Lunch today

Today I have the nicest lunch with a plate of baked squid with aioli salad with an extra scramble eggs on the side at Bakerzin. I know I'm an egg maniac, but I couldnt help it. I could never pass a nice plate of scramble egg!

Appropriate breakfast

Im so hungry, didnt have breakfast this morning. I miss all the hotel and/or restaurant big continental breakfast. I'm an avid fan of scramble egg! This is how an appropriate breakfast should be served, two scramble eggs with 2 sausages and a basket of bread with butter and raspberry jam. BTW I have the oddest habbit of mixing the scramble eggs with the raspberry jam. The mixture between the melting scramble eggs and the sweet rasberry jam actually taste really nice. Oh dont forget a cup of coffee with extra warm milk on the side and a glass of fruit juice.

Guacamole & Salsa Dip

After being a pair of lazybummers all day, doing nothing but lying in bed and sleeping all day, Me & R decided to have dinner out. It’s up to me to decide the restaurant and I picked Mexican! No chance of going to Amigos in Kemang cause there’s this Kemang Festival going on rite now and that area must be damn crowded. Plus I’m kind of tired with Amigos food. The final decision was to go to Chili’s located in Sarinah Thamrin.

Getting there was a big fuss, we had to get gasoline first and the traffic in Pos Pengumben was a killer – like any other weekend traffic there. Secondly the roundabout in Sudirman was a mineland, you never know with police officers there, they can just stop you for no reason if you’re in a bad luck. And I made a wrong decision by telling R to do a U-turn in patung kuda instead of the usual harmoni U-turn. But we managed to arrive there safely … yippee

Ordered a chicken fajitas nachos for a starter and in the middle of waiting for our starter to arrive we ordered nachos big mouth burger. I was looking around the interior of the restaurant while waiting for our food, R was commenting on how dodgy they design it, especially the big size cooking pot as a lamp? The restaurant has this yellow ambience with a very colorful decoration.

Finally after waiting for almost 15-20 min the fajitas nachos arrive. They arrange the fajitas nachos triangle in a circle with lettuce & diced tomato showered in the middle with a scoop of sour cream and guacamole. The fajitas nachos is a triangle tortilla with chicken breast strip covered with jack cheese and mozzarella cheese finished with 1 slice of jalapeno. So far I can say this is the best nachos variation I ever tried, not comparable to the one I ate in Amigos or Planet Hollywood. Sizewise, each nachos come in a larger size than the one in PH and I think they have around 15 triangle in 1 serving whereas the PH one only have 6 pieces of triangle, although this one is slightly more ex.

Finished with the nachos but the burger has not yet arrived. Gosh imagined if we decided to order after we finished the starter, R said maybe the order will come tomorrow. 10 minutes later and 1 refill of ice tea and coke, the big mouth burger finally come into view. The burger was huge (literally huge!), served open top, because there are nachos slices covered with jack cheese on top of the burger beef. On the top side of the bread they smeared it with sour cream, diced tomato, jalapeno and a scoop of guacamole. The side dish that came with the burger was French fries. I love having French fries in a Mexican restaurant, cause you can dip it in guacamole+salsa sauce+sour cream … yumm yumm! Regardless the fact that Me & R share the burger, at the end of the meal we can barely move, because we’re so stuffed. Desserts looked utterly delicious, but we can’t handle anymore food so we skip desserts like usual!

The only complaint I have for this restaurant is they charge for every single dip you asked. The dip alone come to about Rp 30.000 in the end ... plus 15.5% PPN and service charge, so that's like Rp 60.000 for nonsense!

I think my baby inside was happy; she cannot stop moving ever since the beginning of the meal. She constantly moves until about 2 o’clock in the morning. Having too much energy from a nice good food.

Happy Bun for Sat Lunch

Sat morning, as usual spent at the hospital for my weekly doctor visit. Update on my preggy: the baby is as active as ever, constantly moving & twirling inside my stomach with a good steady heartbeat - which according to my Doc's sounds more like a boy heartbeat rather than a girl. Doctor's prediction from the size of her head, she weighted at about 2.8 - 3 Kilos. Her umbilical cord now looping twice around her body, thank god we already scheduled for a C-Section for next week. Nothing serious resulting from this though, the Doc half jokingly said that it’s a good sign that means the baby girl is going to be a beautiful baby and might perhaps became the future Putri Indonesia – there’s a myth if you were born with umbilical cord wrap around your body it means you’re going to grow as a beautiful lady, Amin!

Sleepy and starving, Me & R head for Senayan City for lunch afterwards. We were actually looking for Duck King cause I’m craving for La Mian noodle, but unfortunately they’re not open for business yet! So we settled in with Nan Xiang instead. It’s not exactly a new restaurant, they have an outlet in Hilton Apartment for quite sometime and my sister in law did a launching of her book there last year. The food they served on the buffet during the event was very nice, they had tasty Chinese fried rice, salted squid and braised veggies. So I’m quite optimistic about the restaurant.

The size of their outlet in Senayan City was quite small though, but the interior is good, sharp and bright with mirror on both side of the wall to give the impression that the restaurant is larger. I ordered La Mian with sliced beef whereas R ordered La Mian with minced beef and mushroom sauce, with extra deep fried mantau and chicken & prawn bun. La Mian is very yummy, the soup is very tasty and the beef is very mouthwatering. R minced beef and mushroom sauce look very yummy as well, the soup come in separate bowl though because the La Mian was covered with thick minced and mushroom sauce. This food is totally refreshing! Not much to comment on the deep fried mantau, needless to say it’s a mantau!

