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Friday, May 23rd, 2008
My family and I have never fancy All-you-can-eat type of restaurant, except my brother. Merely because we don’t eat so much. But yesterday my dad just came back from Jakarta and wanted to have a chat with his friend, so we headed off to Hanamasa restaurant since Mom didn’t cook.
Hanamasa restaurant has been in the town for 7 years (since 2001) and this was my first time dining there. Told you I didn’t eat that much. It is so rugi (such a loss) to bring me eating at all-you-can-eat restaurant. But if you insisted wanna treat me, I don’t mind. 
The place is not so crowded yesterday. Only a few tables were filled. Oh well, weekday.
It is a so-called Japanese restaurant, all you can eat type with self service. There is Yakiniku (grilled meat) and Syabu-Syabu (steamboat). A friend to Seoul Garden. The location is at K.H. Zainul Arifin road No. 199, not far from Sun Plaza and opposite the Cambridge condominium.
Let’s start from appetizer section. Er, I’m not a fans of salad so I’ll pass this one.
Picture was taken after 8.30pm, hence the meat was almost finished.
This is part of yakiniku section. I’ll pass this one too cause I don’t eat beef. 
The other part is non beef, i.e. chicken, squid, prawn, fish, etc.
The shabu - shabu section.
This the Robatanyaki section where we pick the menu and the chef will grill for us. The waitress will deliver it to our table.
Now, grilling / bbq part. I prefer Seoul Garden’s grill pot than this one. Seems to be safer without the holes.
Not to forget the steamboat.
Excessive amount of seafood consumption will result in a I-had-more-than-enough situation.
To cure this jelak (sick) feeling, let’s eat some dessert. If don’t want fruits, there is pudding.
If not, we can make an es campur (mixed ice) ourselves.
We grill, we eat and tend to forget about grill-in-progress meat. Resulting in a gosong (burnt) pot.
Now, bill time. For adult, all you can EAT and DRINK (soft drinks) is at IDR.76.500, excluded 10% tax. After tax, it is IDR.84.150 per person. Cheaper than Seoul Garden. But menu wise, Seoul Garden has more varieties than Hanamasa.
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Saturday, April 26th, 2008
I had Khek Lang mie (at Asia Mega Mas complex) for my breakfast this morning.
Since there was black out from 8.30am until 3pm (6 hours plus), we cannot cook rice. As an alternative, mum cooked bihun soup for lunch.
Dinner time, mum cooks char kuey teow.
I had mie, bihun, and kuey teow in the same day but no rice. Feel like something is missing. :S
Sunday, April 20th, 2008
My brother has fallen in love with Seoul Garden ever since we had a dinner there. It was on last Chinese New Year eve when we had the trip to KL and Melaka. Most of the Chinese stalls and restaurants were closed and Seoul Garden in Mahkota Parade (opposite the Dataran Pahlawan) was the best choice at that time.
The buffet cost us RM23.99 per person and the free flow drink was at RM3.99. Add in 5% and 10% tax. That would be RM32 per person. Not cheap at all, but again it’s a buffet, all you can eat. We have Seoul Garden too in Medan, where else if not at Sun Plaza. The price after tax is around IDR.100.000.
My brother once asked his friends to have a lunch at Seoul Garden. One of them said,”My dad produce paper one (read: printing shop). Not money.” It seems to be quite hard for secondary students to spend IDR.100.000 on a lunch.
Anyway, recently Seoul Garden came out with new promo, lunch set on weekday (from 11am to 5pm) at around IDR.34.000++ (I forget the exact amount). Sounds so tempting~!
Saturday, March 29th, 2008
Four years since my grandpa passed away. I never paid a visit to his ‘house’ since then. I didn’t come back too for the funeral due to the college schedule. It was in semester 1. I do feel bad for that.
The place is somewhere in Tanjung Morawa, 45 minutes from Medan through the one and only toll in Medan. It was extremely hot.
After that, we went for lunch at a restaurant near Pantai Cermin. Twenty one years of living in Medan, I never step my feet to Pantai Cermin. -___-” Well, this afternoon we were just went there to eat. I couldn’t even see the beach. Bleh.
The place itself was not bad. But it was so hot, we ate until sweating. The seafood is yummylicious. Grill fish, prawn, black pepper crab, etc. The boyfriend should love it. Next time, don’t worry.
