Cafe George V - France

Paris is one of the city that has a great standard for fashion and foods.

I'm quiet happy that I have a chance to try in one of the best spot restaurants in Paris : Cafe George V

I found this cafe accidentally while across Champs-Elysees Street. . This cafe is quiet small but their services is really good. The staff kindly to explain almost everything in their menu to me because I can't understand it >.<"

In the end, they suggest me to choose their favourite dishes that may suitable enough in my mouth. .

First dish is Beef Bourguignon : At first, I think this dish like common beef stew with some sauces, however I'm totally wrong!  I can taste that they use wine inside of this dish and judge from the color, it should be a red wine! Beef also really moist and tender. .

After satisfy enough with the first dish, I agree to the staff to order their next menu which is Bavette Frites
Basically it is a Grilled Beef that has similar taste with ordinary steak and I guess they marinated it before grilled because I can taste of their flavour in almost every beef slices :D



Name: Cafe George V
Address: 120 Avenue Champs Elysees, 75008 Paris, France (Champs-Élysées)

Max Brenner - South Bank and Gold Coast

Almost people like chocolate right?! So am I!

Here is one of the famous chocolate cafe in Australia : Max Brenner

I try their dishes in Gold Coast and Brisbane, their menu and taste is almost same! :D

Pizza Chocolate (Left Pict) : Never think before that there are pizza that use chocolate sauce like this, very creative! hahaha They use milk chocolate as their sauce and you can choose their toppings. It is not better than original pizza that full of tomato sauces and cheese, but it is worth to try :D 

Tutti Frutti Waffle (Right Pict) : Their waffle is moist and the name frutti are from strawberry and banana slices :D

Chocolate Fondue (Left Pict) : Fondue that use 2 chocolates (milk and dark) + you can eat it with strawberry, banana, brownies and marshmallow that they gives. 

Chucko (Right Pict) : Love to drink hot chocolate ! You must love this! Steam milk and hand made choco chips that we mixed it by ourself :D

Spectacular Choc Fudge Brownies Sundae (Lef Pict): Chocolate Ice cream with Brownies, peanuts, choco chips and dip chocolate sauce . .

The euphoria banana split sundae (Right Pict) :  Vanilla Ice cream with choco chips, banana cake and dip dark chocolate!

Ujung Kulon National Park - Western Tip of Java Island

Hello again!

This time I want to share one of my newest trip recently to explore natural beauty of Indonesia. . Also, one of the famous places in Indonesia: Ujung Kulon National Park!

First, We gathering in one of Plaza at Jakarta (Plaza Semanggi) - 20.00 PM on 25 October 2012.
We took a bus that we already booked from Jakarta - Sumur for about 8 - 9 hours.

After having some rest at Sumur, we use boat to explore small islands around there (Badul, Peucang, Cibom). It tooks about 2-3 hours to arrive in first Island.

Honestly, rather than explore the islands, we are snorkeling and playing around in there :D

There are many coral reefs and jellyfish in most of islands . . 

Then we built a tent and camp near seashore at Cibom Island, to bad that I didn't take a pict in there :(Next morning, we go to the Panaitan, lagoon wayo for trekking and surfing :D

To bad, the weather is not to good. . but we still move on!!

Great Landscape . .




Then we have a camp again at night.  .

Lucky that my friend want to take a pict of me, using my camera at the last day. So I have this stunning pict!

End of Our Journey!

If you guys want to see short clip about my adventure in Ujung Kulon National Park, here it is:

Adios . .

Sushi Naga - Meruya

One of the famous japanese restaurants in Jakarta is Sushi Naga. This restaurant has 2 branch: Meruya and CBD.

Since Sushi Naga in Meruya is their first branch, I try their menu in here. To find the original taste is to find where it comes from :D

First, I order Avocado Roll. I always curious about using avocado in sushi, because some of cheap restaurants use common avocado (it is like avocado for juice) and the good one will use avocado that has a taste like butter (more expensive and delicious for food combination). This time, I taste the butter one!! So it is a good news to start my next order . . hahaha

Next one is Tempura Uramaki, Japanese cuisine is authentic in their egg salmon. So, I choose this as my second menu in here! Honestly, the taste is in the middle. Not to good and not to bad -_-

I never though that It will make me full only for 2 plates of Rolls. So, I order Kani Mayo and Salmon salad as closing. I prefer Kani Mayo over the Salmon Salad because of their refreshing taste and smooth texture.

