Smells Like Coffee: know more

Some of you might have know about kopitiam, but let me explain it to the others who might have wondering for some time about it. Kopitiam is a traditional coffee shop that can be found around some Southeast Asia countries like Singapore, Malaysia, and Indonesia. Usually run by their local Chinese peoples. The word kopi is Malay for coffee, and tiam is Hokkien dialect word for shop.

So, kopitiam is basically a coffee shop. What makes it different from other cafe is their menu. Kopitiam mostly offer coffee, tea, and Milo (a malted chocolate drink that is very popular in Southeast Asia, and happened to be my favorite too, hehee). They also offer simple foods based on egg, toast, and kaya jam. Some of them also have other traditional Southeast Asian foods like kway tiao, bakmie, and nasi lemak.

Well, kopitiam is one of our favorite place, of course! They serve nice coffee, milo, toast, and some kopitiam in Bandung are also serve dim sum, yay!! Me and Sats love spending our free time chit-chatting in kopitiam just like what we usually do in other coffee shops or cafe. Different atmosphere, different taste, but same pleasure! :)

Anyway, we were just visited the famous Kopitiam Oey that newly opened recently in Braga, Bandung. Since we came a little bit late and they will be closed soon, I only took some "important" picture of my order and eat them up so quickly, hihiii.. Since I don't have their interior picture, I will explain it later when I re-visit this place. But I can tell you that this kopitiam is very homey and the servant are very nice. :)

Milo Dinosaur | 20k

Milo Dinosaurus is one of my favorite drink when I visit kopitiam, especially since I got pregnant and have to cut down my caffeine consumption. But I prefer it without any whipped cream or jam, cause they kinda interfere the real taste of the Milo.

Roti Canai Kari Ajam | 27k

I was surprised by the food that I ordered that night, Roti Canai Kari Ajam. Aside of my first time tasted, it taste really gooooooddddhh..!! I love the curry consistency. It was a small portion but came with a big taste! Looking forward to visit Kopitiam Oey again soon.. :)

>> Kopitiam Oey <<

Braga 45 Bandung - Indonesia

(022) 42600612

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Exploring Red Velvet Cakes

Bandung August 09, 2012

It's been a while since my last post.. I think I'm going to share all of my activities last month in a few posts. Just to make it quick.. ;)

Now let's start from the phenomenal Red Velvet Cake, another one-of-the-most famous cake in town. My first try was the one from Bawean here in Bandung. I like the texture of the cake and its cheese cream topping. Despite of its tiny looks, it taste really good with a quite dense texture that fulfilled my tummy with only one cake!

Red Velvet, Bawean - Bandung | 32.5K

Few days later me and Sats went to Kem Chicks Jakarta and tried their Red Velvet. It was softer, with butter cream instead of cheese. Or they might be added a little amount of cream cheese, I'm not really sure, but it didn't taste like a cheese cream.

Our cousins haven't taste any of Red Velvet Cake before and they bought the whole cake after we had a lunch, so I took one slice for dessert, hehee..

After having lunch, we went to Pacific Place to try another cafe. Mbak Ida told us that there is this phenomenal Red Velvet Cake that every single person could only buy 2 pieces a day, due to its high demand. She asked her friends to take some for us to try.

So here it is, Red Velvet Cake from Union Jakarta. Some said that the original Red Velvet is covered by nut chunks, just like this one. It's my personal taste, but I don't really like nuts on any cake, hehee. But I tell you, this cake was delicious! Almost like the one from Bawean but it's layered. It didn't have a strong cream cheese taste but I'm pretty sure that they are using it for the topping.

After all, for you who wondering what Red Velvet Cake actually is, this might give you a little enlightenment.

Red Velvet Cake is usually a layered chocolate cake that topped with cream cheese. But some people like to use butter cream for substitute the cream cheese. The red comes from adding red food coloring in the cake dough. Beet root is sometimes used for a natural red color for the cake.

>> Bawean <<

R.E. Martadinata 140

Bandung - Indonesia

>> Kem Chiks <<

Kemang Raya 3-5

South Jakarta - Indonesia

>> Union <<

Plaza Senayan Courtyard, Ground Floor

Asia Afrika 8

Jakarta - Indonesia

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Macaron or Macaroon..??

American February 18, 2012

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The New 7 Wonders Of Nature

holiday November 15, 2011

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Holiday..!! (part-2)

art works September 09, 2011

Day 3

Off to Borobudur and Jogja!!

People are keep staring on us when we took those pictures with a yoga pose. Hahaa.. I know, it's a public space, and you might think it's funny to see people do a weird pose for their photo, but it's fun anyway.. ;)

Beautiful, isn't it..?? Borobudur Temple is the biggest Buddhist temple in ninth century.
Come visit Borobudur here in Central Java - Indonesia.

Day 4

Uniquely Semawis..

Pasar Semawis is a kinda like Chinatown fair in Semarang. Open every Friday, Saturday and Sunday night along Gang Warung road. There are so many things that you can find here, from variety kind of cuisines to beautiful jewelries..

Look at that! There's a stand that sells Hello Kitty's stuff. Cuuutteee!!

Another interesting thing is a stand that sells quick-handmade Chinese painting. This guy name Suharto Martanto (Tan Eng Tiong) is amazingly genius. He made such a beautiful Chinese ink painting in a shortest time that I could have ever imagine. Too bad my camera and all of our phone batteries were out at the same time so I could only got a few pictures of his art works. But he told me that he is using facebook so for you guys that are wondering, see his page over here.

By the way, if you want to learn how to make Chinese ink painting, he would love to teach you there at Semawis. Just come to his place at Jalan Gang Warung 86 Semarang - Indonesia.

Day 5

Last night, enjoying the coffee at S2.

S2 a very interesting place. They have 7 different places inside of it, including 3 different restaurant, one bakery, 2 ice cream and yoghurt stand, and a gym. Well, what's the problem of having a gym above the restaurant? None! Hahaa.. (^^)

Anyway, since we didn't have much time left before we leave, we decided to come here and have a quick relaxing time having coffee and tea. Oh I wanna go back there to taste some other food and beverage sometime..