[F&B REVIEW] Sumoboo, Pantai Indah Kapuk

 

Although I live near PIK area, which is the heaven of foods. It's also the place where dessert shops like Sumoboo, Shirayuki, Shirakuma, etc. first started to become famous. But I haven't tried most of them for like after a year or maybe a few years after the trend started. Slowly, I'm catching up with those shops. I tried Sumoboo probably a few months ago to be honest. You know, college life is hard guys I've been so busy with a serious amount of project, homework, and exams #sigh. 

Alright! Enough for the excuses, now let's get into the business. I went there with my friends. We only ordered two dishes because we went there after our dinner so we are feeling quite full but still wanted something sweet. 

When I came there, it's packed but we could still get a seat. Even though it was kinda forced out. There are four of us but the table is very small, like literally small. The service is okay. I personally live the design, I will love everything that made from woods. 

We ordered their two most famous and probably favorite menus. Here are what we ordered.

1. BOO!! Matcha

IDR 30k (not inc. tax)

  

  At first we were about to order the strawberry one but it was sold out or not available I forgot. The shape of it is super cute. It forms some sort of a bear I supposed... This is the shaved-ice kind of dessert with ice cream, matcha sauce, pieces of strawberries, sweet condensed milk, and pieces of milo cereal. 

I love the ice cream. The dish tasted nice, not too sweet, which is very important. But, honestly speaking there is nothing really "wow" about this dish. The matcha flavor is not strong. The price is quite affordable and the portion is quite big too.

2.  Nutella Bomb + chocolate mountain + sliced almond

IDR 40k (not inc. tax)

This is really the bomb, the famous nutella bomb. There are two kinds of this dish. The one with only the mochi and this one that came with shaved-ice. Nutella bomb is basically a mochi with a nutella filling. The mochi is chewy, of course, a little bit over my chewiness level but still tolerable. When you bite into it, it breaks down and the nutella is overflowing, filling up your mouth. Yep, it's that delicious.

 The filling itself isn't came in a small amount in my opinion. The shaved-ice compliments the bomb very well. The sliced almond gave a nice crunchy texture to this dish. It's not too sweet either, which is good. The price is affordable too. If you are having a hard time finding this dish in their menu, they are at the Kakigori category, right under the BOO!! Kakigori.

Overall, Sumoboo is a good place if you are looking for sweets with a decent taste and an affordable prices. Their shop's interior is also nice and cozy. No wonder in all their branches, it's always so packed or there are even a waiting list for it.

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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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[REVIEW] Organicrush_id Almond Milk

I've been wanted to try this almond milk since last month I think. I was super curious about how would it taste, since you know, I was a bit obsessed about living a healthy life. There are also a lot of people saying that almond milk is good for your health and also good for your diet. 

So finally, I tried it when I went to Grand Indonesia. Why did I choose to buy it at their outlet? Because if you buy it online, there is a minimum which is 3 bottles, meanwhile it doesn't valid when you buy it at their store.

There are a lot of flavors, like Original, Matcha, Chocolate, Sweetened by Dates, and Coconut Cinnamon. There are two different types of size, the big one and the small one.

Oh, just to tell you that these almond milk didn't consist of sugar. 100% guaranteed.

I tried 3 different flavors, Original, Chocolate, and Matcha. 
IDR 30k for the small bottle (like I bought)
IDR 50k for the big bottle

To be honest, I don't like the original one. Maybe because it didn't suit my taste. Super plain, like what I've said that they didn't use any sugar. 

I love the chocolate one. It tasted like the usual chocolate milk. So maybe people will get used to this flavor more than the others. This is also their best sellers.

For the green tea one, the taste of the green tea is not too strong. As a green tea freak, it's too plain for me. But at least it's not as plain as the original one. 

Overall, you will find that the taste is a bit weird at the first sip. But after a few sip, you will find that it's not that bad and quite delicious and unique since it's almond milk ;) 

Like an old proverbs saying that, health is expensive and doesn't always feel good. This milk is a bit pricey tho, but I'm telling you, it's using a high quality material and it's pure almond so it's expensive and of course healthy! :)

If you don't like to just drink it, you can use it as a mix with cereal or with granola, use it to make your favorite smoothie and a lot of other creations that you can think of. Say yeay to healthy life! :)

P.S: they have some promo you can check it on their instagram that I linked below
P.S.S: they have such a cutie bottle (oh yeah!)

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Devina❤

Organic Crush

instagram: @organicrush_id 

[REVIEW] Green Tea Roll Rati-Rati

I actually visited Rati-Rati almost a month ago lol but yeah I finally get a chance to write a post about it now *a bit shy HAHAHA. If you want to go to this place, you have to search for it closely because the name's board is really small and the place from outside looks kinda dark.

