One of the great pleasures of living in Jakarta is enjoying affordable massage and reflexology treatments. The best price I found with clean and nice facilities was at Nano Health Family. (There are . . .
JAKARTA EATS: Pork Tourism in North Jakarta
While we were based in Jakarta, TD coined the term "pork tourism", because when we were deprived of pork in mostly Muslim Jakarta, we realised how much we loved and ate pork. When we would go on . . .
JAKARTA EATS: Favorite Fastfood Burger
One of the things I'll miss in Jakarta is my favorite fast food burger, the Mozza Burger from A&W. Whenever I need a quick bite to eat (so not a chillax Jakartan!) and there is an A&W around, . . .
JAKARTA EATS: Chung Gi Wa Korean BBQ
Another Jakarta favorite of ours is Chung Gi Wa Korean BBQ restaurant. The ingredients are fresh and the quality of the food is amazing, especially for the price. This is also great for pork-lovers . . .
JAKARTA EATS: Kenganga Roast and Barbecue Pork
This is one of our favorite cheap places to eat pork in Jakarta. Again this is nothing posh, its a hole in the wall where you are literally using one hand to eat and another to swat flies off. But the . . .
JAKARTA EATS: Cheap Eats at Loobie Lobster
There is a new, super cheap lobster place on Jalan Gunawarman right beside Turkuaz that always has a line of customers on Mondays and Tuesdays. They have a promo where you get TWO lobster and . . .
JAKARTA EATS: Ramen Sanpachi 38
I've seen Ramen Sanpachi (or Ramen 38) around malls, but have never felt the urge to try it out, until our "local" guide Imman took us to the original branch Jakarta in the Blok M area. This place is . . .
JAKARTA EATS: Taco Local
I'm so happy that there is finally a place in Jakarta where I can get tacos that's delicious, not that expensive, serves alcholic beverages, and is not that traffic to go to. In a city wherein the two . . .
JAKARTA EATS: Anke Restaurant
TD and I like to fancy ourselves as pork tourists in Indonesia. Pork in restaurants in Jakarta (predominantly Muslim) is nowhere as common as in Manila. So wherever we go, we are always on the look . . .
JAKARTA EATS: D’Cost Seafood
We found out about D'Cost from one of the managers of Blue Elephant Thai Restaurant Jakarta. Any mention of "super cheap" + "seafood" and we are so there! A cheap seafood resto right under our . . .