Sunny Side Up

There are many new restaurant open at Central Park Mall recently. The latest one was Sunny Side Up. And they have the same offer as Zenbu, also the newly opened restaurant at this mall with 20% discount offer.

Sunny Side Up once was a restaurant that serve all about eggs. This concept was not running well. And recently they changed their concept to served Omurice as their main menu, and this quite working. For those who didn't know, Omurice is rice wrapped with omelette. With this renewed concept, slowly but sure they started to spread their wings by opening new branches at some shopping malls.

Salmon Cream Omurice (Half Cooked Eggs) - IDR 64K++

For your information, in here we can choose the eggs to be cooked well done or half cooked with different pricing. The half cooked one is slightly more expensive. The salmon cream omurice was their signature dishes according to the menu book. Taste wise it was just okay. The cream was fine and also the rice and the omelette.

Beef Demiglaze Omurice (Half Cooked Eggs) - IDR 52.5K++

This omurice was serve with brownie sauce and 3 pieces of beef balls. The brownie sauce taste sweet and sour and quite delicious. The beef balls also perfectly cooked. I prefer this menu rather than the cream salmon one.

What I experience during the promotional period was the serving time was too long at almost an hour for our food to be served from our order was taken. It seems that their resources was not ready for full capacity guess. Even, I saw a Chinese husband and wife who I suspect one of the owner was cooking at the kitchen as the chefs. It seems that family business was still strong in the management. Aside all of the messy serving, this restaurant was worth to visit not during the peak time when less people visiting this restaurant.

Food - 7/10
Cleanliness - 10/10
Service - 5/10
Ambience - 7/10
Price/Value - 6/10

Sunny Side Up
Central Park Mall
Lower Ground Floor (In front of iBox)
Jakarta Barat
Business Hours : Mon to Sun 10am-10pm

Zenbu: House of Mozaru

Zenbu has spread their wings by opening their new branch at Central Park Mall recently. Celebrating their opening, they offered 20% discount on all Food starting from October 1-11, which I think was an interesting offer. That's why I went to this restaurant 3 times during their promotional period. Basically, Zenbu offered almost complete range of Japanese food, from street food like Okonomiyaki until more premium ones. It ranging from Ramen, Udon, Teppanyaki, Katsu, Donburi, Yakimeshi, Omurice and also Sushi. Their signature menu was Mozaru which for me was more like Japanese baked rice.

Let's have a look at the dishes that I tried during the 3 visits.

Chicken Mozaru (Regular) - IDR 59K++

As I mentioned, Mozaru is like a Japanese baked rice, topped with melted mozzarella cheese.

I ordered Chicken Mozaru. Other than chicken, they have other type of Mozaru such as Beef, Mushroom, Seafood, Gindara, Salmon and the most expensive was Unagi. For the rice we can choose between Curry rice, Butter rice and Spaghetti. For the sauce, choose between Tomato, Butter and Dynamite. This time I choose Dynamite since the waiter recommend that as the most favourite. According to him, Dynamite sauce was spicy mayo. Taste wise, I kinda didn't like it. I think the baked rice at Hong Kong Cafe was more delicious. The taste was too ordinary.

Chicken Omurice - IDR 59K++

For those who didn't know, omurice is rice wrapped with omelette.

The choice of omurice in Zenbu ranging from Chicken, Beef, Salmon and Gindara. I choose chicken omurice. The chicken katsu was very well cooked and quite thick in size. The curry sauce was also perfectly seasoned and not to strong in terms of the smell, typical of Japanese curry. Comparing to the Mozaru, I prefer this omurice. We can choose the rice as well, whether it's Shoyu, Tomato or Curry.

Beef Teppanyaki - IDR 69K++

The third dish that I tried was the Beef Teppanyaki.

I was quite surprise with the serving size of the teppanyaki. I think it's enough for two person. Aside of the sliced beef, there was also vegetables, beansprout, corn and half cooked sunny side up served on the hot teppan. This tasted delicious. I choose the sweet sauce and it blended perfectly with the ingredients. Other choice of sauce was spicy sauce. We can have the rice and Miso soup as well for an additional of IDR 20K. Their signature teppanyaki was Wagyu beef teppanyaki.