Pro: Not to expensive, great food and cozy places.
Cont: Rice in the sushi or others is not like japanese rice. It should be fluffy.

Name     :  Sushi Naga
Location : Jl. Meruya Utara Blok E 8 No. 21B
Phone     : (021) - 58906186 

Pancious Pancake House - Jakarta

Think pancakes and it's gotta be Pancious

I order what I think is unique and delicious!

Fruity Pancake: it is consist of several small pancakes and fruits, we should put chocolate sauce to eat this because the taste is almost plain :)

Then, here is the second dishes: Waffle Burgers! the big differences between this and other burgers is their texture. Because waffle is crunchy outside and smooth inside :D

Next, special dishes that only appear in their special events:
Nutty pistachio are consist of pistachio sauce which is not to sweet and slice of almonds.
Orange sauzette is one of my favourite dish in this restaurant, consist layers of crepes and orange sauce!

Last but not least, Pancake Custard and Pancake Caramel! Pancake Custard is also one of the newest creation in this restaurants and the taste is great, custard feeling is not to sweet and I like it.
Sometimes when you eat something sweet to much, you will feel full of yourself and the feeling is really bad :(

Don't forget you can ask for combination between pancake and waffle in one dish + you can change the ice cream with additional fees :D

Name: Pancious Pancake House
Location: Senayan City, Plaza Indonesia, Pondok Indah Mall 2, Paris Van Java, Taman Anggrek, etc

Canele Patisserie Chocolaterie

I have 6hours spare time in Singapore before my next connecting flight to Australia.
Shortly, I found this Canele at The Paragon - Orchard Road on the Internet.

This is my first desserts restaurant in Singapore and I think I'm lucky enough that had a chance to taste their Christmas Edition Cakes and Macaroons :D

I know what I want kind of cakes I want to choose as soon as I arrived. Since this cake is simmilar with Lego to me, I called it "Lego Cake" ^.^ But, the real name is "La Peche". The texture is really smooth and the taste is great! We can find dices of peaches inside of this cakes. .

After I finished with La Peche, I order the cake that I think has a funny shape "La Pomme Vert"
Green layer at the top has similar taste like mochi, but more thicker. I think they use green color as top of this cakes to represent what inside of this cakes, Green Apple. 

For last cakes, I choose the most elegant cake "La Cerise"
It shocked me when I know that this cakes is a black forest.
To make it clear, top of the cake is from white chocolate and rest of it is cream that cover the black forest. The taste of this cake is really creamy and soft.

After had enough with cakes, I order Macaroons Christmas Ed. 

Expedition to Mt. Semeru - East Java

In the end of 2011, we group of 12 people have decide to climb Mt.Semeru (Great Mountain) to celebrate New Year.

We start our journey on 29th December from Train Station Senen - Jakarta to Malang Train Station with Matarmaja (Economic Class) in about Rp.50.000,- / $5 US.

It took us about 18hours in Train with no-air conditioner . .The only problem in here is, I can't sit for a long time period. Every-time the train is stop in another stations, I decide to walk around in that places.



For you who are not Indonesian, you should know that there are many people try to sell things in this economic train, such as: Bottle of water, cakes, clothes, egg etc haha

To make it short, we arrived in Malang at 30 December - 08.00 AM. We reserved a jeep and go to the registration post office in that city for get permission to enter mt.Semeru.


After finished our registration etc, we went to Ranu Pane Village and there is stunning landscape in this trip to village.


We officially start our journey to the top of mt.Semeru ( 30 December - 01.00 PM) from Ranu Pane Village. There are 4 checkpoints from Ranu Pani Village to Ranu Kumbolo lake, as I remember: distance for every checkpoint is take about 40 - 1 hours by walk.