This visit was unplanned. Me and my friend actually just wanted to go for a dinner but yeah, our tummy didn't agree LOL. Anyway, why did I only choose the green tea roll? Because after me and my friend had our dinner, we want some dessert but we can't eat a lot again, our tummy already full enough but we still want some sweet things so we chose Rati-Rati, and besides my friend wanted to buy it for take away. 

 Green Tea Roll Cake around IDR 38k inc. tax

When I was looking at the display, my eyes definitely went to green tea so we ordered that. Tbh, I had a high expectation about how it would taste, because people were talking about it and this restaurant is quite famous. But, in the end, it only felt enough satisfied.

The ice cream and crunchy was standard, nothing really special. You can choose the ice cream flavor, there are vanilla and chocolate, that's what I remembered LOL. The roll was perfectly made, it was soft and I liked that. But the problem is the taste of the green tea. It had the same taste with the green tea powder that I bought in a cooking store to make my green tea cookies. Perfectly the same! I was like, geezzzzz. 

But for you who never tasted that green tea powder, it was nice! Super nice I'm telling you, it really smells good makes you want to eat it ASAP. So does the taste, really really delicious, it had a strong taste of green tea. I would love it if I hadn't taste it before. 

The bomb part for me was the filling. They combined it, which I thought is a whipped cream, with red bean in it and it came out really good. I really really love it. Not too sweet, and just perfectly match <3

When you want to eat this, or any other flavor, I advice you to eat it with a bite of the roll + the filling don't forget, the ice cream and the crunchy! Parfait :)

Now, about the price it's kinda insane to set that price for only a roll cake. But, I think you won't regret it to give it a try! ;)

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Devina❤

[RECIPE] Green Tea Ice Cream (No Ice Cream Maker)

There are a lot of foods and drinks that you can make with the miraculous ingredient called "the green tea powder". You can make green tea latte, green tea ice cream, green tea cookies, green tea pudding, green tea pannacotta, green tea roll cake, mochi green tea, and other creation that you can think of. I made some of it and of course I'll post it later ;)

This miraculous ingredient is quite expensive. I bought it for IDR 30k for around 50 grams green tea powder if I'm not mistaken. I forgot to take a pict of it :( 

This time I made green tea ice cream. At first after I bought that powder I didn't really know what I was going to make and my dad was suggested to make ice cream, so i made it.

I'm a freak green tea lovers, yes yes yes. And I think that ice cream is the dish I like the most from green tea. I don't know why but everytime I am going to buy an ice cream, I usually buy the green tea flavor. I think I can't live without greentea desserts LOL.

I adapted the recipe from "Spoonful Blog" :) I put a little more of the matcha powder but didn't add more sugar so it's a bit bitter because a lot of matcha which I like it that way.

Result: 3/4 part filled of 20 x 20 cm container box

Ingredients: 

- 3 tablespoons green tea powder (matcha)

- 2/3 cup granulated sugar
- 3 egg yolks (room temperature) 
- 600 ml milk
- 500 ml heavy cream

How to make it:
1. In a small bow, mix the green tea powder with 2 tablespoons granulated sugar.

2. In a separate bowl, mix together the egg yolks and remaining sugar. In this step, you have to be careful because the egg yolk and the sugar might not be able to fused perfectly. 

3. Pour the milk into a small pan and gently heat taking care not to let it boil (ideally the temperature of the milk should be 176 degrees F) and stir it continuously. 

4. Remove the milk from the heat and mix a few spoonfuls of the warm milk with the green tea powder and sugar in a small bowl. When you have a smooth paste, add it to the remaining milk in the pan, then gradually combine with the egg yolk mixture.

4. Return mixture to the stove and heat slowly over low heat (taking care to not let the mixture boil), until the mixture coats the back of a spoon. Remove from the heat, strain through a fine sieve, and allow to cool completely.

5. Lightly whip the cream and then add it to the cold green tea-milk mixture.


6. Transfer the mixture to a large container and [chill for an hour or two in the refrigerator] and then put it in the freezer. 

7. As ice crystals start to form, remove, and mix well with a spoon (use a wooden spoon and stir very vigorously) to break them up and return the mixture to the freezer. 

8. Repeat this a few times as it freezes to ensure that the ice cream is smooth. This step is very important if you wanna have a perfect ice cream's texture. 

Poor me, I used cooking cream (I bought it wrongly, blame the shopkeeper because she said that it's the same with the cream that I used to buy ~.~ and I didn't really pay attention to the word "cooking cream" lol) and for the last step, I didn't do it like it used to be, I only stir it one time and it's already completely frozen. So the ice cream's texture is rough, not smooth and crystalized. 

It's just the different texture (which you can see from the the photo) from usual ice cream.  But, the taste is superrrrrrrrr delicious, and it really suits me well. I love it seriously, I just can't stop eat them everyday. 

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Devina❤