Bangi Kopitiam Medan

Bangi Kopitiam, a new Coffee place at Medan that located at Cambridge City Square G-floor. The new Coffee place with it's specialty of coffee and Malaysia food.

The food was served in Asian heritage that so many people would like to craved for. Such as the noodles, nasi lemak, the Kopi-O and so on.
The design of the place also very neat, clean and by using broken white color that makes the place feels calm and quiet. Ahh, the lightning was good also.

Back to the food, I was ordering the Laksa, and my friends ordered two portion of the Nasi Lemak with the Rendang Chicken. Kind like very homie food to have. 
I bet oldies will love to have a meal here, because easy to them to eat and easy to them to accept a kind of homie food house design.

Usually my grandma, didn't like to have meal at cafe or restaurant. As I see she loved to craved a traditional food only, so that I recommend my aunt to have or crave a meal here sometimes. :)
Ah.. they have dimsum also.

Sidewalk Oriental Cuisine

At Medan of course, the specialty food was the Sidewalk cuisine. Even there's so many food house, cafes, resto's open up nowadays, the power of the sidewalk cuisine never dies.

I ever craved a hybrid cuisine of Melayu and Tionghua-neese cooked. The noodles usually we called it "Mie Jawa" (Java Noodles).
The Tionghua people used this kind of noodles to cooked one dishes that called "Mie Keling" or even "Mie basah".

As I craved at "Ling Ce San" food house of stir-fry specialty, such as Kwetiau, mee-hoon, noodles and so on.
I ordered the different way cooked of the Java Noodles, a wet one and the fried one. The wet one was tasteless because of the amount of the water inside was tolerable, but still had the taste.
If you ordered the fried one, the taste was more perfect.
The using of the tomatoes makes the Java Noodles taste more perfect in a little touche of acid taste from the tomatoes, with cabbages and the chili also.
It cost us around idr 25k per portion.

This sidewalk cuisine of Java noodles was very famous since year 1950s until now. I still remember the first time I craved this when I was just eight years old and the seller was just a street food vendors, but the taste and the aroma of it's traditional wet java noodles still memorizing me.

 (Java Noodles - wet one)

Bestie B'day Bash at District10

Last 9th Dec was my bestie b'day, me even called her my sista.
Because we celebrate her b'day in the middle of 9 p.m already, so we directly went to District10 Restaurant & Bar.

District10 was located at Forum9 Building, Imam Bonjol St. Medan.
The place of District10 itself was using minimal design in playin with brown even wood colors. The settings of the place itself was simple yet elegante. They set a bar in the middle of the indoor and outdoor seats.
With playing pop and R&b music that make the place there alive.
Open till 1 a.m, if I'm not wrong weekend till 3 a.m.
They served the wine, liquors, beers, mocktails and so on.

 

Spageddies Italian Kitchen

Spageddies, the unique chosen name for a Italy Resto at Medan.
Spageddies name itself as I known was taken from the name of Spaghetti. Quiet nice name and easy to remember right?

As you all must know, Spageddies was the first place that opened here in Medan with their Specialty in Italian Kitchen, especially the Italian Pizza and the Italian Pasta of course.
Located at the center of town, with a medium capacity of parking lot. The design was edgy and contemporary style.
Ah.. It was nearly closed to Christmas, they also put some Christmas decoration, and of course the important one was the Christmas Tree. XD

Lunchie With Tea and Cake

A better place for lunch time was the quite and calm place to ease the stressed out from the jobs thing to do.
So I chose this place, called "Tea and Cake" a cafe that using tea and cake for the specialty at this cafe.
This place was design in classic style with using broken white and soft blue for the color of the place.

Vegetarian Food Festive

I just visited Vegetarian Food Festive last week, the event there as what I review was successfully well done.
So many people nowadays was excited to learned to have a veggie food.
As for me? Still 50:50 ....

The Event started at 10 a.m - 3 p.m located at Graha Metropolitan, Helvetia, Medan.
The function they make this event was for collecting fund for build a temple, kind like charity.

I can't take a lot of photos because it's too crowded and too many people go here and there..
But I get my excellent time to snap some photos of their accessories seller, quite interesting because they sell accessories that made in China.

Batam Famous Fish Soup

Here's my Culinary journey, and sorry for late posting it because still process in my review to make a perfect review for you my dear readers.

