Happy Birthday Brother!

Yesterday was my brother's birthday and he is now officially 16! What's this post happening with the 'eat' or 'treats'? Well, first of all, I just want to share the joy and the happiness surrounding him and family, he is now growing and getting older and yet more mature I can tell!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO THE MOST JUNIOR SUBIANTO!

Here are more photos relating to the surprise party we held for him :).

He is definitely shy when we want to give him a playful kiss! He freaked out, literally!

I'm totally jealous of his age, he is still young and still have 4 more years before hitting the 20s, I don't know why even though I'm still relatively young, but knowing that I already hit the 20s brings me a lot of things to think about....oh life. Am I the only one here noticing that change?

feels like turning 16 again.

cherry on top!

this will brings us to the next post TOMORROW :)

I'm going to put a review on this cake! made by a famous baker in town, you probably know who :).

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Oejingo Bimbimbap

The korean wave is totally striking me and so does the culinary. I have lately been very obsessed with everything korean. Just so you know, I'm a VIP and Blackjacks and of course a YG STAN! hahaha. One of my most favorite korean food restaurants is totally Han Gang and Han Gang is probably one of the most famous on the list.

The menu that I'm posting now is obviously one of my most favorite: it is 'Oejingo Bibimbab'. This is the classic bibimbap with squid and garnished with a pretty 'hot' red sauce, it is just simply delicious. I always have at least one menu of korean dish this for my lunch in a week. I wanna give the credits for the squid, thanks for giving me a lot of squids because I love 'em and you will too if you're eating this dish. Han Gang is not stingy.

YUMYUM at last :9.
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Han Gang
Mall Taman Anggrek 4th fl.

Kimberly Green Sausage Pasta

It's such a pleasure having lunch at Nanny's Pavillon restaurant because I've always loved their pastas and pancakes. Yum! This time I'm going to give you a review of my chosen menu of lunch that day. Proudly present you guys...
KIMBERLY'S GREEN SAUSAGE PASTA

TOM'S CARAMEL BANANA CHOCOLATE

If you're a big fan of basil and pesto. This is a food worth tasting, I love how it's not creamy and not greasy and those sausage are cooked perfectly and they smell so nice :).
Tom's Caramel Banana Chocolate is such a sweet treat! You'll have glimpse of caramel, chocolate sauce and one scoop of vanilla ice cream to even make it more and more adorable! LOVE IT!

Nanny's Pavillon
Tribeca Park, Central Park Mall
Tanjung Palapa Rd. 11470

HOME MADE TREATS: DEADFUL TASTY CHOCOLATE

What's a day without a delicious home mad treats? I was craving for chocolate and I suddenly remembered that I have some Hershey's chocolates left from my latest Singapore trip. As what you see on the picture above is one of my sweet experiment. I don't take anything from the internet (recipes), as this is called an experiment, it might end up as a sweet treat or end up as a chaos :(.

I don't recommend this for anyone who doesn't like sweet stuffs as this is dangerously sweet and might be dangerously fattening, but that's probably the least of my care (weight) so I'm going to HAVE SOME SWEET MOMENTS to remember the sweet moments.

If you're wondering about the ingredients used for this experiment, here they are:

- a half of the whole bar of the Hershey's Harmony chocolate bar (192gr)

- 5 pcs of the Hershey Kisses milk chocolate

- 2 pcs of Hershey Kisses chocolate almond

- marshmallow (plain)

- one sachet of Cadbury hot chocolate drink

The most used and general mixture for this experiment is actually the chocolate garnish and dip, so let's start with it first.

CHOCOLATE GARNISH AND DIP:

- put the bars of the Hershey's Harmony chocolate bar, 3 pcs of Hershey Kisses milk chocolate and 1 pcs of Hershey Kisses chocolate almond into a bowl, or it could be anything that's microvable and heat-resistant.

put on the microwave for about 8-10 minutes in maximum heat.

Let's move on to the "Hot Chocolate and Marshmallows"

Level: easy

Approximate time of making: 8 minutes

The longest time taken for creating this actually waiting for the chocolate garnish on top of the marshmallows to melt, while you're preparing for this drink.

I'd like to mix the hot chocolate with the rest of the Hershey Kisses chocolates so that I'd have a fun chocolate taste. After you pour the boiling water to the glass, don't forget to stir, so that the Hershey Kisses could melt, and finally put four marshmallows to the hot chocolate drink and garnish it with nice and hot melted chocolate. This drink is totally my newest love.

