Thailand Food Part 1

I watched this video that show me about PAD THAI ! yeah Pad Thai. I tried a lot of Pad Thai before. But the one that I love the most is Pad Thai from Bamai Kasetsart University, Bangkhen Campus. 

Let's start to talk about Thai Food, are you hungry ? This is exactly the time during this weekend to feel hungry because you just woke up and It's already afternoon. 

1. Pad Thai

Pad Thai from Thong Lor BTS Road 

THB 70 (big portion)

Pad Thai look like a normal fried noodle, yeah that look really like that but when you eat that you'll feel not so fried noodle #lol. They have a lot of kind of Pad Thai with a pork (moo), chicken (gai), surrounded by the egg (ko khai), shrimp (kung), and just pad thai without anything. Most of that street food pad thai used a red sauce so the noodle looks more orange or red, I think they used some tomato sauce. Overall, most of pad thai taste the same but with different occasion. I alr tried some pad thai from street stall, hotel, night market, just market, and canteen from my university. That quite nice but some of them quite oily and too sour sometime so I can't eat that. But, Pad Thai is a must to try if you come to Thailand. That might me not that good or around that expectation but that a must, when you eat that daily you will missed that sometime. The first thing that make shock is they give me a sugar to add to that Pad Thai. Trust me you must to used that sugar with the chili and mix that !! That the best taste that you can have that without that, if you want some sour taste just squash that lime, but I never eat that vegetable, I am not sure that vegetable or not but my Thai friend also didn't eat that.

I tried Pad Thai in my home country after I came back to Indonesia, but the taste still not so good as good as in Thailand ^^

2. Khao Pad (Fried Rice)

Credit to Google & that brand logo ^^

Pad means FRIED so everything that has pad on that name means something that you fried. 

Fried Rice is a common dish that you can find everywhere you go, but trust me everything taste different, when I tried to cooked with my friend with the same ingredient that taste quite diferent, I don't know why but this theory just happen to this food ! FRIED RICE.

Okay, let's back to Khao Pad, this khao pad also have some kind like pad thai you can order everything as a top up and the famous one from Thailand is Fried Rice with pineapple. Because Thai Food always taste sweet and sour, so the best taste is when you eat that with the fruit and that will taste more fresh. you can't order something not too oily in street food, but you can find that in your hotel or some good restaurant. But, Thai Street Food still the BEST !!!

3. Thai Noodle (without Pad Thai)

Photo Credit to Google

Thai also have a boiled noodle, but the portion of that noodle is quite small, one of my friend go to a really famous noodle restaurant in victory monument, that quite cheap around THB 12/portion but you need to eat at lease 3-4 bowls to feel full. But, if you only want try a normal noodle you can buy around THB 25-40. I don't really like this kind of noodle because the broth is too sweet for me and I tried that because you can choose your own noodle, they have a glass noodle, rice noodle (small like pad thai, and the one that looks bigger like in this photo), and yellow noodle. They called all of that noodle with kwetiaw but all of that kind of noodle have their own name, because I just want to eat that yellow noodle when I missed my Indonesian food so I just remember that name, they called that bakmie like Indonesian called that. You also can add another topping like chicken, duck, fish cake, pork, and boiled dumpling.

4. Sausage with a sticky rice !!

Sausage Stall in front of Chatunchak Post Office

I am not saying that this stall is the best, I just want to show you that kind of stall.

For the sausage you only need to pay THB 10 each and sometime THB 15 each, for the sticky rice you need add more THB 5-10 for 1 plastic portion. This kind of food is help me to survive when I think I need to save my money and this THAI SAUSAGE is make me crazy. You'll really like that kind of sausage, most of them containing pork, but you can find some chicken sausage with cheese inside that. and that kind of sausage damn nice. #lol

You can find this kind of stall everywhere in Thailand, everywhere in the market and just everywhere around. This sausage is THE MOST that I think you need to try !

