Dining in Jogjakarta

Pulang ke kotamu
Ada setangkup haru dalam rindu
Masih seperti dulu
Tiap sudut menyapaku bersahabat, penuh selaksa makna
Terhanyut aku akan nostalgi
Saat kita sering luangkan waktu
Nikmati bersama
Suasana Jogja

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I love that song and I love Jogjakarta.

Whenever you're in Jogjakarta, you have to try these place

Jejamuran and Ruminten

What is Jejamuran?

Jejamuran is a restaurant located outskirt of Jogjakarta 

on our way to candy Borobudur Magelang

Jamur is mushroom in English.

All food here is made of mushroom.

All traditional Indonesian food like Satay, rendang, spicy stir and fry mushroom, crispy portabello, 

and many other dishes those made from mushroom.

The place is clean and the dishes are delicious

all mushroom dishes

Mushroom everywhere

Next destination was House of Ruminten

It's a famous restaurant in Jogjakarta. It's in three location: Magelang, Kali Urang and Kota Baru. 

We went to the restaurant that located at Kali Urang.

The atmosphere was very unique, it's always full house cause it has a reasonable price and open 24 hours everyday. Since we just ate at Jejamuran, we only ordered drink here.

 I forgot what we ordered here, but all the food were in unique name.

While we're waiting

The Reunion

Class of 95

Time is passing by and it's been 20 years since I have graduated from high school. There are a lot of beautiful memories happened in high school. And I just realised that I never met my friends since the graduation day since I went to college in different city. And when we gathered together again we felt like nothing has changed and we still have teenager spirit inside us.

What a lovely night.

Suddenly Miss Jogjakarta (part 2)

Like Bali and Bandung, I never get enough of Jogja.

I love to try food in Jogja. All is good, from food street until the restaurant. All good and not expensive. You can buy a lot of food with reasonable price and mostly lower price than any big city in Indonesia. I don't know why, maybe because Jogjakarta is known as The Student City so the prices are follow their  market.

Which place to go when you need proper delicious meal during your stay in Jogjakarta:

Gudeg 

I didn't like gudeg when I was a kid. No matter how often my mom made it at home. However when I'm older I started to fall in love with this food, especially when it came originally from Yogya. usually I got the gudeg from relatives who travels to Yogya in Kendil package.  Kendil is a traditional  bowl made from clay. However in present time mostly Gudeg was packaged in carton box so it's more smiple for people to bring it to their home town.

Gudeg itself is made from young unripe jack fruit (Javanese: gori, Indonesian: nangka muda) boiled for several hours with palm sugar, and coconut milk and has additional spices include garlic, shallot, candlenut, coriander seed, galangal, bay leaves, and teak leaves, the latter giving a reddish brown color to the dish.i t is often described as "green jack fruit sweet stew". (wikipedia).

It usually served with opor ayam  or chicken cooked in coconut milk, sambel goreng kerecek or spicy cow skin chips cooked and fried tofu and of course white rice. It so delicious. I'm in low carbs diet but i can not resist no to eat gudeg with rice. Lately there more variety of gudeg. It also served with very hot side dish, it's called gudeg mercon. And I love spicy food. My favourite are gudeg Yu Djum at Kaliurang or Wijilan and Gudeg mercon bu Tinah at Pakuningratan which only open at night.

Soto Kadipiro

Never leave Jogja without trying this soto. Soto is a traditional Indonesian soup mainly composed of broth, meat and vegetables. Many traditional soups are called soto, whereas foreign and Western influenced soups are called sop (wikipedia)

It's so delicious. It's served with satay, tempe or tahu and perkedel or potato cake. They also has this sarsaparilla drink that mede me remember my childhood. I don't how about you. This meal is suitable to eat in the morning for breakfast or brunch.

Ice Cream Rujak Pakualaman 

It's good to have this for dessert. At first I just wanted to share a portion with a friend since I felt so full, but when I saw what so tempting it's looked like. I wanted a portion for myself. Hahahaha....

Rujak is a traditional fruit salad with sour, sweet and spicy taste and combined with traditional ice cream and this combination is unbelievable good. Actually I underestimated this dessert at first place, but once I tried, I didn't want to share my ice cream. It located at Puro Pakualaman, it's not even a stall, it's a moving stall and we almost didn't enjoy this ice cream if we were few minutes late because it's sold out so fast.

Sate Klatak Pak Pong Imogiri

Sate Klatak is a unique way to serve and cook satay. Because instead it used bamboo as skewer like ordinary sate in Indonesia it used skewer that made from part of bicycle's wheel. It has a light taste and different from other lamb satay. It served also with clear soup.

Gado-gado Colombo

When you feel guilty and need some vegetables, you can try this gado-gado or traditional mixed vegetables with peanut sauce. I didn't what made this dish so different from other gado-gado. However it's so delicious. And I had an unforgettable experience. While we're enjoying our meal there's an earthquake in big scale cause I can felt it and  Everybody started to run outside the restaurant. Me and my friends just stood there looking to our unfinished plates and felt sorry to left this delicious meal. 

Bakso Pak Narto

Last but not least, whenever you're hungry you can stop at any stall of Bakso Pak Narto. It's ordinary noodle stalls with meatballs. And it's good to eat in between your meal :)

And it's all good...

Gudeg Yu Djum

Soto Kadipiro

Es Krim Rujak Paku Alam

Sate Klatak 

Bakso Pak Narto

gado-gado colombo - jl kartini

Pekalongan Dian Pelangi

Work oh Work

It's a beautiful thing 

When a Career and a Passion 

Come Together

anonymous

One thing I love about my current job is when I meet the customers.

