One of my favorite beverages in Bangkok besides the coffee is...coconut ice cream!
After walking around the city, the best thing that you can have is the coconut ice cream. 

Saigon is a paradise of street food. Your adventure to Saigon isn't complete until you try the street foods here. Throughout the morning until night there are always some  street food sellers in the footway. During my visit to Saigon I always buy some street food. I love to buy street food there. It's tasty and cheap. The price is about 20000-40000 VND. equivalent to US$1-2. Below is some street foods I've bought there.

I found this  near Ben Thanh bus station. In my country, we called it Onde-onde. But, imho, Banh Cam is crispier although it sill chewy. It was made from glutinous rice powder. Ban Cam at Ben Thanh is plain. No filling. But according to various sources can also be varied with different filling such as chocolate or nuts or mung beans

Well this is one of my favorite street food. Made from eggs mixed with fried  tapioca,  and then mixed together  with fish sauce and chili sauce. The taste is good and for moslem people, this street food is 100% halal! I found this food in the afternoon on a sidewalk not far from Notre Dame Cathedral area. With a short plastic chairs, I enjoy this snack accompanied by the smell of mire. Hmmm .... delicious!!!!!

Two snacks I have met in a sidewalk cart in the night between Ben Thanh Market and Pham Ngu Lao. That is Muc Chien Nuoc Mam and Muc Nung Nang. 

Muc Chien Nuoc Mam,  is fried calamari . It was savory spicy. But, at that time I was more interested in trying Muc Nang Nuong. What is it??? Hihi ... it's squid, marinated and then baked / roasted then sliced ​​(with a rolling pin.).  After that you could  eat them with chili sauce. Nice??? I say them: very delicious!!!

Made from Sugar Cane that has been pressed and mix with lemon and ice. Combined with hot Saigon's weather. Perfect!

When I decided to buy  ice milo on the way to Ben Tanh from War Remnants Museum, I   imagine that it would be an ordinary milo ice like in my country.   But I was wrong. Milo Ice in Saigon was really ice literally. Here is the recipee. Milo powder  mixed with a little water to make it liquid (perhaps less appropriately called liquid. Imagine just chocolate jam.).  After that, the seller put some ice cubes and .... voila!!!! Milo ice is ready to be enjoyed.

Actually there are many other street food that littered the roadside. There waffles (no ice cream of course) that can be purchased at the outside of central post office,   fried bananas, chicken satay with sesame seeds , durian sticky rice porridge, and many more. And the price is cheap. It's about US$ 1-2. 

So don't  forget to buy some street food while you were in Saigon...okay?

When I miss horlick, or canai, or even nasi lemak I usually come to this restaurant. Not a big or fancy resto, but when I'm here, I feel as if I'm not in Yogya. People who came here usually are Malay and Indian, besides Indonesian off course. 

Here, you can find Malaysian cuisine like nasi lemak, roti canai, and nasi tomat. But if you are not so into in Malaysian cuisine, you can have Tom Yam, Fried Rice,Fried Noodle,  Soup, even chinesse food like Fu Yung Hai. 

Or maybe you just only want to have some snacks.That's okay. You can order french fries or pisang bakar (grilled banana with chocolate topping and cheese)

My recommended menu are: Nasi Lemak ikan sotong with es sirup cincau

This restaurant is located at Jalan Kaliurang, on the north of Dunkin Donuts. It's easy to reach. Open daily from 8 am till midnight.

And what about the price? Don't worry....it's very afordable. The price of Nasi Lemak is about Rp. 12.000-15.000. One glass of tea o ice is about Rp 3000 *cmiiw*.

So...when you are in Yogya and dying for Malaysian cuisine.....you can go to Rempah Asia...

Besides kepiting lada hitam, you can have other like  grilled fish with chili or plain, fish cooked with yellow sauce or people here call it woku, prawn, squid, etc. You could combine your seafood with vegetables like ca kangkung or ca bunga daun pepaya.

When you here for your lunch, you could enjoy the scenery of pacific ocean. Yes!! This restaurant is lay upon the sea.....

Tired of eating seafood all day?? You can try Raja Sate Restaurant for having another choice for your dinner or your lunch. Located at Manado Boulevard, this restaurant is sooooo cozy. 

