Pizza e Birra

Last night, I was invited to a birthday party at Pizza e Birra. The restaurant has a fun casual dining concept. It serves many varieties of pizza from the traditional Italian pizza to the innovative, unique non-Italian pizza.

Pizza e Birra has also many selection of beer.

Thus, I gave a try for the Beer with peach flavor - Rp. 39.000

So, no wonder to see the interesting napkins. It says "Save Water Drink Beer"

Well, I didn't get the chance to try and eat all the ordered food but I managed to take most of the pictures with my new camera canon (uhmm.. why I don't feel satisfied with the result of the pictures?). Anyway, some of the pizza that I tried were good but some were not as good as I expected. As for the dessert, I don't think I will order it when I come back to this place.

Appetizer

Fish and Chips - Rp. 39.000

Portuguese chicken wings - Rp. 35.000

French Fries

German Sausage Platter - Rp. 75.000

Threesome sausage combination in tomato Hamburg curry and potato salad

Pizza

Regular size - Rp. 49.000

Large size - Rp. 75.000

KungFu Peking Duck

BBQ duck with cucumber and red green chilies

Morning After

Bacon, fried egg and crispy rosemary potato chips

Lord of the Onion Rings

Beef meatballs, bell peppers and mushrooms plus onion rings.

I'm not sure the name of this pizza

Sicilian Salami

Classic pizza topped with beef salami

From India with Love

Tandoori chicken and cashew nuts with mango chutney

Wasabi Wasabi

Served with tuna sashimi marinated in balsamic reduction

Meat me in heaven

A combo of beef salami, turkey ham, meatballs topped with caramels onion

Texas BBQ Story

Zesty barbecue chicken in Texas bbq sauce with sour cream

Mommy's Boy

Crispy fried calamari and garlic mayo with fresh aragula salad

Pasta

Spaghetti Aglio Olio - Rp. 29.000

Spaghetti Japanese unagi hot chili and garlic - Rp 72.000

Dessert Pizza

Small size - Rp. 35.000

Medium size - Rp. 55.000

Black Eye Pears

Chocolate pudding and pears topped pizza with white chocolate coins

Mad about Tiramisu

Warm pizza topped with traditional coffee tiramisu cream sprinkled with cocoa powder

Traditional Tiramisu - Rp. 35.000

Caramel Latte

All prices subjected to 5% service charge and government tax.

Currency: 1 USD = Rp. 9.000

Location:

Pizza e BirraPlaza Indonesia Extension
Lantai 5, Unit E 22
Jl. MH Thamrin Kav. 28-30
Jakarta Pusat 10350
Tel. (62 21) 319 28070

Disclaimer:

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

Korean Cooking Demo

Hero Supermarket (one of Indonesia's biggest supermarket chain), together with Mu gung Hwa (Korean Supermarket & Distributor in Indonesia) held a free Korean Cooking Demonstration at Taman Anggrek Mall yesterday afternoon.

This event is related to the Korean Festival - selling Korean food products with a 10% discount, from 8 November - 5 December 2010.

Testing Food in the Hero Supermarket.

Tteokbokki (Korean rice cake)

Hot & Spicy Tteokbokki

I joined the Korean cooking demo. While waiting for the cooking demo to start, I got a can of Korean green tea :)

The cooking demo was conducted by Ms. Lee Young Hee - a very friendly, funny and energetic lady. She speaks fluently Indonesian language.

Ms. Lee demonstrated 4 Korean dishes:

1. Kim Chi ingredients

1 chinese cabbage

finely chopped garlic chives

finely chopped scallions

3 cloves - grated ginger

1 Tbsp. finely chopped garlic

1 Tbsp. Seujeot (fermented small shrimps)

3 Tbsp. Myulchijeot (fermented anchovies)

Gochugaru (chili powder) to taste

3 Tbsp. Chili paste

Sugar to taste

Salt to taste

Sesame seed

2 glass of water

Kim Chi

2. Jap Che ingredients:

150 gr sliced Beef

150 gr Dangmyun

2 soaked and sliced Shitake mushroom

1/2 Onions

2 cloves finely chopped garlic

sliced red, yellow and green paprika

1/4 sliced carrot

70 gr Horenso (spinach)

150 gr sugar

Jingangjang (dark soy sauce)

sesame seeds

sesame oil

cooking oil

How to prepare the ingredients before cooking:

Dangmyun (Cellophane/ Glass noodles) made from sweet potato starch.

It need to be soaked for 30 minutes before using.

Marinated the beef with sugar, Jingajang, garlic, sesame seeds and sesame oil .

The cooking:

1. On a heated pan, put a few drops of cooking oil.

2. Add garlic and onions - sautee

3. Add all the vegetables and beef - stir

4. Add the soaked Dangmyun - mix

5. Add Jinganjang, sugar, sesame oil and final add the sesame seeds

Jap Che

3. Bulgogi

(No recipe provided)

4. Bibim Bap ingredients.

(No recipe provided)

Note:

- All the pictures in this post were taken using my cellphone because my digicam is broken. Sorry that some of the pictures are blur.

- This is not a promotion post, just for sharing :)

Nan Xiang at The Sultan Hotel, Jakarta

I attended my second cousin's wedding at one of the Nan Xiang restaurants, located in The Sultan Hotel (former known as Jakarta Hilton Intercontinental Hotel).

8 dishes were served during the wedding's dinner including the appetizer and dessert. Too bad that the specialty dish of Nan Xiang which is the famous dumplings (xiao long bao) wasn't on the menu.

Combination of Cold Dishes

(Beef slices, mushrooms and tofu)

Nothing to shout about this dish.

Thick Corn Soup with Minced Chicken

Although it mentioned as a thick soup but it's actually quite watery to my opinion.

Roast Chicken Hongkong Style

I find the chicken is a bit too dry to swallow

Fried Fillet Fish with Sweet & Sour Sauce

The fillet fish is sliced very thin.

Most of the guests and me think that the sauce is too sweet.

Sauteed Beef with Black Pepper Sauce

The black pepper sauce is tasteless.

There's no a kick of pepper in the sauce.

Braised Vegetable Pocai with Garlic

Sorry, I didn't get a close up picture of this dish.

But anyway, among all the dishes, I think this is the only dish that tasted good.

The pocai is fresh and crunchy.

Fried Rice Shanghainese

The rice is too dry and hard; totally lack of flavor.

The chopped carrots are still raw.

Combination of Two Snack

Balls with sesame seeds and little sweet steamed buns,

tasted mediocre.

Despite of feeling happy for the new wedding's couple, a lot of the guests went home feeling unsatisfied with the food.

Location:

Nan Xiang Restaurant

QI Lounge - The Sultan Hotel

Lagoon Tower

Jl. Gatot Subroto

Jakarta 10002

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