Bar B Q Plaza Jakarta

This afternoon, I had an enjoyable lunch together with Jenz, Cindy and Imel at Bar B Q Plaza. It is a franchise restaurant from Thailand and just opened last July at Puri Indah mall.

Bar B Gon 

The Bar B Q maskot - a cute cheerful dragon.

Bar B Q Plaza is a self-cooking Mongolian and Japanese style barbeque restaurant.

On the wall, there is the story in cartoon about the high quality of vegetables and meats being prepared for the customers so they can enjoy the barbeque at Bar B Q Plaza.

Self-grilling by the customers.

We chose Family Mixed (Beef & Pork) Set - Rp. 179.000

Set menu served together with sliced cabbage (free refill).

Meat: Beef and Pork

Fish, chicken, squid, carrot, asparagus, baby corn, udon.

Bok Choy - Rp. 8.000

Carrot - Rp. 8.000

Asparagus - Rp. 15.000

Chinese mushroom - Rp. 19.000

The way of cooking is a bit unique:

First, pour in chicken stock

Use lard or vegetable oil to grease the hot plate (for lard, leave the lard on the middle of the pan throughout and for vegetable oil, use sparingly). Then, place first the sliced cabbage and vegetables into the soup.

Grill meats and seafood on the hot plate. Do not overcook the meat and seafood to keep their tenderness.

Lastly, put in the Udon - only for 30 seconds.

During the cooking, we made sure that the soup is constantly topped up to prevent smoke and burning.

For the soup to be sweet, continue to add more vegetables. At the end of the cooking, the soup tasted so wonderful, full of the vegetables and meat's essence. Jenz and Cindy love to drink the soup :)

By the way, the best way to eat this barbeque, it is a must to dip the meat and seafood into the provided barbeque sauce because they are not marinated. To add a twist to the sauce, customers can mix it together with fresh cut chili, garlic and squeezed lime.

Beside the barbeque set menu, we also ordered:

Beef Bacon wrapped Asparagus and Enokitake mushroom - Rp. 29.000

Eringi with soy sauce - Rp. 19.000

Shioyaki Shishamo - Rp. 29.000

White Coral Salad

Garlic Fried Rice - Rp. 17.000 

All prices are subjected to tax and service charge.

Current currency: 

1 USD = Rp. 11.350

Location:
Bar B Q Plaza
Mall Puri Indah, 2nd Floor # 236
Jl. Puri Agung, Kembangan
Jakarta Barat
Phone: 5801299

TeSate Restaurant, Menteng

Mom and I had lunch at TeSaTe in Menteng area. This restaurant is a contemporary style restaurant that serves authentic Indonesia cuisine. 

Tahu Udang Berontak - Rp. 58.000

Prawn and mushroom inside the tofu.

Rujak Penganti Salad - Rp. 38.000

Tasty fresh salad with egg, tomato, carrots, egg, tofu, pineapple, noodle and sour sweet peanut sauce.

Nasi Tutug - Rp. 86.000

Tutug rice is served with seafood, poultry and vegetable dishes of West Java

Nasi Merah Ikan Roa - Rp. 88.000

Indonesian red rice, made into a fried rice and paired with the Celebes tuna fish and red chili.

Sate Ayam Madura - Rp. 59.000

Chicken in rustic marinade, served with sweet peanut sauce.

Sate Ayam Makassar - Rp. 95.000

Beef with sour starfruit sauce.

Sate Ayam Ponorogo - Rp. 59.000

Chicken in sweet marinade, served with buttery peanut sauce.

Tumis Pucuk Labu - Rp. 47.000

A simple fresh vegetable dish of young chayote leaf buds with red chili slices and sweet shallots.

Tahu Telur - Rp. 55.000

Fried egg and silky soft white tofu with sweet soy sauce and peanuts sprinkles.

Ongseng Kecipir - Rp. 47.000

Crunchy Kecipir combined with beef tendon.

The beef tendon was really soft and chewy.

Iga Sapi Paniki - Rp. 98.000

Beef ribs slow cooked in a rustic style and grilled to caramelize, combine with sweet plump shallots and chilies and lime leaves.

Es Campur - Rp. 37.000

A combination of sweet jelly and fruit with condensed milk and flavoured syrup, served on crushed ice.

Es Tape Hijau - Rp. 31.000

Frgrant, fermented green sticky rice and cassava, served over crushed ice and coconut cream.

Serabi Solo - Rp. 31.000

Yeast raised traditional pancake, a popular snack icon of Central Java.

Kopyor Siam - Rp. 58.000

Kedongdong juice - Rp. 35.000

Kopyor

Black Tea and Ginger Tea

Es Puter - Rp. 28.000

Smooth, creamy, coconute ice cream served with bread and red jelly.

All prices are subjected to tax and service charge.

Current currency:

1 USD = Rp. 11.350

Location:
TeSate Restaurant
JL. Sam Ratulangi No. 39
Menteng, Central Jakarta
Tel: 3193 1250

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.

Hollywood Mongolian Grill, Los Angeles

I tried Hollywood Mongolian Grill when I was at the Hollywood and Highland Center which is a shopping mall and entertainment complex at Hollywood Boulevard and Highland Avenue in Hollywood, Los Angeles.  

7 steps how to create your own Mongolian Feast :)

Meat station.

 Vegetable station.

Noodle station. 

What's in my bowl.

For the sauce, I asked for the traditional BBQ sauce.

The stir-fry station.

It was served less than 10 minutes.

Mongolian BBQ with noodle - USD 8.95
It tasted OK but I was expecting for something tastier.

Location:
Hollywood Mongolian Grill
6801 Hollywood Blvd, #311
(in Hollywood & Highland, Level 3)
Los Angeles, CA 90028
U.S.A

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.