5. Chicken Rice (Khao Man Gai)

Photo Credit to Google & Mark Wiens

This chicken rice is just a normal chicken rice, but this chicken rice tastier that Singapore one ^^

you can order this chicken rice with or without the blood and you can mix the chicken with the fried one, some of that chicken rice stall also sell a red pork with a sweet sauce. That also nice to try. 

When you eat this chicken rice you will get the sauce, so you need to tried that sauce as well, I can't eat spicy food so I can't eat that chili sauce, but I can eat with that Thailand Sauce and that quite addicted, because that sauce taste sour, sweet, and spicy. If you find a chicken rice with a yellow one that also taste the same with the white one. 

In Indonesia we have that kind of yellow rice, so when I saw that I think that will feels like I came back home to eat that yellow rice, but that rice taste just like a normal chicken rice.

P.S : For thai food that using a really eye catching color they said that safe & that color are from their flower and I believe them because when I tried that food that taste is too natural and I can't stand with the smell is too "flower" 

It's enough for today update, please wait for my new update later ^^

Biotechnology for Indonesia

I never think that I'll be back to Hua Hin after that long long story happen to me before during my internship before :') But, this case is quite special because I came to join Asia Leadership Course by Cornell Alliance for Science. 

 Photo Credit to Chibo

Someone said that if you have something bad and make you want do that anymore you must to make another memories to cover that bad memories. I did that for sure ! Now, I really love Hua Hin. Not because all of that facility and the life that I never imagine. I started to know more about Biotechnology Field in Indonesia and around South East Asia. I learn about Biotechnology and half of my university days always stayed in our laboratory. But, I never think about how the people in Indonesia think about that, I just thinking about myself and anything around me and another career and research. But, during that course I thought more about my country. I noticed something that in Indonesia we have a really big knowledge gap, that one of my long term mission to reach unreachable place in Indonesia and teach them, so they can help each other and will have their own better life for better future. I never think that I'll do something about my "BIOTECHNOLOGY" things for them. But, when I came back to Indonesia, I read a newspaper and said that we can't plant that paddy because of long summer, and we can't import a lot of corn but because of that issue their target to provide Indonesia Citizen won't be enough and because of that corn stuff the price of Chicken is quite high. 

When I saw that "Chicken" problem, I think about my thesis. IRIAP already do that research about 3 or 4 years ago but no one know about that. That can be the solution for that problem, we used that coconut meal or palm kernel meal & used our mannanase for poultry feed addition and that SAFE ! I really don't know how to communicated that "science information" for sure, but I think that will be nice if we used that BIOTECHNOLOGY as one of our solution for national problem. 

I am not that expert in that field, I just a fresh graduate from faculty of Biotechnology but I hope that IT WILL BE FROM INDONESIA TO INDONESIA :) 

This leadership course help me to organized everything on my mind and I hope I can do my best for my country with my knowledge. 

TRANSPORTASI JABODETABEK

Hallo !! Saya kembali lagi lohh. Kali ini karena lagi sering berkelana dengan menggunakan kendaraan umum, saya mau berbagi sedikit cerita mengenai keliling Jakarta dan sekitarnya dengan menggunakan kendaraan umum (tentunya dengan budget yang juga murah).

Untuk kalian yang mau keliling JABODETABEK tapi cuman mau liat doang daerahnya gimana, kalian cukup naek aja commuter line, kalian bisa dari BEKASI sampe ujung BOGOR, ke DEPOK terus transit biar bisa ke BINTARO, SERPONG, dan TANGGERANG :) kalo kalian ga akan keluar cuma ganti kereta aja (dengan catatan kalo kalian ga tap out di stasiun tersebut) dari stasiun awal sampe balik lagi ke stasiun awal kalian hanya perlu membayar 2000 saja, tentunya kalian harus punya e-money untuk bisa jalan-jalan seperti ini, karena kalo kalian beli yang harian harus kasih tau kalian turun dimana disaat kalian beli dan plus kena uang jaminan 10 000 loh sekarang. Mahalkan ? Kalo ilang bayar 50 000 juga, so hati-hati jangan sampe kartu kalian hilang kalo naek kereta yah :D

