Rumah Makan "Tegal" @ Semarang

Tegal is a City in Centra Java, but Teal terms here is a restaurant name in Semarang.

One restaurant that we always visit in Semarang is R.M Tegal (Rumah Makan Tegal), which is located in one of “Ruko or Rumah Toko” inside Thamrin Square – Semarang.

"Udang Kremes" & Shark BBQ

It is a Seafood Restaurant, but the interesting part is because it’s price is relatively cheap, and their “Srimping Goreng” dish, which is scallop – in Javanese language. It is a bit difficult to find this clams in Jakarta, we may found it Bandar Jakarta, but it is only seasonal.

We have “Welcome dinner” here with my parents, besides our favorite “Srimping Goreng” we order “BBQ Shark”, “Udang Kremes” (very crispy), “Tempe penyet”, “taoge ikan asin” and my wife favourite “Sayur asem”.

The Legendary "Srimping Goreng" & "Udang Mentega"

In overall, for Semarang scale, this place is recommendable! The food taste is OK, the place is clean, food delivery is fast enough, and off course the price is cheap.

"Pisang Penyet" @ Semawis

Last weekend we got opportunity to visit this recent people talked about this Semarang Icon Culinary festival, called Semawis or “Semarang Wisata”.

It is located in Semarang Chinatown Central, Jl. Gg. Warung Semarang, every Friday afternoon till end of Sunday, every week. Started by a group of Semarang’s “Hua Qiao” or Overseas Chinese people who lived in Semarang for many generations.

I do not want to discuss what is “Semawis” is, it’s to many blog or website since it may found in some internet websites:

Indonesian version in Wikipedia
About Semawis - English version

What I want to share here is one of my childhood favorite “grill banana” that I found yesterday there. Since it is very rare to get this kind of dish now, especially in Jakarta. It is made from grill banana, with Butter and Pineapple garnish, so it will give you very strong sweet and sour taste. It Is very nice!

Indeed we have dinner in this “hawker center like” place, we try to get some “typical” Semarang food such as Soto, Mie Titee -Which is traditional egg-noodle cooked in brown gravy with spinach and …………… Pig Leg!!!!

There’s also Semarang “Ca Kue” that a bit heavy compared with their similar “sibling” from medan, and more over, Semarang people like to have this salty traditional cake with a glass of coffee milk.

One thing that I miss is the famous Es Cong Lik (word came from “Kacung Cilik” or little boy), this is traditional “es puter” made from assorted seasonal fruits.

There’s several street store offering “pig dish” such as “pig satay” and “nasi campur” that is rice with various things of pork BBQ and many other things.

Nikon D60 First Try Out

 

I just got my new Nikon D60 DSLR few weeks and can’t wait to have it try, and yesterday the day has came, coincidence we went to “Taman Buah Mekar Sari” Cibubur after we fail to visit our primary target which is “rumah makan ibu Endah” that sells “masakan Betawi”. Perhaps next time, we will have another chance to try out her famous Gabus Pucung.

But at least, I can (finally) test my DSLR, and this is my first result, still using AF-S Nikkor DX VR 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6G Standard Lens. Not bad for the color result, but a bit difficult to exploit. Perhaps I should move to 18-200mm lense on the first chance!

Rumah Makan "Bu Entin" - Pandeglang, Encle

I know this place from searching on multiply.com when we would like to go to Ujung Kulon by Pandeglang, As far as I’m concern Pandeglang is a bit remote area and a bit difficult to get “good” meal. That’s why before we go there, I’d better have a peek on what Pandeglang may offer for “good” meal for us, then I found RM “Bu Entin”, one thing that make us curious is about the size of the dishes, all reference we got said that they have “super size satay”

So here we are, very easy to find this place since it is located on Main road between Pantai Carita to Pandeglang, on the left side of the road. It is a small place but very crowded, lot of car park in the front of it, so it is very easy to recognize the place.

There’s a large BBQ pit in front and always busy to grill their “super sized Otak-otak”, once you enter inside, you may find assorted raw BBQ from Fish, Prawn, Squid, Baby Squid and others that they put on several large tin bin, all of them are stuff on a large “bamboo satay stick” so you may call it “giant satay” They also have several “typical” sundanese dishes like Oncom and sayur asem.

After picking some “satay” we just sit on one of several tables there and waiting for the dish coming out, plus off-course “rice bakul” and “Sambal” that uniquely put on rice plate.

The dish is delicious, especially the squid and baby squid are so tender, but one thing that may not be to convenience is the place it self, it is to dark and not to clean. Perhaps next time we go there is to get the dish and take it out to have’em outdoor, well there’s lot of public beach that we may drop by to eat this “bizarre” dish anyway.