Chicken Furai - IDR 35K++

For me this was just an ordinary chicken katsu with no special taste. The taste was similar to what Hokben has, but with bigger size. We can have an additional sunny side up for IDR 8K. The extra crunch on top of the katsu didn't help much.

Dynamite Roll Sushi - IDR 85K++

I ordered this fushion sushi because of the dynamite sauce as mentioned by the waiter.

There was also nothing special in the sushi. Inside the roll was unagi and some veggie topped with dynamite sauce. The sushi rice was too soft and too sticky to my liking. Taste wise it was okay.

As a restaurant which offered complete variety of Japanese food, Zenbu was worth to try if you want to have all kinds of Japanese in one place. What interesting was they also served Modanyaki, the less popular Japanese street food as compared to Okonomiyaki. It's more or less similar to Okonomiyaki, but instead of veggie filling, Modanyaki filling was noodle. As I mention, this restaurant are worth to try, at least once in your life.

Food - 7/10
Cleanliness - 10/10
Service - 8/10
Ambiance - 8/10
Price/Value - 7/10

Zenbu: House of Mozaru
Central Park Mall
Lower Ground Floor (Next to Bonchon)
Jakarta Barat
Business Hours : Mon to Sun 10am-10pm

Bakmi Lamlo

You just can’t deny the power of Instagram nowadays. I notice the presence of this noodle in Instagram posted by one of food blogger colleague. What makes me more curious to try was another posting by my cousin in law, Tity Henny, also in Instagram, saying that this noodle is her new favorite and she has it every week. First impression looking at the posted picture was this is Siantar Curly Noodle or Bakmi Kriting Siantar. I got it right when I visit this place last week that the noodle is particularly Medan specific noodle.

I visit their main branch at Fresh Market PIK. They have other branch at Muara Karang. They only serve 3 kinds of dishes: noodle, beehoon, and kwetiaw. Each has 2 varieties: Biasa (Original) and Komplit (Complete). To satisfy my curiosity I order the complete noodle instead of the original one.

The complete noodle consist of two pieces of pork meatball, two pieces of shrimp & pork swekiaw and one piece of hard boiled duck egg (Yes you heard me right, it’s duck egg, not chicken) cut into two. And then topped with diced chicken, minced pork, spring onions and crispy fried shallots. The pork meatball and the swekiaw was the difference with the original one which doesn’t have these two side dishes. When the dish was served in front of me, I directly know it will cost me much money just looking at the quality of the ingredients and its quantity. The pork meatball was having more meat than gluten. The swekiaw contains generous shrimp. And the other topping was also very generous in amount. Also not to forget the use of duck egg instead of chicken egg. I was not wrong, it cost me IDR 50K per bowl. Oh my, this was the most expensive non mall/café noodle that I ever had. But it was logical considering the above ingredients that I mentioned. Maybe it will be much cheaper if you just order the original one.

Taste wise, all I can say is the taste was a combination of the usual Siantar Curly Noodle that we usually have, and Bakmi Khek. For those who don’t know, Bakmi Khek is also one of the Medan noodles which located in Muara Karang in front of Sun Merry Bakery. The unique taste made it very delicious to my liking, maybe because this is something new for me. For the drink, I recommend Badak. This is sarsaparilla cola from Siantar. Other Medan restaurants usually serve this drink as well to their customers and becoming their unique identity. This cola was made by a heritage cola company in Siantar. It taste very refreshing. Badak will cost you IDR 10K per bottle.

If you ask will I be back, will be back someday to have this noodle again.

Food - 8/10

Cleanliness - 6/10

Service - 8/10

Ambiance - 7/10

Price/Value - 6/10

Bakmi Lamlo (Main Branch)

Fresh Market PIK No. 29-30

Jakarta Utara

+62-21-33081068

Business Hours : Mon to Sun 6.30am - 2pm

Other branch:

Muara Karang Blok D7 Timur No. 96

Jakarta Utara

+62-21-70231331

Business Hours : Mon to Sun 6.30am - 5pm