(Almost) End of the Year's Petite Party

Yep, Eyra and Freya went to Lotte World (again!!!). This time, they went along with their sister, Subin eonni. She's been their big sister in Korea. Well, as an end-of-year's memorable gift for the girls, Subin eonni invited the girls to join her to splash in Wonder-land (again). 

Then, after spending like 6 hours at the park, they went home and we started our petite fiesta. hmm..let's see: nasi uduk (coconut milk-rice), rendang, tahu tempe (soy bean tempura), tahu tuna (tuna tofu), teri goreng (Korean style fried anchovies), fruti salad,...and.... 

Ice cream!!! 

yes, they all dug out 6-flavor of Baskin Robbins. Hmm...

indeed, the petite fiesta really began with me as the photographer.^^

Happy Birthday, Everyone.

Uci's Birthday (part 1)

 

Today is our friend's mother's birthday. Yup, it's our friend-neighbor: mas Chairul's mom-in-law or Mbak Dian's mother's birthday. Since we are subway-line-6-family which means that we are just a few minutes away by subway, mas Chairul invited us to come for a dinner over Uci (or Arnis Saber's birthday) oh..it's his Mom's name.

What would a traditional birthday without nasi tumpengan* be? 

*a mountain-shaped rice with side-dish surrounding it.

As for the other main menu that we had, since Uci comes from Padang, West Sumatra....any fiesta like this would not have been complete without the representative cuisine of the region: no other than Rendang.

I needed not to worry though there were more meat than usual, since there were also some side dish like vegetable saute  &.....this one: apple pie that my wife made.

It's scrumptious!!!!!! 

We so happened to have lots of apples at home (thanks to my friend Mr. Panjo who sent us a box of apples:)

Okay..these were (only some of the) dish we had today: fried eggs, anchovies sambal, nasi tumpeng, rendang, lalapan, lontong, lontong sayur, and apple pie.

and.... 

a surprise from om Wawan: molen pisang!! yeaach. .it's like a pancake with banana inside. 

This is om Wawan. He made these molen pisang!!!!

Wow, it must've taken a lot of time and energy to make these molen pisang.

Ansan Trip (again)

This was the second time that I went to Ansan--a 1-hour-5- minute-trip from Seoul by Metro. Indeed, a tiring trip as it was, still it never failed to lure me out of my den in Seoul to crawl away from the bustling life in Seoul to a seemingly not-Seoul-like outskirt town of Ansan...simply to have  a taste of --nothing else than--Indonesian food, since of course there are numerous Indonesian restaurants that dotted the streets there.

Maya, Jobirson, Felix, Wawan got Lost in the Market

This time around....I was lucky enough to have Wawan and other friends of mine: Felix (Ghana), Jobirson ( Uzbekistan), and Maya (Algeria). They agreed to go along with us since they wanted to have another taste of food. So, we went to Barokah restaurant (again) where we ordered rendang (the number one food in CNN food survey:)......hmmm Felix and Jobir loved it so much that they wanted to order the same dish again....., then we also had sate, nasi kuning, ayam bakar, tahu isi (that they loved so much) and of course....Teh Botol Sosro. ^^.
After doing some prayer at the Mosque, we had time to do some shopping. Ansan is notorious for its cheap stuffs, especially those of second-hand stuffs.
Well, we did do some shopping like crazy.
Maya, in particular, was so delved into the world of vegetables as she loves making salad. She found her heaven there since the prices were so way cheaper than those in Seoul.
We 'ransacked' shop after shop to find the bargain stuffs!!!

winter coat and two fluffy dolls

I had this winter coat for my wife, and also a big fluffy doll for my daughter.
Then, since it was about 4 in the evening, we got to catch the train to Seoul.
Oh, I managed to meet my colleague (Chrisna) with her husband, too.
Then, off we went to Seoul by Metro.
Before going....we took time to take a token of memoir in front of Ansan station.