COLETTE & LOLA | CAKES & DREAMS

 Isamaya Group which is one of the successful Food & Beverage Company in Indonesia has created new concept called "COLETTE & LOLA".

COLETTE & LOLA has became "hot topic" for most of teenagers in Jakarta in this past several months. They well known for their cakes creation . .

At first, I have trouble to find the place since I'm not living in this city. But, My friend and I can spot this cakes shop in the end (We pass this cakes shop several times without realizing it) :D



I Think, the interior design is quite unique and creative. .


My friend and I order some of their cakes : Rainbow, Little Black Bird, Call Me Panda and You See Green.
Well . .when I visit this shop, it is full of people although in the mid of weekdays.
(*correction: Not full of people,instead full of teenage girls who come in groups, order 1-2 cakes and takes the photos with their cellphone in countless time hahahaha)

I recommend their Panda and See Green for those who loves Dark Chocolate Mouse and Green Tea.



Overall: Their taste is Good enough. The Idea of creation and texture is quite similar with Canele Patisserie - Singapore

Location: Jl. Senopati Raya No. 64
Website : http://colettelola.com/

Strawberry Jelly Mouse with Oreo Base

This recipe inspired from Sorted , I modify the recipes according to what I have in my kitchen :D

Ingredients:

• 1 sachet of Jelly Pack ( I use Nutrijell)
• About 8 -10pcs of Oreo
• 250ml of Plain Thick Yogurt
• 120g of Strawberry
• 1/2tbsp of Gelatine
• 1/2 of lime juice
• About 1tbsp of Margarine or Butter

Method:

1. Blend the oreos cookies in the food processor with the melted margarine, divide into the cup and let it cool in the fridge.
2. Blend the strawberry, lime juice, gelatine, 3-4tbsp of cold water and sugar in the food processor.
3. Pour the strawberry puree slowly and mix well with the yogurt until you get the correct consistency and taste that you like (don't make it to watery or the yogurt mixture will not set)
4. Make a jelly as the suggestion serving in the pack (I reduce the water for about 1/3 cup from the suggestion to make the texture of jelly a little bit hard) and let it cool.
5. Pour the jelly in top of strawberry mixture and put it in the fridge until set.

Spicy Tuna Pasta (Quick and Easy)

I get inspired this dishes when I having a dinner in one of restaurants in Jakarta :D

Since it is really hard to find a fresh Tuna, so I decided to use canned Tuna!
You can either use canned Tuna Original or Spicy one. .



Ingredients:

• Canned Tuna
• Cooked Pasta
• 1/4pc Yellow Paprika
• 1 Red Chili (Diced)
• 2 Bird's eye Chili (Diced)
• 1/4pc Onion (Diced)
• 2pc Garlic (Diced)
• 1/2 tsp of black pepper
• 1/2 tsp Oregano
• 2 tbsp BBQ Sauce (Optional)
• 1/2 tbsp Butter

Method:

1. Heat the olive oil and butter in pan.
2. In medium heat, put the Onion. Still Fry until Golden Brown.
3. Put the Garlic, Red Chili and Bird's eye Chili until you can smell the flavour :D
4. Put and stir fry the Yellow Paprika and Tomato for a few seconds.
5. Pour the canned Tuna, stir well until it cooked / you can see the bubble coming.
6. Turn down the heat into small, put the cooked pasta, BBQ Sauce and black pepper. Mix it for awhile.
7. Served with Oregano on top!

Note: You can add or reduce amount of chili, depends on your taste. .

Bumbu Bali Restaurant

Hello Everyone! It has been a while since my last post :(

In this post,I would like to share my experiences in one of the famous Indonesian Restaurants in Bali :D

BUMBU BALI is Located in Tanjung Benoa - Bali, the place where tourists usually play water sports.



