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Another friend of mine has just launched his foodstall in Puri Mansion Foodcourt. There are Ayam Goreng (Indonesian style seasoned fried chicken) and Lontong Capgomeh (pieces of rice cake with thin sliced chayote and some other perks in savory coconut milk gravy) in his menu option.

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Ayam goreng is served with steam rice, fried tofu or tempe (fermented soybean), fresh raw vegetables (cucumber, tomato, lettuce), and sambal terasi (chili paste). Sayur asem (specific vegetables and beans cooked in spicy sour soup) is an optional for a perfect deliciousness… yummy, it is!

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My review: The fried chicken is toothsome, I love the salty savory food, and this chicken comes with appropriate savory seasonings and good crispness. The chili paste is great for me, not too hot, so I need no worry of being pungency, but for others who like the very hot sambal, it might be less spicy. The spicy sour soup is tasty, the veggies in it are still fresh enough, not mushy. But well, the important thing for me is, the good rice. Good rice will make any good side dish tastes better. And I am happy as I got what I like here.  

Lontong Capgomeh is one of Peranakans’ Specialties. It comes as a dish-meal (food served in a dish to be eaten at one time). Included in each portion is some pieces of rice cake; thin sliced chayote, a fried boiled egg, a piece of fried tofu, all of these three ingredients are cooked in savory coconut milk gravy; shredded chicken breast which is also cooked in coconut milk gravy (opor ayam suwir); spicy chicken liver fritters (sambal goreng ati ayam); and crackers as a delicacy adder.

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My review: Overall, the taste is delicious, the look is tasteful and tempting. I love the good looking food. The sliced chayote in coconut milk gravy is in good cut, not mushy. However, as the coconut milk gravy is somewhat too little, my girl was feeling need to ask for more and she got it. I told my friend about this too-little-gravy as a note for becoming better.

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Puri Mansion Apartment, Jl. Lingkar Luar Barat, Puri Kembangan, Jakarta 11610, Indonesia

“Food is essential to life, therefore make it good” ~ from 40 Best Food Quotes Ever

Serpong, 27th September 2015, 22.50

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Food Reviewing…Enjoying cuisine, enjoying friendship

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Nasi Langgi

Yesterday we have had a good lunch, some Indonesian foods had become our preference.

Friends of mine, a couple of husband-Hans and wife-Lina, are the owner of Javanese and Balinese cuisine specialties. There are plenty of Indonesian cuisine restaurants around the area of our living quarters who offers delicious menus, and this friends’ resto is one of them.

Located in neighborhood housing complex, Gading Serpong, they open for dining-in, taking-away and the most I guess, accepting delivery-orders. They deliver meal boxes and Nasi Tumpeng Lengkap (completed cone rice) for ceremonial events, family, community and corporate gatherings, and any other kinds of event. I have few times ordered their Nasi Tumpeng Lengkap and meal boxes. The nasi tumpeng is amply with various appendage side dishes, and they are all so tasty.

For me and my family, the taste of each menu is toothsome, the look is tempting, that’s the reasons of why we are visiting this resto quite often, besides as the location is not too far to our home.

Talk a little about the background of how I know this couple; Lina has been my long time friend since we were in kindergarten, while Hans, being friends since we were in high school. I know them as an ordinary couple, educated and religious in a humble manner. The fun side is, Lina is an active and talkative woman, while Hans is a quiet but ready-to-assist person. We have once never met each other for a long period, but then by chance we have chosen the same residential area, so the precious friendship is pleasantly reconnected. We had a lot to talks every time we meet –of which not too often-, but just the fun and good things, about our family and friends. I think Lina and I have one similarity in viewing the life, that is enjoying whatever we have with gratitude, in the way we are.

Here are some appetizing choices available in their resto:

Nasi Pecel Komplit

Includes: rice, boiled vegetables, spicy peanut sauce, peanut cracker, shredded sweet spiced fried beef, sliced cucumber, kemangi leaves, chili paste

Nasi Pecel Komplit

Nasi Gudeg Telur

Includes: rice, sayur nangka gudeg, spiced boiled egg (telur bacem), fried tofu cooked in coconut sauce (opor tahu), calfskin cracker in spicy coconut sauce (kerecek), sliced cucumber, chili paste

Nasi Gudeg Telur

Nasi Langgi

Includes: rice, savory beef, chili fried beef liver, sweet sauted tempe, thinly sliced omelette, sweet potato chips, grated coconut, sliced cucumber, kemangi leaves, chili paste

Nasi Langgi

Nasi Kuning

Includes: yellow rice (yellow color is derived from turmeric), Javanese style fried chicken, red chili potato cubes , thinly sliced omelette, sliced cucumber, kemangi leaves, chili paste

Nasi Kuning

 

“If you really want to make a friend, go to someone’s house and eat with him…the people who give you their food, give you their heart” ~ Cesar Chavez

Serpong, 23rd August 2015, 20.07 (editing time)

Updated on 17th November 2015, 14.31 

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