The weather might have been very uninviting for a Filipino at Kebayoran Baru Jakarta, but the food is exactly the opposite. At first, I thought I will be losing a good 2-3 lbs on my trip here. Why is that? Indonesian cuisine is a concoction of diverse regional differences of the more or less 6,000 islands. Their unique staple ingredients such as rice, peanut sauce , coconut milk and spices made all the difference. Big thing is that I despise all of these ingredient especially the spice/s! However to my surprise, the once was abhorred now well loved! That is why my wish to lose an ample weight is forever forgotten.
Day 1 of binge eating is at Warung Sunda. The restaurant spans an approximately 300-400 square meters lot area, with ample parking space and a good drop off point for customers (an advantage cause a simple 30-sec walk from parking lot to the inside of the resto will cause you to smell like he#@ because of the weather). Upon entering the place the beautiful interior will captivate your senses. The built-in fish ponds, that which houses well fed coys, beside the mezzanine-like-elevation-made-up-of-what-seems-to-be-nipa-and-lawanit material is very alluring. Mind you despite the bahay kubo feel of the interior, this place is fully air conditioned.
Interior Design aside, lets go straight to the food. We ordered quite a bunch of food from the vast array of authentic sudanese menu. First off, are the drinks, my hubby ordered an avocado juice with a tinge of chocolate in it and mine was their very own dalandan shake with honey. The taste was yummy and exceedingly new. We do have equally good tasting shakes at Dencio' s or Gery's Grill but these were really au courant to the tongue. Next off is the main course, we had a vegetable sauteed in their very own shirmp paste, the oxtail soup (similar to our very own sinigang na baboy) but with a real spicy zest, the fried tofu sudanese style and the Warung Sunda (a.k.a flying fish) not to mention the rice that was cooked in coconut milk. These were all exquisitely prepared and were all very well presented. What enraptured by taste buds were the wide selection of spices served with all the cuisine especially the sweet soy sauce and the ginger chili spices. I know I undeniably hate the taste of all these spices (as I have eaten in quite a few indonesian restos in Manila) but come my 7-day stay in Indonesia...I am eating back my words! I am a total convert now! The sweet soy sauce have been haunting my every settling at the dining table.
Now I am really eating up my words: Indonesian Food is but one of the best cuisine my tongue have ever landed on.
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