Since I'm not sure what I want to eat and I'm really hungry. . I decided to order lunch set that consists of : Chicken, Beef & Minced Seafood Sate, Tuna.Salad, Shredded Chicken with lime and Chili, Warm Vegetable Salad with Rice Cakes, Pork in Sweet and Soya Sauce, etc (Let the pictures below explain haha)


What you see is explain how it taste, that's what I can describe about this dishes.



My favourite dish in this platter are : Pork in Sweet and Soya Sauce, Chicken in Spiced Coconut Milk and Tuna Salad. And my favourite drink is Mint Mojito (Above Pict : Right)

They also received many international awards!

Name      : Bumbu Bali
Location : Jalan Pratama, Tanjung Benoa - Nusa Dua - Bali
Website  : http://www.balifoods.com/

Bebek Tepi Sawah Restaurant

One of the famous restaurants in Bali is "Bebek Tepi Sawah". This restaurant open in Ubud - Bali at first and then they open their branches in Kuta - Bali.

 They are famous with their Crispy Fried Duck and Grilled Duck! The sweetness of their Grilled Duck
and The Crispy of their Fried Duck is really yummy!

I also try their sweet and spicy Gurame Sauce which is nothing special. But, this is a good dish for foreigner who want to try Indonesian Authentic Food :D

For the Last, I finished my meal with their signature dessert "Coconut Cake" . . The texture is similar with cheesecake, however  it is not as sweet as the cheesecake. 

Overall,  you should come to this restaurant in Bali!!!!!!!

Naughty Nuri's Warung

Pork . .Pork and Pork

That's what we can find in some Balinese Dishes 

One of the famous restaurant that sells pork ribs is Nuri's Warung that located in Batubelig.

we ordered Pork Ribs, Pork Chops, Satay and Soto in there. .

Their Spices is mixed well in the dishes, but I don't like the Nachos. .

Their Nachos is a little bland and the taste is really weird for me, but other foods are fine :D


Name      : Naughty Nuri's Warung
Location : Jl. Batubelig, 41 (Kerobokan Kelod, Kuta)

Website  : http://www.naughtynurisbali.com/

All about Indonesian Traditional Foods

This post is made especially for whoever you are that need information about foods in Indonesia.

There are many kinds of delicious foods in Indonesia :

To start, one of Indonesian famous dessert and you can find it easy:

Es Cendol & Kacang Merah (Left Pict) is mixed ingredients from Red Bean, Cendol and Black Jelly.
This Dessert use Brown Sugar and Coconut Milk as their base . . the taste is really good and fresh!

Es Campur (Right Pict) is made from similar like Es Cendol & Kacang Merah, however they use shave ice and syrup as base. . so you can imagine, the sweetness,softy and cool combine together! Heaven! haha




Next, one of the famous chicken dishes that others country may have, but trust me! it taste different!

Fried Chicken (Left Pict) : In most places,  they marinated with Indonesian Traditional Herbs (Turmeric, ginger etc).
Grilled Chicken (Right Pict) : If you can find a correct spot, you will find a chicken that is grilled with Charcoal!! you can smell it in your chicken! It's really different! Some of restaurants use chilli, sweet soy sauce or honey for marinated and some of them use herbs.




Satay Padang (Left Pict) is one of the traditional foods from Padang City, however you can find it in most of big cities. . it is basically beef or chicken grilled / skewered and use peanut sauce with some herbs. .
Next, Pindang Patin (Right Pict) if you like something sour and a little bit spicy.  . this is the One! Pindang is their actual dish name and Patin is kind of fish, some of restaurants provide beef, squid and others to change the fish if you don't like it :D

Move on to our next culinary, you can find it easily in most of cities in Indonesia at night. . We called it "Martabak Manis" the taste is similar with pancake. For the first, they only have one base: Vanilla / Plain, and they will put different topings in it (Peanut, Cheese, Srikaya, Chocolate Sauce, etc). Now, there are many varieties of base, like photo below: (Mocca Flavour, Pandan Flavour and Chocolate Flavour)



Next, I personally think that it is really hard to find following dishes in Big Cities (Mall or Plaza) because it is really traditional. . (Laksa, Burgo and Laksan)

These 3 dishes has similar taste, the differences are in their shape of filling and soup.
For Laksa (Left Pict) : Longer Rice Vermicelli and they curry or asam as in their soup. .
Burgo (Mid Pict) : Layer of thin rice vermicelli and they use coconut milk as their soup.
For the last, Laksan (Right Pict) : Thick Rice Vermicelli with Curry + Coconut milk as their soup . .

