Wisata Kuliner Pematang Siantar - Our Culinary Experience

Need to clean my Draft page, even it's late, better than never ^^/.

When Calvin visit Pematang Siantar for the first time, what I offered him was "Food, Food, and Food"

May be Calvin wondering what great about the Food.

Diverse people, so the food.

If we want to visit Toba Lake - Prapat from Medan or Kualanamu Airport, we might pass Pematang Siantar and don't forget to taste the food.

The food seller on the morning usually not same with the night.

So here our culinary experience.

Day 1: Slowly Start.

1. Carrot Cake from the Horas market for Breakfast.

What made it more special was the spicy sauce. My aunt buy it for us.

2. Rainbow Noddle - Mie Pangsit Pelangi. Jl. Pane.

My Cousin open this Noddle Shop. They make the noddle them self, with natural color from carrot, bit and spinach. Ok, almost all the noddle store made the noddle them self.

The noddle in one store might have a different texture from another store.

We love our cousin noddle, they way the cook it, and the taste really suite us.

Price: IDR 12.000,- a bowl.

Later when Calvin taste the other noddle store, he said that he still love our cousin one.

3. Chinese Food Restaurant: Sehat Restaurant - Jl. Bandung. 

We ordered 3 types of dishes (hmm I always love Taoco - bean paste), rice and Teh Tong (warm tea) 

and cost you around IDR. 130.000,- (11 USD as of now).

It's famous for the chinese dishes and it's already there from my grandfather time.

We ate on the 2nd floor so don't be fool by the empty seat cause we came on the day night and before eating time.

Day 2: A Crazy Full Day for both of us.

1. Nasi Campur Ailien Jl. Pane.

One of the food that I miss the most was this food.

We wake at 6.30am and went directly to this place and so many people eat there already.

And you won't get anything if you came at 9.30am.

Price: With meat - IDR 15.000,- with Egg - IDR 11.000,-

Love the potato crisp, and we brought it, cost me IDR 30.000, one plastic bag.

2. Noddle. Mie Pangsit Aoan. From Jl. Sabang Merauke, go straight till the end of the road and turn to the left. Will see a lot of crowd on the Noddle Stall.

Price IDR 15.000,-

Oh, mention it first if you didn't want msg.

Mie Rebus. Across Coffee Kok Tong. Turn to the right from Sabang Merauke.

Price IDR 12.000,-. Oh this one is for our Aunt, but the taste is good ^^.

3. Roasted Pig. For Lunch, we headed to Simpang - along the road to Prapat - Danau Toba.

Price: IDR 25.000 for a plate of roasted pig.

We were addicted to Roasted Pig made by Bataknese. The spicy green chili together with crispy roasted pig made you eat more and more ^^. And the green mashed sweet potato leaves made it perfect too. 

4. For Snack, Miso!

We headed to Miso lestari. Hmm don't know exactly the road as our cousin took us there. There was other place eating Miso at Kandang Besar. Since I ate that place once before, so this time I tried this place.

I always like to eat Sate Kerang.

Calvin just smile

5. Nasi Uduk Papi. Jl. Simbolon. For our Dinner.

We felt full already since we ate Durian before the dinner ^^.

Eat the Nila Fish, Stingray, Eggplant, other kind of fish

I love roasted stingray, and I could say the North Sumatra offered the great taste of roasted stingray.

Our culinary still continue.

Day 3 and 4: Danau Toba

Don't forget to try Rumah Makan Asia. We ate there twice. 

Day 5-6-7 still continue

Mie Goreng acim.

cost: 5000IDR (50 cent USD) - small portion.

Buy the original one (pek cah), only noddle fried with bean sprout.

Go early morning like 6.30am, along the road, you will find one stall with so much people in line. They sold out around 9am.

I can eat 4 portion my self. 

Beef kwetiaw 333. Forgot the name of the road. Love it for night dinner or snack :p

The place known as "Tohlek" seafood restaurant. Always visit this place whenever I'm back to pematang siantar. 

To compare the sting ray, the way they cooked differently, but this time I like Rumah Papi better.

Last but not least, for afternoon snack time, sate padang, and bunch of durian will be perfect hahahaha.

We ate a lot of Durian. My uncle can choose the Durian really well. 

I think both of us almost consume 20 whole pieces of Durian during our stay.

And each durian, somehow could give you different taste, sweet bitter creamy, love love love it.

Grilled Tomato rolled with Pork Belly

Here definitely a favorite dish for Calvin.
Beside the delicious taste, it's easy to cook.

Took the recipe from Japanese drama.

Ingredient:
Pork Belly slice
Baby Tomato
Black pepper and Salt

Lay the pork belly slice.
Sprinkle the black pepper and salt at the pork belly slice.
Put the tomato above and roll it.
Put into the stick and grilled it.

When you eat it, the tomato crush and the taste fill all your mouth and the pork slice complete it.

Cerita di Balik Daun Pepaya

Pahit!
Yeah, daun pepaya pahit, jaman kecil masih sempat cicipin pas makan pecel, namun saat ini daun pepaya dikeluarkan dari menu makan karena rasa pahitnya.

Tetapi lidah yang diciptakan bisa mencicipi berbagai rasa pasti bukan tanpa rencana.

Berbagai rasa, asin, asam, manis, pahit, berbagai jenis makanan yang bisa diolah dan dimakan, aku percaya ada guna nya bagi tubuh kita.