3 weeks ago I just spent my simple and very short holiday for just a refreshing because already stuck in my fully biggy jobs, as I mean a very many jobs to do... #LOLS

I went to Riau Province, I have friend there so that he took me around and as I ever read in Mr. Bondan Winarno Maknyuss book, the famous Fish Soup at Riau located at Nagoya Centre, the one that Mr. Bondan ever went was "Yong Kee Istimewa".

Actually it's just the same as Medan Food house, but their specialty was the Fish Soup.
The fish soup here was the hybrid from the Tionghuaneese, and the ingredients of the Fish Soup itself also so traditional Tionghua people usually used in cooking, such like Tongcai (the fermentation of "sawi pahit"), the green tomato, and so on.

The growth of fish soup during cooking new creations are the iconic Batam and Riau Islands. We also see a hybrid cuisine of Tionghua. It is very clear that the presence of Tongcai and mustard sauce in the soup is made ​​fresh and fragrant stew.

Coffee Box-ing WIth An Old Friend

Welcoming my "long time no see" friend's, that just dropped at Medan for several days.
As we all are missed the home-made dishes, we went to Coffee Box, as for me.. 'again', #LOLS

So why not? I ordered a plate of eggs-martabak complete with the curry, a quite simple dishes and easy to make and light to craved. The point was from the compliment side, the curry itself.
The curry of Coffee Box was okay, not too thicky. Seems like I loved the curry more than the martabak. XD

Then some of my friends order the "nasi tim (steam rice)", and the fried rice.
For some snacks we ordered the potato chips with the homemade mayo, and as for me I loved the mayo so much

Ah.. because of welcoming the Christmas, everywhere along the Mall was decorated with Christmas Decoration..
Ahh.. it's fun and so wonderful 

De Coffee For Evening Break

As you know, many Coffee Place (in Tionghua we said "Kopi Tiam) opened nowadays. It was the affect of the increasing of the Culinary passion of people here in Medan.

Last 2 weeks, around 20s something in November, I just finished of meeting with some client and have a very late lunch with some friends.
So we make appointment to meet up at De-Coffee.

De Coffee was new Cafe that was openend around 3-4 months ago. The customers here was several, so it was okay for new comer Coffee Place here.
The design was very Contemporary in using such woods materials.

I just ordered the "Beef Blackpepper Kwetiau", the taste was score by me for 60, the taste was okay already, just the pepper not too tasty and I got no spice of there. But at least the smell, the beef and the broth of the Kwetiau is good enough.
Then some of my friends ordered the same dishes with me.
But one of them ordered the spaghetti bolognaise, as looked the presentation was good but so sorry I didn't taste it.

Welcoming Mr. Bondan Winarno

On 24 Nov 2013, exactly it was Sunday that I got news from my friend that Mr.Expert Indonesia Culinary "Bondan Winarno" came by to Medan.

He came to Medan for promoting the newest Indonesia rice named "Beras Maknyuss".
The promotion starts on 9 a.m and located at Beruang Traditional Market.
I got a chance to meet him and chit chating with him for only a while, because the market too crowded and so many people want to took photos with him.

Ah.. He also got invitation to reviewed newest Traditional Indonesia Food House that just opened 2 weeks ago.
But sadly I can't joined them because I have another appointment to do.

But as for me He is the Best.
I read his book and I got many knowledge about every culinary or traditional cuisine from Sabang till Merauke.
I learned from where the foods came out, there's always a story behind every foods that already been famous nowadays.

A Warm Homemade Snacks

As I reviewed and I researched, many creative teenagers nowadays selling food by online selling. They really using the function of gadgets that was very helpful to them.
 
As some of my friends selling the very homemade snacks called "Empek-Empek".
Empek-empek was the iconic food from Palembang. The story came from one uncle (tionghua said "Acek") that felt very pity of the wasted fish meat and he took it, cleaned it and make the rest of the meat with mixed of flour that became like fishball but in flat shape.
And the Acek sell it by carriage two baskets and called the Empek-empek "apek-apek" that time.

That's just some short story where the empek-empek came from, I also read the story from my Maknyuss Culinary book by Bondan Winarno.

My friends just gave me some compliment of it's Empek-empek and asked my help for simple review.
She delivered me Empek-empek Kapal Selam that have boiled egg inside and Empek-empek Lenjar that the shape like sausages.

The taste of it's Empek-empek already good, the sauce also already good, but maybe too much brown sugar inside. So she will improved the food she sell for.
Beside that she also delivered me some green-bean cakes.
And also the Risol, as for me the Risol was twi thumbs up. :)

For order, you can email me or call the seller "Melissa (Phone +6281360936205).
Happy Culinary :)

Good Luck
Au Revoir

The Oldies Era Resto

In this new era of year 2000s, so many new cafes, food houses, even resto opened and in very new type of the design, the food and also the theme of the Cafe itself.

