city
Jl. Warung jati barat no 39
Jakarta
Indonesia

I've been craving for curry so we ended up going to ramenya just for me to eat curry XD We ended up at hakata men oh ramen. Luckily they serve curry!!!

They open at 11 and we were there to have lunch at 11 xD the place is nice and clean but deserted since we were coming in when they were just open XD

We ordered one mini kara ramen and of course mini chicken katsu curry! And of course ocha XD

They serve quite fast and the ocha came in big beer mug. She couldn't wait to feast on the ramen so i can't get a nice pic XD the ramen taste almost like laksa, it's spicy for me (but i'm not that good with spicy stuff) while my curry taste good, the chicken is crunchy, the curry is spot on. But it only came in mini portion, not enough for my lunch D:

We spent around 83k, 28k for curry and 30k for the ramen and 10k for the ocha. They got promo if you buy ramen you can have chahan by adding 10k but we didn't take that. Kind of regretting it. The service is partially good, might be because they just open and half of the staff seems like missing from the store. The place is comfy enough but with the amount of price that i have to pay versus the portion, i think i prefer another ramenya. Plus their ramen is not my up to my cup of tea. But their ramen is completely halal, so for those who can't eat pork this is might be up for you.

Hakata men oh
Opening time 11.00-24.00
Jl. Boulevar kelapa gading TN2 no.38
Jakarta, Indonesia