I love when the marshmallows kinda melt and you can have some foamy texture and original vanilla taste from the marshmallow. Variant!

Baked Marshmallows with Chocolate Dip

Another fun experiment, this time I'm wondering what it's like to have marshmallow baked in the same time with the melted chocolate. I thought I was going to burn the marshmallows with the fire, but I thought isn't it hideous to burn something that came from the gas, I don't think it's healthy enough and you'll get those gas tasted marshmallow instead.

I kinda thought that the marshmallow's going to melt away, but I end up got a little happy surprise.

Look at how prettily baked the marshmallows are...wait until I try to dig the inside.

 I love how it looks and tasted, at first when you put your spoon on the surface, it's absolutely crispy, but soon you'll have this foamy texture and cloud like appearance. I'm in love.

That's for my home made treats of EATandTREATS. Incase you're wondering why is the first picture is written 'part 2' on it, well if you follow my instagram, you'll know that I posted a picture of Starbucks Hot Chocolate with marshmallows.

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DESSERT OF THE WEEK: NEW YORK CHEESE CAKE BY BAKERZIN

Sorry for hibernating in post, if you follow my Twitter and Facebook, you'll probably know that I've bene fighting with one of the most annoying times in everyone's university life. MID-TERM EXAM. I had sleepless days, some only got a few hours of sleep and in result, glimpse of tiredness. My exam finished on last Thursday and I already had myself a payback time of sleep yesterday, 15 hours of a wonderful sleep. Now I'm fully charged.

Don't worry, be happy!

It's FRIDAY and it's time for another series of DESSERT OF THE WEEK!

Wondering who'll be DOTW winner? clue... if you are a reader of my blog, it comes from the same place, but of course different menu!

got it?

no?

hahaha... I'm such a tease, here it goes!

It's from BAKERZIN! THE GOOD OLD "NEW YORK CHEESE CAKE".

Frankly speaking, I'm not a huge fan of any kind of cheese cake, it's just that I can't stand the smell and the super milky taste of this, but ever since I tried this gorgeous cheese cake, my perception changes and I need to update my interest, finally there's a cheese cake that's not ultra-cheesy, very well moisted texture and a great balance in sweetness.

You can call me overrated but I do feel a little nervous when I'm about to have a bite of it, I said to myself, well you've ordered it, take a chance...and I did, in a very satisfying way :).

The presentation itself is also cute and pretty. Love it.

You have to have a bite guys! This cheesecake and a cup of a hot jasmine tea or the classic english breakfast is an awesome mate to be.

Bakerzin
Tribeca Park, Central Park Mall
Tanjung Palapa Rd. 11470
 (021) 5698 5769

Gong Cha Grand Opening!

Got invited to the grand opening of Gong Cha bubble drink! For those of you who haven't heard about this (frankly speaking) famous bubble drink brand from Taiwan, then say HALLO! Because they're opening their branch here in Indonesia, especially our beloved city Jakarta and to be more specific, it's in Central Park Mall.

The invitation is sent over email by their outlet manager, Eddy :)
Thank you for the invitation...

I'm going to review the drinks that I happened to experience there, FYI before I start, I want to give a little information that the reviews of the drink is based on my personal experience, not because I got invited then I give positive reviews, all of the reviews in this blog is based on honesty 8), anyway, back to the topic, each invitation equals to one drink, but I don't think it's fair enough to give you guys review based on one drinks, therefore, because I love you guys so much, I ordered another one based on my own order and gave my own objective review about the drinks.

Eddy asked me what drink I'd love to try but since I want to be surprised, I asked him to give me the most special drink, the signature drink from Gong Cha and he suggested the "Winter Melon Tea" completed with bubbles, Gong Cha signature milk foam and matcha powder.

I can't say anything except MESMERIZED! The creativity of turning winter melon into a very nice drink, I love the milk foam I think it's the cherry on top! you have and I mean, HAVE to try ordering milk foam as the topping, it's totally yummy, it's not your ordinary milk foam like ones you have from your cappucinno, this one is seasoned, I personally think it's sea-salted and the matcha powder gives you a little taste but mostly for the pleasure of the eye :).

