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PostHeaderIcon Legendary porridge is Back

For fans of the legendary Hotel Indonesia chicken porridge can now rejoice. The reason is tasty and delicious chicken porridge which had disappeared due to the renovation of the hotel can be enjoyed now been returned. Not just chicken porridge and even visitors can enjoy the other dishes that are not less wagged his tongue!

Hotel Indonesia, which had been renovated, now renamed the Hotel Indonesia Kempinski re-opened its doors wide open. Yes, the name Kempinski used by many leading property in various parts of the world are now proudly carried by the hotel in the heart of Jakarta.

In its heyday, the Hotel Indonesia famous among fans who are looking for nightlife entertainment and fine food. One of the foods that are always looking for is Chicken Porridge which is served in the Lobby Lounge Nirvana. What makes this chicken porridge so special?

“First is the savory taste delicious in accordance with the tongues of people of Indonesia. But most importantly, a mixing chicken porridge HI has its own characteristic that is in the use of a yellow sauce of chicken broth soup and saffron,” said Hanny Wahyuni as Director of Public Relations Hotel Indonesia Kempinski.

As a complement that cannot be missed while enjoying the porridge that is cooked in chicken broth, garlic is fried and abon cakue, crackers and chips. Those who want the other dishes do not need to worry. In addition Chicken Porridge HI, Nirvana Lobby Lounge also presents other local and international menus. Call it Lobster bisque flavored with coconut, lemongrass and crab meat, horseradish cream cheese, until the dessert in the form of Nirvana Mango Pudding gentle stroking of the tongue.

Comfortable sofas also available for guests who want to relax while enjoying a cup of coffee or tea in the afternoon. Contemporary interior design with Indonesia and the gurgling sound the water makes the dining experience at the Lobby Lounge Nirvana more fun.

PostHeaderIcon Get to Know Sushi

SUSHI is one of Sakura’s typical food. This Japanese food consists of rice which was formed together with side dishes (Neta) in the form of seafood, meat, raw or cooked vegetables.

The name ‘Sushi’ comes from the adjective for the sour taste that is written with Japanese characters (kanji). In this case, the sushi rice has a soft sour taste for spiced mixture of rice vinegar, salt, and sugar.

Generally, classified according to the form of sushi rice, among others nigirizushi, makizushi oshizushi, chirashizushi, inarizushi, and narezushi. Until the 1970s, sushi was still a luxury food in Japan. And initially, the common people simply enjoyed the sushi to celebrate special occasions.

Several terms in cuisine or sushi sushi bar sushi restaurants in Japan have a special term has another meaning in Japanese standards:

- Otesho (soy sauce) or in the Kansai region is called tamari
- Kappa (cucumber)
- Gari (pickled ginger)
- Gyoku (Tamagoyaki or dashimaki)
- Kusa (nori)
- Shari (rice for sushi)
- Tsume or nitsume (thick sauce sweet-salty flavor that is applied to the anago eels, shellfish or Neta hamaguri kind that tastes a bit bland)
- Toro (tuna belly), divided again according to the amount of fat contained: ootoro and chutoro
- Namida or Sabi (wasabi)
- Murasaki (soy sauce) (SI Newspapers / Newspapers SI / ftr)

PostHeaderIcon Red Lobster – New Restaurant Design


The new Bar Harbor design that is being embraced by the Red Lobster project is going to be done in multi layered times. There are different ways through which the restaurant chain is going to reinvent them selves by serving to a wider client body. The key focus with Red Lobster Debuts New Restaurant Design project is all about recreating the older with the new. The new theme is going to bring people closer to what they wish to experience in the form of a seaside eatery.

The Bar Harbor in Maine is the village of inspiration for this place. The new model is going to bring amazing new nuances of features that are geared up to create a more inviting and warming experience for groups. This current New England design is all about tending to the idea of group dining with panache. The new interiors are focusing more on socializing so that great food mingles with the perfect dining environment.

