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

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The Beauty of Nature - The Banyan Restaurant

THE BANYAN RESTAURANT

Address : 

Pesona Alam Resort & Spa

Jl. Taman Safari No. 101, Kampung Baru Tegal, Cibeureum, Cisarua, Bogor, Jawa Barat 16750

Phone : 

(0251) 8217111

Dress code : 
casual with outer outfit

Type : Lunch Buffet

Price : approx. IDR 150k / person

Time : 11.00am - 03.00pm

My Story : 

Hello, have you heard The Banyan Restaurant ?
It was located inside the Pesona Alam Resort & Spa, this is the only place for you to have heavy meal during the day in the resort area.
In my previous story, I told you about Club Huis. Both located in the same area but different building and type of food.

This time, I ate at this restaurant with my whole family (mom, dad, big bro, sis in law, and my niece). We arrived a little bit late that day. Around 02.00pm , so it was a rush for us to finish our meal.
The restaurant itself located beneath the lobby area and facing the beautiful mountain and pool.
As you can imagine, this place doesn't have air conditioner , for me the cold breeze was enough.

Frankly speaking, the food was a contradictory with the view. If the view was very pleasant to see, the food was not that enjoyable. The variant was too little and the taste itself was not at it best. However, If you do not want to take the buffet package, you are able to order the ala carte menu. But, considering the price, 2 menu with drink will have almost the same amount with the buffet package.
It was more economical for me to take the buffet package. (consider my big appetite too :p)

the buffet menu : 
drinks : hot tea, sweet ice tea
fruit    : melon, snake fruit, oranges, sugar palm fruit, bengkoang and sweet potato for Rujak
Main course : white rice, fried rice, fried noodles, black pepper beef, saute vegetables, fried tempeh, and soto (Indonesian soup)
dessert : chocolate cake, pandan cake, and some pastries, waffle

A. Drinks
     for the buffet, we didn't have any option rather than to drink tea. The tea itself was ordinary    
     without any special taste
B. Fruit
     I didn't eat much fruit that day because I ate too much soto T_T (I consider the soto as their best
     menu in the buffet) but the fruit were not sweet and sorry to say, it were just ordinary

C. Main Course
     Well, I ate the appetizer first. The salad bar didn't have too much ingredients but sliced cheese
     still available along with several dressings. Quite fresh :)

 
 The rice were a little bit dry, the vegetables color were not fresh, it was dark green like being

     cooked to long.
     The meat were okay but not too special

   





For the meat, there were kungpao chicken and beef with cauliflowers.
The kungpao chicken didn't taste like one but it was better than the beef.

The fried rice should had meat based on the name , however I could not find any :( only some pieces of egg as seen in the picture

The fish : 
errrr.. the smell was very fishy. I didn't take any. YUCK







Fried noodle : this one was better than the fried rice. Even though I still could not find the meat T_T the texture was nicer and not too dry












 




    The best was the SOTO * mention it again and again LOL
     The soto contain of meat, tomato, green onion, fried red onion and I requested to exclude the
     white cabbage , it was quite perfect while I was added the lime water.
   

D. Dessert
     the dessert and pastry were quite many in amount. The cakes were in small slices but the pastry

     were in big sizes (normal sizes). I was a little interested with  the pudding but kinda hate the vla.

     The pastry was okay and also some of the cakes.
     For cold dessert they served es campur that we could prepare by our-self.

     Just for suggestion, you don't need to spare your stomach's space for the waffle. The waffle was
     quite horrible, it was hard and tasted bad

After enjoyed our meal, we were free to play in the resort area esp. for the trampoline and mini outbound. And of course we took several pictures around the pool too.
 My companion : 

As you all know, the traffic usually sucks, so we took some selfie in the car

Here is my cute niece :

and me near the pool 

happy jumping!

Good spot for family bonding

my favorite pic taken by me :D

 Have a nice holiday for all of you
and
Almost happy new year


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