The art of food

Here are few photos I made from the Salon Culinaire competition in Kemayoran earlier this month. They are fabulous!

Interesting, right?

xoxo,

-Ita

A new favorite place and new books

How's your weekend?
It's Thursday ( I know...I know...a bit late to ask, hehehe) and weekend is coming but I want to share something from my last weekend :)

On Saturday evening after saw a movie "The Last Legion" (which is not recommeneded!), I found a nice place to hang out named "Kopitiam Oey". This small restaurant offers old coffee shop atmosphere, good food and of course good Indonesian coffee. Owned by one of Indonesian culinary expert, I recommend you to try this one if you are in Jakarta. I went there with my friend, Dyah and we both suddenly fall in love and making it our No. 1 cool hang out place in Jakarta.

The food price starts from Rp. 15.000 and coffee/tea price starts from Rp. 8000. Not so many choices are on the list but they are selected carefully by the owner. Because the price is not expensive at all, we decided to order one meal for each and one meal for sharing. Cane Bread with chicken curry was chosen to share while Crab noodle was for each.

In the end, we couldn't finish the cane bread and chicken curry because we both were full!

We spent few hours in this place, didnt really want to get out but the night was getting late. If you want to try, just drive to Haji Agus Salim Street No. 18, Central Jakarta. Feel the friendly ambience and good food+coffee. Don't expect you'll be in a big fancy restaurant because it's a small cute little place!

On Sunday, I went to one of my favorite 'candy shop' named Gudang Buku. This place provides 2nd hand books and if we are patient selecting one by one, we'll get new book! Isn't it good? The price is also reasonable :)
Oh, I forgot to tell you that I call book store as candy shop. It's simply because I feel like a kid in a candy store everytime I'm in book store. I bought one 2nd hand book "Tall Cool One" by Zoey Dean and one new book "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy from another store.

xoxo,
-Ita

Lunch on sunday

Rolled Chicken with smoked beef (stewed with onion + olive oil) a la Igelanca served with vegetables and potatoes, it was my lunch on last Sunday and I'm still thinking about it when I'm starving :)

Wednesday's dessert

Can't help myself to enjoy a piece of strawberry cheese cake after lunch today. This is one of few things that I can't resist :)

A strawberry cheese cake lover,
-Ita

Something good from the kitchen..and earthquake :(

Lamb Mignon

Girolles Salad

Mille Feuille

Buttered Fig

Yesterday PR Manager and I assisted photographer from magazine to conduct a photo shooting in our Hotel's French Restaurant. It was fun, I love to see these guys cooking and playing in kitchen with their pan, fork, knife, meat, garnish, vegetables and many more. So interesting! Our chef is a French guy and he is well known in culinary industry in Jakarta. Our French Restaurant also have won some awards and we're so proud about it. Look at these dishes, look great in presentation... and so mouthwatering! I tasted buttered fig in the end of the session cos I never tried it before, it was fingerlickin good :D

In the middle of the shooting, we were shaken by an earthquake! We run out of the Hotel and also all the guests. The situation was panic and my feet were shaken, it was terrify. Few minutes later we got information that the central of the earthquake was in a small town of Tasikmalaya in West Java. But it can be felt by people in Java island overall. The power was 7.3 SR. That was powerful! No wonder some people killed, hundreds are injured and thousands of houses collapsed in several areas. I don't know exactly how many people were killed but last night TV reported that around 28 people killed in this tragedy. Some office buildings in Jakarta are damaged, from minor to major. That was a nightmare in the afternoon.
*God please protect us... No more disaster in this country please....*

Easy like sunday morning

Not too early, just before lunch time my friend Dyah picked me up at my place. We headed to Grand Indonesia Shopping Centre and had an easy talk in one of the restaurant inside book store, it's in 5th floor. We sit by the window, and captured this view from where I sit.

Closed our lunch with yummy bailey's tiramisu. But we didn't finish it though it tasted good. Maybe because we both were too full with pasta we had as main course.

And continued our easy talk with strawberry splash. The theme was "Ghost from the past". We both are still haunted and had talk about it lifted up the burden slowly. That's what friends are for :) Wish us luck to escape from these ghosts.... because life goes on and we do want to let them go.

xoxo,

-Ita