toast & dine - feels like home

Toast & Dine


Address : 
Ruko Beryl 1, No. 26
JL. Gading Gold Boulevard, Gading Serpong, Tangerang
+62 81318465618

dress code : casual to semi formal
Price : 
drinks : 20k+
food   : 40+







Menu : 

don't have too much option











Have you ever visited a cafe or a restaurant that makes you feel so comfortable and you forget that you are in a public space?
Toast and dine is a new spot in Gading Serpong near Gading Golf that makes me feel like that.
Luckily me and 2 of my friends visited this place on weekday, on Wednesday to be precise. I arrived around 05.30pm and we stay there until 08.00pm.. The place was silent, and I can say it was like we owned the place.

Date of visit : Wednesday, November 18, 2015

The interior was so cozy with different non identical furniture for each spot and we chose the best seat which facing the pc screen. we can choose our own favorite songs to be played in the cafe through a pc and magnificent speakers (at the end we realized that the sound was echoing in the street outside the cafe :p). We played some latest favorite songs from youtube and karaoke-ing by reading the lyrics.

You also can find some plugs behind the sofa .. no need to fight for plugs to charge your phone :P




It was a very good time. We also had a voice call with our best friend Anastasia who moved to Canada last September, too bad the wifi connection was not too good. So when the music played and got interrupted , the voice call also interrupted at the same time :(. The worst thing was my note 5 could not connect the wifi, so we were using the iphone 6s for the voice call. I don't know what was the problem. was it the wifi or the device.. but my other friend with the iphone 5 also didn't use the wifi.

See they mixed the lighting between warm and cold light so the room is not too yellow or too bright.. good choice ^_^

Okay, back to the food. I ordered a whole of cheese and bacon pizza along with iced milo. My friend Fifi only ordered a whole cheese pizza (she is a vegetarian so we actually order the same menu but hers was the one without meat), and Eren only order her favorite drink iced tea KC (teh tarik). I ate the most right ?! :p
the pizza was magnificent, with the thin crust, the cheese and the bacon, it was creating a great taste. Even when the pizza getting cold, it tasted incredible .. moist and delicious. I was able to eat the whole portion even though my cheek was swollen due to wisdom tooth operation the previous night.
The milo itself was good enough, not too sweet and not too cold.


My companion : 
I was having so much fun with my junior high mates Eren and Fifi.
Too we didn't take a wefie, but we posted some moments to snapchat :d

Pergi Kuliner Website - review dalam bahasa Indonesia

Mungkin beberapa dari kamu belum pernah denger yang namanya website pergi kuliner.
Website pergi kuliner adalah salah satu webiste yang menyediakan fasilitas referensi makan di daerah JABODETABEK.
Bagi kamu yang demen makan dan suka komentarin makanan plus foto-foto makanannya cocok banget pake website ini. Applikasinya sendiri juga tersedia di android dengan nama PergiKuliner

Buat saya yang ga terlalu high tech, terus terang website ini penggunaannya mudah alias user friendly dibanding website lain.
Administratornya juga ramah dan cepat respon. Jadi kalau ada kendala dengan penggunaannya bisa langsung di atasi.

Nah ini tampilan baru dari websitenya.
Buat saya yang rumahnya di daerah serpong, website dan apps nya berguna banget,

untuk akses website ketik : www.pergikuliner.com
nanti kebuka kaya gini

kamu bisa ketik lokasi atau area tempat makan yang dituju atau langsung ketik nama restonya atau jenis makanannya nanti keluar beberapa pilihan. Bisa juga sort berdasarkan harga, jenis makanan berat atau ringan, resto baru buka, dll...

kamu juga bisa kasih review restoran yang pernah kamu makan di web ini untuk membantu para user lain dalam memilih resto. caranya buat akun dulu ya dengan alamat email dan password.
saya sendiri udah nyoba dan ketagihan pakenya karena mudah, jadi jarang deh review di blog :p

nah kalau sudah punya account dan log in, kamu bisa bikin review atau nambah list resto kalo belum terdaftar di web nya.
Bisa juga cek history reveiw kamu di bagian catatan kuliner kaya gini :

Keliatan juga kamu lebih banyak review di daerah mana dari peta yang ada di sisi kanan atas.