Untuk tarif normalnya sekarang 25 km pertama itu 2 000, terus sepertinya setiap 5 km berikutnya bertambah 1 000, kalo dari BEKASI sampe BOGOR sih waktu itu kenanya 6 000, ke BINTARO waktu itu kena 3 000, ke Kalideres juga 3 000. Kalo mau cari alternatif paling cepat dan murah sebenarnya kereta sangat disarankan, nanti kalo abis kereta masih jauh naiklah ojek online yang harganya terjangkau jika dibandingkan dengan naik angkot berkali-kali ato naek ojek bisa.

Kalo kalian naek BUS NON-AC kalo di JAKARTA (KOPAJA & METRO MINI) kalian cukup membayar 4 000 saja kemana pun tujuan kalian selama naik di bus tersebut, kadang kalo misalkan deket saya sering bayar 3 000 sih, kalo abangnya baik dia mau tapi kalo abangnya rese sih biasanya di tagih lagi sama dia, jadi kalo mau naik KOPAJA & METRO MINI ga mau ada masalah bayarlah 4 000 (uang pas), sedangkan BUS ber-AC itu tergantung seberapa jauhnya, terus jenis busnya ada yang PATAS ada juga yang emang shuttle, biasanya sih paling mahal yang saya tau sih 20 000 itu udh rute dari semanggi ke bekasi timur. hehe

Alternatif lainnya yang cukup murah dan bersahabat itu sebenernya menggunakan TRANS JAKARTA & APTB, kalian hanya perlu membayar 3 500 saja dan hanya perlu tap di awal saja, tapi untuk TRANS JAKARTA kalian diwajibkan untuk memiliki e-money atau numpang sama temen nanti bayar tunai, kadang kalo lagi ada orang baik mereka mau nolongin juga kalo ga punya e-money tapi nanti bayar ke mereka. Selain itu sekarang TRANS JAKARTA juga beroperasi 24 jam sehari, jadi ga perlu khawatir kalo ga ada bus untuk pulang, salah satu yang menyenangkan ialah sekarang naek shuttle yang ada tulisan TRANS JAKARTAnya tidak usah bayar lagi, kalo dulu kita dikenakan biaya 5 000 lagi kalo mau naik shuttle, sekarang semuanya HANYA  3 500 saja. 

APTB juga wacananya akan dijalankan sistem hanya 3 500 saja, dengan nama yang baru sekarang TRANS JABODETABEK bukan APTB lagi, kalo APTB kalian bisa naik APTB diluar jalur busway, kalo begitu kalian cukup untuk membayar 5 000 saja, tapi kalo kalian udah ada di haltenya kalian harus membayar 3 500 + 5 000 (ke petugas di dalam bus) untuk daerah yang masih di JAKARTA, sedangkan jika sudah masuk tol dan tidak ada halte TRANS JAKARTA lagi, maka kalian akan dikenakan biaya sesuai dengan jurusan masing-masing biasanya sekitar 13 000 - 16 000 untuk sekali perjalanan, namun bus APTB ini lebih diminati walaupun harus bayar lebih mahal, karena lebih banyak tempat duduk yang kosong, selain itu juga TRANS JAKARTA itu kalo nunggu bus itu bisa lama banget, halte juga panas, jadi APTB yang notabene masih baru busnya menjadi lebih nyaman, karena jika sudah lama biasanya bus biasanya penuh dan panas sedangkan kalo mau naik berikutnya juga harap-harap cemas ga tau akan cepet dateng ato akan tunggu lama lagi, biasanya sih beberapa orang naek bus yang balik dulu, nanti turun di halte sebelum terakhir (karena jika di halte terakhir kalian akan dipaksa untuk turun, keluar dan bayar lagi)

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Resto Review : Palem Cafe (Central Park Mall)

New Year Gathering :)

source : openrice.com

Awal tahun baru memang belom lengkap rasanya kalo belom hang out sama temen-temen.

