Welcoming Back Jakarta!

It's another 2 months plus passed without me realizing I haven't had any time at all to update my blog!

It's kinda confusing what to write for around 2 months update (and for every post I make; it's somewhat always the same feelings all over again tho). So, to make complicated things easier, I will start from the reason why I haven't managed to upload so many updates all this time.

For this two months actually have been very busy with all the preparation that I have to do regarding my holiday back home to Indonesia for only 10 days. yeah. 10 FRICKIN DAYS and it passed so fast. The preparation was so longgg ugh. 

But I kinda glad it passed so fast as the one thing that did all the time there was eat. EAT and EAT and EAT. Until the state that I've just finished my lunch and then my mom said, "ok. what's for dinner?". 

PUKE ALL OVER LOL

However thank to my mom's enthusiasm this time I managed to get almost all the food that I really craving for (which is mostly Indonesian food of course!) compared to my holiday last year which only for 7 days. Its not enough.

And I will share it a little bit!! It's like, "fotd" as in "food of the day". hahaha.

Some of the best that I had this time was:

Several menus from Remboelan Resto that I visited in Senayan City.

Grilled Gourami with Peanut Sauce, or "kemiri" in Bahasa Indonesia. Dunno what's that called in English. Despite the color of the sauce, the taste is not as thick as I expected it will be! Dang good!

The usual Lontong Cap Go Meh; not as kickass as the gourami but because I craved for it's coconut milk soup...

and their famous Nasi Bakar or Grilled Rice. They mix boneless fishes with several seasoning that makes this super flavory yet FRICKIN bombastic spicy for my own tongue sake.

Blame the no-chilli tongue for more than 2 years I'm in Japan... I'm getting weaker for all chilli-thingy for sure.

It's daaaaammnn nice but too bad I cannot finish this as it is too spicy for me at that state which I'm scared I'll hurt my throat.

And the sweet closing is granted for their Remboelan's Es Campur (mix ice). What's Indonesian dessert without coconut milk!

HEAVEN. ON EARTH.

move on to the next visited restaurant was the famous Java Kitchen!

Ordered their Nasi Langgi.. I have no idea how to translate this. Langgi Rice?? Sounds so stupid hahahaha better spelled them with their original name..

It's like mixed rice with several toppings which rich on flavoring and seasoning such as omelette, dried shrimp, sauteed potato and chicken etc. My all time favorite!

and SATAAAYYY.

Look at the meat, peanut sauce and the red onion. How fantastic are they. YUMS.

Why the Japanese don't make their satay like this ah BIG FRUSTRATION.

And last but not least,

ordered their Nasi Gudeg.

I don't know how to describe this either. It's damn good. That's it. Sorry, for non Indonesian reader :(

Java Kitchen will always be my favorite place to go if I long for Javanese food.. their quality and taste never change upon times. YES they better keep their taste as good as it is!!

And the final (for this post) restaurant that I had was named Lembur Kuring.

Finally had a flying gourami (deep fried gourami) that i've been wanted all this time!! Taste incredibly crunchy and nice.. ate all it's fin part too as it was THAT crispy. Munch crunch.

Had this vegetable stuffed toufu too..

and their signature shrimp dish. Deep Fried Shrimp with Special Lembur Kuring Sauce which is a mixture of onion, green chilli, and cornflakes (what!).

The spiciness kicked me on the throat though. It's NOT that spicy but it's just that I'm not used to this kind of spiciness anymore so I didn't binge this much. But it was hell nice, can eat the whole pasrt of the shrimp as it was super crispy.

Based only on this post, It seems that my Indonesian food journey is this short, but its not!! Its actually, much much longer than this post. hahahah.

On the other day, I also had some martabak telur and martabak manis..

 

and just now I've just realized I forget to take photos of the sweet martabak one.. It was all swiped clean as soon as we open the box. And now, no photos :(

Oh well.

And on the other day craved and ate this Makassar's signature ice too..called Es Palu Butung.

It's like soft cake-rolled banana with coconut milk soft pudding and sauced with condensed vanilla milk. OH GOD. I wouldn't mind eating this everyday. It's damn niiiiiiceeeee.

And now i've just realized one thing.

Why Indonesian food is not as famous as other country's food.

My theory was concluded from writing this blog in around 30 minutes; 

It's very hard for us Indonesian to describe what's the real taste of Indonesian food as it was too complex to be explained.

Compared to Thai foods, fpr example. All spicy, sour, coconut milk. That's it.

Indonesia? Spicy sour sweet, some bitter yet nice, some smell so strong yet it sweet. and dozens of textures to complete all of that. How can you describe that? Words are not enough. Have to taste it ourselves.

Then how can we force all foreigner to try Indonesian food if we can't describe it very well?? BIG PROBLEM.

Oh well, It's only my theory though. I'm hoping that all the people in this world can taste how AMAZING Indonesian food was. (And that's the reason I kept bringing Indomie to all my Japanese friends here!)

Aaaaaaaandddd.... I think that's the closing for this post. Will post again about several foods that I had during my holiday on the next post as I suppose it will be too long for them to be tightened to only one post.

Thanks for reading!