Bali Jimbaran

Dear fellow tasters,

Jimbaran area in Bali island is renowned for its seafood restaurants alongside the tourists-crowded beach.  If you’ve never been there, like me, or simply longs for a glimpse of Jimbaran taste, do drop by Bali Jimbaran restaurants, one of them located just across Mangga Dua Square, on Jalan Gunung Sahari Ancol area.  For a seafood restaurant, this place doesn’t really put emphasis on ambiance although the air-con is good enough to battle the scorching Jakartan heat.  The menu of course offers seafood selection with different choice of preparation: grilled, fried, boiled, or cooked with your chosen sauce or style.

Lara Djonggrang

Dear fellow tasters,

Having some wonderful friends who just love to dine out and try out new culinary adventure can be considered a real blessing, especially for me, who literally ‘lives to eat’ *grin*. I happen to have those kind of friends, two of them from college, now a married couple, who often ask me to join them for lunch and dinner, and I rarely say no. There we were, pulling into the parking area for Lara Djonggrang — the name taken from a famous Javanese legend femme fatale, with exterior adorned by old stone carvings like you can find in Prambanan temple and willowy tree branches shading us from the intense Jakartan sun.

Ken Ken Bigul [Closed]

Dear fellow tasters,

I finally had some time to write another post after quite a hectic second week at my new workplace.  This should be a short one about a new cheap-eat place in the Kelapa Gading precinct which I visited actually at the same day when I had lunch at Helen’s.