Red Dragon Fruit Playlist: 16/12/2015 #1

Music has become my best friend since my tv (in my college room) has broken. Realizing that I need WiFi more than tv, I am so grateful for getting better connection. I can search for my -easy listening- song. I mean all those are my music sense. 

Now I'm going to share with you some of my favorite songs I've been listening this past few months. 
 If you wondering about songs that I'm using to be my Instagram videos back sound, I'm telling you right now! :)

1. Drake - Hotline Bling  
2. Gabrielle Aplin - Panic Cord
3. Kodaline - High Hopes
4. Alessia Cara - Wild Things 
5.  Frankie - New Obsession
6. Walk The Moon - Shut Up and Dance  
7. Alex Young - Make Things For Smile (U&I)  
8. Akdong Musician(AKMU) - 200% 
9. Mike Dignam - Great Escape 
10. HIVI - Siapkah Kau 'Tuk Jatuh Cinta Lagi  
11. Daniela Andrade - Any Other Way 

I enjoy the music while I'm doing everything.

Hope you liked this  one xx

Let's Visit "Kedai Boboko"

This was my second post or maybe my last one about Sundanesse cuisine restaurant. It’s called Kedai Boboko. If you are a tourist or maybe looking for comfy place, you will easily find Kedai Boboko because it located in Jl. Ir. H. Djuanda No. 254, Coblong, Bandung Jawa Barat. It’s in the center of city.

When we arrived to this place, it just feels like home. They make the parking area look so wide. When we enter the place, you will be so glad because they offer so many rooms/sections with different sense.

Nasi Bancakan "Abah Barna"

Met local traditional food!

Yes, for this post and probably next post I’ll be posting stuff from my lecture. They asked us, separating one class member to be some group which consisting six people in it. We have to visit local restaurant that present traditional cuisine from their owned place. In this case, it should be Sundanese.

            It such an honor for me to do this kind of task because it basically what I love to do. post it in the internet as my diary and giving people (who probably look at my blog) an inspiration.

            In this first opportunity, we visited “Nasi Bancakan”. Even I’m pure a sundanese but I don’t really understand the meaning of that word as Sundanese language. But luckily we met the founder of Nasi Bancakan. He He explained what the meaning of Bancakan was. Bancakan means spending time with people you love or whoever might be in happy ways. It should be eating some foods together. I thought it’s seems like thanksgiving in western but Bancakan shouldn’t be in special time. We can do that every time we want depends on the situation.

            The founder of Nasi Bancakan named Abah Barna. He reminded me of my grandfather who lived far away in my hometown. He started his business on October 17^th 2007. Beside this traditional restaurant, there was a more modern restaurant which still owned by his family. Basically they have family business which very cool.

Les Trois Espresso Bar

Another day in my hometown, I visited (again) a coffee shop. I just realized that coffee business is growing up very fast in town. I looked back to my ‘must visit list’ and found it out. I still have more than 2 kinds of these places to visit in Sukabumi. But that’s fine. I’m a new fan of coffee now.

Seblak... Woops?!

Let me explain the main ingredient of what I’m going to talk about. It’s “kerupuk” or “krupuk”. I don’t know how to spell and pronounce it right. But it basically something can be expand if we fry it with very hot oil. Kerupuk is usually being a side dish to every Sundanese food. But sometime, we eat kerupuk to complete our foods.

 There were so many kind of kerupuk. Even for color, size and taste. It depends on the main ingredients of kerupuk. It will be (kind of) hard to mention kind of kerupuk but if you want me to do that on my blog, just let me know!

Brunch : Buy One Get One Free at Porto

Couple times ago I went to Porto restaurant for Dilmah Real High Tea Challenge Café and Restaurant 2015. They served really amazing dishes so I don’t feel surprised when we got the result of that competition. Congratulations Porto, for being the winner of Dilmah Real High Tea Challenge this year!

I love their services. They are located in Jl. Setiabudhi No. 53 Bandung. I know my aim to get there is for Dilmah, but they said that they’re having new brunch menu. And now, they are having great promo that will make you want to come there. You can get one more free plate when you order one of their brunch menus. That is so interesting!

Uncle G Corner & Seecul

I’m home again.

After more than 6 months, I met Isti. We shared each other stories during the time we don’t meet. That was really nice. We are choosing the most popular place in our home town, Sukabumi. They opened the new place which is larger than the main location.

There were 2 brands that I posted in this post. They are typical food court but I think they are a lot better because they match each other. But I saw there were more than 2 brands in this location. Maybe there are 4. But I’m not very sure.

Isti and I ordered our foods from Uncle G Corner. For the beverages we ordered from Seecul. That’s fair enough right?

Dilmah Real High Tea Challenge Cafes & Restaurants 2015

I never felt so excited like this before in my whole life. I’m going to review these two places which participate in Dilmah Real High Tea Challenge Cafes & Restaurants 2015. Before the challenge happened, Dilmah gathered some Bandung food bloggers and competitors at Luxton Hotel on August 13^th. Some of the bloggers are very popular and made me so nervous at the moment. But I’m grateful for being there.