I like to dig out their success story

Lately I met customer that almost same age with me

So we have same point of view of life 

And we've been go through same phase of economic changes

He graduated from electro major of one best technology university in Bandung

Once he graduated he tried to work at different companies 

But ended up thinking that he should started to make a company by himself

He started a CME contractor company which was related to his major in university

And it's a very man world

But the unpredictable part is he also started a clothing company 

That has made uniforms for many famous hotels and other services companies.

And a very feminine world

I don't think it's weird, I really appreciate his hard working.

And he can make his hobby and job getting along together.

And the most important thing I learned from all my customers are they do what they love

They do their job with passion

So they worked hard with all their heart and successful follow their hard works.

Mostly they quitted from their comfortable jobs

and struggled with their business and they made it to the top

because they love what they do

I also want to be an entrepreneur 

And that dreams are never stop

And kind of makes me feel restless lately

I just have not meet the turning point or maybe i need some guts to quit from my job

And I almost positive about it, because my grandfather was a successful entrepreneur

My late grandmother was a baker and built a traditional cake manufacture.

And the company was very success until they stopped to develop something new 

and slowly died. Especially after my grandmother has died. 

I had some business experiences too. During my high school, I  sold diaries that I designed with my friends. Then during I took my break from work, I sold clothes, brownies and chocolate 

and hop from one bazaar to another.

Then I sold batik clothes, kids clothes, and some fancy pouches over the internet.

And I never stop dreaming to start my own business

Maybe I have to try by myself and work something up until it works before I reach my forty

Suddenly Miss Jogjakarta (part 1)

Borobudur temple

Last year, I went to Jogjakarta twice. One in January and Second time in August. And I feel that I never get enough of Jogjakarta. The food, the view, and all the mystical places. I love it all. It's like being in the place that you never imagine. And you keep wondering how could that place possibly happened. How could humans at that time built such a big temple. And you can feel all the fairy tale at the Kraton Jogjakarta even at abandon Bathing Place Taman Sari. And you can feel how beautiful those places back then. It's magnificent. However I never been to any beach of Jogjakarta, Maybe later.

Me and Budha

Beautiful Sunset at Borobudur

Sunset at Merapi

The Beauty of Candi Prambanan

Ulen Sentalu Museum Gate

Ullen Sentalu. Where history revealed

Beautiful Candi Ratu Boko 

A visit to Keraton Jogja

Dance Lesson inside the Keraton

Taman Sari

Peeking on the inside 

Beautiful Gate of Taman Sari

Arisan

An "arisan" is a form of Rotating Savings and Credit Association in Indonesian culture, a form of Microfinance.^[1  (from Wikipedia)

Generally the arisan is a social gathering that takes place at a fixed interval (this being an informal social network this may be variable), at each member's home in turn. The rotating arisan holder (drawn by lots) receives payment from each other member and provides food for those members. In the course of the arisan the amount paid to other members will equal the amount received when the arisan is held (Wikipedia)

That's it, Indonesian culture. I keep wondering is there Arisan in other country. When I was a kid, I feel funny to see my mom went from one Arisan to another. Maybe 3 or 4 times arisan in a month. Neighbourhood, family, my father's office even a village arisan. A lot of arisan and my mother is a housewife.

Then now, I feel her. When there are a lot of invitation of Arisan are coming on my way. Family, neighbours, relatives, high school friends, college friends, office, my ex co-workers at my previous office, moms from schools, etc. etc. Here in Indonesia, we have something called "silaturahmi'. Means we can't stop seeing everyone we know on purpose and we have to maintain the relationship. 

All this time, I try to manage my arisan by only pick two arisan this year. One that arranged by my neighbourhood,since I have to keep updated about what's going on in our neighbourhood. And one that arranged by my high school friends, since it  only take every two months. Another form of arisan is what me and my two best friends did lately. We collect the money every month to take a trip Bali.

What I love about arisan is all the laughters and chit chat that refreshing so I can a little bit loosen up.  In my neighbourhood arisan, we usually move from one house to another. Sometimes we took trip like to Bogor, Bandung, pekalongan, Surabaya and Malang. And it's really fun. But lately we booked a restaurant nearby our houses. It also happen to my high school girlfriends, since the traffic is getting crazy and house of every member is all over Jakarta, arisan no longer held in one's home but from one restaurant to another. 

And I love to try new restaurant :)

I know what you did in Bandung

One day trip to Bandung, why not?

I took day off to stay away from office and joined this trip arranged by school moms to Bandung.

We left almost at 8 in morning (from the original schedule at 630AM)

So we had to struggle with morning traffic.

Fortunately we arrived safely in badung at 1100 AM.

We went directly to Kartika Sari to buy some snack to bring home.

this snack shop is famous with its "pisang molen"

It's like pastry filled with banana inside

Then our second stop was "Lembang Floating Market"

Everyone I know always complain about the place that full with people

But lucky us to go there in weekdays

So we had the place almost for ourselves.

The place was like a food court with beautiful view.

The snack stalls were lining up aside the lake in a boat.

That's why it's called "floating market" like floating market in Thailand or Hongkong

The stalls sell various snacks from traditional fried banana to dim sum

This place also has restaurants for more comfortable eating place.

Our Third destination was " Dusun Bambu Leisure Park" 

This place also has a beautiful view for taking some photos and it located in high altitude of bandung.

It has very refreshing air , thats very rare experience for us who live in big city.

They also has restaurant and hotel too. But we went there only to take photos.

Our last place to visit was Rumah Mode.

It a factory outlet that has range of collection of branded clothes.

Sometimes I found some famous brands with humble price.

For those who doesn't into shopping can spend time waiting at the restaurant that serve variety Bandung traditional food such as Batagor  and Mie Kocok. 

And that's a wrap, we're ready to head back to jakarta with happy tummy and smile on our face.

@lembang floating market

@dusun bambu leisure park