Pas cek di groupon.co.id ternyata ada restauran western food yang harganya lumayan ok untuk makan ber-3, paketnya dapet 4 pasta, 2 crepes, & 2 soup of the day akhirnya tanpa pikir panjang pergilah kami ke restauran tersebut pada hari minggu lalu.

Lokasi : Sogo Central Park Mall Lt. 1

Pas pertama masuk, masih sepi belum banyak orang yang datang tapi memang tempatnya cukup enak buat ngobrol-ngobrol santai dan si mbak menjelaskan bahwa pastanya pada abis baru ada lagi jam setegah lima katanya kalo mau balik lagi, tapi karena emang tujuannya sekalian ngobrol akhirnya kita pilihlah pasta seadanya, hanya 2 pasta yang tersedia saat itu, yaitu mushroom & olio ^^ yah boleh lah standart lah itu. Setelah menunggu kurang lebih 30 menit (lama juga kan itu), akhirnya soup of the day kita datang, sebuah mangkok berwarna putih dengan isi soup merah nge-jreng, ya itu adalah tomato soup secara penampilannya (i think), namun rasanya not really like a fresh tomato, tapi pas di aduk ternyata campuran antara tomat (yang hanya sedikit) dan kol. kalo kata di review orang-orang rasanya ga berani, justru saya merasa di soup ini rasanya sangat berasa, yaitu seperti bumbu spageti ditambah dengan air lalu di campur dengan kol yang ditumis sebelumnya dulu, karena ada lapisan minyak di sekitar mangkok tersebut. Jelas makanan ini tidak saya foto karena totally tidak menarik.

Akhirnya sebelum datang main course kami, tiba-tiba meja sebelah marah-marah karena makanannya ga keluar-keluar (padahal kita yang lebih lama dari dia aja juga belom keluar), nah sayangnya si pelayan ini malah ngelawan lebih galak dari para customernya, oh that's a BIG NO !! yah, walaupun mbaknya ga galak sama kami tapi sejak awal ga ada senyumnya sih tuh mbak, jadi takut sendiri juga. okay, balik ke makanannya lagi, main course kami datang dengan komposisi yang seharusnya, 2 aglio olio & 2 mushroom pasta tapi ternyata yang keluar 3 mushroom & 1 aglio olio, karena kita cuma bertiga akhirnya kita makan dulu lah yang ada mushroomnya dulu, untuk porsi sih pasta ini cukup besar kalo di bandingin sama restauran lainnya, tapi memang rasanya kurang untuk pastanya dan terlalu oily :( Sejujurnya, kalo makan pasta saya paling menambahkan keju, kebiasaan aja kebetulan emang suka juga sama keju, tapi kali ini saya harus menambah garam, merica, bahkan saus tomat supaya nambah rasanya dan ketelen dimakannya, terutama pas udh makan yang aglio olio yang udh keburu dingin itu. Bisanya memang pesennya selalu karbonara sih, mungkin karena itu tetep rasanya kurang, soalnya karbonara kan emang creamy jadi pas makan aglio olio yang tanpa ada apa-apanya (cuma spageti & olive oil aja ini) jadi rasanya aneh, setelah di campur-campur jadilah rasanya seperti bolognese tanpa daging. hehe. totally rasa saos tomat.