Mie Aceh (Left Pict): If you are really like spicy and noodle, this is a must try dish! as their name from Aceh City . . They create a dish that is rich of herbs and spices!

Gado - Gado (Right Pict): I personally this dish as Indonesian Salad! The differences between western salad and this in their sauce. . usually western people only use olive oil or mayo in their salad, on the other hand Indonesian people use mixed of peanuts. Gado - Gado is combination of some vegetables, mixed with peanuts sauce.



End for now. . I'll add more if I have time to taste and take a pict of it ^.^

For you who want to give suggestion and help about foods that I haven't mention in this post is very welcome!!

Nasi Candra "Babi Guling" - Bali

Balinese Food is well known with their "Babi Guling".

This time, I have a chance to taste it on Nasi Candra restaurant.

you can find many similar restaurants that sells these kind of foods, but there are only few of them that has a really good taste on it.

I ordered "Nasi Campur" that consist of crispy skin, betutu, satay and others. The price is relatively cheap, it is only Rp.30.000,- or US $3.5 per served.

I recommended their satay because it is rich of sweet flavour, I order additional satay portion for take a way :)

ps: Their chilli is also really hot!!!  


Name        : Nasi Candra
Open time : 06.00 AM - Closed
Location   : Teuku Umar 140, Denpasar - Bali 

Fish with Mandarin Sauce

Chinese new year is coming and people like to send a box of orange as a gift in Indonesia. . 

I come up with an idea about what should I do with all of these orange before it become rotten.





Ingredients

• 3pc of mandarin orange
• 2 Fish fillet
• Baby Spinach
• French Fries
• Chili
• Basil
• Virgin oil

Method

1. Put the fish into the pan, in low heat until cooked evenly.
2. Make some juice from orange and left several pieces of orange for dressing
3. Cooked chili with virgin oil (until the smell is good enough)
4. Pour the orange juice, salt and papper into the pan in medium heat and heat until bubble
5. wash the baby spinach in hot water for an instant
6. Dressing the fish with sauce, french fries and baby spinach :D

Tous les Jours - Jakarta (Bakery)

Tous les Jours is a great place for people who like to buy bread or cakes for special occasion.
This bakery was originally from South Korea and well known in the worldwide.

 I only want to buy one or two bread in the beginning, but I end-up buy more than I can eat because of their delicious looks and presentation.  Trust me, their taste is as good as their looks. .

Here are the picts will show you how delicious and tempting their products

Location: Central Park Mall Jakarta, 1st Floor

Website: http://www.tlj.co.kr

Food Fantasy - Gold Coast

In order to celebrate our graduation, my friends and I drove to gold coast to eat their  famous buffet : Food Fantasy!

Food Fantasy is one of the famous buffet restauran in Queensland that provide infinity seafood meal and desserts. . The location is inside of Conrad Jupiter Hotel in Gold Coast.

Long drive from brisbane and queue in the restaurants is pay off when we see the menu

They provide sand crab, prawn, salmon, scallops and others!

The taste is also good! the best buffet that I ever visit :D

Koh Grill and Sushi Bar (Japanese Cuisine)

My friend who is living in Singapore recommend me a good Japanese Restaurant : Koh Grill & Sushi Bar.

Most of their menu is pretty similar with other japanese restaurants, so I order what I think is unique.

