Enjoying the Mountain's Breeze - Melrimba Garden

Melrimba Garden

Address : 

Jl. Raya Puncak KM 87, Tugu Utara, Cisarua, Tugu Utara, Cisarua, Bogor, Jawa Barat 16750

Indonesia

How to get there : 

Private car, approx 2 hours from JKT 

Phone : 

(0263) 523205

Open for restaurant : 

08.00 am - 09.00 pm 

for garden, bike rental, trampoline , etc : 

08.00am- 05.00pm 

Dress code : 

casual , just bring outer with you

Menu that I bought : 

Fried Banana with caramel and palm sugar and butter

 So, basically this fried banana is my favorite, my family favorite and I suggested it to my friends and they love it too.
Most of you must be wondering, whats special about this banana, you can find it everywhere. Well, I must say this is the best fried banana that I have ever tasted in my life so far.
The banana always sweet, I cannot find undesirable taste of it (in Indonesia we call it sepet). The texture is crispy on the outside but moist in the inside. The sweet mixture from the caramel and palm sugar are not over taste either. It gave me the precise desirable sweet taste that brought calmness and relaxation. <3


 the price approx 40 per portion (2 pcs as seen in the picture)

Poffertjes

 This is a wonderful round profferjes. It looks tempting with the snowy sugar on top and a little chocolate sauce at the corner.
For your information, the taste of this sweet is not the best in puncak, but still okay and nice to have it after a journey full of traffic and polution :P
 price : approx. 30k+ per portion

 Fried Kwetiaw

Well,  I must say, all the food and drinks here are not cheap. But it adequate  with the cozy environment and the taste that we get.

That time I also ordered fried kwetiaw. Unlike the normal kwetiaw that I know, this one had wider piece. You can order the one with chicken meat or with the seafood. It is all up to you.

In the picture : seafood ( I prefer not to use squid actually)
the taste of the kwetiau was nice. I was able to taste the savory and sweetness of the kwetiau without unnecessary burning sensation taste. The portion was not too much but still okay for my portion.

Drink : 
Traditional poci tea with rock sugar ( refillable)
It was served with 2 glass of made of clay, the same with the tea pot.
Some people said, the more you used the tea pot set, the better is the taste of the tea.
When I ordered this tea, the clay was already dark brown and the taste of the tea was nice with the rock sugar, it refreshed me after a long sitting in the car.
Let say it energized me and matched with the food

a cup of coffee : 

Oh well, to be honest I only took a sip. 

I didn't drink the coffee tho, it was belong to my dad. 

however don't expect a latte art from this restaurant

it is not a coffee shop so let say the coffee was so so and they will give you a lot of sugar pack to use o_0

What I did ?

There is an orchid shop inside the area, I usually go there to look around and take several pictures. 

Some other flowers and plants also available and you can have a sneak peak inside the melrimba garden (you must pay the entrance ticket for melrimba garden approx 15k per person - if I am not mistaken :p , excluding the bike rental and camping and fishing)

Pony are also available for rent

If you bring little kid with you, this is one of interesting and fun attraction. 

They also have atv, trampoline, mini outbound 

My companion : 

My beloved parents who loves to go to Puncak at least once a month :D

and I love it too

TGIFoodLovers
ig : @caca_ietcha / @blackholeduet
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My Favorite Breakfast in Japan

Hello hello hello..
I always start my story with hello so I kinda feel like interacting with you readers :) yes with a smile

First of all, FYI I went to Japan on Spring and the story is kinda late but I hope you still enjoy reading this.

So I went to Japan for 9 days from March 31 to April 09, 2016 so It was Spring season. That is why I could find flowers blossom here and there like everywhere! So lovely <3

 Unfortunately I discover that I am allergic to pollen, my eyes were swollen, and kinda having trouble with my respiratory system. At that time, I went to the nearest drug store and ask for allergic medication, however I did not want to let the allergy disturb my holiday. I took the medicine 2-3 times daily and always fell asleep in the train or in other places after, AHA! a good thing actually, it helped me to add sleeping time.