Ikutin perjalanan kuliner saya di https://pergikuliner.com/caca_ietcha juga ya

Reviewnya dalam bahasa Indonesia :) dan jangan lupa follow instagram accountnya di @caca_ietcha

have a wonderful Friday!

TGIFoodLovers

Bubur ayam Chibby - Brewok's

Bubur Ayam Chibby

Address : 
Summarecon Digital Center Mall (SDC Serpong)
Scientia Square Park, Brewok's, Gading Serpong
Serpong- Tangerang, Indonesia

Phone : 
N/A

Dress code : 
casual comfortable

Exterior : 
no walls only roof - using wood chart

Interior : 
I can say this is a food court but without AC.
When you are about to pay for your food, you must purchase for a top up card.

The menu : 
Chicken porridge (using preserve salty vegetable) price IDR 13k
Bakmoi chicken porridge  (using tofu and chicken) Price IDR 16k

My order : 
Bakmoi chicken porridge

 I usually dislike porridge because it is identical with sick people and I get hungry easily if I only eat porridge. When I do eat porridge it means I am ill or my mom bought it for my breakfast (no other choice)

For this porridge I can say this is not for sick people.. They served the porridge with fried wonton, fried cakwe and firm boiled egg, and savory chicken and tofu.
At that time I felt sick , that's why I ordered this and I can say I eat soft rice instead of porridge..
This is a meal for healthy people..

But the taste was quite good and crunchy like eating porridge with crackers.

Health is not valued till sickness comes.

Thomas Fuller

TGIFoodLovers

Sweet Dinner @ Mariette's House- Alam Sutera

Mariette's House

Address : 
Alam Sutera Town Center
Block 10C no. 16
Jl. Alam Utama, Alam Sutera, Serpong, Tangerang Selatan
(in front of Living World Mall)
Indonesia

Phone :
+6285715115849 or +628158822606

Dress code : 
casual to semi formal

Exterior : 
a little European style with stones as the wall finishing, woody door with red color, and woody window with green colors, plus awning

Interior : 

woody colorful vintage furniture and all the vintage decoration stuffs
1st floor : kitchen and preparation area, seating around 20 seats
2nd floor : available but too bad I didn't visit the 2nd floor

 I love the chandelier btw, it looks like an art when I took a pic from below

The music was so nice too,, pop, jazz and ballad all in one. old long last songs :)

Info : 
Available to make a private party for bridal shower, baby shower or even pre-wedding photo session (decoration included)

Menu : 
Pasta, dessert, coffee, soup, salad, pizza, ice cream, etc

My visit : 

Wednesday night on October 28, 2015 with my 2 lovely ladies and video call with our friend at Canada.

What we bought : 
hot chocolate :
the hot chocolate didn't use any latte art, just as it is. But the taste was good and even my friend Fifi said it was very delicious

Spaghetti oglio olio : 
My friend Eren is a vegetarian like Fifi (yes both of them are vegetarian but Fifi can tolerate garlic, onion, chives but Eren cannot) so she ordered oglio olio without garlic and ask the chef to add mushrooms into the dish. The pasta was aldente and smells good.

Mushroom soup : 
yes, they were using real mushrooms instead of canned cream soup, it was so nice to taste real mushroom inside the mushroom soup. Not too much but still good. (oops forgot to take pic)

Fried mushrooms: 
big bites! and I love it.. the mayo a little bit spicy but still fine.

beef stroganoff : 
It took a long time for them to give me my beef stroganoff. It came the last (even the people at the other table who just got there later after us, got their order faster then me huff)
when it arrived it was a little bit cold, but the taste was good. The beef was tender but I dislike something that they put inside my pasta , I think it was fat .. I am not sure..

