Es Teler 77 Pro and Cons ;)

Holla! Have you ever been to Es Teler 77? they proclaimed to be a fast food restaurant, although the foods they served aren't all fast food. It was established on 1982 after the founder won a contest for Es Teler (Iced mixed fruit). If you eat es teler at other restaurants, you may find it really different with the ones in Es Teler 77. Some places would mix various fruits with some kind of jelly or mostly grass jelly, and some even mixed it with syrup. Es Teler 77 keeps it simple, only with avocado and jack fruit mixed in ice with milk and liquid sugar.

Zenbu, A Calorie-Count Japanese Restaurant

Although there are many Japanese Restaurant in Jakarta, Zenbu is the only one I found so far with calories counted on each meal on their menu. I went to this place for the first time at 2006 for my friend's birthday. What I remember most about that visit is that the Green Tea Ice cream is superb... I feel like I can still taste it.. Oh, and the Tempura Ice Cream, too.. I don't have the picture because the last time I went there I was too full already to order dessert.

Instead, we ordered appetizer. There is this one favourite appetizer, as written on the menu, the Dynamite Mozaru. It's a mixture of mozzarella cheese and their 'dynamite' sauce, baked with seafood on it. It is verrryyy tasty, but I think it's too sweet for an appetizer. Since they highlight the mozzarella cheese, I think it should have tasted cheesy instead of sweet. Real sweet, like sweet milk. So, I'm a bit disappointed with this one. There is one appetizer similar to this at Pasta de Waraku, Hotate Mentai, of course with totally different ingredients.

Septimus Heap - Enter a New Fantasy...

If you love Harry Potter, or you simply like children and fantasy book, then you will definitely like Septimus Heap, written by an English author Angie Sage. Septimus Heap is a series of fantasy novels entitled Magyk, Flyte, Physik, Queste, and Syren. There is one last book to complete this series, The Magykal Papers - a collection of documents, detailed maps, pamphlets, messages, secret journals of the characters, and many more.


So far I have only read 2 books, that is Magyk and Flyte. It was a story about Septimus Heap, the seventh son of the seventh son, whom is told to be very very magykal (magical). On the day he was born, the Necromancer, an evil wizard, killed the Queen on the castle and rule over the country, just when Septimus' mom found that her seventh son is dead. Yet, the Necromancer failed to kill the princess, which means he still can't fully take over the country. The princess was hidden, in replacement of Septimus. Ten years later, the real story began. Septimus was found alive, the first son of the Heap family betrayed everyone and follow the Necromancer, and the story goes on...

Favorite Goat Satay, Soup, and Curry! (Sate, Sop, dan Gulai Kambing!)

I know that many people would refer to those goat restaurants in Sabang area, or Tanah Abang and Grogol. Although they are good, but there's this one place has been my family's favorite since I was little. If other places only serves satay or soup, this place offers not only both, but also Goat Curry (which is my fav). Oh, I think they also have Goat Fried Rice ;)

The place is called Maman, with an intriguing locations since there are no restaurants around that area. In fact, Maman was located in an ex-graveyard (or beside it?) and it was quite dark at night. It's pretty easy to find actually, just across Hotel Santika at Jl. Aipda Ks Tubun, Grogol or just turn left before the traffic light in Slipi (heading south). Here is the map to Hotel Santika, with which when you found it, just go straight until you find a U-turn and you will find a white and yellow tents across the Hotel (you have to make an entrance since it was in a house's front yard area): http://maps.google.com/maps?um=1&ie=UTF-8&q=hotel+santika+petamburan&fb=1&gl=id&hq=hotel+santika+petamburan&hnear=Jakarta&cid=0,0,12548036672734219990&ei=GteuTNzjM4OmvQO784nFBg&sa=X&oi=local_result&ct=image&resnum=5&ved=0CCcQnwIwBA

As for the food, whoa you gotta try it! Especially when it's after-rain and you're hungry, geez, it's one the best dinner you'll have ;) If you like something really tasty, you should try the Goat Curry! But you would want to eat it while it's hot, mind you. Most people loves the soup better than the curry, though. My father always orders the soup and mix the 'pickle soup' in it (worth to try, don't you think?). As for me, I always order ALL-MEAT, either it's soup or curry, since I can't eat any other parts. For those of you who are like me, well you'll still find some other parts that's not meat, but it's acceptable compared to those I've ate at Tanah Abang area.

