Cafe Halaman

Last Saturday I went to Paris Van Java and had a quick lunch at Cafe Halaman. I know this restaurant because they also have another branch near my campus. In PVJ, this restaurant is located in the outside of the building where almost all the restaurants in PVJ are located. They have indoor and outdoor area and I chose the indoor one because it was raining at that time. The interior of the restaurant is warm and cozy. They serve all kinds of food, from Indonesian until Western food. I read the menu and here are what we ordered :

Gado-gado

IDR 25.000

This dish interest me because it looks so yummy in the photo of the menu. When it came, I was a little disappointed as the vegetables were only cabbage and lettuce. It is also served with fried tofu and boiled egg. But the sauce was tasty.

Spaghetti Carbonara

IDR 37.000

At first I wanted to order fish and chips but they said it's sold out. Finally I chose pasta. The taste was good, but nothing special on it. I like the way they cut the smoke beef and their generousity in giving the cheese :D

Mie Goreng

This is the winner or today's lunch! The noodle looked like one famous instant noodle and it was so delicious. Plus, the portion was quite big for one person. Sorry I didn't take the photo of it.

Avocado Juice

IDR 25.000

I think they put too much water in the juice, I wish it was more thick. But I could still taste the avocado, fortunately.

Es Campur

IDR 25.000

I like this dessert! It contains avocado, coconut, 'cengkaleng', papaya, and watermelon. For me it is good and sweet enough to eat even in this rainy season. Recommended!

Overall, this restaurant has a nice food but a little expensive compared to the taste. I hope they can upgrade the quality of the food.

Cafe Halaman
Paris van Java Blok GFB G6
Jalan Sukajadi 137 - 139
(022) 82063704
Open daily 10 am - 10 pm

Fried Lasagna

Doesn't it look so yummy? I really really love this dish. It's simple and delicious. Moreover my friends told me that this taste good. You should, no, you must try and make it! As I am a pasta lover, and lasagna is one of my favorite dish. This time, I will share a recipe to make fried lasagna. I got this recipe from Unilever Food Solution (UFS) and did some modification. What is special about this dish is we make the lasagna layer by ourself. So here is the ingredients :

Filling
50 gr minced beef
20 gr minced onion
10 gr minced garlic
20 gr minced carrot
20 ml frying oil
2 gr Royco sapi
100 gr tomato sauce
40 gr Cheddar cheese
25 gr mayonaise

Layer
100 gr flour
1 egg
150 ml water
3 gr Royco ayam
10 gr mayonaise

Others
300 gr bread crumbs
200 gr flour
2 eggs
200 ml frying oil

STEPS :
Filling
1. Stir-fry minced beed until there is no more water
2. Put onion, garlic, and carrots into it. Stir until it smells good.
3. Put tomato sauce, Royco sapi and stir well.
4. Set aside.
5. Mix the filling with cheese after it is cool.

Layer
6. Mix all the layer ingredients in a bowl.
7. Heat a pan, put a little oil into it.
8. Pour one spoon of laddle to the pan, let it dry.
9. Do the same way until all the dough run out.

Serving
10. Take the lasagna layer, put the filling and add mayonaise on it.
11. Roll and paste the edge with egg
12. Cover the lasgna with flour, egg, and bread crumbs.
13. Deep-fry until the color is golden brown.

Note : Sorry not to take pictures on the steps. I will surely do it when I make it again ;)

Parit 9 Seafood

What do you think when you hear the word seafood? Personally, I will start thinking about sea, summer, coconut, and of course the seafood itself! Seafood has always been a good idea, isn't it?

Last Sunday, I visited a seafood restaurant near Riau named Parit Seafood. This resto is well-known with its crab, especially "Kepiting Termos". It is crabs packed in a thermos bottle to keep them warm. People usually send them as Christmas gift. Interested? Just try, you won't be disappointed :)

In Parit Seafood, we choose the fish, shrimps, and crab by ourself. They are fresh ingredient from the sea. We also choose the way they cook the seafood. There are a lot of varieties, such as grilled with soy sauce, sweet and sour sauce, oyster sauce, etc. For the squid we can ask them to make it crunchy or just cook it with margarine (I mean, goreng mentega). 

So here are what we ordered :

Kepiting Saos Singapore

IDR 17.500 / ons

It is like chili crab made in Bandung and this is Parit's signature dish. I really love this dish, the flesh of the crabs were fresh, soft, and cooked perfectly. The sauce were really tasty and spicy but it could increase you appetite. If you like the crabs's eggs, you also can have it here. Btw, they provided you the tweezer so you can crack the crabs easily.

Kuwe Bakar Kecap

IDR 7.500 / ons

My mom chose kuwe because it has a lot of flesh and it doesn't have too many bones. The kuwe was grilled with sweet soy sauce and it has already split into two to make it easier to eat. The flesh was nice, thick, and soft but still chewy. Nice choice, mom.