Ups, bukan karena sadar ini sih aku jadi mencoba daun pepaya lagi.
Hanya karna habis berkunjung ke dokter dan hasil bincang-bincang sang dokter menyarankan untuk konsumsi daun pepaya seminggu sekali lah.

Karna mendapat wejangan, saat ke toko buah dan melirik bagian sayur mayur, eeeehhh ada daun pepaya, sebungkusan 2ribu rupiah. Dalam hati, beli ajah, ngapain susah susah berpikir mau ajak Josh ke taman belakang metik daun pepaya ;p. Lagipula musim hujan pula.
Sudah macam ada waktunya, pagi-siang terik matahari sampai kulit mengosong (setidaknya jemur baju pasti kering). Mulai siang mendung dan hujan sepanjang waktu sampai sore bahkan malam.

Pulang rumah, langsung kukus buat gadoin makan sama sambal bawang.
Gigitan seuil lembaran pertama, alamakkkkkkk pahit nyaaaaa... itu tertinggal di lidah dan mulut.
Alhasil dari segepok daun, hanya selembar yang dihabiskan.
Bahkan my sista yang biasanya doyan sayur, hanya bisa makan tiga lembar.
Aku bilang ke Daddy, I think I choose "Pare Juice" ketimbang harus nelen daun pepaya.

Wait, something might wrong here.
Menurut my sista, waktu dia makan di warung bebek, rasa daunnya enggak sepahit ini.
Mulailah cari tahu, cara mengurangi pahit daun pepaya.
Banyak cara ternyata, tapi memang dasarnya pilih daun pepaya ku salah, terlalu tua, mestinya rajin ke pasar, cari yang muda.

Nah, sisa daun pepaya mau dibuang sayang, mau direbus, rasanya tak kuat makannya.
Tradaaaaa, ketemu solusinya, ingat tempura, yups, ada daun digoreng kan.
Jadi sebagai makan siang hari ini, kubuatlah tempura daun pepaya :). Dengan telur dan sambal, yummy....

Oiya, rasa tetap pahit, tp setidaknya better. Jangan tanya soal berkurang nutrisinya, pasti iyalah yah digoreng. Hal ini hanya ide untuk lidahku mampu mengakomodir pahitnya daun pepaya tua ini.

Kegunaan daun pepaya? Please google it.
Ciao.....

Daun Cincau Hijau - Tanaman Merambat "Creepers Plant"

One day, I starred at my fence then wished for a green creepers with a beautiful flower grow at it.

I went to asked for the seed in one school, but it failed to grow.

Suddenly a green leaves plant start to grow. Have no choice, I halfhearted arranged it on my fence.

The plant was the last one I watered it everyday. I ever think to replace it with other creepers.

Then, when my aunt visit my house, she told me that leaves was "Daun Cincau Hijau", the main ingredient to make green jelly.

My aunt want to showed us how to make it, but never accomplised as that the day my brother pass away.

So never think about the leaves, until teacher from Domba Kristus once again convince me that leaves was truly "Daun Cincau". I told her that I just think this was a leaves that grow everywhere.

After twice heard about the leaves, this friday morning, after search on the internet, I picked the leaves. Choose the young one, soaked and squeeze in the drinkable water, filter it and put the green water on the refrigerator.

Voilaaa, you get green jelly, eat it simply with honey. Daddy used to brought it, but when he taste the one that I made, he like it.

You can eat with brown sugar and coconut milk also.

Now, I fall in love with the leaves, never tought something I neglect before is something valuable.

Seem I will check every leaves before I root up the plant *hahaha*

Family Day Out - LIN Ice cream

After having a morning walk in Ragunan Zoo, we having a lunch time on Samudra Restaurant.
From there, we headed to LIN Ice Cream for dessert and to closing our family day out before bringing our mom for Radiotherapy.
At first, my mom wondering, why I need to bring her for Ice cream, but after seeing the process, she finally find out that an interest thing to watch ^^/.
Somehow, I feel so much joy when I saw our love one feeling happy.

We ordered three type of flavor: Strawberry, Coffee, then Bailey.
We been served with Coffee flavor then Bailey and closing with Strawberry.
I liked being served in that order, a light one, then sweet one and closing with sour one, I won't feel full and wanna add more, too bad we need to hurry.

If you wanna taste Ice cream made in front of you from fresh ingredient with liquid nitro, here is the place!

Mom still wondering why LIN Ice cream out of all dessert :p

Josh start to amazed with the processing

A cozy place for hang out

Yummy ice cream

Me and mom wait for the Ice cream

My little boy keep asking us feed him ice cream ^^.

P.S. Hope we treasure our time together.

Bubble Tea

From last year, so many bubble tea shop established here.
I barely brought it till my sista told me to try it out and I kinda love it. Today bubble tea is differs from before, you can set your sugar and ice level.
Josh asked us to let him try and since then, he love it also. Whenever he look at the bubble tea shop, he will stop by and asked us to buy it. oooo nooo... We play run away game to distract him ^^/

Cause my son love it, I can't help except to search the recipe how to made it at home.
Josh help me along with the process like get the starch, put the water,make the bubble and boil it with me.
I used sosro tea bag, UHT white milk, made Jelly and the boba.
For the boba, need to improve it, but lot of better from last time hahaha.

Here our baby boy enjoy the bubble milk tea.

P.S. It's doesn't mean I always want to busy my self with something I can just brought it anywhere,
but simply make it with my boy, I just want to show him that I love him and willing to take my time making something for him. ^^