First, I ordered Asparagus Buta! The portion is quiet small and  the asparagus is to oily . . but, who can resist the delicious of pork belly? :D

Then I move on the their famous dish:  Shiok Maki. it consist of charcoal grilled eel wrapped with lightly roasted salmon and melted cheese. . After take a first bite, I can say that this can be one of my favourite dish! You can feel the crispy of salmon that melt perfectly with cheese and smell the eel that grilled with charcoal!

Name     : Koh Grill & Sushi Bar
Location: Wisma Atria, Singapore 238877

Peach and Strawberry Verrines

This recipe originally from Irene Sangadi
I made some changes according to ingredients that easy to find in Indonesia :D

Ingredients

• 200g of Strawberry 
• 480g of peach (I use can fruit)
• 1 Sachet of Agar - agar
• Juice from 2pc of lime
• 200g of Plain Yogurt 
• Sugar

Method

• Bottom Layer (Peach Puree)
• Put all of peach into the food processor until smooth
• Heat the pan in medium, then pour 3/4 of peach puree, 1/2 of lime juice, 1tsp of agar -agar and 2tbsp of water.
• After the bubble apear in the pan, turn of the heat and let cool it in room temperature
• Divide into the cup equally and put it into the fridge until set.
• Middle Layer (Peach Mouse)
• Heat the pan in medium, then pour another 1/4 of peach puree into the pan, 1/2tbsp of agar -agar and 1tbsp of water.
• After the bubble apear in the pan, turn of the heat and let it cool in room temperature.
• Pour the puree slowly into the yogurt and stop it after you get the right consistency.
• Top Layer (Strawberry Puree)
• The method to make strawberry puree is same with peach pure :D

Ribbetts (Fine Foods)

There is a day when I want to eat something delicious, traditional and wild. After asking friends and searching from Internet, I found this restaurants in Brisbane that near with where I live Ribbetts

Well, let the picture shows how delicious this food!!

You can see, 2 pieces of big ribs serve with homemade special sauce!! If you love to eat ribs, you will absolutely go insane with this food!!

Moreover, if you can eat a looooot of foods like this, you can choose all you eat menu with $35 AUD!
or try their famous 1 meter pizza (110slices) !

Red Velvet Cakes

I've always wanted to make a Red Velvet Cakes and I know the real Red Velvet Cakes is hard and consume a lot of time to make it, so I just simplify by substitute one of the main ingredients which is Bit Root with Food Colouring >.<"

Ingredients

Cakes

• 1 1/2 Elle & Vire Plain Sweet Yogurt (+-125ml)
• Egg
• 1tbsp White wine Vinegar
• 2tbsp Red food colouring
• 180ml of Sunflower oil
• 200g Self raising flour
• 225g Caster sugar
• 2tbsp Dark choco powder

Frosting

• 100g Cream Cheese
• 50g Butter
• 200g Icing Sugar
• 1tsp vanilla essence

Method

1. Whisk egg in a bowl

2. Add yogurt, vinegar, vanilla and sunflower oil

3. Add flour, sugar, cocoa, salt and food colouring and mix together until smooth

4. putt it in cupcake or muffin cases in about 3/4 full.

5. Bake for 25minutes in 180C or until cooked.
6. Icing: Beat cream cheese, butter and vanilla in bowl. Add icing sugar and mix well together. .

Zam Zam (Indian Cuisine)

Hello again to everyone whom read my blog! This time I will make a short review about one of Indian Restaurant that I try when I was in Melbourne : Zam Zam

I ordered Dhal, Chicken Butter, Tandori Chicken and Brivani Rice with yogurt for my lunch. .

Dhal is a soup that has made from several kinds of seeds, I'm not sure what it is but the taste is unique. A little bit spicy and sour!