Cumi goreng tepung

IDR 35.000 / portion

The squid was really crunchy, as for me it was kerupuk and not squid. The last time I went here I had fried squid with margarine and it taste a lot better than this.

Kangkung Cah Polos

IDR 15.000

In English, we call kangkung as water spinach. A lot of people like kangkung because it is affordable and easy to cook. Kangkung is my sister's favorite vegetable so we decided to eat this. The kangkung has a strong aroma of ginger but the taste was good. I wish they cut it shorter so it won't stuck within my throat :(

Oseng Genjer

IDR 15.000

 Anybody knows what's genjer in English? Please let me know. The genjer was cooked nicely, taste good and still crunchy as I expected.

Note : I didn't order any drink because they give free hot tea and reffilable as much as you want.

Overall, I really like this seafood restaurant. It has a nice place, nice service, and tasty food with affordable price. I am looking forward to coming back here and try another dishes. When you are craving for seafood, this could be the one.

Parit 9 Seafood
Jl. Anggrek no. 61 Bandung
(022) 7103996
Open daily 10 am - 11 pm

Fat Dragon & Belle Vue

I always intend to try this bakery store, but somehow I always fail to do it. Last Sunday, finally my dream came true! Belle Vue and Fat Dragon are two different food stores owned by G.H. Universal (a hotel located in Setiabudi, Bandung). Belle Vue is a bakery store, while Fat Dragon is a Chinese Food Restaurant.

It was still too early for lunch but I went straight there and seated in Fat Dargon which is located in the second floor. I like the design of the place, simple yet elegant.

For the appetizer, we ordered dimsum. They have a lot of options for the dimsum.

Hakau

IDR 17.500

The shrimp was fresh but the skin was too wet so it was broken easily and made it hard to eat the hakau.

Ayam Hongkong 1/4

IDR 35.000

The chicken was too dry but seasoned well enough.

Nasi Hainan

IDR 7.500

The rice was soft and it has a strong taste of chicken broth. I like the texture of the rice.

Iced Lemon Tea

IDR 15.000

The lemon tea was too sour until I have to asked for sugar. But it is really big and really worth the price. Recommended!

Starfruit juice

IDR 17.500

I don't like starfruit but I tried this and it is good. It is refreshing, made from real starfruit.

They also have many kinds of chili oil and chili sauce.

There is always room for dessert, of course. After finished having my lunch, I went downstair to pick a dessert.

Lemon Meringue Pie

IDR 30.000

It was about 9 cm in diameter. It tasted really good! I love the crunchiness of the pie, the sweetness from the meringue, and the sourness from the lemon within the pie. You have to eat the 3 elements all together to fell the unique sensation of the dessert. Two thumbs up! I even bought one home.

Anyway, Belle Vue has special promotion for their bakeries. Everyday after 6 pm, they give promo buy one get one free for pastry.


Fat Dragon & Belle Vue
Jalan Pasirkaliki 147 Bandung
(022) 96033888
Open daily 7 am - 11 pm

Kedai Mamah Eha

Anybody loves mango sticky rice? Well, know you can get it in Bandung!

I visited this resto a couple months ago (sorry for the super-late-post) with my college friends as it is located near my campus. Actually, Kedai Mamah Eha has a lot variety of desserts but they also has Indonesian food as a main course.

My apologies, I forgot to take pictures of some food we ordered and their names. But I still remembered the ingredients, the taste, and the price so you can look up the photos in google or their book menu later.

Pulut Mangga

IDR 30.000

It is fresh mangoes with sticky rice (ketan in Indonesian) with sweet coconut milk. The mangoes were a little bit sour but went really good with the sticky rice and the coconut milk. The texture of the sticky rice is sooo good for me because it doesn't stick in your teeth but it doesn't scatter either. This is their special menu as I think they imitate the mango sticky rice from Thailand. The portion for me is a little bit too much for a dessert but it is still okay.

Alpukat

IDR 33.000

If you love avocado, I think you will like this dessert. It is avocado with milk powder and ice. Can you imagine how sweet it will be? Yeah, it was really sweet and it made you full just by eating it alone. I think it is too expensive for this kind of dessert (I will show you another place serve this kind of dessert later!).

Fruit Yoghurt

Another dessert, yoghurt with fresh fruits served in a bowl. The yoghurt was nice, not too sour and not too viscous. It cost IDR 26.000.

Nasi Goreng

I forgot the name, but it was the simplest fried rice I have ever had. Uhm, even I don't really sure it was a fried rice. It was rice cooked with butter and served with or without egg (depends on what you order). It was IDR 13.000 if I am not mistaken for fried rice without egg and IDR 15.000 for fried rice with egg.

Overall, the dessert was nice but the main course needs some improvement.

Kedai Mamah Eha

Jalan Sultan Tirtayasa 16 Bandung

(022) 4210777

Open daily 7 am - 5 am

Twitter : @MamahEha