MY JOURNEY WITH KRAMAT DJATI

 On 15th September 2015, I went to Surabaya with this bus. Kramat Djati is the name of the bus company that quite famous in Indonesia. I knew this since I was in the younger years. Only with IDR 290.000/person for the ticket from Jakarta to Surabaya.

The problem now is the big bus like this is now allowed to passing through the city so we have to transit from Grogol terminal to Lebak Bulus on the South Jakarta using a transit bus but I wasn't go to that terminal but went directly to the pool of Kramat Djati on Kramat Jati Road on East Jakarta.

Cikopo Freeway Gate

On around 2.30 pm, The bus arrived at the pool and bring all passengers with it. The road in the city was hectic because of the police had a program to checking the papers of the drivers whose through the road near the pool.

Then we went to the newest freeway in the Java island, from Cikopo to Palimanan or in short we call it Cipali Freeway. because in quite new, the side of the the roads are just dirt and some trees. The freeway is quite long with some exits, we passed it around 2,5 hours till we reached Palimanan gate.

Palimanan Freeway Gate

The Freeway is very smooth without any holes on the road maybe because it's still new and the road is also not too packed because I went on weekday so it quite empty.

Not quite far from the Gate, we arrived at the food station site where we have our dinner and the dinner is included in the ticket's price. Even the food is not the best of them but it really stuffed our tummy since we can add rice and food as many as we want.

Back to the bus and we drove to Tuban city to take some break and I like this bus service so much, the drivers are great on handling the bus and not made too many hard turns or sudden breaks, not smoking or speak too loud and all the way I slept with smile.
I very recommended this bus company, maybe their buses are not the newest model but love how the driver manners and the bus is quite tough to brought on this quite far journey.

RUMAH MAKAN - SIAW A TJIAP GREEN VILLE

This restaurant is quite famous for those Chinese food lovers, I tried one in the Green Ville, Jelambar, West Jakarta. The restaurant placed on a 3 floors soho in an busy food business area here. As usual, the problem here is with the parking area, if you come here with a car, sometime you have to park quite distance from the restaurant since the parking slot is quite messy here.

The restaurant itself has 2 floors to serving their customers. I, luckily had table on the first floor so I don't need to climb that quite high stairs.The front door is made of glass so it transparent but some of it covered with sun blast sticker so we can't see the customers from outside. In the inside, the place is cool enough to comfort us during our dinner. They have a speaker that quite loud to call of a car's license number that need to be move because it blocked somebody's else car. For me, it quite annoying especially if we in the middle of our meal with dirty hands.

After we took a look on the menu book, we ordered some food. My favorite dish here is Paikut Asam Manis (Sweet and Sour Pork Ribs) the ribs is so tender and the seasonings are merged with the meat and the meat is easily peel of from the bone but i only get a portion because it's the last one and I can't get another one.

Fu Yung Hai (Chinese Style Omelet), I didn't recommend this dish since this taste like a thick dough and can't feel any meat in it, mostly dough, only the sauce is helping to added a little taste to it.

Gurami Tahu Tause, this is a fish dish, the gourami was fried tenderly that soaked in a gravy made of tofu and fermented nut called tause or taucho that taste a bit sour with unique after taste, commonly used in Asian dishes. The tofu is the best, so soft and tasty. The fish is quite tender but watch out of the bones.

Sapi Cah Pare (Beef sauteed with Pare). Pare is a vegetable with a bitter taste but contain plenty benefits like pressing cancer cells, clean blood etc. The pare here is not too bitter and helping levitated the beef with traditional Chinese seasoning.

Ngo Hiong. It's chinese sausage with miched pork and prawn rolled inside a beancurd skin then cut and deep-fried. It quite famous in every Chinese restaurant. This Ngo Hiong, is crunchy in the outside and tender inside. Delicious.

Mun Tahu is tofu cooked in gravy made with prawn or meat to adding the taste of the dish. The dish is enough for 2-4 persons if you choose the Medium size. The taste is so fresh and eat it while it hot because the texture will change if it cold.

I forgot to mention that most of the dish is come in 3 size, Small, for 2-3 persons, Medium for 3-4 persons and Large for 5-8 persons. So we can decide which dish in what size, with this method you will not waste the food.

After all the food is very tasty, I will try another dishes later when I revisited this restaurant.

Stay hungry, food loggers!! (jmz)