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01-24-20 12:37 #172
Posts: 107Jonisteak's wagyu steak is the one to eat
I find very few things appetizing in Indonesia. Jonisteak is my place to go when I am there; often I eat there every night.
I think most steaks are not the meat cut they are labeled. I had rib eye once and it tasted more like chuck steak. I eventually settled on the wagyu steak. I have doubts about whether it is actually wagyu (just seems too cheap to be); but at least the meat is pretty tender.
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01-16-20 04:29 #171
Posts: 3497Originally Posted by BananaBoi [View Original Post]
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01-15-20 00:46 #170
Posts: 2073I stayed near Classic, so all of the places I ate were in vicinity. But next time I would venture out further. Places I tried were:
Rumah Makan Medan Baru, Padang style, which is small plates, like tapas or dim sum.
Pondok Laguna, fish grilled to perfection, but grilled lobster not nearly as impressive.
Bakso Rusuk Samanhudi, 24 hour noodle place across street from classic, sometimes food tastes better than it when dining middle of the night, oxtail is cheap add-on and much better than the meatball.
Mie Alip, noodle place but seemed in between street vendor and sit down restaurant, definitely Chinese influence.
Wherever I travel, I prefer to eat at least 90 percent of my meals local cuisine. If there is a large immigrant community, then I will probably try that cuisine as well. So I will eat Mexican when in California, Indian or Polish in UK, Turkish when in Germany, or Georgian when in Kiev. If I am dining with someone else, then of course I will try to compromise. If I am staying an extended period like a month, I will also, of course, rotate cuisines.
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12-26-19 06:00 #169
Posts: 449Originally Posted by BananaBoi [View Original Post]
Will explore Jonisteak too.
Enjoy food. Regards.
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12-25-19 16:24 #168
Posts: 3497Originally Posted by NattyBumpo [View Original Post]
In my opinion, Duffys is not in the same category as Hooters. Hooters has hot scantily dressed girls, Duffy's does not. Duffys is more similar to Gators Dockside. I think Hooters in the USA has the best tasting chicken wings in the world. They may not have the most meat on the bone on their wings, but the taste is phenomenal. Duffys wings are similar to the wings at Gator's dockside as they both have very good and meaty, but those wings don't taste as good as the Hooters wings. Both Duffy's and Gators are overall better restaurants than Hooters for food, but not for girls. Then again, the girls are hotter at Twin Peaks, but I don't particularly care for the wings at Twin Peaks. Twin Peaks does have a pretty good cuban sandwich. The Tilted Kilt used to have hot girls as well, but they closed that in our area.
Brickhouse Tavern has hot girls and pretty good food as well. So does Bombshells. http://www.4bombshells.com/.
Hooters wings in Asia are terrible. I'm not sure why. But the hamburgers at the Hooters Nana are pretty good.
Hooters in Jakarta would have been smarter opening in a location other than where they did. But with the manager they sent to Jakarta, they were likely going to fail anyway. That Canadian guy was clueless.
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12-25-19 15:30 #167
Posts: 6342Originally Posted by Thampi62 [View Original Post]
The food at Jonisteak is generally decent. Eaten there many times after a session at Classic. Don't expect 5 star quality food keeping in mind most dishes at Jonisteak are $3 or $4 USD.
As for Hooters, food sucks in America so why would I ever eat at one in Asia.
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12-25-19 14:09 #166
Posts: 3040Originally Posted by Smoothy [View Original Post]
In America I don't give a shit. Hooters USA is just another very average chain brand Hamburger/Chicken Wings restaurant. I prefer Duffys in the same class.
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12-25-19 13:44 #165
Posts: 449Hooters in Pattaya
Originally Posted by Smoothy [View Original Post]
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12-25-19 13:41 #164
Posts: 449Joni Steak
Hi friends,
Any recommendation from the menu in Joni steak. Tenderloin steak is highlighted in menu. And seems to be cheap also.
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11-14-19 06:27 #163
Posts: 3497Hooters
The Hooters in Jakarta is going out of business. Such a shame. There was a lot of potential to make that place a success in Jakarta. But it was incompetently managed from day one, so I'm not surprised. When it first opened, it was completely packed, but they didn't have enough cooks so it took forever for the food to arrive. My first visit there it took 2 hours for my chicken wings to arrive to my table after I ordered them. It pissed everyone off to the point they never wanted to come back.
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10-20-19 07:59 #162
Posts: 175Jakarta JW Marriott dinner buffet
Hello, I paid 700,000 for 2 pax on a midweek night in July of this year, without any alcoholic beverage promo. There was no truly outstanding dish there, meat quality was barely decent, but eat all you can has value built in for hungry westerners.
This was a disappointment from legendary feasts from a decade past, but probably smarter from the corporate stake.
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10-20-19 06:58 #161
Posts: 175Grab food delivery via Grab app
Hello, grab food delivery was amazingly efficient in July of this year in Batam, North Jakarta and Bali. The choices I saw were from mostly chain restos / fast food, but the app ordering price was the same as the onsite menu price and the delivery "fee" was always a whopping 5000 rupiah, like 30 cents?
At about noon at Wendy's at Mangga Dua Square, the mall underneath Novotel, we saw close to a dozen Grab ojek drivers arriving to pick up orders.
5000 rp for delivery fee is obviously currently a loss leader without Grab getting some mass kickback from the resto making the food, but enjoy it while it lasts?
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10-20-19 06:28 #160
Posts: 489Originally Posted by Enzo2019 [View Original Post]
As an aside, the drive through Penjaringan to get there will illustrate to you, all the reasons why the new royal bar and cafe on the railway tracks nearby is cheap.
Hope that helps.
OS.
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10-16-19 09:46 #159
Posts: 35Gun Powder Kitchen and Bar Plaza Indonesia
Was in Gun Powder yesterday on a date and the food and staff were both excellent, highly recommended if you like Indian food with a slight modern twist.
I've yet to find any satisfactory sushi here, definitely spoiled from numerous trips to Japan. All the O-Toro seems to be previously frozen and none of the restaurants could get the rice right. I've had better pre-made sushi at Japanese supermarkets than all I've had in Jakarta thus far.
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10-15-19 16:54 #158
Posts: 150Indonesian food
Originally Posted by Smoothy [View Original Post]
This is not to say that I don't love Italian food in Indonesia. Italians are just as fond of garlic as Indonesians. Last summer there was a light panic when there was a danger of a shortfall in garlic imports.