Food Review: Eng's dan Desa Bumbu

I saw alida's post, that she'd been not really often doing a culinary tour (wisata kuliner maksudnya :p).. Actually, I don't really want (or I really don't want) to write in English. Because it's so time consuming. But I know that I should get myself used to it if I want to work in MNC (not Multimedia Nusantara Citra) or continue my study in a foreign country. Huff, no pain no gain (except the one related with weight. If u get a pain (no eat), u will get less gain (the weight), hohohoho)


Eng's

I went to this resto after had a hair cut at the barbershop. The bude seniman recommended it, so we thought we might be should give it a try. The resto located in KH Ahmad Dahlan street, Kebayoran Baru (or the one near with it :p), and not so far away from Soto Kudus, Tomodachi, Dapur Coklat, et al.

The resto provides sundanese foods, like nasi timbel and nasi bakar. Actually, the food was just okay. Even we felt that the roast chicken was too mellifluous. The place was cozy, colorful, and palsy-walsy :). It's a nice place to have a light chit-chat or informal meeting. Moreover, it's not so crowded there. How about the price? Hmm, it's on a reasonable range within 15k to 30k per portion of food, and the beverages weren't pricey too.


When i wanted to go home, I saw the wall-of-fame. Umm, it's a whiteboard where famous people visiting the place could give their signature there. No, no, I didn't put a signature there, hohoho. crazy aja! :p. I just became curious that the place was being owned by actor Eeng S. Hmm, could be, could be.

Conclusion:
Nice place to have a break with a reasonably price, but not a good choice if you want to satisfy yourself with the foods.


Desa Bumbu

I went to this place last Sunday, with Bude Pendiam, her husband, and his "circus troupe". hoho.. The place located on Desa Cinagara, Likearth (Sukabumi), East West Java. Yeah, it's not really in Sukabumi, just the half way to it.

*aaargh, I want to use Bahasa.......*

There're 19 people w/4 cars went there. We departed from Kuningan at 830 and arrived before 1030.. The resto has a slogan 'nature resort', or something like that. pokoknya there's a 'resort' word in it lah.

Okay, starting from here, I will mix between bahasa and english to make it more fast and effecient-effective. because there're other things to do rather than just filling this blog. hueheheehe.. (coursing --> ngeles :p)

We were that day's first guests. There're still no other guests there. May be because we came too early (10.30!), and of course it's not a breakfast time and lunch time still quite long. When we arrived, we saw two buffalos being drove by their tamer. ahahaha, kewl.. (dasar anak kota, liat kebo aja seneng :p)

There're 2 saung (what's 'saung' in english? gazebo?) reserved by us, located in a pondside (di sisi empang :p). It is a fishing pond, because actually, the main goal we went there was to fishing.. hoho. we, the men, fished goldfishes. the ladies berleyeh-leyeh and mengurusi si cucu, huehehe..

in about an hour, we tried fishing. but, whether there're too little amount of fishes in the pond, or we were too amateur, the amount of fishes being caught was reaaaally small. it's soo boring and we became unexcited. then, we asked the waiter to put more fishes to the pond. and then the waiter added about 50kgs additional fishes.. hohohohoho.. after that, our life became happier and easier. :D

udah ah, bahasa Indonesia aja mulai sekarang..

Jadi, berhubung kita di situ lama.. dari jam 10 lewat sampe jam 3an, makanan yang dipesen pun jadinya cukup banyak. mulai dari combro, tahu goreng, es kelapa muda, es dawet.. trus pesen makan gurame bakar, gurame lemon, ayam bakar, cah kangkung, ikan asin, terong bakar balado, terus gurame goreng, tahu/tempe, dan kawan-kawan. (heh, banyak banget ya? pantesan gw juga sangat kenyang (lol) ).

rasa makanannya lumayanlah, walau ga oke2 amat. sepantaran sama dapur sunda gw rasa. eh, lebih enak dapur sunda lah yaa.. cuma ada satu pengalaman buruk. khan kita minta beberapa ikan yang berhasil dipancing untuk dimasak. nah, kita mintanya itu untuk dibakar, dan ga dikasih bumbu yang aneh2, cukup kasih garam dan bumbu lain seperlunya. Eh, dan itu bener2 diterjemahkan as it is: PAKE GARAM. jadi, tu ikan abis dibakar, dikasih garam banyak2 dan asinnya bukan main. bahkan garamnya ditaburin di atas ikan (kayak ngasih gula bubuk ke atas donat).. ugh..

Actually, sebenernya restoran itu ngejual 'tempat', karena restorannya emang berada di tengah-tengah sawah. Emang sih, sawah kecil gitu. yah, tapi boleh lah.. selain itu, ada beberapa danau kecil untuk tempat mancing. dan kami berhasil memancing 19.5 kilogram ikan.. hhohoho. balik2, ngebawa 3 kantong gede ikan mas hidup. :D

Selain itu, restoran tersebut juga menyediakan wisata alam buat anak2. Jadi, anak2 bisa mainan flying fox, climbing, terus metik sayuran, nanem padi, membajak sawah (actually, berupa naik bajak dengan dua kebo yg telah disebutkan sebelumnya), dsb. Tapi emang harus bayar lagi sih, sekitar 35rb/anak. Selain itu, bisa juga kita ke air terjun, cm emang rada jauh sih. Dan ada juga beberapa kegiatan sejenis. Katanya ada jg buat handicraft dan belajar angklung, but i didn't see that.

Untung saat itu cuaca ga gitu panas, jadi emang oke banget buat bersantai-santai. Tentang harga, gw ga begitu tau. Tapi sepertinya quite reasonable. Satu orang di bawah 50K.

dan ternyata, satu setengah jam dengerin nguing2 itu bikin pusing dan senewen -___-"


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