Huize Trivelli

My friend has been telling me about this interesting heritage restaurant and patisserie named "Huize Trivelli" that serves traditional Indonesian dishes that have been adjusted to Dutch dishes or vice versa.

So yesterday, my friend brought me to this restaurant for a nice lunch :)

As soon as, I entered I directly could feel the peaceful and nice ambiance with nice old Indonesian songs mixed with Dutch language being played in the background in the restaurant.

This restaurant was built around the end of year 1930s as a family house in the area that used to be for the Dutch people. FYI, Indonesia was colonized by the Dutch for 300 years. And since 2006, the family house changed to be a restaurant.

Huize Trivelli's decoration is based on the antique Javanese - European and Chinese cultural traditions.

I guess enough introduction of the restaurant and without further ado, let's get right into the pictures to tell more ;)

The Entrance.

The Garden

Inside the Huize Trivelli

And finally the food pictures ;)

Trivelli Vegetables Salad
(Lettuce, green pepper, red pepper, yellow pepper, cucumber, tomato)
Rp. 17.500

Trivelli Beef Stroganoff
(Pan Fried with beef and mashed potato)
Price: Rp. 55.000

Trivelli Chateaubriand Aux Champignons
(Dutch-Indisch style Pan-fried beef with homemade sauce and mushrooms)
Price: Rp. 55.000

Trivelli Bier Pletok Betawi a la Creme
(a drink made from pandan leaves, cinnamon, cloves, and ginger)
Price Rp. 15.000

All prices are subject to 10% tax
Currency: 1 USD = Rp. 10.250

Huize Trivelli:
Jl. Tanah Abang 2 No. 108
Cideng - Jakarta Pusat
Indonesia

Disclaimer:
The review and opinion expressed here are purely according to my personal tastebuds. There's a possibility that the taste of the food might change later on, which could affect the review and opinion here. I also affirmed that there's no any monetary or non-monetary compensation being received from this restaurant for writing this restaurant.

Warung Nasi Ampera - Jakarta

Warung Nasi Ampera (Ampera Restaurant) is serving the authentic Sundanese food (Sundanese is the West Java ethnic).

It has opened since mid-1970s in Bandung - the capital city of West Java, Indonesia. Until today, it already has more than 50 branches around Indonesia (almost 30 branches are located in Bandung).

The way of serving food is like a buffet style where you can choose and put what you like to eat on your plate and pay exactly for the food that you are taking. Oh.. and in case, you like eating brown rice, you can ask for brown rice instead of white rice :)

The varieties of food that you can choose:

Fried Anchovy cooked with stinky beans plus red and green chilies, Stinky beans, Grilled squids in sticks (with or without sauce).

Fried intestines in sticks, Corn pancakes, Fried cow's tripe, fried cow's spleen.

Fried eel, Fried fish (Common/ European carp), Fish cooked with sweet soy sauce and tomato, Fried chicken with coconut.

Tofu (bean curd) soaked into turmeric, Potato pancakes (croquette), Shrimp pancakes, Fried shrimp in sticks.

Fried fish, Chicken boiled with turmeric.

Innards in sticks and also being soaked in turmeric.

Fried fish (2 types of fish), chicken soaked in sweet soy sauce (you can ask them to grill or fry it)

Steamed Food (i.e: chicken, tofu, fish and etc.) being wrapped in banana leaves.

Not sure whether this can be considered as salad.

The 4 authentic chili sauces. Each chili sauce has it owns special ingredients beside the chili.

Fresh vegetables - lettuce, cabbage, basil leaves, cucumber, etc. dipped and eaten with chili sauce. It's free of charges.
It might not be a fancy restaurant but with the good authentic Sundanese taste and also reasonable prices, you might would love to eat at this restaurant, in fact, the original restaurant in Bandung is one of the favorite eating places of our current President and his wife :)

Pictures were taken at:
Warung Nasi Ampera
Jl. H. Agus Salim (Sabang)
Jakarta Pusat

Disclaimer:
The review and opinion expressed here are purely according to my personal tastebuds. There's a possibility that the taste of the food might change later on, which could affect the review and opinion here.

"Picnic Day" Game

18th of June is the "International Picnic Day" (it's also my dad's birthday, what a coincidence!).

In order to celebrate the Picnic Day, Louise from Months of Edible Celebrations is inviting for an online picnic game.

Each of us need to bring food (read: recipe, picture and the post link) for the picnic according to an alphabet order. I'm joining the Picnic and the "K" and "L" are the alphabets for me :)

I'm going on a picnic and I'm bringing...