Everything was great except for this. The flies. They were still around eventhough we had light the candles. So the hand is not only busy eating but also chasing away the flies. So busy..
Anyway, during the way back home, my dad was wondering, 10 years later we will be the one who drive and they will be sitting at the back relaxing. Wonder whether my bro and I will be pushing the responsibility of fetching mum and dad. Maybe my bro will push them to follow my car or the opposite way. Muahaha. I can’t imagine that.
Wednesday, March 19th, 2008
I’m usually very lazy to go out eat when I am alone. I hate walk and sit alone while waiting for the food to come and also eat alone. But this stomach keeps calling me, I have to stuff in some foods to make it quiet. The only option left is to cook myself. Besides instant noodle, I found that fried rice is the easiest meal to cook. It will make me full too unlike instant noodle with promotional products.
The preparation is easy. While the rice is being cooked, take out the meat and vege that you wanna put in. For me, the more the merrier. That’s why I have cabbage, cuttlefish ball, sausage and ikan bilis. All were chopped into pieces. I hate seeing big size thing. So ma fan I am.
When the rice is ready, you can start cooking already. Start with the onion, follow by the meat and vege, Maggi fried rice paste, and rice. Cha here Cha there. It’s ready~! I have rice, meat and vege in a plate.
Hmm.. My masterpiece. It tastes so good.
Monday, November 12th, 2007
Medan is well known for the foods. When the Malaysian friends asked me what were the interesting places to visit in Medan, my immediate answer was ‘the makan-ing places’. No doubt, Medan is one of the culinary towns in Indonesia. More and more eating place is born, from the road side one to the restaurant. I decided to blog about the makan-ing place from now on. 
Let’s start it with this seafood restaurant located at Petisah area, Golden Garden.
The place is quite huge. It was said to be able to accommodate 60 tables for special occasion such as birthday or wedding dinner. Part of it was covered with tent and some part wasn’t. It also has playground for the kids.
We can pick the type of fish, crab, prawn, etc by ourselves with the staffs’ help of course. Everything’s fresh.
The prawns’ size go from the small one to the big one, with the length of - about half of my arm. Whew!
There was so many menus and we decided to ask the staff to recommend some of their best. We waited for a while and the dishes were served one by one. First one, tofu with Abalone sauce. It’s so smooth and soft like the rounded shape Japan tofu. Like it.
Everyday is a chicken day. The next dish is Chicken Mango. So crispy and sour too.
Next one, Grill Fish. So yummy plus the sauce.
It’s a seafood restaurant, so prawn should be on the table. This Nestum Prawn is great.
The last dish is ‘Terung/terong’. It was cooked until so crispy that I didn’t even realize that it is a ‘terong’.
I was so full and satisfied with the food, the place, and the service. Time to pay for the bill. Total Rp.180.000++. Well, 5 dishes for 4 persons, it’s reasonable. The expensive one is the grill fish, Rp.85.000. They have a discount for this particular credit cards holder; BCA, BII and one more bank I can’t recall the name. Afterall, this place is great and it’s worth a second visit.
Sunday, December 10th, 2006
Here I am proudly present Mi goreng Kriuuk.. 8x Rasa pedas ‘imported’ from Indonesia. Ah well, I brought it from Indo last time I back. It’s the last pack for this flavor. Oh..
So many things, looks like those in Mie Sedap. The kriukk one is bawang goreng sth like that and the rest is just like normal seasoning.
All the seasoning mix together. The color does tell the spicy. So, as someone who like spicy food but can’t tahan the spicy, I didn’t put all of the spicy seasoning. The big red things is the Kriuukk one. Plus my ‘Get Rich’ chopstick. Luv it luv it.
Ta da! Indomie Seleraku….. I gotta find a place that sells Indomie and stuffs to stock at home. Out of stock soon. Oh…
See this? Don’t play play oh! It’s enriched with Vitamin A, B1, B6, B12, Niasin, Asam Folat and Iron! Wah.. Instant Noodle also got this kind of thing huh? Plus Ovaltine which got like 20sth Vitamins and Minerals… Hmm… Perfect combination!
Ovaltine (powder pack) with milk. I luv this one better than Ovaltine 3in1. Thinking of changing from Milo to Ovaltine. Hm.. Like the dark chocolate color too. Best served with crackers! Dibuka.. Dijilat.. terus dicelupin.. Ah ya, now old blogger can change to the new beta version already which log in using gmail account and better interface and function. Finally…<div
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