The Winter Melon Tea is not part of the milk tea, but when you tasted it you can definitely hit a glimpse of milk in the drink where honestly gives another point to this drink. You get the milk, you get the sweetness and you get the original winter melon tea from Gong Cha! I LOVE THIS DRINK!

The second drink that I give a hit on is the caramel milk tea, I intentionally don't give my POV on the original milk tea because it's common and from most brands that I have tried before, it's close or even almost the same taste, so I decided to give a try, who knows the caramel they're using gives a different touch and indeed IT IS! When you tried this drink you'll forget that you have caramel, you'll get this crispy chocolate cookies taste. Gong Cha is officially my new love <3. This drink is absolutely recommended, but I'd like you to experience the winter melon tea because it's the signature drink and the most surprising one.

I'd like to have my drink to be less sweet and Gong Cha seems to have this great measurements of the sugar scale.

By the end of my visit, Eddy gave me a goodie bag and thank you for this, to be honest, I just love the Gong Cha logo, I think you have the class, you have the ethnic and the color... the branding is good somehow.

Gong Cha Bubble Drink
Central Park 1st floor

ANNOUNCEMENT:
- Dear my beloved readers, I am sorry that last Friday I didn't have any chance to post eatandtreats dessert of the week because I was out of town but you know what? I have prepared you some mouth watering posts! and of course this week you'll get the DOTW!
- I'm so happy that I'm posting you my first ever sponsored TRAVEL POST! I'm going to somewhere special next month and let it be a surprise!

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Sunny Side Up!

Sunny Side Up is a very unique restaurant with such an incredible idea of serving what I love and probably most of you love, EGGS! Picture above is something whose words I believe really is true.

I've been coming to this restaurant a couple times and each time I go here, I always order different menus to really browse their menus of what they can offer with their experiment with eggs, and this one that I'm serving you guys to read is my recent visit, which was around 3 days ago.

I always start with a soft-boiled egg (another term for half-boiled egg), picture below as you can see is my choice of appetizer, technically, they have another common menus as the appetizer, but this is my choice to open the journey of the culinary. Picture on the right is my friend's, she ordered the hard-boiled one because she couldn't eat the egg while the yolk is not perfectly cooked.

By the way, the eggs that they're using here are arabian eggs, or what they somehow called Golden Q Eggs, it's totally yummy, it's not smelly and definitely HALAL! The eggs have passed the tests and officially registered.

So, this is what I ordered :), I come with a friend and we ordered three dishes so we're so ready for the venture.

Deluxe Breakfast Set
here you got:
- toasted bread
- beef bacon
- baked beans
- 2 choices of any kind of eggs cooking you desired. Here is the famous sunny side up and scrambled.
- 2 sausages to make you smile

I personally adore this dish, well for the breakfast set, personally I think this is a big portion, I think you can even share this dish. The eggs are perfectly cooked, the seasoning is great and the sausages also good :).

Seafood Omelette

Out of the three dishes we ordered, this one is probably one that we're very passionate about, because we always loved the classic omelette and somehow wondering what if it's mixed with seafood.

Overall I pretty much feel ok the presentation, for the taste? emm, I would love to give compliments for the experiment for I think this time, the ingredients that they're presentating was probably not the best, I can definitely feel a huge hit of anchovy fish, little ones, and too bad it's a little smelly and salty, but thank God for the gorgeous mashed potato and seared veges, because the saltiness and all the negatives can be reduce everytime I eat the omelette with the mashed potato, it's sort of the balancer.

Egg and Sausage
Well, this one is basically not much different comparing to the first dish, but here you got two sausages and scrambled egg, I think this one is written on the menu, so when you're ordering this, you'll get the scrambled eggs. I love the french fries because it add the texture and making the dish more variant and experimental. Lovely one :).

If you love eggs like I do, this restaurant is worth the visit and try.

Sunny Side Up
Downtown Walk Summarecon Mall Serpong II,
Ground Fl.
Jl. Boulevard Gading Serpong

Ruko Alexandrite Blok ALX 3 No 7 Gading Serpong

I was writing this post in Starbucks right now and it's been raining a little, sort of drizzling, and I have always loved moments like this, how you sit inside a coffee shop in slightly cool temperature, they start playing lounge musics or I somehow prefer my headsets on and suddenly playing artists, like: Feist's musics, you can look outside and see how the road looks when it's raining, you can sometimes smell the rain by the wind, everything feels so calm, quiet and mellow. Not sad, just adorable :)

So, here's a picture for you, my company today, a hot Green Tea Latte!

