[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] 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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[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❤