Family Lunch in Paradise (Inn)

Hello there!! January is almost end and I haven't post many things I ate this month.. hahaha..

January always mean so much to me because it's my birthday month!! :D

But yeah after so much things happened in last December, I feel this month isn't as good as before, and that's not the thing I wanna share in this post! :p

Last Friday my dad remind me that we haven't bought a birthday cake for me yet and on Sunday he asked me about what I wanna eat for lunch, then I said I'm not sure but I wanna go to Plaza Indonesia to buy myself a (super late) birthday cake.. hahahaha.. Then we went there and my dad said he wants to eat Chinese cuisine for lunch (as always).. After bought the cake, my dad seems fall for a quite small busy Chinese restaurant named Paradise Inn..

Interior decoration

Unique Dining Table Lamp

The place is really comfortable for me and they designed it like an authentic Chinese eatery.. I really love the interior decoration, especially the dining table lamp.. :) And another thins I like here is the cutlery set! Though I couldn't understand what's written in every cutlery, but I really like the design..

Unique Cutlery Set

Chinese Tea

White Rice

On that day, we ordered many dishes for 6 pax eating.. There are fish menu, vegetable, tofu, etc..

Sauteed Leather Jacket Fish in Black Bean Sauce

Hot Plate Tofu With Preserved Cai Xin

Poached Chinese Spinach with Egg Trio in Superior Stock

Sauteed Broccoli with Crystal Prawn

The Superior Crystal Prawn :9

Teochow Style Crisp-fried Prawn Roll

Stewed Pork Belly Served with Lotus Bun

 Overall the food has a really good taste, especially the sauteed fish though it's not their signature dish.. The stewed pork belly in lotus bun has a great taste too! I have to admit that the food is a little bit expensive but it's worth! They used high quality ingredients and so as the result, the taste is really great too.. :)

Yep! The next photo is my birthday cake.. Actually my birthday is on January 8th, but because my family member are so busy with their own business, we almost forgot to celebrate it untill my dad push me to.. :p Actually this is my first time to try this cake.. I've known this from one of Indonesian famous culinary journal website - food.detik.com .. The one we bought is All Chocolate (half kg).. We really enjoy it and what made us feel satisfied was the major ingridient they use, dark chocolate exactly! It's not too sweet for us yet the taste of chocolate was really melted in our mouth.. :9

Happy birthday to me!!

Sadness and Happiness in The End of 2012

Hi there! Haven't post anything within this month.. I could say that I had a very hard time this month but still as written in the post title, I also got another happy time..

First thing came up in this month is brokenheart, yeahh love problem and I broken up with my boy, no he's not my boy, he's my man.. As my friend said, walking all alone is easy but walking all alone after having someone to walk together would feel like you're abandoned by the world.. I feel really really really sad but I won't write down our problem here.. :) The second thing and the only happy thing happened this month is my dad's birthday.. Well I have to admit that lately I'm getting away from my dad, we got so many different thought about anyhting and it makes me feel like don't wanna come back home every weekend.. :'( He's also getting busier than before so we almost not meet each other for a month.. But then he came back home from his business trip right on his birthday so we have a family dinner on that night at Gandy Steak, HayamWuruk.

The Ceiling that always amazed me everytime I saw it

Favorite authentic butter bread as appetizer

Not much photos for this time.. This place always reminds me about my childhood.. This is the first steak I've eaten from my childhood and being my favourite one until now.. Even my mom tell me that when she was about giving birth of me, the thing she wanna ate is Gandy Steak's Beef Picatta and after she eaten it, I was born.. hahaha.. One of my favourite thing here is the butter bread, everytime we came we'll be served a fresh from the oven butter bread with a pack of butter.. Then, we always ordered Beef Picatta for our steak but that night I ordered Steak ala Gandy (sorry I didn't take the photo of the steak hehe).. The thing I love about this steak is the gravy, I couldn't find the same gravy as I have here.. Besides, they also served with mushroom and pickled onion :)

After that dinner my dad decided to buy a chocolate cake for himself but it's too late, the bakery was closed and he said he'll buy it the day after.. Why it must be a chocolate cake? Because that's the only cake he like.. hahahaha.. And oh, since we're chinese people, we usually celebrate birthday with eating noodles as a symbol of long life, so we eat it for lunch in the day after my dad's birthday.. Then, for dinner we went to Emporium Pluit because my dad change his mind and decided to buy mille crepes for his birthday cake.. :p
We went to Chef' Table by Din Tai Fung and we ate the typical chinese cuisine plus Xiao Long Bao dumplings..

Chinese Tea

Xiao Long Bao dumplings