Compliment : 
We got blueberry chocolate for free.. yeay!
The owner was there (father of the owner,, the daughter owns the place ) he said that girls usually like something sweet so he gave us chocolate.
Too bad only Fifi who loves chocolate, me and Eren doesn't like it much. But I can say the treat was sweet and the taste was also good. Thanks a lot uncle!

My companion : 

hello : Eren - Fifi and Me (we took several pics, most of them are showing our weird silly faces and this one is the most normal one :p)

It was so nice to met them that night.. met up after tiring day at work to update life! 

Congratulation to Fifi, she will get married in couple months with his Korean BF and gonna move to Shanghai.. Hopefully she will get a happy life there.. another friend will go to far away land and I miss her already :(

Eren maybe will leave too when she married her Malaysian BF in the future.. Huff.. 

That night we also made a video call with our BFF Anastasia who moved to Canada couple months ago. But the connection was unstable and interrupting the call. :(

Bonus of weird silly faces from us : hahaha

I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let's face it, friends make life a lot more fun.

Charles R. Swindoll

Don't forget to follow my instagram @caca_ietcha
Thank u for reading! 

TGIFoodLovers

Premium Okonomiyaki @ Tokugawa AEON MALL BSD City

Tokugawa

Address : 

AEON MALL BSD CITY 

Food Culture

Lower Ground 

BSD Raya Utama Street , Serpong, Tangerang, Indonesia

Phone : 

N/A

Dress code : 

anything that you wear to hang out at the mall 

Exterior : 

N/A (inside the mall)

Interior : 

Woody , warm, simple, AC, general food court seating

Menu : 

1. Okonomiyaki Tokugawa Style and Hiroshima Style with variety of meat (beef, prawn, squid) and                 available with or without noodles. Additional topping available 

    Tokugawa style : all the ingredient are mixed

    Hiroshima style : they will make the okonomiyaki ingredients layer by layer

2. Teppanyaki 

3. Yakisoba

4. Sobameshi 

My visit : 

Friday, October 23, 2015 

What I ordered : 

Prawn Okonomiyaki by Tokugawa

Price : IDR 70.000,- (before tax)

The okonomiyaki was sizzling ! the okonomiyaki itself was not thin, it was so thick and rich with meat and flavours. I couldn't believe they weren't using any pork or lard into their dough because it tasted like their using it but their were not !

I could taste the smoke, the sweetness of the prawn meat, the savory of the sauce and whole dough. It was so good! 

Even the price is quite expensive for okonomiyaki, but I believe after you taste it you will not regret it .. Maybe you will have willingness to buy it again at another time. 

Unlike the other okonomiyaki, the meat was all over the okonomiyaki and the dough was not full of white cabbage like others. The presentation was also good, they weren't using Styrofoam or box but they served it using hot plate.. ulalalaa.. sizzling !

I love this okonomiyaki. No wonder why the price is high cause the taste is wonderful.. 

 a round okonomiyaki was sliced into 4 big parts, I cut it smaller into 8 parts

SIZZLE IT YOUR WAY!

Oyeah.. ;p

My companion : 

Actually my friend from Bandung bought this and I bought something else. But like any other girls, we shared our food. 

That day was her 1st visit to AEON mall bsd city and we arrived at dinner time. We walked around the mall to find the best restaurant to fulfill our stomach and she decided to try this okonomiyaki. :D Good choice!

Oh I had mentioned her in my previous story but maybe you haven't seen her pic, so here it is.. Wu Lan the doctor from Bandung (my high school - science class friend). She was staying at my home for 3 days and 2 nights. We didn't sleep at the same room though because she was having a cold (bad cough -_-')

My cute niece Bebeth and Wu Lan 

actually we didn't go with my niece, this picture was taken when we had our lunch together with my whole family at Eastern restaurant. Sorry, I didn't take a pic of her at Tokugawa :p

She will come again in the next 2 weeks to attend our high school friends wedding ; Lani and Rena .. yes it's happening.. a lot of  friends are getting my married this year.. I counted and it will be more than 20 persons this year in total x_X

