After more than 17 year of waiting, finally one of my favorite band, Dream Theater come to Jakarta. I’m coming to the concert with my college friends, Aguk and Yuyun, who are also long-time Dream Theater fans. Alas, there is poor arrangement of queue going into the concert stadium, so we have to wait for…
Category: Snapshots of Indonesia
Dawet, Perfect Dessert to Culinary Tour
While waiting outside the Orion Mandarijn cake store in Solo, I and Aya saw ‘Es Dawet’ seller and decided to try one. And It was great! What a perfect dessert to end our Solo culinary experience.
The Popular Pecel Solo
For our breakfast this morning, we went to ‘Pecel Solo’ the popular restaurant serving not only ‘sego pecel’ as its specialty, but alo several other popular javanese dishes such as ‘brongkos’, ‘garang asem’ or ‘rawon’. The unique setting of the restaurant complements the taste of culinary heritage.
‘Mbecak’ in Solo
Even though we have our rented car ready to take us go this morning, Rafif requested us to take the ‘Becak’ instead. And his request was justified, this traditional man-powered transportation is still a joy to ride.
Soto Seger Mbok Giyem
When you’re in Solo, there are so many culinary places you can try. From vintage to modern taste, featuring unique Javanese delicacies. We opted to the vintage one though, just like this one, the excellent ‘Soto Seger Mbok Giyem’. Very packed in weekend, do come early, as at lunch time, sometimes they’re sold out!