ANNOUNCEMENTS!
- Lately I always come with such announcements, this Tuesday and Thursday, I'll be having another food testing, I'll give you a hint, it's one very famous Indonesian food and it tastes like AWESOME!
- if you have anything to ask, or you want to be a sponsor for the posts of the blog, please send me your email to eatandtreatsindo@gmail.com

THANK YOU LOYAL READERS!

Starbucks Menu Testing (SPONSORED)

SPONSORED POST

I am so happy that within one week of the release, the statistic is very good, but this is just the beginning and I still have a long way to go and a lot of works to do to make this blog your addiction LOL.

This is my very first sponsored post, and I am so happy that Starbucks SMS become the first sponsor for this entry of the blog. Initially, they want me to try two of their brand new menus: "Starbucks Sea Salt Caramel Mocha Frappuccino" and "Purple Yam Cake".

Purple Yam Cake
I was very surprised with the result just the moment I cut the cake and taste the lowest structure of the cake. There are layers of the yam cake, and the very bottom, there's a layer of nut + grated coconut. The texture of the cake itself is a soft and moist sponge cake, and to distance every sponge cake layer is whipped cream.

Incase you're wondering what is the toppest surface of the cake, it's actually a garnish of what the barista said 'yam powder', it doess't have any taste, I think it's just as the sweet garnish to add the point of the texture and the presentation. And if you see that tiny layer of what you might think as purple-colored-white-chocolate, well it's close, but again it's a yam layer, I couldn't feel any chocolate.

Back to my surprise, the moment the first cut of the cake was tasted, I totally LOVE it, why? because it tastes very indonesian, the nut and the grated coconut is also mixed with brown sugar, so when you taste it, you know it tastes so Indonesian thanks to the brown sugar, I like the fact that the cake is not very sweet, so the taste is very balanced, you get the sweetness somehow from the cake, the whipped cream and the nut, grated coconut and also the brown sugar.

So to make it even more convincing to myself, during the tasting, there's actually my friend who was sitting not far from me, I asked her to have a bite and her reaction was like: "this cake tastes Indonesian", she even said it (the lowest surface) tasted like kelepon cake syrup.

I love the presentation, and I don't mean to be subjective, but I am a fan or purple, it's a match tho :).

 

Sea Salt Caramel Mocha Frappuccino
This is the newest variant of Starbucks Frappuccino family and what makes this drink very special? it's the fact that sea salt is now used not only as a garnish, but also to make sure the flavor is unique.

...and how's the sea salt turns out? salt used in a drink? maybe most of you are wondering about this, but yes, I LOVE THE SEA SALT! It's not the common salt like ones used in the kitchen into your food, this salt is unique, it gives you 50% saltiness, 50% sweetness and the blending of the taste somehow works with the drink.

I'd like to give my POV of this beverage right when the whipped cream and the drink were not stirred. I thought it was a great combination for the whipped cream to be with the sea salt, I kinda crave for it again right by the moment I am writing this post now :9.

There's a zoomed image so you can see how the sea salt looks like, it looks like common sugar: transparent, glass like texture we're using at home, only the structure is various.

I started to drink my first sip and I was trying it without any stirring done to find the original taste of the drink, okay, it's a little too sweet and I definitely can smell and taste a huge ammount of hazelnut syrup used in this drink, then I decided to mix everything and I end up having a quite stable drink, but it's more likely a caramel hazelnut mocha drink, because even after mixing everything, the hazelnut still is the main flavour of the drink.

I asked the barista whether they put the sea salt in the drink and they say 'none', only as the garnish on the whipped cream. I honestly kinda expected that the sea salt would be used in the drink, it will be a fun experiment, but somehow maybe Starbucks made this decision more likely after experiments, and maybe it's the best, rite :).

I recommend you the cake and the drink, guys :). WORTH TRYING.

Thank you so much Starbucks Indonesia for the chance. I've always been a fan of yours for years and I think it will stay forever. Thank you Starbucks SMS as the venue of the testing.

If you guys want to invite EATandTREATS for the food testing, the invitation is always open and that would be an honor for me, but noted that the obligatory of posting the food review is back to my decision, but don't hesitate to send the invitation via email to eatandtreatsindo@gmail.com 

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