Usually people take about 5-6 hours to arrived. Since we never climb this mountain, we didn't know that it will take a long time to arrive in Lake of Ranu Kumbolo. The result is we get trouble to find the correct direction and we arrived in Ranu Kumbolo after 6-7 hours, arround: 7.30 PM -_-"

But, I can take this beautiful photo that shows Ranu Kumbolo at night :D

(Light in the below of image is from people who camp in that lake)

We built our tent as soon as we arrived in there and take a dep rest!

Since I never knew what Ranu Kumbolo Lake looks like and I can't see it clearly at night, I get shocked in the morning. I never imagine that I can see that kind of view when I wake up!
Best morning view that I ever had when I wake up!


31 December 2012, I really want to stop my journey in this place and admire the scenery, but my friends said that we will see the most spectacular view in Indonesia in no time. Honestly, I doubt with it because what can beat Ranu Kumbolo View???! haha

I continue to walk with half-hearted >.<"


We passed the Oro-Oro Ombo which is Savanna in that mountain.

We decide to take a rest at Kalimati, we plan to start climbing from Kalimati to the top at 11.30 PM.

So, here we are!

It is really hard to climb at 1km before top of mountain because the angle is really high, full of sands and rocks. After 6hours non-stop walking, I feel like to give-up and back to the Ranu Kumbolo Lake.

I turn around to go back and I'm shocked with the view!!


I remember at that time I said to myself that it will take few-steps left to reach the top and it will take forever to regret if I didn't do it. This is the place where I can try my pretension until the maximum limit.
I took some photos in there and take few minutes rest. .


Finally, we arrived in the top of mt.semeru (12,060 ft) or people called it "Land of Gods".



Additional information: In 1969, Soe Hok Gie an Indonesian political activist died because of poisonous gases in top of mt.semeru.



End of Journey!

credit for last photo: Niko Tujuhlangit

ps: This is one of the best adventure that I ever take so far!

Bambo Basket - Brisbane (Chinese Cuisine)

One of first restaurant that I visit in Brisbane in this short trip is Bambo Basket at South Bank. You can find this restaurant quiet easy because it is big and near the Southbank Cinema :D

Since I'm not sure which one I should order between Crispy prawns with mayo or floss. I ordered both of them! Left pict is Crispy prawns with mayo, the taste is sweet as hell and I like the one with fire floss (pict on the right side). It's more crunchy and not to sweet. . .

 Next, I ordered Prawn Dumplings, I just curious the taste and color of the sauce is really bright. . I'm wondering is that really a pure tomato sauce or they put some food coloring >.< because chinese is well known of their duck! I order Crispy Duck (small portion).

 Furthermore, Chinese also famous for their tofu dishes, so I order Ma Po Tofu. I'm not quiet sure about it but I taste pork mince inside and the tofu is really soft. It is similar with Japanase egg tofu if you ever try it.
Last batch! I don't know what is wrong with my stomach because I feel hungry and I ordered my last dishes: Braised Duck!

As usual for drink, I only ordered tea or hot water :D

Recommended dish: Braised Duck, Crispy Duck, Mapo Tofu and Prawn Dumplings w/ Tomato sauce!

Jakarta - Brisbane for Graduation Ceremony

Hello again!

I'm back to Indonesia in about a week ago, I can't post anything in blog due to busy schedule.
*honestly, I'm a lazy person >.<"

So, Here is the short story about my trip to Brisbane for Graduation Ceremony.

I have flight with Singapore Airlines from Jakarta - Singapore (11 December 2012, 21.00PM) if I'm correct.

Since I traveled in around Christmas day, the Singapore Airlines adding Christmas decoration in their flight :D

I also order Seafood meal with apple apple and banana crumble as dessert for flight from JKT - SG.

On the other hand, I just ordered fruit platter for flight SG - BNE because it is over midnight already and I can't eat much. I prefer sleep! haha

Finally I arrived in Brisbane at around 11.00 AM of 12th December.

To make it short, I participate in my graduation ceremony on 14th December ;p

Of course I eat a lootttttt of foods in there and I will post it in no time. .  just wait and see :D