Tripping Jakarta & Bandung - Part 2

In this Part 2 of my post, I'm posting some of the more interesting food that I had in Jakarta/Bandung during day 1 and 2 of my trip.

This dish was really tasty, from a Chinese meal we had for dinner at a place called Raja Kuring. It came with flames (you can still see some of the flames in the pic) and with the aluminium foil sitting on a bed of salt. It's Salted Chicken but unlike the ones which is baked back home here, the chicken was fried. Not very meaty but very flavourful!


Next, on the way to Bandung the next day - we made a stop at a rest area and I came across a snack stall. This Risol Rogut is somewhat like a deep fried breaded snack with some meat and vegetables inside. Pretty normal right? But what made me try this snack was because ...


they served it with chili padi, uncut! The chili was really really spicy hot and kicked it up a notch (or two or three) for this otherwise normal snack.




During a Sundanese meal, we were served a wrapped Banana Leaf item - we thought it was some kind of Otak-Otak at first.


Turns out it was some sort of Tofu - a mix of tofu and coconut milk and it was on the salty side. More interesting than tasty for me though :o)


The Sundanese Meal was rather interesting as compared to the Nasi Padang meals we had...


'cos there were just so many varieties to choose from!

But believe it or not, the best dish I had was during my breakfast in Hyatt Jakarta and what was it???


When I ordered waffles, the hotel staff meticulously made them and decorated it with a strawberry, topped it off with powdered sugar (with maple syrup on the side) and hand delivered them to me! So pretty looking, nice and warm! The rest of my friends on seeing this put in an order too but they were disappointed as they were just handed a plate of two pieces of waffle with maple syrup only! Hahaha...

To Be Continued....