Not paying much attention today, got a few bottles of Anker to drink out front on this magnificently hot arvo. Also have Indonesia Expat to read, picked up on my dawdle around town yesterday.
- I took a brief nostalgic detour round Jaksa, a scene of dereliction, the Obama Bar seemingly defunct (or has it moved?) and Romance Cafe sinking into a ruinous state, a sad loss still, after four years or is it more?
I only went to Jaksa to exchange some books, but Ning’s little store was closed for the holiday.
So off to Ya Udah, quieter than usual, where a couple of reasonably priced Bintangs accompanied me for the hour or so I spent there.
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Ya Udah
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- ooooooooooooooooooo
- …but also burst out laughing at some of the ads.
There was one depicting some blonde bint hovering by a sink in a posh restroom, in a dress which was obviously designed for easy access to body-parts not allowed on our tv by the Indonesian censors.
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- The said bog was way too fancy to be that more or less uni-sex facility in D’s Place on Jl. Falatehan, but she could do well there.
What was it advertising?
Posh taps!
Seriously! Who advertises taps?
a tap’s a tap, for pity’s sake’
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Presumably the guy who masquerades as the ‘Clandestine Critic.’
He actually writes amusingly of the joints he goes to, but although I had a chortle or two at his put-downs of the standard of service and the food, do he and I live in the same city?
His reported bill for two people was over a MILLION RUPIAH!
I pay about Rp.15000 for a very tasty and filling meal in my warteg.
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- Maybe if I wanted to impress some hoity-toity slapper encountered in the Mo Bar Ladies’ Night, I would stretch to Ya Udah, but c’mon, a HUNDRED dollars plus-plus to capture her heart?
In a city where many people get by on a monthly income less than he paid for his dinner?
Having said that, his comments on fish and chips held my attention for seconds and seconds. Rp.140,000? That’s twice what I paid for PROPER fish n chips in Sydney.
He moans about how the pub concept ought to be tried seriously in snobby Kemang, but how about the chipper concept?
Real fish n chips is HARD to get here.
A lot of Indonesians think chips should appear (and taste) like fries, as Yanks call them.
If some guy or gal opened a REAL chipper – not in Kemang, please; it’s such an isolated kampung due to the terrible traffic – maybe in Blok M or Kota – it could be a gold-mine!
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And Indonesia has not been lumbered with the moronic hang-ups afflicting the UK, where it’s now forbidden by health nazis to wrap the food of the gods in old news-papers…
Like I say, Ankers away today…I’ll resume this tomorrow!
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JazPen, 
Sendi, and 
Vidawati are discussing. 
Sin-Bad are discussing. 
rossrightangle 
Vidawati 11:39 on July 7, 2019 Permalink |
I never had this good food till I went to eat with my foreign friends.
It is very delicious.
Sorry, Ross but I think they got it in abroad.
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Sendi 14:05 on July 7, 2019 Permalink |
Oh yes, I had it in Singapore and I love it.
You know already, it is on menus in the big hotels and some restos in Kuningan.
B.I.Y. is a problem. I do not know where you can buy it yourself but I will look and if I see then I will tell you.
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JazPen 20:46 on July 7, 2019 Permalink |
Somebody, I thought it was you, told me that McGettigans in Kuningan had a chef who did excellent stuffing.
I know you told us you once made your own but if that was too much like hard work and you want to get the packeted stuff, have you tried Kemchicks in Kemang?
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