FAMISHED EXPLORER

This is a small Indonesian restaurant in karama. It is not an upmarket place, but it has a very homely feel to it and I really liked that. The food too is presented in a homely way without any frills and tastes so too. We started with the tahu isi which is a tofu based dish. The tofu is fried and can be filled with various ingredients (and/or meat) based on your preference. I liked the taste of this one, and it tasted great with the sauces that they give you on the side. On that note, the sambal here was really spicy the way it is supposed to be. It wasn't toned down like a lot of other places do, so have it sparingly. The next one was the bakwan goreng . It is a fried snack that looks like Indian bhajjiyas . They're fried vegetable fritters. The taste was not bad but it was very chewy and got really hard within a few minutes. I'm not sure if it was meant to be that way, but we didn't enjoy it much. For our mains, we called for one Mi Goreng which ar...

Now there are many seafood restaurants, but this one focuses on particularly Indonesia seafood. It's a small, cozy place with wooden tables and chairs that give an Asian feel to it.  The staff was prompt in attending to us. For starters we ordered the Risol and Tempe Mendoan.  While waiting for our food, they gave us some prawn crackers with a spicy sauce! The Risol is a crispy spring roll of Prawns and Vegetables. I really liked it as the the taste of the filling inside was prominent and it was well cooked too. The Tempe Mendoan is Fried Soya Bean with spring onion in the batter. By itself it tasted okay, but when had with the sauce with chillis it bring out more of the flavor.  Risol Tempe Mendoan As for the drinks, they recommended their  ice tea  which they make in-house. They have two flavour - lemon, and lemon with mint. We ordered one each since not many places make the ice tea in-house. Sadly, the ice tea wasn't anything out ...