Chicken butter and Tandoori is my favourite combination for Indian Meal! Never had enough with butter  >.<"

And also, this is my first time eating rice with yogurt . .  usually eat yogurt with fresh fruits :D
 Just be honest, I feel really weird eating rice with yogurt  hahaha

Egg Benedict with smoked turkey slice

In this post, I would like to share my favourite dish for breakfast : Egg Benedict :D

This recipes was inspired by one of the judges from Masterchef Australia : Gary Mehigan

Ingredients:

• French Stick - Diagonally sliced
• Eggs
• Smoked turkey slice / pork etc (from market)
• Sorted Vegetable - Baby spinach, bay leaves, fresh thyme
• Butter
• Rice Vinegar

Hollandaise Sauce:

• About 150Gr butter
• 3 egg yolks
• Salt & Pepper
• 1tbs Lemon juice

Method:

1. heat the frying pan with butter and put the french stick for about 15seconds, to make it more tasty. you can add salt if you like.
2. Poached egg*
3. Make hollandaise sauce: Melt butter in saucepan, pout the butter in to the jug. Place egg yolks and others hollandaise sauce ingredients. . Whisking all of it into jug together and add a hot water in bottom of jug to make it perfect while whisking. Don't make the yolks become cooked!
4. Cooked the smoked turkey slices in a pan for awhile.

5. Places the vegetable, turkey slice and poach egg in top of french stick slice and pour the hollandaise sauce.


For you who ask how to make a good poached egg:

Sam & Jolly - Jakarta

Sour Sally is a well known cafe with their yogurt, especially in Indonesia and Singapore. Now, they open a new restaurant that called "Sam & Jolly"

Sam & Jolly is a unique restaurant that use yogurt as their trademark in foods. .

This time, I have a chance to taste from their branch in Central Park Mall - Jakarta

I order main course platter to taste most of their dishes in a small portions



Unfortunately ,  I don't think that their food platter is really that good. All of the dishes in the plate has a similar taste. It is because , they pour the sauce all over the plate !!! (see pict above). More over, I personally think that their tofu that mixed with shred chicken and wrapped in noodle is bland @_@
Their presentation also not as good as their picture in menu list.



After that, I moved to the desserts that they recommended which is Lava Mountain with adFUNture.
The ice cream suppose to be a vanilla, however they said the vanilla already sold out (as I know, the store itself is open from 11AM and I arrived at 12PM. How come the Vanilla sold out while no customer in this restaurants?).
Ok, back to the desserts! They replace Vanilla with Raspberry ice cream yogurts (See pict below).  Shortly I like the ice cream, garnish and of course their choco lava melt perfectly while I cut it off :D




Next dessert that I personally choose because their looks in menu : Green Tea Lova!



I love everything that made from or has a green tea scenes! This dessert use Green Tea Yogurt Ice Cream and tiramisu with butter cookies on top. They also use passion fruit sauce, strawberry and nuts to make presentation looks really good. .

Overall, I recommended most of their desserts! Not only looks good but also taste really good!
However since the portion is big enough, I'm full only eating their desserts hahaha

Name: Sam & Jolly
Location : Central Park Mall - UG outdoor terrace #216

Stalacities (Greek Cuisine)

When I was in Melbourne, I found Stalacities in CBD with their long queque.
I'm wondering what makes this restaurants has a long queque, so I decide to join and wait for the table :D

After waiting for about 15minutes in queque and chat with some customers, they said it is one of the famous restaurants in Melbourne CBD! Well, I consider my self as a lucky person because I found this restaurants accidentaly haha

Shortly, I get hint from several people in there about what should I order!

Firstly,

I choose Mixed Girro Platter which consists of marinated spring lamb and chicken from the spit.

Finished the main course in no time and I move to my favourite parts in eating = desserts!!! I always choose platter desserts if the restaurants provide it because I can taste several desserts at once with small portion.

The desserts that I ordered are baklava, galaktoboureko and creme caramel. served with a scoop of vanilla bean ice cream! Yum . . .



Galaktoboureko is really tasty and smooth. . I like the custard texture in this dessert !
Baklava is also really good with layers full of walnut and honey. . The only problem that all of this desserts suppose to eat by 3-4 people and I eat by myself! So, I had more than enough sweet taste at that day >.<