[F&B REVIEW] Gojira Ice Cream Bars, PIK

If you come to PIK areas quite often, then you would notice that the changes to a restaurant is happening so fast. Like, if one restaurant is closed then it doesn't really take too long until it opened a new one. This restaurant is quite a new one, called Gojira Ice Cream Bars. It's located right next to BC's Cone, ice cream's restaurant buddies huh. 

When I came here, it's not really full but people were keep coming, so I could sit there, talked with my friends and relaxed.This place is so cozy. There are also a lot of electrical sockets under every sofa, I sat on the sofa, but unfortunately it wasn't working. 

So, anyway, judging by it's name, of course this restaurant's speciality is ice cream. But they are not only selling ice cream of course, there are other foods like pizza and martabak. They also sell drinks like milkshake and coffee. 

Here are what I ordered. 

1. One Flavour Twist Ice Cream 

IDR 20k (not inc. tax)

Matcha and Black Sesame twisted 

Cheesecake and Blueberry twisted

Overall, Gojira have 6 flavours. There are matcha, black sesame, chocolate, plain, cheesecake, and blueberry. You could buy from one until four flavour. You could also buy with the twist option, just like what I bought. So even when you buy the one flavour like I did, you could still get 2 flavour that twisted. But you can't choose to twist any flavour, there are matcha with black sesame, chocolate with plain, and cheesecake with blueberry. You are allowed to choose from these option if you want to for the twist one. As always, you could choose either with cup or cone. The waitress said that they made the cone. 

Now let's get into the tasting. I honestly not satisfied. The taste were plain, I could barely taste the matcha and cheesecake. Even the black sesame doesn't taste strong. The blueberry one taste just like a candy that probably all of you have known. All of that not too sweet though but not too much to taste to be honest. These are soft served ice cream so it melted easily. 

I like the cone, it buttery and not too crunchy, probably because it already get along with the ice cream. With that price which is quite affordable, as we speak this is a restaurant in PIK, the portion is big. I felt so full after ate this.

2. Choco Mars Pizza
IDR 75k (not inc. tax)

Pizza as a dessert might be a common thing in other countries but it's quite rare to find one who sell them in Jakarta. About the name, when I first read it I thought there will be a chocolate Mars as a topping but nope, it's only a name. So this menu is what caught me the first time I was looking at the menu. 

It took quite some time until this menu was out. The pizza crust is the thin type and looked like it was cooked in a traditional pizza oven. The toppings are cheese, chocolate chips, small bits of Oreo, and marshmallow on the edges. No doubt, this looks absolutely attractive. 

Unfortunately, it didn't have the base sauce so it's super dry. When you cut it, the toppings were falling everywhere because it's dry so the toppings didn't stick to the crust. But the taste is pretty good. The marshmallow was't really melted either so it didn't stick to the edges crust. 

There are 8 slices so you could definitely share them and this only come in one size. One more thing, this would be best eaten while it's hot. If it's cold, it would be even more dry. 

Overall, the service was great, it's fast,the waitress are polite and kind. The place is very cozy. The pizza took quite a long time to be out. The price is very affordable with a very acceptable and worth the portion. BUT, they really need to improve the ice cream's taste. If they named their restaurant with ice cream bars, how could your ice cream isn't that great though. They also need a little bit improvement on the pizza but worth to visit for the pizza. 

P.S I don't know why the photos looked so bad, is it only me or what the hell is happened I have no idea so I'm really sorry...

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[F&B REVIEW] Itadakimasu Restaurant, Pantai Indah Kapuk (PIK)

This restaurant is located in Pantai Indah Kapuk. For some of you who are not familiar with PIK's area, this restaurant isn't located in the usual area which there are lots and lots of eating place like Sumoboo, Pungopang, Shirayuki, Shirokuma, BC's Cone, etc. This located in let's say it is a new area that I know that soon is going to be happening. 

Alright! Back to our business. I knew about this restaurant from eatandtreats's blog (of course and as always LOL). Maybe a lot of people get hooked with this restaurant by the super cute looking food. Well, gotta admit, it is super cute! 