Still, I am living a happy live :p

TGIFoodLovers

Martabak Encek Gang Aut Bogor

Martabak Encek (CTTY)

Gang Aut - Bogor

Address : 
Ranggagading street
next to Ngesti store
Bogor- West Java

 I cannot read the name clearly but I think It is CTTY

Dress code : 

Casual comfortable 

No dine in 

Exterior : 

street food

Interior : 

N/A

Operational hours : 

Sold out in couple hours.. so better come early to get this

Menu : 

Sweet martabak

What I bought : 

Sweet Martabak cheese and chocolate

My father bought this for my family at home. He went to Bogor with his old friend who used to live in Bogor for couple years. His friend said this martabak is good and a lot of people come to buy even though this is categorized as food street. For the additional information, the seller is an old man maybe that's why the martabak was good (a lot of experience in making martabak ?!).

At their first visit there, my father wasn't successful to bring the martabak home but at the second visit, they got it and bring it home successfully YEAYY!

That was my fortunate time to be able to try this legendary food. When I opened the box, the martabak looked so ordinary like the others. The martabak was not too oily but not dry either. When I touched the martabak, the surface was in the perfect moisture level.

For my first bite I can tell you it wasn't disappointing. The taste was salty but in a good way because it gave a balance taste in my mouth between the sweet fillings and the milk inside. My father told us that the seller didn't use butter for the martabak and only using ordinary margarine like blueband. Wow.. how can the seller able to create such tasty martabak with ordinary margarine? And the smell.. uhmm.. even after a long road from Bogor to Jakarta, the smell of vanilla still there for us to smell.

If you come to Bogor area, please make sure you go to Surya kencana road and Gang Aut to have a great culinary experiences.

TGIFoodLovers

Asinan Bogor Gang Aut - AHAUW

Asinan AHAUW a.k.a Asinan Gang Aut

Address : 
Roda Ujung Road no. 5 (near Surya Kencana road and Siliwangi Road)
Bogor, West Java

Phone : 
N/A

Dress code :
casual and comfortable
No dine in (take away and eat at home after refrigerated!)

Operational Hours : 
Closed on Monday

Exterior : 
street food style

Interior : 
N/A

Menu : 
Asinan Buah (pickled fruits)
Asinan sayur (pickled vegetables)

What I bought : 

Asinan buah (pickled fruits)

For years, people form outside Bogor usually buy pickled fruits from Asinan Gedung Dalam, most of them or us don't know that there is another famous pickled fruits called Asinan Gang Aut (Asinan Ahauw).

My dad went to Bogor with his old friend to buy martabak encek (also the famous one in Gang Aut) and this pickled fruits. His friend used to live in Bogor area so he knows good food for Bogor people. He said that Bogor people usually buy this asinan instead of buying it at Asinan Gedung Dalam.

When I saw the pickled fruits, it was totally different with asinan gedung dalam. The fruits were sliced thicker than asinan gedung dalam, the chili it self looked rougher but pretty much had the same red color for the soup. The soup itself wasn't spicy like Gedung dalam, it was more sweet and mild. I like that kind of taste considering I cannot handle spicy and sour too much.
When you buy this you will get roasted peanut along with wide cracker and grounded chili. Too bad I didn't take the pictures of the roasted peanut and the chili :(

As you can see in the picture the pickled soup is red but not as red as asinan gedung dalam. Still, the taste was delicious,, sweet a little bit sour .. all I can say, It was fresh!

The papaya itself was sweet and crunchy!
All the fruits ( papaya, mango, bengkoang, tuber, nutmeg) were in a very good condition to be eaten, not too ripe and not too unripe either.

The cracker was special for me. When I ate the cracker alone without the pickled fruits the taste was odd, but when I mixed it in a bowl along with the pickled fruits and soup the taste became great.
It tasted like ebi (dried prawn) and strangely it mixed well in my mouth with the fruits.. AWESOMEEE

How I enjoy my pickled fruits ^_^

My family really loves fruits, esp. My Mom and Dad. We have a lot of fruits inside the refrigerator from Salak fruit, dragon fruit, orange, mango, grape, Californian papaya, pear, etc. You can imagine when fruits turned into pickled  fruits.. 1 portion for 1 day (max) we can eat 2 portion a day in couple hours.