The Red Lobster Debuts New Restaurant Design project is all about serving new bodies of clients in the new way. They are going to keep their traditional specialties in their menu but will also bring some new delicacies. The price is going to be in the range of being extremely affordable. While new changes and neat little delights are being implemented to the interiors, there are amazing new editions of bringing the whole experience close to the seaside feel. Red Lobster Debuts New Restaurant Design project is going to be completed by 2014. There are about 700 units of this chain, spanning across Canada and USA. These units are all going to be revamped during the given time span. By 2011 June about 30% of the total units are going to be revamped. A few would be experiencing renewal during the holiday season.

PostHeaderIcon Bun Bo Hue Beef Mihum

At the Ben Thanh Market in Saigon, you can find Bun Bo Hue. What kind of food which is served there?

Hue is the name of a region in the central part of Vietnam. Bun Bo is beef mihun. So, Bun Bo Hue means beef mihun from the Hue region. In the shop there is an explanation that this gravy beef mihun follow Dong Son in the culinary traditions of the past. Though in general use the meat of cows, this food is often mixed with kikil or meat from the pig knee.

The mihun is rather wide, flat, and made from rice – like kuetiauw. The sauce is quite spicy – though can be specially ordered if do not like spicy – with a kick from the sour taste of lime and lemongrass which is strong enough, and herbaceous taste complicated. In this shop, was once the sauce is wearing some kind of frustration. On the table is also available to add piquancy ly sauce and the sauce is too salty.

Boiled beef with herbs, and sliced thinly. Meat can be individually selected enhancements. There kikil pigs, there is also oxtail. If you miss oxtail soup, Bun Bo Hue shop is a place to relieve homesickness. Sometimes there is also a shop that provides the blood of the cow / pig steamed, diced, and fried.

Similar to the Vietnamese noodle typical, bun bo also served with sliced chili and coriander leaves, In general, the soup bun bo is more tasty and more seasoned when compared to the pho broth.

In these stalls I also had the chance to taste some typical side dishes of Hue. The first is Bánh nam. It looks like a thin Pepes wide, made of rice flour with chopped shrimp. In terms of texture and flavor, shrimp-like Cong fan who often present at the dim sum dishes.

Anything else Bánh bot loc, it looks like Bánh nam, but the contents of starch with minced pork. Another dish you can taste is chao tom, which is wrapped shrimp skewers. Seasoned minced shrimp wrapped around on a piece of sugarcane. Chao tom served as an appetizer.

PostHeaderIcon Fish Head in Singapore Cuisine

Besides Soon Heng, there are more Chinese restaurants in Singapore known with the fish head cooking. One is Xin Yuan Ji, Tan Quee Lan Street, approximately behind Bugis Junction. The diner is always crowded presents the curry fish head fish head and Nonya cooking.
Xin Yuan Ji opens his first outlet in a food court in People’s Park. After more popular, Xin Yuan Ji move the outlets to the place now, a standalone restaurant, in a prestigious area.
The bihuns are thick – like a field of vermicelli – cooked chewy. Broth is thin and crispy, without feeling greasy on the tongue and mouth. Crispy fried fish heads, without the excessive saltiness. Even pieces of neither fried fish heads, nor visible oil puddle in the clear broth. When you desire an intense sense of dressing, living adds sliced chili sauce and soy sauce are available. The waiter made a slip of paper where the bones of a magazine that folded to form a square container. Elegant approach to bone the fish head is not dropping slob at the table. Understandably, people in Singapore and Hong Kong do have a habit of throwing the bones scattered on the table.

Xin Ji Yuan is similar to a popular dish in Penang. The price is cheaper; the head of the fish were more bones than flesh. The difference is Xin Yuan Ji had two versions of the fish head noodles, which are: coconut milk with or without coconut milk.

If you do not like to eat bony fish heads, there are also available fried rice noodles with fish fillet without bones or thorns. Funny thing is, vermicelli fried fish is cheaper than the price actually made from fish heads. Apparently, the “scramble” to get the fish head is increasingly popular in Singapore to make a premium price. Fish head that is widely used is the snapper and grouper. Good for cooking is derived from a large fish with a minimum weight of three kilograms.

In addition to the Sin $ 6.50 fish head noodles, Xin Yuan Ji also popular with fish head curry snapper dish and cook snapper fish head Nonya. The latter is without coconut milk, not too spicy, with a sour taste of tomato is more prominent, and the vegetable is green beans to replace bindih (okra).