The service was quite well. I went last Saturday at lunch time. The restaurant was full. Me and my friends had to be in the waiting list. But around 5 minutes later, we got our seat and it was on the second floor. The menu was already on the table so it is very efficient. There were a couple of waiters on the second floor so you don't have to go up and down if you want to order or if you want something. 

The restaurant itself has a very cute interior. There are a couple of, well it looks like, a painting of the restaurant's icon at the second floor. The painting become sort of a wallpaper. Even on the stairs they got this big painting on the wall. 

Here they are of what we ordered.

1. Starving Panda 

IDR 48k (not inc. tax)

Well, well, well. This is like the star of the show. I assumed that the one panda that it's head fell down in the curry as the symbol of hungry. Maybe some of you questioned, why is the presentation looks so bad. I gotta tell you guys, that is what coming to my table to be honest. 

Lemme tell you a story. As I said before, the restaurant was full and so did the 2nd floor. The table next to our table already had her food, it was also Starving Panda. Me and my friends took a glimpse of the food and we had high expectancy. But, the moment our food came, the expectancy gone far away. As you can see, the presentation is quite "dirty". What I meant by "dirty" is as you can see, the curry spilled on the panda and a couple spots again. 

The chicken katsu looks super pale, it's not golden brown. But! The table next to us who also ordered the same food, looked so perfect, it is golden brown, no spilled curry, clean presentation. Our plate was just some ordinary round plate, but her plate was the fish-shaped plate. Maybe they run out of plate but aren't you supposed to have a lot of plates and supposed to served the same dish with the same type of plate... I know I complain a lot but I feel disappointed tho. 

The potato and the carrot were not cooked well. It was still tough and the amount of it was too little compared to the whole food. Like you can count them with your fingers, especially the carrot. As the whole food, if you compared them, the amount of rice and chicken katsu is not balance. Maybe you only see the rice as 5 panda but it is actually A LOT because it is so compacted. The curry taste okay, nothing special. At the first bite, the pepper was going to kick you. 

2. Sweet Drugs Churros
IDR 35k

This is super unique. I haven't seen anything like this before. It comes with three sauce, nutella, green tea, and cheese. The nutella sauce was too runny and the nutella taste wasn't strong. The green tea sauce was too thick. The cheese sauce was okay so I prefer this one rather than the other two.

This is the nutella sauce. Look how runny it is. 

This is the green tea sauce. Look how thick it is. 

The thing is the churros was quite though. It was quite hard to eat it. To be honest, I am quite dissapointed. Too much quite in a paragraph I need to stop LOL! 

3. Ice Cream Sandwich Churros

IDR 30k

The churros in this dish was quite though too. The ice cream was not really sweet so it is a good thing. But the texture was quite flaky, and it melts as fast as the lightning HAHA. 

I think presentation is everything and become the secret weapon from this restaurant, so maybe they could work harder to keep up the same presentation even if the restaurant is full. While on the other side, they should also work on the taste as well. 

P.S I am not trying to make negatives impact on them. I wrote this honestly based on my experience when I was there. Hope this become an advice for them to help them improve. 

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[F&B REVIEW] MyCoffeegram on Instagram Review

So, this is gonna be a short review about a coffee treat that I bought last month. As you guys know that bazaar has been a thing lately in Jakarta and I think in Indonesia too. There must be at least one bazaar in a week somewhere in Jakarta. 

I was strolling around a bazaar in Senayan City Mall with my friend who was gonna buy some food. Then, we walked past this MyCoffeegram stall. The guy was so friendly and gave us some sample (well I actually asked tho). In the end I bought their Cafe Latte. If you guys go through their instagram page, you would see that a lot of Indonesia's entertainer have tried their product. 

IDR 20k

I know, I know this is not really a good photo because I didn't have any intention to write a blog post about this. But, why not right? This actually taste pretty good. It's just too sweet. Just way too sweet for me. And the price is quite expensive tho. IDR 20k only for a couple of gulp. Man.... But I do really like their bottle LOL! 

It's short right. I told ya.

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[MOVIE REVIEW] The Equalizer - Modern Version of Robin Hood in Other Form Too

The Equalizer (2014) - 7/10

You could be whatever you want, change your world

Well you can searched about this movie, the plot, the cast, the director, the budget, everything, on the internet so yeah let's get down into business!