P.S : makanan kali ini bener-bener ga di foto sama sekali, karena jujur aja penampilannya memang ga terlalu menarik & perut sudah terlalu lapar karen menunggu terlalu lama :(

Akhirnya setelah kekenyangan memakan pasta tersebut, akhirnya keluarlah si crepes, tapi lagi-lagi si mbaknya bilang pisangnya ga ada jadi cuma pake double ice cream aja, rasa vanila & coklat. Tapi crepesnya cukup memuaskan karena emang enak banget dan soft :) rasa ice creamnya juga pas, ga terlalu manis juga. Jadi, makanan terbaik hari itu adalah crepes. #lol

Kesimpulannya sih yah kalo misalkan bosen belanja tapi keluarga suka banget sama belanja, mau minum teh santai maupun makan makanan manisnya tempat ini cukup ok, bahkan kalo mau ngobrol lama-lama juga bisa (ga akan diusir juga. hehe), tapi kalo mau makan yang cepet terus emang suka banget sama pasta sih ini tidak disarankan, lebih baik ke restauran tetangga, harga juga ga beda jauh kok, disini lebih murah sedikit sih tapi kepuasaan terhadap suatu pasta yang dibayangkan akan hilang pada suapan pertama :( 

Sorry, for the bad review. ! Tapi, saya hanya menyarankan kalo mau banyak pelanggan berikanlah service yang terbaik, jangan malah judes sama pelanggan. kalo pelanggannya minta juga di kerjain dengan cepet, masa saya mau refil aja smpe saya yang harus kesana karena ga ada pelayan yang mau dateng ke meja, pas ada dateng ke meja, minta keju juga ga di kash-kasih sampe pulang, udah bayar juga ga di bilang terima kasih, padahal yah itu juga cuma formalitas aja. hahaha. 

Hello 2016 :)

Happy New Year !!! 

Hello 2016, we will have another 366 days to count and we will write that with our precious memories :) I wasn't wait for a fireworks on 31st and I just stayed at my room that time, I waited for 00.00 because I want to say Happy Birthday to my friend :D

I started my year with meeting with someone that really important to my life :)

1/366 

I opened my day with prayer and a new year service at my church :) I met with my Best Friend and her family and met with my family for a dinner

2/366

I went to Bogor, yeah crowded :( I met with my advisor and came with my research mate, have a small talks and laugh :D

3/366

I'll meet with my kaset mate :) yey !! have our new year greeting 

I only spent 2 days and will spend more days later, I really feel thankful that I meet with a great people, have a great talks and another story that I can write to this whole new pages.

I really don't know what will happen next, but I wish that everyone will have a really wonderful year ahead. Fill your days with smile & laugh. 

This year I wish I can closer to God, Family, and my old friends :) I can't forget about them when I have a new one :) without all of them I can't become someone like this :)

once again I wanna to say, Happy New Year :)

please wait for my update ~ I want to write a review about star wars before, but I didn't have enough time to update and now I think that not too HIP to write that :( so, i'll try to find more to update soon.

See y !!!

Regards,

Fita

Review Movie : In The Heart of The Sea

Hari ini (6/12/2015), saya dan adik saya akhirnya memutuskan untuk menonton Film di XXI karena harus menunggu, karena pilihan filmnya cuma sedikit dan yang pernah lihat cuma thrillernya film ini sama the good dinosaurus so, akhirnya kami memutuskan untuk menonton film ini walaupun si bioskopnya tiba-tiba ga bisa beli tiket dan akhirnya ketinggalan awal filmnya.

Pertama, Film ini menceritakan tentang perjalanan seseorang untuk berburu Hiu. Perjalanan yang membutuhkan waktu yang sangat panjang berada di perairan. Namun, cukup membuat kesal karena sifat si kapten yang sok ide sih ya T.T

Kedua, setelah mendapatkan seekor hiu, akhirnya mereka berjalan lagi dan tidak menemukan Hiu berikutnya, akhirnya mereka memutuskan untuk ke daratan dan bertemu dengan pelayar yang lain, mendengar bahwa terdapat banyak hiu di suatu tempat, walaupun ceritanya sudah diberi tahu oleh si pelayar lain bahwa ia telah kehilangan 2 awak dan bahkan kehilangan tangannya.