Apple Pie with Dutch Crumb Topping (Miranda)

Buttermilk Spice Cake (Mary)

Chocolate Cherry Pie (Janet)

Dilly Potato Salad (Gloria)

Election Day Cake (Erica)

Fruit Cocktail Meringue Pie! (Erica)

Gluten Free Upside Down Cake (Dia)

Hangar Steak (Stacey)

Ice Cream in a Bag (Marjie)

Jell-O a la Haute (Karen)

Kue Pukis (Selby)

Lotek Salad (Selby)

We are having a picnic... Rain or shine... :)
Hope you enjoy the food during the picnic!

PEPeNERO Cucina Italiana, Jakarta

So, it's been more than 7 years I've known this lady. She's the one who interviewed me after those many interview tests that I had to go through first before the next final interview of the user who was the Chairman of the company with more than 1,000 staff.

Yesterday, the lady invited me for a very wonderful lunch at PEPeNERO - Cucina Italiana. This lunch might become our last lunch in the relationship as of being colleagues.

PEPeNERO is an Italian restaurant opened in Indonesia since 2004 with several locations in Jakarta and Bali. A simple Italian Trattoria - an Italian style eating establishment, less formal than a ristorante (restaurant), but more formal than an osteria (simple restaurant), with very nice ambiance and a truly delicious taste of Italian dish.

The lunch was at the PEPeNERO Kuningan.
Menara Karya Building 1 Floor
Jl. H. R. Rasuna Said Kav 1-2
Mega Kuningan, Jakarta Selatan

The Bar
Outside dining
Inside dining
Our table

Ice Lemon tea Rp. 15.000

Bread (Complimentary)

Panini with tomato and olive oil (Complimentary)

Tagliolini Neri Al Salmone - Rp 47.000
Homemade tagliolini pasta in squid ink with salmon fish in cream sauce.

Spaghetti alle Basil e Pomodoro - Rp. 39.000
Spaghetti with tomato and basil leaf

Panceta Gran Pizza - Rp. 47.000
Tomato sauce, mozzarella cheese, Italian panceta (dry cured meat)

Chocolate milk with alcohol (complimentary)

Cheesecake with Raspberry sauce - Rp. 43.000

All prices are subjected to 10% tax.
Currency: 1 USD = Rp. 10.000

Thank you, Lilis... For the wonderful friendship and standing by me when no one else would. I really appreciate this priceless friendship that you have given to me. You are just like a godsend sister to me, listening to all my worries and giving me precious advices when I needed it.


Disclaimer:
The review and opinion expressed here are purely according to my personal tastebuds. There's a possibility that the taste of the food might change later on, which could affect the review and opinion here.

Tukang Keripik (Chips man)

Have nothing to munch? Need something crunchy? Just grab a plastic of our traditional chips or crackers :)

Keripik Singkong Pedas
Fried slices tapioca caramelized with sugar, garlic and red chili.

Warning, it's very hot!!!

Kerupuk Bangka

roasted crackers made from fish paste and sago.

eaten with red chili sauce mixed with shrimp paste (terasi/belacan)

Tukang Bakpao (Buns man)

This man is selling Bakpao on his bicycle.

Bakpao are buns. It's an original food from China.
I learned that Bakpao is a Hokkian word (a Chinese dialect in Fujian province). "Bak" means meat and "Pao" means wrap. So, I guess, it supposedly means a meat being wrapped.
This vendor has 3 kind of bakpaos.

There are meat (minced chicken), mug beans and chocolate filling.

The buns are being steamed.
I bought the chocolate bun.

Too bad, the chocolate filling is very little, I was expecting more :(

Kolak with Banana & Pumpkin

Last week, I saw my mom was so busy in the kitchen. Curious, I sneaked into the kitchen and took a look what she's doing :)

Ah... I could tell from the ingredients that she's making Kolak, an authentic Indonesian dessert with the basic ingredients of palm/brown sugar (gula jawa), coconut milk and pandan leaf. She was preparing it because her friends were visiting her for tea time. No cookies and tea, but instead, it's kolak and tea ;)


The rest of the ingredients of kolak is depend on each person, but usually you can find either:
- tapioca
- pumpkin
- banana
- sweet potato
or all together as a complete kolak.