What I see or feel weird about:

00:08:10 Chloe put down her left headset.

00:08:21 Well, the scene of Chloe moved to another angle and it shows that she was still using her left headset but her right headset that she supposed still using it wasn’t actually where it had to be.

00:10:51 + 00:10:58 Chloe’s bag or purse were put horizontally.

00:11:00 Her bag/purse’s position changed, it became vertically.

00:11:09 Her bag/purse’s position came back to horizontal.

00:19:32 Of course we knew the car was coming, it was so fast and obvious (not fast and furious tho LOL) maybe you guys should make it less obvious.

00:38:35 These are about the file consist of photos of the mafia that were killed by Denzel. On the first photo at the bottom, the whole eye were taken out but on the right photo, it was only a mark of the one-shot glass around the eye. I also think that you couldn’t pull of someone’s eye just by upon stabbing in a one-shot glass.

00:48:38 This scene is confusing. What is it for, I didn’t see any purpose about this scene.

00:57:10 Chloe (Jenny) looked fine, didn’t look like she was being robbed.

00:57:15 Thought he was gonna do something tho but in the end he let the robber go.

01:11:13 The different toilet trick was predictable and commonly used but in this film the director still pulled it off nicely, I could fell the intensity was rising up high.

01:32:00 This scene is so unpredictable! When Rob came to Nikolai and when he gave Nikolai the glasses with a stain of blood that belongs to the person who supposed to looking for Rob. If I might say this, that was smooth af LOL!

01:32:43 That fuckin’ laugh tho.

01:54:39 Excuse me, who’s the real boss? Nikolai or that man. How dare you order around your boss like that in the mafia world. Wow.

01:58:25 The scene of Denzel that looked like this movie’s poster was too long man! And too much of course.

Thoughts:

The opening was OK, a little bit interesting to see Denzel Washington’s character, named Robert McCall, is such a very warm guy and friendly at his work but very lonely when he’s home. This is classic but the director successfully made the contrast between those two conditions when Rob’s at home and when he’s at work. After that, when Chloe G. Moretz finally came out, I was in complete shock, she looks very different and looked deeply in her character but with a touch of Chloe’s. I don’t know, like every character that Chloe has played, she looks into the character deeply but with Chloe’s touch, like you could see a bit of her in the character.

I love, love, love the details and angle from this movie, it gave me a strong message what the director wanted to show. Example, those details at the first couple minutes, about Rob’s daily activity, details when the water out from the tap. The details when Teri (Chloe) got beaten up, the make-up made it looks so freaking real, thanks to the make-up artist I guess LOL. Also, the details when Rob went to Slavi’s office and killed all of them, and when Rob was fighting, they had those details about the estimated time, what to do, and what’s the results, kinda like Sherlock but with the estimated time. I think that was so cool.

There was the time before Nikolai sat with Rob, at the restaurant, Nikolai rejected his boss’s phone call. It surprised me because how could you reject your boss’s phone call especially in the mafia world, Russian mafia world to be exact. The other time when Nikolai’s henchman ordered him at the houseware store, I said it before on the timecode’s part, how could you ordered around your boss? This is totally new to me, and not a common thing to see in a mafia’s movie or other lookalike movie’s genre.

There was the time when Slavi was on the phone with Rob, and Slavi transferred the call from his henchman, who kidnapped Rob’s friend at the houseware store, to Rob, so he would come save his friends. That was some pretty cool stuff too. Those scenes when they were fighting at the houseware store, Rob’s workplace, that reminds me of Home Alone, this might be “Houseware Alone”.

I wasn’t happy and satisfy with the ending. Seems they rushed it, because the durations has been too long, so they made Rob killed the Nikolai’s boss easily in a very clean and smart way. But that was a cool ending because after he killed the boss, he went out from the bathroom,  he walked out and actually Rob have already killed the boss’s henchman. Addition, the song in the end is nice.