The Satay, it was Superb!! They put the peanut sauce and sweet soy sauce at the bottom of the Satay, so when you mix it while it's hot and eat it right away, you can still smell the smoked meat sweetly combined with the sauces. The Satay meat is not smelly, unlike the ones I ate somewhere (I forgot), and tasty. I've tried some which were quite hard to swallow, but Maman's Satay is always juicy and tastes lovely when you swallow it. I would suggest you to order 10 at first, and when you want more, order some more - to keep it hot when you're eating it!

I believe Maman only opens at night, probably since 7-11. I always go there around 7.30 (dinner) or 10 (supper). The price is very affordable, only around 20.000-35.000 Rupiah ;) The was not so neat, since it was only in a tent on somebody's front, so if you really cares about being neat, prepare yourself (although I believe that the food is all hygiene). Well, go and explore it your selves....!!!

(Most pictures are from http://makanlagilagimakan.wordpress.com/2009/08/30/maman-sate-dan-sop-kambing/ - since I was too hungry to take pictures of the food :p)

Super Vegas from Vegas Hot-dog!

I'm sure that if you live in Jakarta, you've heard about Vegas Hot-dog. Although they don't have lots of branches (actually they only have one store at the moment), but their concepts and variety of sauces are the first in Indonesia. They also had the longest sausages for a hot-dog bun, that is the Super Vegas!

The Super Vegas is a 30cm long beef sausages, fried with butter and put in a bun with lettuce, onion, mustard, tomato and chili (u could separate them if u want). In addition to that, they have several sauces which you can choose and either put it above your hot-dog or put it in a sauce platter they provided. There's a Singapore sauce which was a bit sour and salty, a Brazilian sauce which was a thick sweet black pepper sauce, an Indonesian sauce which was a nutty sauce, a Thailand sauce which was a thick sweet an sour sauce, and a Kansas sauce which was a BBQ sauce. In my opinion, Singapore and Brazilian sauce is a nice try with the sausage.

My suggestion is, ask for the waiter/waitress to get yo a spoon so you can try 'em one by one. Then choose which one (or all) you'd like and put them on the sauce platter. I don't think mixing the sauces with the hot-dog would be a great idea since some are too thick and some are too watery. So, beware.. ;) Apart from the sauces, the sausages itself I must say it's pretty ordinary. Not as good as the Seven Eleven sausages (the Vegas Beef) but definitely a must-try.

Aside from Vegas Beef, they also had other sausages options which you may choose for regular or large portion. Mind you, the Super Vegas is only available in Vegas Beef. Personally, I think their Chicken Cordon Bleu Hot-dog is interesting. There are also Quarterfrank, Veal Bratwurst, French Garlic, and Chicken Quarterback.

Visit them at Urban Kitchen, Central Park (the new mall next to Mall Taman Anggrek) on the second floor. Open from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. everyday. For more information and to find what promo they offer at the moment, you can call +6221 70711930 or visit http://www.facebook.com/pages/Jakarta-Indonesia/Vegas-Hotdog/107145646970.

Pick A Pleasure, What Will You Find?

Hi everyone, this is my first blog and I hope this will do good for the readers and everyone else that will contributes to it. I have been wanting to create a blog for some times, yet I didn't find a perfect time where I can just sit and write in a relax mode. It rains heavily on Jakarta today, finding myself idle, then comes the perfect moment :)

Pick A Pleasure, is a blog for all of you. I will post different sections, which I will add one by one as I gather up my time to post more often. Then you can choose based on your pleasure, either your interest is in food&beverages, kids, games, applications, style, make-up, and whatever may comes in my head later on. However, this blog will mainly posts review about those mentioned before.

I have only one wish, that is for this blog to help other people and give them more knowledge on certain things that I have posted. Most important of all, may u enjoy it!