Tukang Sari Tebu (Sugar Cane Juice man)

Sugar Cane Juice is called as Air Tebu or Sari Tebu in Indonesia. It's quite easy to find the vendors selling it on the streets or also in the big malls. I like to drink it. Cold and sweet... Ah, it's so refreshing on a hot day. Definitely, it will quince the thirst :)

This is how the vendor get the fresh sugar cane juice.

Using a press machine

The extract of sugar cane juice need to be strained

It's ready in the drink container.

Refreshing!!! *slurp*

1 small plastic bag of sugar cane juice cost Rp. 2.000

Currency: 1 USD = Rp. 8.500

Tukang Kue Cubit (Pinch cake man)

Kue cubit is one of the famous traditional snacks that easily to find on the street! Cubit means pinch in Indonesia. I think the reason why it's called as Kue Cubit (pinch cake) because of the small size and people have to pinch it while taking and eating it :)

Kue cubit with granulated chocolate (sprinkles) on the top.

To make kue cubit, you need the kue cubit's steel pan. It's available at the traditional markets in Indonesia.

The ingredients:

3 eggs

150 gram sugar

50 gram margarin

1/8 tsp vanilla powder

200 ml water

in a bowl:

1/2 tsp baking soda

300 gram flour

1/2 tsp salt

Directions:

Beat the eggs and sugar until it becomes volume and thick, then pour the mixed flour gradually. Slowly add and stir the margarine, vanilla and water. Leave the batter for 60 minutes until it becomes frothy. Coat the steel pan with margarine. Pour the batter to the heated steel pan until 3/4 height of each mould. About 5 minutes, the kue cubit is ready :)

Another version of kue cubit is kue laba-laba which resemble to spiderweb (translation: laba-laba means spider).

Kue Cubit Laba-laba

Making the spiderweb pinch cake:

Kue Cubit

1 piece cost Rp.800

(currency 1 USD = Rp. 8.500)

Pioh Tim (Sea Turtle Soup)

My friend told me, "Make sure that you will not be late tomorrow! We have to be at 7 am sharp at this place or if not, the Pioh might already be sold out. Believe me, it's the best place in town that served Pioh." (note: Pioh means sea turtle)

Thus, this morning before 7 am, I was in the Chinatown Jakarta - also known as Glodok, to meet my friend.

My friend brought me to this small alley, then I saw a street vendor of Pioh. First, I thought we were going to buy the Pioh from this vendor but instead of ordering, my friend walked directly inside a small restaurant behind the Pioh's street vendor.

The place looks like an old school restaurant.

I heard that their ice coffee (Kopi Es) is delicious but I didn't give it a try.

There are 3 types of Pioh soup: Pioh Tim (Sea Turtle soup), Pioh Tauco (Sea turtle cooked with fermented soybean) and Pioh Obat (Sea turtle cooked with Chinese herbal medicine)

Preparing the sea turtle meat in the bowls.

Topped with generous of coriander leaves.

The soup is clear, light, briny with the nice aromatic of garlic oil. The sea turtle's meat tasted similar to tender pork and there are parts of the sea turtle that tasted like chewy jelly.

A bowl of Pioh Tim (Sea turtle soup) with a bowl of white rice and Chinese fried bread stick (cakwe/you tiao) plus chili sauce cost Rp. 42.000.

Currency: 1 USD = Rp. 8.500

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.

"Picnic Day 2011" Game

Louise from Months of Edible Celebrations is inviting me again for the online picnic game :) (Note: 18th of June is the "International Picnic Day")

How to play the picnic game?

Each of the invitee food blogger need to bring food (read: recipe, picture and the post link) for the picnic according to an alphabet order from the letter A to Z (I got the letter "I"). Then, we start to recite:

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

A-Apricot Cobbler (Mae)

B- Banana Cream Pie (Marjie)

C-Cherry Bars in a Jar (Barbara)

D- Diva Doggie Bites (Channon)

E-Emeril's Strawberry Lemonade (Pattie)

F-Fingerling Potato Salad w/ Honey-Thyme Vinaigrette (Heather)

G-Gugelhopf Twister (Kristy)

H-Honey Graham Roll-ups (Glenda)

I- Incredible "Rabbit" Pineapple Tarts/Rolls (Selby)

Enjoy the picnic!!! :)

JackRabbit, Jakarta (Food Tasting Panel)

A week ago, some food bloggers and I were invited by Goorme to try the JackRabbit's brunch. Most of people who are watching the Masterchef Indonesia, might have heard about this place; Chef Juna Rorimpandey, one of the judges in Masterchef Indonesia is the Executive chef of JackRabbit. Too bad that he couldn't attend this food tasting panel because of his hectic work.

The Bar

The interior

darkly-sophisticated with wood furniture.

High ceilings

So, how's the food tasting panel?

The food tasting panel at JackRabbit supposedly to start at 11.30 am but as predicted, it started late at 12.30 pm. First, there's an opening speech by the JackRabbit's Media Relation then we started to order the food.

It seemed for us - the hungry bloggers, the food took forever to show up on our table. At last, the food was served one hour later after we ordered. No doubt, the food was cold when it arrived on the table. No clue, why they kept the food so long before serving.

I managed to take the pictures most of the food being served but didn't get the chance to try it all and only in a very little amount.

Bread

Huevos Rancheros - Rp. 58.000

pico de gallo, avocado slices and texas baked bean

The pico de gallo was lovely but standard for the cold fried eggs.

Caviar Scrambled Egg - Rp. 68.000

garlic bread, grilled tomato, sauteed mushroom, choice of beef or pork bacon, side salad and choice of beef or pork sausage.

I like the caviar on the top of the scrambled egg. The sausage was decent but the streaky bacon was too dry and hard, the sauteed mushroom tasted bitter.

Chicken en Croute - Rp. 58.000

side salad and supreme sauce.

I didn't get the chance to try this.

Eggs Benedict / Florentine - Rp. 58.000

English muffins, gruyere cheese, smoked ham, spinach & poached eggs, grilled tomato & asparagus, side salad and sauce.

I didn't get the chance to try this.

Steak and Eggs (US Sirloin) - Rp. 158.000

grilled tomato, potato o’brien and bordelaisse sauce.

I only tried the potato which was mediocre.

Grilled quarter lemon chicken - Rp. 85.000

Barbecue sauce, side salad, potato wedges.

I love this juicy and tender grilled chicken with the refreshing barbecue sauce.

Lamb Chops - Rp. 178.000

Flour tortillas, mint yogurt sauce, side salad.

The lamb chops was too well done.

Beef Chimichangga - Rp. 58.000

pico de gallo, guacamole and texas baked bean.

I didn't get the chance to try this.

Beef Wiener Schnitzel - Rp. 88.000

served with mashed potato, salad, lemon twist and veal sauce.

I like the crunchiness of the Wiener Schnitzel.

There's also Asian cuisine in the brunch menu.

Red Spicy Laksa - Rp. 63.000

Yellow noodle, hard boiled egg, prawn.

The Laksa tasted totally bland, lack of spiciness.

Currency: 1 USD = Rp. 8.600

Location:
JackRabbit Cuisine & Libations
Cyber 2 Tower.
Jl.H.R.Rasuna Said Blok X-5 no.13,
Jakarta
Tel: 290 21357