The love for the fruits are getting crazier these days.
For recommendation, better to buy fresh fruit at special fruit store like all fresh. It becomes our favorite now :p .. pricey but good quality( including the fresh fruit salad)

Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit.

James Allen

TGIFoodLovers

Middle East Taste in Serpong @Sultan

Sultan Masakan Timur Tengah 

Sultan Middle East Food

Address : 
Ruko Versailles Blok FA no. 8
Jl. Griya Loka Raya, BSD, Serpong, South Tangerang
(Near Blenger Burger and Loco ice cream and Versailles Cluster)

Phone : 
082210077262

Dress code : 
casual to semi formal
Exterior : 
Shop house with blue giant banner " SULTAN masakan timur tengah"
Interior : 
1st floor : preparation area, sink, chairs and table for dine in
2nd floor : toilet, middle east dine in setting with out chairs and table (take off shoes or sandals)

Operational Hours : 
Closed on Monday
Tuesday - Thursday (10.30am - 02.00pm, 04.30-09.00pm)
Friday (01.00pm - 09.00pm)
Sat- Sun (10.30am - 02.00pm)
Please make reservation if you come in group due to limited seat

Menu : 

Price : 
for main course will cost you around 70+/ portion
Recommendation : 
chicken marocco , mandhi
Language spoken : 
Indonesian, Arabian

My visit :
actually this place has been opened for more than 5 months.
I saw this place several times but didn't get a chance to try as soon as possible and to be honest I forgot about this place until my friends said they were going to this place while I was about to go to my elementary school birthday shower as a host.

On Sunday, October 25, 2015, my family and I were looking for something to eat as our dinner like usual. We were about to eat other food in the first place but then suddenly I remember this place that my friends were talking about and they said the chicken mandhi was great. So I was curious and proposed this place as our dinner place.

The place was nice, when I entered the restaurant, I can say the place is small but need and tidy also warm.
The owner and the waitress greet us with their warm smile and escort us to our table.
When I looked at the menu, I can say the price was quite high. When they say briyani rice it means only rice no meat at all. and if they say lamb/chicken mandi or briyani means including the rice.

For our visit we tried several menu. My mom and my sister in law ordered chicken shawarma it was like chicken wrap but more rich in spices. Ulalaaa I love spices..

My dad ordered chicken curry (yeah no rice). The chicken curry was also great. The chicken was so tender and I love the soup. I even ate my french fries with the soup! Oh it was great.. And don't forget to eat the curry with bread (is it prata? I don't know it was a little different with my prata for chicken marocco)

My Brother ordered Lamb Briyani. Oh the briyani was really tasty! It wasn't dry but it wasn't too moist either. The spices were WOWWWW.. The meat also easy to chew..

And for me, I ordered CHICKEN MAROCCO and sambosa !
Sambosa for the appetizer and chicken marocco for the main course. Actually I would love to have chicken mandhi but the mandhi was sold out and the briyani only 3 portion left ( my bro ordered it so I ordered something else).
The sambosa was crunchy outside but so mild inside with great curry spices. You will get 3 pcs per portion and you will ask for more!

For the best of the best.. I present you CHICKEN MAROCCO.. from all the menu that I have mentioned to you above.. my family agreed that mine was the best.. I even ate the chicken skin ! OMG! ( I dislike chicken skin but after such a very berry long time I ate it! because the spices were all over the chicken skin and it tasted so d*mn great! ) *screaminggg*

And for additional : It is very rare occasion for me to eat with my bare hands but that time was an exceptional.. I didn't use the fork or knife or spoon.. Arghh I found greatness in this middle east food.
I want it again ! You really need to try this restaurant...


You know you eat good food when you don't care the way you look while eating it and the only one matter is how to eat it all... 

TGIFoodLovers