Jani Journey Journal

I never knew that there are lots of restaurants right behind The Promenade (Ace Hardware, Pasar Minggu). All these time I just passed it by because from the outside it doesn't look appealing to me. If so I would stop by and try every single restaurant there. Thanks to Zomato Indonesia for inviting me to their Meet Up event, now I know there are lots of new places to discover right behind The Promenade. Me is happy, very happy.

The event was held on Saturday, 24th of January 2015. What's better than meeting up with a bunch of new people? Meet a bunch of new people with the same interest and passion as you are. Yes! This private Zomato Foodies Meet Up event is filled with people with the same passion as I do. Photography and food. Two most incredible things that brings people together. Well even though almost everyone like food, nothing can beat the love of food passion from these people. They don't love food, they fond of it.

It's official that I'm in love with Pancious for not just bringing a delicious pancakes and crepe cakes but also a marvelous savory dish. Yes, marvelous. In this post I will talk about one of their pasta. Please keep in mind that I almost never ordered a pasta in a restaurant unless the waiter/waitress really really recommend it since I always cook pasta for most of the time at my house. And I found that restaurant's pasta was way below my pasta standard (snob). This post might seems over rated, but the food that I'm going to review is really really yumm to me.

I would like to say thank you to whoever invented the famous Nasi Goreng. It's an easy dish and ultimate comfort food for me (after martabak, of course). The perfect balance from their seasoning and topped with a fried egg, there is nothing can go wrong with this dish. Anyone can make this beautiful sexy messy food from anything that you find in your house. Starting from chicken, beef, lamb, tuna, salmon, smoked beef, bacon or just a simple scrambled egg and butter.

Most of the time you'll find a Nasi Goreng with a western influences such as smoked beef, tuna and much more. But how about we mixed it up a little bit? Instead of having an ordinary Nasi Goreng what if we put an eastern influences in this dish and make it a Nasi Goreng Kebuli?

I always doubt every food that put a 'HEALTHY' words on their menu. Since most of the time I find a healthy food always taste ... well, you know. And for most of the time, they put an unreasonably high price for their food. I'm pissed. Paying that much for something that taste doesn't really good, promising that you're going to be healthier after you eat their food. That's rubbish. Healthy meal won't give any effect to your body unless you consume it daily. And by daily, not just a week or two but a whole month or even a whole year. Maybe that's the reason why I don't really care about my food consumption all these time. To me, as long as it taste good with a reasonable price, I'm happy and I'm okay with that.

But that was until I lost some people due to their unhealthy eating habit and also when my medical check up results comes. Doctor said I have to watch my food since my test results was pretty bad than the last time I did it. I begin to worried. So now I'm on a quest to eat a little more healthy (but still with a reasonably price). And talking about healthy, I was lucky enough to be invited last Sunday on a Blogger Gathering held by Colby's Farm and Gorry Gourmet in collaboration with Foodisme.

I've been here a thousand times but somehow always forgot to took a decent pictures of their interior and cakes. So when I was here yesterday, the first thing I did is taking a lots of pictures of their interior and of course their cakes. But somehow those pictures turned out blurry and weird and I don't want to share it with you guys. This means I have to go here again soon so I can take a great pics and share it with you. This goes on top of my to do list.

Cake-A-Boo has become a hipster place for the youngsters and foodies. Ask everyone about this place, most of them must have been there or at least heard about it. Providing a cute desserts with also a cute place, just in a few months after their grand opening, Cake-A-Boo easily has become a must visit place in Pantai Indah Kapuk.

It's always good to have a snack while you are wandering around. Sadly not all food stand/outlet have a cool and easy container bowl for their food. Most of the time I ended up with a too-big-for-one-hand food container and I have to sit down to eat it. In reality I like a small and nice food container bowl to carry around. As I'm writing this now, I think Chippy is the only one provides that necessity.

To me, every dish in Pancious never can go wrong. I mean it. I've tried both their sweet and savory dishes and they never fails me. But I personally loving Pancious for their great pancakes, and now crepe cake. I'm madly in love with their crepe cake since the first time I tried it back at Pancious Grand Indonesia. I managed to persuade my friends to try their crepe cake and now they are definitely in love with it. MWAHAHAHAHHH!

Jakarta has been so hot these past few days and I can't stop wondering what could possibly make it much cooler? Suddenly I remember about this cute little space in Gandaria City called Kiwami (right next to Jeans Chilli Chicken and across Bebek Bengil). I heard they have a nice kakigori (shaved ice) to enjoy in a hot sunny day like this. So my cousin and I went there hoping that their kakigori will make us cooler eventhough we know we're already cool :p

Describe my 2014 in three words?

Sh*t.

Sh*t.

Sh*t.

And sh*t was not even close to what I experienced in 2014.

Well yeah you read it right. My 2014 was pain in the *ss, filled with the worst possible thing that could happen to someone in a single year. I'm not joking, I'm not over reacting it, I mean it. It was something that I'm not proud to share with you guys.