It's very easy to make kolak ;)

This how my mom made the kolak:

Ingredients:
1/2 pumpkin (medium size)
4 bananas (cut about 4 cm)
600 ml coconut milk
150 gr palm sugar (gula jawa)
4 pandan leaves
1/2 tsp salt

Directions:
- Put all the ingredients together in the cooking pot.
- Cook until it boiled.
- It's ready to be served.

Banana & Pumpkin Kolak
(Kolak Pisang dan Labu)

Kolak has a wonderful fragrance from the pandan leaf. It tasted sweet and creamy. A good comfort for an afternoon tea time :)

Batagor & Siomay

This is one of my favorite street food called Batagor Siomay. It's original a dish from Bandung (the capital city of West Java). Some people will consider it as a real meal for lunch but for some other people, it might be just a snack during late afternoon.

The cart of Batagor & Siomay

Batagor being fried in hot oil.

The ingredients to make Batagor and Siomay are the same which are Spanish/spotted mackerel fish, tapioca flour, egg, spring onions, shallot, garlic, salt and pepper. In another word, it's the same ingredients as to make fish cake but the composition is a bit different because Batagor Siomay has much softer texture.

The difference between Batagor and siomay: Batagor is being fried and Siomay is being steamed.

I like Batagor for its crunchiness and Siomay for soft, tender and chewiness texture (and of course, not forgetting to mention about the less calories *wink*).

The dressing is peanut sauce with red chili and kaffir lime juice. It's always so nice to smell the wonderful fragrance from the kaffir lime. The final touch to serve the Batagor Siomay is sweet soy sauce on the top of the peanut sauce and chili sauce at the side.

Siomay
(steamed fish cake, tofu with fish cake filling, cabbage with fish cake filling, potato)

Batagor
(fried fish cake, wonton with fish cake filling, tofu with fish cake filling)

Fried Wonton

Take - out

Batagor on the plate.

It might not look really appetizing for some people, but seriously, don't let the look deceive you coz' it's so yummy! You just need to give it a try ;)

Bunny cupcakes by Selby

I got my first order for cupcakes!!! Yes, a friend asked me to make 50 cupcakes for her daughter's birthday that will turn to be 7 years old. When I asked what kind of theme should be the cupcakes, her request was simple, as long as it's pink and cute then her daughter will like it.

First, I was thinking to make little bears with pink fondant as the base on the top of the cupcakes but then at the end, I decided to make bunny fondant with pink/purple/white flowers and the base is green as it resembles to grass. Bunnies love to play in a garden where there're a lot of grasses and little flowers around, rite? hehehe...

Well, to make the bunnies, it's quite time consuming but I had fun :)


This is how the bunny cupcakes look in the box. Mom helped me to make the boxes that can contain 25 cupcakes in each box.
The middle part, I left it empty to put the birthday candle.

Hopefully, my friend's daughter will like her birthday bunny cupcakes *crossing fingers*

Ketimus (steamed grated tapioca on banana leaf)

If you are trying to avoid fried food and want to eat a healthy snack in the middle of a day on the streets in Jakarta, then, you can try to look for this kind of cart. Yes, this cart definitely is offering healthy snack because everything is steamed ;)

There are steamed peanuts, steamed banana, steamed sweet potato and Ketimus on this cart.

Those men who sell these steamed food are called Tukang Bajigur because their main selling is actually the drink called Bajigur. Sorry, I didn't get the chance to capture the drink because it was sold out already. Next time, I'll post the Bajigur drink which is coffee mixed with brown sugar - palm sugar/gula jawa, coconut milk, salt and arenga pinnata fruit.

Do you wonder how ketimus looks in the inside? ;)

How to make Ketimus:

Ingredients:
500 gr tapioca (grated)
150 gr old coconut (grated)
150 gr young coconut (sliced)
200 gr brown sugar (palm sugar/ gula jawa)
1 tsp salt

For wrapping:
5 Pandan leaves (cut into 4 cm)
2 Banana leaves (cut banana leaves in pieces of approx. 15 cm square)

Directions:
- Mix and stir well the grated tapioca altogether with the other ingredients
- Prepare the banana leaf
- Spoon 2 heaped tablespoons of the mixture on top of banana leaf
- Put the pandan leaf in the middle of the mixture
- Fold both sides of the package to the center
- Steamed the ketimus for 30 minutes

Tada.... This is Ketimus! :)

While ketimus is being steamed, usually you can smell the nice fragrant from the pandan leaf.

How does Ketimus tasted? It's sweet from the brown sugar, rich from the coconut and has chewy texture from the grated tapioca. It's a nice and healthy snack :)