Wandering Fel

Jakarta Eats: Chicken Wings and Lychee Beer at Pizza e Birra, Central Park

Before I know it, holiday is nearly over. I'm flying back to Taipei tomorrow. Gasp! Time still flies in 2014. This afternoon, my high school dear friend treated me for lunch. Woot!

Commuting in Jakarta sucks. So we chose the most conveniently-located mall in between our houses. As usual, here we come, Central Park.

We feel like drinking beer so we chose Pizza e Birra as our lunch venue.

The restaurant is quite spacious and it's still decked in Christmas decorations. I suppose 4th January is still considered Christmassy? Hehe.

We ordered chicken wings (which taste quite good).

Chicken Wings Pizza e BIrra Central Park

Something that looks like peperoni pizza (I forgot how they call this dish in the menu. Sorry!! U_U). The pizza taste okay though. So-so level.

And beer!!! Pizza e Birra serves fruit beer and I really like its lychee beer. Hmm~~~ beer~~~ (I feel like Homer Simpson now.)

My dear friend gave me a Christmas gift. Oh my. She should not have. Now she made me feel bad for not preparing any presents. Oops.

Thanks so much dear friend! ^^

Note: Pizza e Birra has a few branches in Jakarta. If you guys are interested in trying the food (and its fruit beer), do visit its website -> https://www.facebook.com/pizzaebirra

Buhbyee holidays...boohoohoo.

Old Family Restaurant in Semarang, Toko Oen

How's everyone's NY celebration going on? Did you have fun? Did you just spend the whole day sleeping? No worries, we all deserve to spend NY day however we like it.

Prior to new year, I went to Semarang with my family for a culinary trip. And my mum suggested to go to a old family restaurant called Toko Oen. It's located at Jalan Pemuda no 52.

In the beginning of the business, the restaurant was merely a cookies store. Later on, an ice cream parlour and now, a restaurant. The taste of the food was based on the Dutch, Indonesian and Chinese tastes and cuisines. The restaurant is still operated by the direct descendants of the founders. Awesome, eh?

Since the restaurant is famous for the cakes, cookies and ice cream, we immediately ordered the heart-shaped pancake. Taste yummy.

If you don't know which flavor of the ice cream you want to try, you can opt for the 5-ice-cream-sundae. I'm such a glutton, I know. But this taste awesome!

My mum ordered tutti frutti ice cream because apparently it reminded her of her dating life with my dad in the past.

The cookies display looks very tempting.

And yes, you can try the cookies before buying. Awww, I love this kind of store.

Decided to buy this cookies because of its unique taste, cinnamon-ish.

I heard the place serves an awesome Chicken Cordon Bleu too. Oh well, maybe next time. We need more than one stomach whenever we visit Semarang. Hahaha.

Hello 2014, New Year resolutions anyone?

I could not believe that 2013 has just passed. To me, it seems just yesterday I was so excited to start my journey to study Mandarin in Taiwan. And suddenly, it's already 2014!! Oh wow. As the year has gone in a lightning mode, I did not really think of any resolution for 2014. I guess, I'm just lazy. LOL.

But I do have a few expectations and determination to be a better person in 2014. After all, life without some kind of dreams and challenges are boring, am I right?

1. Be grateful for little things

I realized I can be a grumpy for simple things. Haizz, I did forget that some things that I don't really appreciate may be precious things to others. Men are not perfect but I hope I can change this attitude of mine. =)

2. Focusing my energy on those who/ which really matters

Time is so precious and I hate it the most when I wasted my energy doing something for those people who don't really appreciate my effort or useless stuff (fyi, exercise is not one of them even though I can still see my fats on certain parts of my body. Bummer I know. U_U). Don't forget those who really matters to you and be nice to them okay? And yes, stop worrying about those unimportant things.

3. See the world

Travelling is one of my passions in life and no matter how hard my finances at the moment (these not-working-days are really tough!!!), I must see new sceneries this year. Fingers crossed for my Japan plan. Or probably China. Well, we'll see.

4. Do crazy new things

Crazy things make memorable memories. I will try not to be easily put down by my age or anything to do crazy stuff. Well, the good things are..new things do not have to be always crazy in nature. Hahaha. If I'm crazy enough, I'll probably go for a cooking class. Uhh..wait in 2nd though, make-up class sounds easier. And cleaner. Hehe.

Oops, sorry for the long post guys. New year does make me a bit emo and hence, the long post. I'll be back with my usual post this year and yes, making this blog a better one is also in my to-do-list this year. Thanks for reading my blog!! Muach muach! <3