Serving a lot kind of food like sate, manado local cuisine, and european food, this place is worth it to try.

At last visit I ordered rica roa with sate udang rica - prawn grilled with chili- and it's so yummy!!! Sate ayam - chicken satay- is really good too!! 

Prawn satay with chili

Ice cream lovers...please note this!! If you go to Indonesia and visit Semarang - the capital of central Java - you must come to this place...Toko Oen a.ka Oen's Restaurant. Here you can eat the most delicious ice cream in Semarang. The old-fashioned taste of ice cream is really yummy....!!! Besides in Semarang, Toko Oen also can find in Malang (east Java).
Located at Jalan Pemuda, Semarang, this restaurant is easy to reach and recognize-just find the restaurant with colonial building.



And they serve..
Off course ice cream.... Ice cream with old-fashioned taste. Just try sony boy or mocca nougatine-ice cream with mocca flavor serving with nuts... It's my favorite.
If you don't want ice cream, you can have european food like steak and salad or chinnesse food like noodle, or indonesian food.
Or...you decide to have some snacks??? Here you can try croquette or sandwiches. The croquette is delicious.

My favorite ice cream in Spore. This is called es potong. A thick ice cream covering with bread. Only S$1, but it's enough for becoming your lunch..

It has variety flavor. Chocolate, strawberry, mango, corn, chocomint, red bean. If you don't want eat with bread, you can eat with cone.

You can easily find it along Orchard Road, at Merlion area or at Boat Quay or Bugis Street. The seller usually use bike or motor bike.

Even it's cheap...but all the sellers have a certificate...umm..maybe just like a permit. And...don't worry about the hygiene. The seller always use a plastic gloves during cutting the ice or receive the money...so there is no contact between the food and the money or his own hand.
The other rule if you want to buy es potong is...don't bargain!

Who doesn't love chocolate?? I guess most of people love chocolate. Now...for chocolate lovers, if you visit Yogya, you can find the most delicious chocolate-100% produced from Indonesian cocoa- that is...Coklat Monggo. The owner of Coklat Monggo is a belgian chocolatier who lived in Yogyakarta.

Located at Kotagede, Jl Dalem KG III/978, you can find the outlet easily. Just go to the Kotagede traditional market (Pasar Kotagede) then just ask people there about the direction to Coklat Monggo outlet.


The chocolate itself made from dark chocolate and milk free...so for people with lactosa allergic..this chocolate is 'friendly' for you. The taste is really good....!! Slightly bitter but my 4 years old son loves it so much. They have praline, caramel, strawberry, dark chocolate, and ginger flavor.
Actually...you also can find Coklat Monggo products at Mirota Batik, Circle K, and supermarkets. But...if we buy at the outlet we can see 'the chocolate kitchen' from the store.
And the cozy outlet..I'm sure you won't mind if you have to stay longer there, eating chocolate and have a chit chat with your friends.

























If you buy Coklat Monggo from the outlet, I give you one tip. The cashier sometimes make a mistake on giving the change. So you have to count back the change before you leave the store.

HAPPY CHOCOLATE SHOPPING!!!

Wedang Secang: secang tea-mixed with cinnamon, ginger, etc.

Have you ever heard "nasi kucing"? In Yogya, this is very popular. Nasi Kucing is a rice with oseng tempe , or sambel teri as a dishes and usually served wrapped in paper. This kind of food can be categorized as hawker food so it usually sell at stalls.
Nowadays in Yogya, 'nasi kucing' can be found at the restaurant. House of Raminten-located in Jl. FM Noto 7 Kotabaru Yogya- brings the 'angkringan' concept into a restaurant.
This restaurant is.unique. You could feel the java atmosphere here from the first time you walked into this restaurant. I could smell the aroma of the myrrh. The waiters and the waitress were wearing a javanese traditional clothes. The waitress wearing the 'kemben' and the waiters wearing a 'jarit' with black vest and white shirt.

What about the dishes? Like i said in previous, this restaurant brings the angkringan concept so usually many people chose nasi kucing for the dishes and completed by sate or other side dishes..But, if you don't want it, you can choose other dishes such as noodles, fried rice, soto, fried chicken, bubur ayam (chicken porridge) or you just can choose the snacks.