The chicken & prawn bun on the other hand is very yummy. You suppose to bite a little bit of its side and then inserted the sauce inside your bite hole along with a ginger. There’s a soup inside the bun that feel like a melting bliss on your tongue when you chew the bun. The sauce however has this funny smell, a typical rotten or fermentised chinese sauce smell with a very funny taste as well. Surprisingly, it works well with the bun.

Looking at the menu, there are many yummy dishes on board – but that day I was already aiming for La Mian. It will cost at about $15 to $20 to dine in for 2, depending on what you’re having. Seafood on the menu will definitely cost more! Btw, Lippobank card holder received 10% off discount for their bill - sweet!

A nice injection of a Jap food

Went to the hospital today for the weekly check up, the doctor was late so Me & R decided to go for lunch first while waiting for the doctor to arrive. We check out the restaurant raw along pertokoan PI in front of the hospital, there's this one particular Japanese restaurant that caught my eye, Kaja - The Real Japanese Dining. So we went inside to look at the menu ...

First impression, no Indonesian, only Japanese housewives inside ... so this restaurant must be pretty good. Second impression, nice ambience and decoration - sleek and stylish. And lastly ... Oyakodon on the menu? With Japanese chef? Yes yes ... I want some ... Im dying for a nice Japanese meal. So we were taken to our seat by the waitress.

When my Oyakodon rice bowl arrive, I am very pleased because it looks very yummy and not a slight of dissapointment coming from me. I love food with egg, that's why I really love Oyakodon but eversince I'm in Jakarta, I never find a nice decent one. It's a chicken shimmer in a broth with whisked egg and onion. The egg looks very yummy because its blended well with the chicken, all the yellow and white mixed together along with the onion. The rice bowl was sprinkled with red & julienned ginger pickle. When I had my first bite, the taste was as good as its presentation. The egg comes really soft with trickling broth and the chicken is so yummy. The Onion ... it doesnt leave any bad aftertaste and smell, I particularly dont like the smell of onion on my food during pregnancy. And the ginger pickle complete the taste. I am completely happy today, all because of a good nice lunch.

After the lunch ... went back to the hospital and waited for about another 1 and a half hour. Overall the baby condition is good, the herartbeat is excellent but mommy had a low blood pressure so my doc suggested me to eat more meat and lamb to increase the blood pressure. Plus the doc is givin me injection for today and the next 2 days. The dilema is they have to give the shot on my ass because they said it works more effectively. I have sore ass afterward and for the next 2 days.

The Pirates & Ikan Tude

Weekend was splendid... on Sat I went out with Mom and finally fulfilled my craving for a proper ikan tude. Not that I've never had one since the pregnancy, the street food near my office provide an ok rating of ikan tude. But the one in Restaurant Ikan Tude Manado in Jl. Blora is utterly delicious! This I can say because I was totally dissapointed with the ikan tude in Dabu Dabu - the sambal dabu & sambal itself are too sweet, and ikan tude in Beautika - too hot!

When the waitress first delivered our order I was taken aback by the serving size of the sambal dabu and the normal sambal, one whole meal plate! But the sambals were hipnotizing, we could not stop to reach for more eventhough we were sweating like hell and the hot flavour are really starting to bite the tongues. When we're finished, almost 2/3 of the sambals serving were gone... unbelivable!

After the chilli craze we went to Plaza Indonesia and Mom had a crazy episode of shopping in Zara and luckily I was saved by my big tummy. Nothing fit anyway and I thought it might be too long to actually wait for 6 months to wear sumtin I bought today. Nonetheless, C&K still makes me lemming for more shoes! I think I have an odd craving, shoes look more tempting than food during my pregnancy. So yeah people... I dont really have a food craving to die for. Partly because I knew most of my craving would be consisting of food that I used to love when I was in Melb. At the most, I can only get indomie rebus + telor and raspberry jam toast.

On Sun, me and hubby went to watch the Pirates of the Carribbean: Dead Man's Chest. As usual, Orlando Bloom was ... oh so charming! I love him as Legolas (luckily a trilogy, triple satisfaction!) and love him as Will Turner as well (yay my luck, another trilogy). Had dinner in Hanamasa where hubby went crazy and ate everything he can get his hands on! Me ... well since I cannot eat bbq, I'm stuck with the Shabu-shabu section!

It's a Girl!

Hari ini gue denger kabar gembira dari Mba Uni temen sekantor gue, kemaren siang dia akhirnya ngelahirin anak perempuan pertamanya yang udah ditunggu" selama 9 bulan. Walaupun pake acara sungsang segala tu anak, mungkin kebanyakkan diajakin jalan" kali yah selama di kantor sama Mba Un.

She said, and I quote her directly "It's amazing being a mom..." wah denger begini jadi deg"an plus nggak sabar nunggu lahiran bulan September nanti. Mudah"an nanti lahirannya lancar, amin!

Sekarang secara gue udah mau masuk (atau udah ya?) trimester ke tiga kayaknya perasaannya pegel" terus, dan persendian gue kayak mau putus semuanya ... apalagi kalo baru bangun tidur, berasa banget njarem disana sini. Kalau dikantor biasanya punggung gue nih yang suka berulah sakit" dan pegel", mungkin karena dikantor dari pagi sampe sore duduk terus kali yah? Yang paling ampuh, duduknya harus diganjel bantal kecil di punggung biar agak enakkan posisinya, tapi kayaknya sih sekarang harus cari bantal yang lebih gede nih!

Akhir" ini gue makin males ajah kemana" kalo wiken, paling kerjaan gue tidur dirumah sambil nonton DVD, biasanya serial Korea =) ... am feeling very content though with this simple ritual on the weekend. Trying to get the energy back for the next Mon to Fri work ritual. Trus ... dari hari kehari pipi gue tambah tembem aja!

This is me & my currently very chubby cheek