Okay, shortly I overcome my allergy and really enjoy my holiday in Japan.
Back to how I start my day every morning in Japan : " HAVING BREAKFAST!"

Lets say I had my favorite breakfast menu and it was totally different with my breakfast menu in daily life. Can you guess what it was?

Well it was not only one menu, but several! I ate like a bear preparing for hibernation.
FYI, It had been a healthy holiday cause I walked a lot like really far, my phone recorded about 19.000 to 26.000 + each day! In the other hands my daily walking goal only around 6.000 per day
can you imagine that?! I got a severe pain for my knees and I barely cannot walk so I used cab for several times :p for the last couple days

A lot of walking and that was kinda gave me an excuses to eat more and I didn't gain a single digit on my weight! ^ ^

1. CURRY















2. Pancake















3. Sausages and ham
4. Yoghurt
















5. Cereal, oatmeal and fresh milk

6. Bread

Those are my favorite breakfast menu.

Those food were special, I usually eat rice or vermicelli for my daily breakfast at home. I usually having stomachache if I eat those kind of food as my breakfast but when I go abroad I can accept almost everything and my stomach will cooperate very well. Everything good even after eating ramen and dairy products.
This kind of thing makes me confuse, is it the food quality in Indonesia that I need to question or what?!













My companion :

I am missing you my Japanese breakfast menu! T_T

" Say Good Morning to Your Body, EAT BREAKFAST!"


Thank you for reading

TGIFoodLovers
http://cacaietcha.wix.com/tgifoodlovers
ig @caca_ietcha

Cute Paoger Invasion @ Madre Arbanat

Madre Arbanat

I don't know the meaning of Madre Arbanat, but for sure this place is something. They created a new innovation of burger by using bakpao as the bun. That's why they called it PAOGER (bakpao burger).

Address : 
Ruko Crystal 2, no. 9
JL. Gading Golf Boulevard,
Gading Serpong - Tangerang
(next to juragan properti - near Henk Pizza)

Phone : 
081317380883

Dress Code : 
casual to semi formal

Operationa Hours : 
Tuesday - Sunday (close at 9pm on Friday, and 10pm on Saturday, usually close at 8pm?!)

Language spoken : 
Indonesian language

Exterior : 
A petite shop house with white banner " Madre Arbanat"
You can see the cute interior from the window

Interior : 
1st floor : non smoking and smoking
2nd floor : non smoking, toilet
cute decoration with black board, fork, knife and spoon chandelier, drawings everywhere and cute stuffs

congratulation messages from Madre Arbanat Friends

and 

I'm in love with the chandelier.. so creative and unique

 Full AC
capacity on non smoking area 1st floor : around 13 seats

decoration next to outdoor area











Menu :

There is a showcase of cakes next to the cashier :

I haven't tried the cake.. maybe I will in my next visit










burger black, paoger chick, paoger pig, paoger dog, paoger Caterpillar, paoger bear, etc
yoghurt, tea, cappuccino, E+ water, mineral water, etc

My visit : 
This was what I called drinking while diving.
I got all the fun for having friends to try this new cute food and introduce my friend to my other friend.
I do it pretty often these days so.. my friends will be your friends. hmm It is confusing to explain using proper words. hahaha..

All I can say, the interior was nice, It was great to sit for quite sometime and chit chatting.. All over the place could be your photo spot even though the light was a little bit warm and yellow.

The food and drinks were cute and match for "eating pretty". The size were small and not enough for me to eat just one paoger and drink. Maybe you can order more than 2 menu.

 You can choose the character of your paoger and make selection for the meat between chicken, beef or fish! price around 40k for beef. Cassava chips included (I think it was KUSUKA chips- brand of cassava chips available in local market :p)

 I love to take pictures here.. 

 Paoger Chick (with beef meat), look it had hands and legs!

 Paoger pig, so pinky girly and cutteeeee

 My friend ordered green tea latte with halloween theme latte art.. Welcome October.. welcome horror theme !

