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Yup this is why i love being grown ups!!
I can eat whatever I want and Any combination that I want.

Last November 2007 i found this delicious snack, i mean really really and its cheap too. its only me cost 800 rupiah a piece, around 1 $US. This heavenly snack its called “Gerry Chocolatos” !! in my small world this is the fastest chocolate snack i can get if my sudden crave for chocolate happens. I bought almost 11 boxes since then…

But not long after that i have this really really really great idea! ( have i said really enough :D ) why dont i combine these heavenly snack with other my other heavenly chocolate product :D

ta da!!! behold the greatest combination of happiness in home while watching Startrek season 1 to season 4 last December :) Oh joy, the secret ingredient is very simple my friend! Chocolate Milk, Chocolate Ice Cream and Chocolate Snack, the total cost for this drink is only 50 cent!
just one personal note before u have this kind drink, U will fell guilty :P

My friend (Maskman) at his farewell party had a lunch in one of Japanese restaurant at TB Simatupang Jakarta Selatan. The lunch is swell he said. They had a lot of picture while in the restaurant but couldn’t get enough lighting, so many of them are a bit dark, i even had to photoshop it to make it bright. the picture was taken with Sony Cybershot.

There’s only picture three picture of food that was taken, the rest it’s already been eaten or not in their first state.

Look yummy huh :)) that kind of face is priceless i said, priceless!! there’s a picture of the food

and this

That kind of fish in market cost around 15 cent but in this lovely place cost around US$ 4, nice…

Don’t Forget the dessert.. there’s Udon Noodle, Cold Noodle and many feast but there’s too much if i had to upload it. The Total cost that his boss spend in this restaurant is around Rp. 1.900.000 (US$ 195) for 11 person. To sum it up, I think it’s worth it if u want to eat in a sushi restaurant with a cozy atmosphere.

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on the first of March i ate at a Manado restaurant in south jakarta, Beautika. it’s a cozy place but has a tight parking space. i came there because of my boss’s birthday, her treat of course. because of her treat i couldn’t bought the dine that i desire. she choose a package of the food. when i first came to this place it’s a great impression, the place was made entirely of wood decor, and theme was wood too. i couldn’t take a picture at the front of the restaurant, because there’s no good angles(tight space.). but i manage to take the picture of the billboard.

after looking a place to sit, lunch was served.. and i think what the..

is this how they present their food? it’s quite a disappointment. i thought the food was prepared the same theme with the decor of the place, but no they present it in bowl of white cheap ceramic bowl and maybe because my boss ordered only four menu(but still why do they present it in white cheap bowl!). i take a picture of it so u can know how disappoint i am.

..and the ordered meal was fried prawn, bitter chinese mellon, a hot sambal cakalang (maybe it’s called skipjack tuna in English), and a very bitter papaya flowers. the ordered drink for me is orange juice and the dessert is a mix crunch ice(”es campur” in indonesian). lets take a look at the chinese bitter mellon or “Pare” what indonesian called it

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it’s just a typical meal, not too bitter of course. kind of Javanese cook combination flavors. i also take a picture of the menu…

well it’s quite lame of course. Maybe this the standard course what my boss ordered, but that doesn’t mean we couldn’t see the deluxe one. this is the picture of the place while i was coming down from the stair.

with the place like this shouldn’t we get a good presentation of the meal? but nevertheless the taste of the food was tempting. i don’t know the exact cost of the lunch but my friends sought it at the reasonable price around Rp. 2.500.000 (around US $250) for 30ish person. it could be the best place to hang-out with your family and your associate but could use a better plate for the meal.

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My friend work outside Jakarta, he work as a product designer labour in one of major electronic company in Indonesia. The company is quite large but doesn’t mean that u’ll get a great food in lunch. The food was was prepared by the company, so u didn’t have a lot of choices in eating lunch.

They get two fried fish(”Ikan Kembung” in Indonesian), one “Kerupuk”, a scoop of rice, a little hot sauce (”Sambel”) and once a month get an ice cream. Sometimes i was happy to see that i have a large variation of food in the place where i was working.

Last week my development directorate have a birthday and bought an Opera cake from harvest cakes.

This picture i get from the harvest website.The taste of the cake it’s like cappuccino cake or coffee cake. We get 20 X 30cm size and the nice thing is we share ONLY for 6 person in our division, everybody are in Cilegon (Banten Province Near Jakarta). So everybody has a very large portion of the cake.
Well that’s week ago, now my boss is having a birthday, i thought that we are goin out to a restaurant or something on lunch (her treat) but we can’t because there’s one employee of my division are in Lampung, so we wait for his comeback. But until his comeback from out of town, my boss bought us a cake :D (oh I love my division). The cake is Strawberry Cheese Cake from harvest too.

The cake is quite tasty, but u can’t eat it too often, because it really make your stomach full. The cheese are combine with strawberry on top(Doh!) and the texture of the cake are soft with sweet cream surrounding the cake. The strawberry aren’t sweet but still it’s a nice experience eating this cake. The Cost of the Cake that my boss bought is around Rp.230.000 size 20 X 30cm. it’s around US$24. if u bought it with delivery add US$4.

Couple days ago i had a lunch break at Platinum restaurant in Gajah Mada Plaza, Jakarta Barat. This is a franchise restaurant so expect mass product taste and middle to lower price range. Well i ordered a fried chicken with butter sauce. The taste isn’t good enough, not bad, but doesn’t good enough… The amount of of the food it’s enough for a one time lunch meal, not too much not too less. For a girl maybe it’s too much. i take a shoot the food there with my Canon A530.

The reason why this menu doesn’t taste so good is because the chicken is quite stiff(cold) and the sauce IS NOT butter sauce but sweet sauce(kind of tomato sauce but more greasy). I thought with this amount of food would not fulfill my hunger, but actually it’s a large portion i tell u. oh yeah there’s a fried tofu(japan tofu) with it

The second dishes that i see is what my friends ordered. the food is hainam rice chicken. I don’t know what it taste like, but i think it’s good, my friend always ordered that if we go to platinum on a lunch break. it’s quite a large dishes by the look of it.

The third dishes is teriyaki combo, i think it’s not a teriyaki at all, it’s just a bunch of a fried sausage, slices meat and coleslaw with sweet sauce(like soy sauce but more light) on a hot plate.

For fun with friends this restaurant its quite cheap and cozy, not too bad after all (it’s a boring place after 3rd visit). With three menu ordered, 3 glasses of lemon tea and 1 glass of cappuccino it’s roughly cost around Rp. 75.000 ( around US$ 8 ).