I feel like the end wasn’t really finished yet. After Rob killed the boss, someday he met Teri again, she became someone new, a better person. And….. yeah that’s it. The end. Anyway, how could Rob didn’t even get touch by the police after all he had done. Well I guess the duration has been too long for an action movie so that’s not necessary.

The story is mainstream, a lot of movies have stories like that too. But the differences are actors and angle and stuff like that. I love Denzel in this movie, he really truly deeply suits the character of a warm, loyal man, but a cold-blooded killer. He nailed it! So did Chloe (no explain needed tho).

This film’s angle, from where the director chose to shot the scenes, all of that was amazing, he succeed at giving the message. While you were watching, you can feel how intense it is, even tho the trick was commonly used at these kinds of movies. I just love how the director served his movie to us.

This is one of the must see film. It is very unpredictable too, the plot was amazing. It is very intense, but gotta admit the ending wasn’t quite satisfying for me. But overall, the ending wasn’t that bad, it really gives a message of who Rob really is, a man with a very kind heart who wants justice to a teenage girl who wasn’t supposed to be who she is at her age.

P.S this is my first movie review, I do really work hard on it, I do best as I can. Comment in the box down below what do you think and have you guys watched the movie? 

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[ANNOUNCEMENT] New Segment! M O V I E R E V I E W

Soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo, since I am a big fans of movie too I thought that I'm going to do a movie review too here. Since you know, watching movie is one of the many reasons that would make you fat, because you just sit in front of your laptop or TV, watching movie and probably the best other thing to do is eating (well guess who? yep that's me). 

I am such a big movie lovers (lovers...... alright...) yeah I am, and I even make a list of films that I've watched. Until now, there are 397 movies I've watched, so far as I remembered, for 20 years of my life. I don't know if it's a lot or not. 

Hope you guys will enjoy these reviews and don't forget to tell me what do you guys think about that movie that I reviewed, keep 'em coming. Oh! And btw, these will absolutely contains S P O I L E R ! :) 

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[REVIEW] The Cup Indonesia, Pantai Indah Kapuk (PIK)

Hiiiiiiiiiiiiiii! Geez, I finally working my a$$ again on this blog. I've been so so so lazy to write, I fell ashamed for myself. Anyway, I actually have been going to some new places, especially dessert house, for the past a couple of months. 

And I went to this restaurant called "The Cup". I knew about this restaurant because a foodblogger posted about it so I thought why don't I give it a try. I thought the restaurant is a dessert house, but actually they're not. They originally came from South Korea and they have main course too, that served in a cup that looked like a chinese food box in U.S. I didn't order it because I'm actually quite full. 

So, I ordered "Matcha Bingsu", Bingsu or bingsoo is actually a Korean shaved ice with some toppings. This dessert became come popular lately, as the K-pop started to invaded the world. LOL. 

"Matcha Bingsu"

 IDR 52k (inc. tax)

I must admit that the presentation of this dessert is mouthwatering, except their "slowly gone" logo on the board. The shaved ice are so soft, when I was eating it I don't feel like it's a shaved ice. The texture almost kinda like a cotton, and it's white while ice are usually uncolored, clear like water. I personally liked the ice because I didn't feel like I was eating an ice. As you can see, the toppings are almond, matcha powder, wafer, mochi, green tea ice cream, red beans, two sticks of Pocky and a drizzle of sweet condensed milk.

Start from the green tea ice cream, it taste wonderful, well actually it's the same taste you'll get everytime you go to dessert house that served greentea ice cream as a topping. I honestly didn't like the mochi, the flavor is bubble gum and I think it's not suitable and matching with the green tea flavor. 

The flavor and the smell of the matcha powder wasn't strong, it didn't give me a "matcha kick" (is this makes any sense LOL). The one that I bought from a cooking shop would still win over the matcha taste. 

As you can see, the portion is kinda big, could be for 2 persons. But, it didn't have any fillings inside (of course because it's a toppings) and the shaved ice is tasteless so I think you might wanna eat your toppings wisely lol. About the price, I think it's a bit pricey for just a bowl of dessert and to mention that they didn't give quite amount of toppings. 

Overall, truth be told, this is just some of the dessert that looks absolutely mouthwatering. Meanwhile the taste is so ordinary.

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Devina❤