Ketiga, karena ke "greedy" an sang kapten dan first mate akhirnya mereka pergi ke tempat tersebut namun ternyata tidak ada apa-apa dalam jangka waktu yang lama. Namun, akhirnya  muncul lah sosok-sosok hiu. akhirnya mereka turun tapi malah berujung petaka dan akhirnya mereka harus kehilangan 2 awak kapal mereka dan bahkan kapalnya karam terbakar karena masih ada minyak dari hiu sebelumnya

Keempat, mereka menggunakan kapal kecil ke suatu pulau (tentunya dalam jangka waktu yang lama pula) terus nemuin tulang belulang dan memastikan bahwa tidak ada yang akan melihat mereka disana, akhirnya mereka melanjutkan perjalanan lagi.

Kelima, selama perjalanan kembali menuju daratan akhirnya mereka ditolong dan bisa pulang ke rumahnya.

ENDING dari film ini sih klise semuanya bahagia :)

Kalo diceritain semua sih ga seru, tapi begitulah alur ceritanya, selama perjalanan itu pasti banyak seluk beluknya juga, untuk kalian yang suka nonton yang memang perjalanan spt itu ini film lumayan mengesankan dan mengagetkan, biasa aja sih tapi dari film ini saya menangkap bahwa kita tidak boleh sekarah dengan apa sesuatu yang TUHAN telah berikan hakekatnya dan keluarga adalah segalanya, ketika mengetahui bahwa ada orang yang menunggu di rumah akan menjadi suatu kekuatan untuk tetap hidup dan kembali ke rumah. Intinya ceritanya setengahnya sih untuk bertahan hidup selama di laut entah berantah itu, walaupun agak vulgar bahasanya.

sangat tidak disarankan untuk menonton dengan anak kecil dan menurut saya rate untuk remaja pun sepertinya masih terlalu berat untuk remaja. tapi yah yang nonton juga ga terlalu banyak mungkin karena si kasus tiketnya ga bisa di beli sampe awal filmnya di mulai sih. 

Sekian dari saya, semoga bisa memberikan informasi yah :D

Solo Traveling

(Esplanade to City Hall MRT Station)

Hello, last week I came to Singapore (again), I'm not totally alone because I met with my friends who stayed in Singapore and I also stayed in my aunt house. But, I was travel to somewhere alone :') I wanna to say that if you travel alone doesn't mean that you are lonely person, you just need your freedom to go ^^ It was not my first time to Singapore, but that city changes a lot this and then.

I know that I will go everywhere alone, so I prepared my camera and my tripod because I don't really like to used my phone to take a photo and I also didn't like to use selca stick ^^ I'll give you some tips about taking pictures when you're alone. Actually doing a photo shoot for myself by myself and I'm doing everything alone is one of my dream so I did that !! :') quite rare ? I know :( the uncle and aunty staring when I brought my tripod everywhere.

I didn't go to a lot of place, I just come and go and I think that I need to walk more because I'm getting fatter now and then after I stayed too long at my home.

I started with walking from my aunt apartment to MRT Station

I like to looking around and take some picture, so I prefer to walk than used a bus, while I am walking I went to a library, cross the road and I saw a playground and a child played there.

While I am crossing the street I also saw a lot of the bus because I walked to bus interchange, I always take a MRT to go everywhere but my cousin told me that I can used an app gothere.sg to know which bus that you can take and which one is cheaper and faster, sometimes using a bus faster because sometimes you need to take a MRT and then a bus.

Taking a BUS or MRT ?

MRT :

you can see a map and you can go faster with this train, they will come every 2-3 minutes, and they said that they will increase their train up to 99 trains.

BUS : 

if you take a bus you can see a scenery from the window and if you take a double decker that will be nicer. you can look around and you can feel like singapore sbus tour if you take a really long way to go.

For the first time I take a bus for longer route,
first is from city hall to ikea alexandria & a way back from Pasar Bella to Bedok
that quite long but that really nice you can pass through the china town, a highway, and a lot of building. when I'm back I passed little India and that really nice at night I never been there before so, I'm quite impress. I think if I travel again to Singapore I'll prefer to use a bus if I don't need to be hurry :)

Take a PHOTO ! (to be continued)