HAVING STEAK FOR DINNER IN JAKARTA

    24TH FEBRUARY 2025    ~The dinner in Jakarta took place at Jonisteak, a steak restaurant recommended by by travel companion, Mr. Rosman.

The restaurant must be popular among locals as there dining area was jam packed with customers.

Good food at reasonable prices, you should also try the steak at Jonisteak when you are in Jakarta.

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SETTING FOOT INTO TONY ROMA'S FOR THE FIRST TIME

Finally, for the first time, I went into Tomy Roma's for a meal. Known for its classy and expensive food, I would think many times before deciding to get here. Luckily, someone was kind enough to share his voucher for winning a photography competition so here we were at KOMTAR JBCC for lunch.

I had lamb ribs steak which came together with a small bowl of coleslaw and three pieces of broccoli. The marinate sauce was a bit salty and the coleslaw was too sweet. I wonder if they were meant to be that way but I somehow still finished all the food on my plate.

Thanks Mr. Mohd. Solihin Ramli for the treat, and I don't know if there would be another chance to get back here in the future. Until we meet again in our next gastronomic adventure.

MY HOMETOWN GASTRONOMIC ADVENTURE: GOING WESTERN FOR DINNER, FOR ONCE

I was invited to join a group of colleagues (of SMK Dato' Jaafar) for dinner at Wadihana Steakhouse. Once in a blue moon, I got to eat (expensive) western food at an (expensive) western restaurant.

Wadihana Islamic Steakhouse was jam packed with people when we arrived at about 8:15 p.m. A table had already been booked before going or else we would not be able to find seats for dinner for four.

Basically this was a dinner gathering of four young people over good food, and chatting for a longer period of time which will be something quite impossible to do in school.

Everybody turned carnivores that evening and enjoyed the meat served on the table.

There was also a selection of tempting desserts on the shelves but they were all overpriced, in my opinion.

People were sitting beside us were celebrating someone's birthday, and Hello Kitty appeared to give a surprise to the celebrated guest. I was expecting they would share the birthday cake with us but that did not happen.

A packet of free coffee was given when one spent more than RM200 at the restaurant. We were lucky that two packets of coffee were sent to us, it could be our lucky evening.

We only found there was a pianist playing live before we went out.

THE VERDICT: the food was good and should be worth the money spent, and the company of friends/colleagues over scrumptious food made it even better.

THANKS Mr. Christopher Emmanuel Raj, who also happens to be my ex-student of SMKTUN, for your kind deed footing the bill for whatever reason you have and may God repay your kindness.