 You can also order the sweet paoger with ice cream ( you can choose the ice cream flavour).. GULALI (granny hairs) included! wohooo

 I couldn't believe they called this yoghurt. They said it would be sour.. but when I tried it.. Olalaaa.. so so so sooooo sweet like syrup.. T_T.. I dislike this :( and because it was so sticky in my throat I need to buy another mineral water (E+) for IDR 15k T_T

The paoger was very soft and easy to eat.. the taste of the savory paoger was okay..not too delicious but not bad either. the meat was spicy with black pepper and as a whole it was also too spicy for me.. maybe they put too much chili sauce inside without asking me in the first place whether I like chili or not. :(

the content of the paoger : 1 egg, chili sauce, meat (beef/fish/ chicken), cheese, lettuce (standard not so special, it just cute)

My companion : 
Thank you to Cicilia TS and Eros for spending time with me back then.  Too bad we didn't take any picture.. instead of wefie, Eros helped me to take a picture of myself.. ^ ^

Twins! haha just ignore this pic.. 

It's easy to impress me. I don't need a fancy party to be happy. Just good friends, good food, and good laughs. I'm happy. I'm satisfied. I'm content.

Maria Sharapova

TGIFoodLovers

Foo Kitchen - The delicious pork house

Foo Kitchen 

Address : 
The prominence town house Blok 38 H no 35 (Behind All Fresh Alam Sutera)
Jl. Jalur Sutera Boulevard, Alam Sutera, Serpong, Tangerang

+62 21 2985 3891

Interior : 
air   : pretty hot even using AC
wifi  : available
plug : no
seat : approx. 20-25 persons

Price : 
start from 35k for pork meat per servings
rice set available

Portion : 
Small portion for individual costumer

Special menu : 
all about pork (smoked pork in different seasoning)
They mention dory in the menu but not available

My Visit : 
I visited this place at lunch time on Sunday, 30 August 2015 around 12.30pm
They didn't have much visitors, in fact me and my 2 friends were the only visitors!
After we finished with our meals, some other customers in large group came in.
 I ordered original smoked pork, the red pork, pork in salted vegetable soup, sweet pork satay and those food came along with dabu-dabu, indonesian chili and sweet pork sauce.
The rice came in square shape and the sum was quite good. It didn't take a long time for the food to be served in our table after we ordered. Nice!

See how small the portion was, but me and my 2 friends decided to share it 

 The pork soup

 The original smoked pork

 The sweet pork satay

 chili companion, those were not spicy because I can eat it.. :D

 The great red pork with sweet sauce

The Taste : 
I will tell you, it was awesome!
I ate foo's food for couple times and the taste still awesome as always.
I am not crazy about pork meat but I can tell the food was great and make me wanna come back

My lunch companion : 
My school mate during high school
Yes we were in science class and I was together with the smartest one who grew up as a doctor and housewife to be (will move to Singapore soon T_T)  and the other one work as an auditor and gonna be a wife too (will move to North Jakarta Area). Maybe I will feel lonely but still happy for all my friends for the upcoming marriage life.
Pretty much surrounded by the bride to be :p

<Nova the doctor - Me - Rena the auditor>

I look big! >_< 

It was pretty much a rare occasion for us to gather and do the real cheesy talk, we usually do the daily chit chat through Line group, together with my other friend Wu Lan who is also a doctor in Bandung. We named it 4 Sekawan :p

Have a wonderful friendship life, 

TGIFoodLovers

Hello!

Today is a brighter day!
So I decided to start a blog which I named TGIFoodLovers (Thank God Its Food Lovers!.. hahaha) and share my story esp. about food

I have interest in food for such a long time, I usually buy food for breakfast, lunch until dinner , however I also can cook!
(Cooking at home is a very rare occasion)

My whole family and me love different kind of foods from home cooking, street food, restaurant, hotel's food, bizarre food, etc.

So, hope you enjoy my story .. check it out!
and if you don't mind kindly also follow my instagram account
ig : @caca_ietcha

note : I apologize if my English level doesn't suit yours.. >_<

Thank you and enjoy my story!