Basically, Dilmah challenges these Cafés and Restaurants. They should be making some dish which makes of or contains their product, in this case is tea. In judging process, competitors have to brew the hot teas in front of judges. They will make two different drinks and must be paired with either a sweet or savory dish. It could be hot, warm or cold.

And for tea inspired cuisine, competitors have to make 1 sweet or savory dish which made from tea as an ingredient. It makes me feel so glad because I learn about it before at the food ingredients class in the college. I can add more knowledge in real life, not just theory.

I got the opportunity to visit Porto Restaurant and Chubby Bunny. There were 8 restaurants and cafes which take part in this challenge. I can’t visit all the places because it’s hard for me to match my school schedule. I visited both of them on September 12^th.

Sop Durian Mozzarela

Some people love it and the others hate it very much. Durian or duren. Whatever you called it but I know this one is tropical fruit. It smells really strong that’s probably why some people love it and either hated it. I’m in between actually. I don’t love it very much but I also don’t hate it. I can eat everything I guess.

            Last weekend, I went home for visiting my family in town. My hometown located in Sukabumi. Five hours away by bus from Bandung. Every time I pass a road near the city center, I always see this new café. It looked so interesting for me because they show so much durian in front of their place.

            Sop Durian Mozzarela café is only there in Sukabumi. They started in 2014 and now they have 2 café in town.

            I decided to visit this little café with my friend, Owl (not real name). Well we went there and order three menus that can represent all the menus in this café. They offered everything that contained durian.

Pancake Durian (IDR 12K/pcs)  

Pancake Duria with cheese on top

Fake Ice Cream for Display

Maybe it just me but I am sure that you guys will feel the same when your favorite class is over. Here are some pictures that I took for the exam day of culinary art class. It supposed to be a decoration “tumpeng”. But the time doesn’t allow us. So we made an ice cream for the final exam.

Carving Class

Oh hey guys!

            And hello…

            Again, I’m going to post something that I got from my class. And still in culinary art –because this class is so cool, I can’t handle it err- I attended a carving class. (Finally) Play with my knives. I had 3 knives which I always bring in my box and I use all of that right now.

            They hurt my fingers sometime, but it is fine because always there is the first time in everything. I’m the beginner so I apologies for the result. I’m doing every job with my team. Some of these pictures are also created by other groups. I’m not satisfied but I’m so happy with the results.

            We get little surprise because someone who teach us do carving is not a teacher from the college, he is an alumni who really good at this thing. He is pretty good looking. I brought my camera and I’m trying really hard to not take picture with him. He made me nervous too but I must be professional. Lol!

            We did it with some vegetables like carrots, tomatoes, zucchini, radish, chilly and scallions. In my opinion, doing radish is the hardest thing because they are so fragile and soft. I try to made roses and always fails. It is still very basics. I have to learn and practice more. I will always try and try so I can be an expert at this.

Indonesian Traditional Display Food

 If I know that this is what I am going to do, I will never ever regret for being in this major. Learn everything about food. Learn everything that really useful in real life. Everything we learn actually is something that we doing every time.

            I am proud with the result of my mid semester test in culinary art class. I am grateful for being in this team. Rifa and Ivan are so kind and easy to be work with. I love them bunch, yuhuuuuu! 

Okay, I am going to talk about the actual topic. We created a natural and semi traditional display food. And the foods we going to organize are mini traditional food. The foods are already there since forever ago in our hometown. Our theme to display our foods is ‘stage’. We want to make something look really stunning like Demi Lovato on stage. Well as you can tell, my favorite singer is Demi Lovato.

Ceker Setan, The Claws of Demon!

I found this place from Instagram. Well actually my friend did. We are all love to find any unique kind of food. Can you guess what it is? It is chicken fingers! Okay, the name of this place is “Ceker Setan” which means “Claws of Demons”. This –kind of café- offered chicken claw with 3 spicy levels. That was insane!

This kind of café usually offering 1 to 10 spicy level. Can you imagine there are only 3 levels? The range of the spicy is very far. That is why I order the spicy level 1. I love spicy food but I don’t want to take a risk because this was my very first time visiting this place.

Amnesia

Kue Cubit Green Tea

Well, here is the new label aka series on my blog. If you follow me on Instagram (which is Mareth08) probably you know that I'm a food student. I mean I learn everything about food. Pastry, bakery, cuisine and all the thing about hygiene, gastronomy, and tourism. Yeah I'm in tourism major and taking the foods program. The post will never end up if I explain about it LOL.

So I'm going to show you this kind of popular dessert from Indonesia. Actually it's traditional food from Jakarta, the capital city of Indonesia. But it is back with so many innovation in this era.

In Bandung, where I live. Kue Cubit is very popular, we can find it everywhere on the street.