I just went to a food house named "Warisan Tempoe Doloe" in English translation is "Legacy of the Past" #LOLS.
Kinda funny when I translate it into English, but never mind... XD

The Building of the food house was in nowadays design, but the Interior Design was very oldies.
The ceramics, the tables, chairs, displays and so on.
The dishes also still in the oldies era. A touch of the oldies cuisine was exquisite.
The music accompaniment also very oldies, my favorite one was the Doris Day song, "It's Magic". 

The Specialty here was the Fishes, whatever the fishes cooked like what, the taste, the quality of the fishes was two thumbs up.

Their fishes was very fresh and even the fish was going to be steam, the fishy smell didn't came out.
I ordered the sea-bass that called "Ikan Kakap Warisan Tempoe Doloe", the sea bass was around 5-ons and cooked in Indonesia touche.
The combination of the curry, the turmeric, the onion, with a little of lime leaves. Ahh... the taste of the lime also there, that's why the sea bass not even have the fishy smell :)

And then I ordered the sauteed papaya flower, this side dish, frankly speaking, was GOOD!
I like the sauteed papaya flower very much, because the taste not bitter, and the sense of the spices also make me still remember till now.
Beside that I also ordered the fried tofu.

Some of my friends said that the dishes here was expensive, as for me it's according to what dishes you ordered for. If fish, yes it's quite expensive but higher price higher quality of the food itself right?

How about the beverages? I just ordered the hot tea. They used the brand of Dilmah for the tea.
Drinking tea was also the oldies style of enjoying their evening or even after have meal.
I order the English Breakfast tea and my friend ordered the Earl Grey tea.
As for me, I loved the earl grey tea from the first time I drank the tea.

Earl grey itself have it's own special smell and it's own sweet without pouring any sugar in it.
The color of Earl Grey more dark than the English Breakfast I ordered.
As the lover of tea also, I recommend all of you to have tea after meal was good for our health also. :)

More info about the history of tea, you can search by click here. The wikipedia explain all about tea and the history also. :)

How about it readers? Is that any of Oldies Food house that you ever go?
If you have let me know your story by email me shilzzzdol@yahoo.com.
I'll choose the best story to be post on my Next Post. And don't forget to attach the best food photography of oldies cuisine too. :)



Good Luck :)
Au revoir...

Pizza Boy After Convocation

Along past this 4 years, and yes we're graduated!
Me and my fellows (colleagues) were so happy and excited then we believed that after our study along this 4 years we will become more better than yesterday.
Thanks for my family, my daddy, my beloved sista and my colleagues!
Hope we all be the best

Nah.. after we're finished our convocation, we managed and arranged time to have gathering.
And the last choices was gather at Pizza Boy.

Pizza Boy located at Komp.Multatuli Blok CC 9 - Medan.
The design was simple and very unique, they put some street lamps inside the pizza house, some pictures that told us that was Texas Old Town, the furniture and the interior itself as for me was an urban street style.
The name of Pizza Boy already told us that the specialty was PIZZA of course.

We order 3 large size pizzas for 12 person, the crispy pizza with different taste and different side toppings.
Because of too many and I forgot what were inside the Pizzas.

But as for me the best one is the Pizza with smoked salmon, chicken sausages with side toppings of black olive, garlic and zucchini.
The smoked salmon was very tasteful with the smoked taste still in the salmon that makes the pizza very perfect in the combination with 3 toppings that I chose.

This is it the Pizza with smoked salmon, chicken sausage and 3 side toppings of black olive, garlic, zucchini and extra cheese. 

Some of colleagues ordered the pasta, such as Spaghetti Marinara, Spaghetti Carbonara, and me myself ordered the Fettucini Oglio with Seafood.
Here's some 

We ordered the cheesy potato wedges, the panacotta, Seafood Rissoto, and so on.
The current price here was around idr 8k - 60k.

Fyi, they served delivery too :)
The place and the food was very suitable for gathering like us. The foods was on average rate on my taste list.
The portion was already in standard, that makes some of my friends can eat all up without any leftovers. :)
May not waste your food ok my dear readers?

For you who loves the culinary but dunno where to go? let's find up Medan best culinary place to hunt on makanmana.net.
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Good Luck :)
Au Revoir..