Oriental dishes plus an affordable pice plus a cozy atmosphere equals Hangiri Sushi. Yes, if you'd like to have lunch or dine in in an easy wallet while staying in Jogja, you shall put this restaurant in your must-visit-list. Why oh why? It's because this restaurant has many choices of sushi, ramen, and donburi.

Price:

Start from IDR 10,000 (food)

Start from IDR 2,000 (beverage)

Open Hour:

10 AM – 10 PM.

Address:

Jl. Prof. Yohanes No. 1060 Sagan, Yogyakarta

Jogja offers you many choices of affordable yummy foods. This city is a city of education which means we have many people staying here for studying. Maybe this is one of the reasons why it's so easy to find student-price-food. If you are like Fany and I – we love foods – this is heaven. But even heaven is confusing sometimes! Doh! Why? Just scroll down and read next paragraphs...

“What's for dinner?” This is a cliché question which sometimes takes longer time to answer. I knew I was hungry and I wanted to eat but my gut gave me no clue what to eat. So, as a response to Fany I heard myself saying, “What would you like to have?”. “Anything...no idea...”, Fany replied. (Yeah, we got confused).

Spending about 60 minutes on what to eat, finally Fany and I decided to taste Vietnamese food. She drove us to Indochine Bistro. We found this place while searching on Instagram. We picked it since none of us had it before.

Dining out with Fany was such a moment for me. We don't hang out as often as we used to be. So, when I got the chance, I was always excited about it. The two of us shared stories about our life and future plans. She got married months ago and she told me how it felt to take a role as a new wife while waiting for our hot tea.

As I said earlier, that was my first Vietnamese food. In order to enrich this moment, I didn't only order the main menu. I started with Goi Cuon—Vietnamese Fresh Spring Roll with sauce made from Hoisin sauce and peanuts as my appetizer. It was as fresh as morning air in the forest. So fresh so that Fany exclaimed, “This is raw veggies!!! I can't eat this!!!”

I told Fany there was a prawn inside and if she kept on eating it she might like it. “Nope!”, she said. She disliked eating raw vegetables (even though they wrapped it in fresh rice paper!).

“This one tastes better with the sauce! Try it!” I convinced Fany but she refused my idea. Sigh...

Indochine Bistro had 5 options of main menu. Fany ordered Indochine Nasi Goreng and I chose Pho – Vietnamese noodle soup. Indochine served my noodle soup with beef slices, vegetables, and meat balls. The tasted was surprising! Well, I expected for unique taste but it tasted like Indonesian food! Hehehe... Fany found her nasi goreng delicious but both of us didn't fancy the texture of the rice.

Based on what I ate, what I loved the most was the dessert. To enrich my culinary adventure I picked Durian Sticky Rice in Coconut Cream. The taste was oh-wow-wow-I-like-it!!! This is only for those who survive eating durian. If you can't stand for its smell you might not find this dessert yummy. The smell of durian lingered on my nose and I was like... “Oh man, I am so happy!”. Luscious. There was a party inside my mouth hosted by soft durian sticky rice and creamy coconut cream for IDR 20,000.

Indochine Bistro also had some juices and Vietnamese Coffee Drip. The price of their juices was IDR 16,000 and you could have the coffee at the cost IDR 15,000. I didn't try its coffee since I had gastritis and I've been drinking no coffee for months. But I was curious...

Jogja is the right place for culinary adventure. If you'd like to dine out at Indochine Bistro you could find this on Jalan Seturan Raya in front of Superindo/ Depok Sports Center.

Have you had any Vietnamese food? If you have, what's your favorite? Oh, I wonder if you'd like to eat durian once you are in Jogja. Would you?

Hello readers! How have you been? Hopefully you are all good and happy! I apologize for being MIA for weeks. Some things in my life needed to be fixed and I'm glad to be here again! YAY!!! I can't wait to share things with you and read your comments...

Two months ago my parents had their 34^th anniversary. As long as I know, my parents never celebrate their wedding anniversary. Not even a romantic dinner for two. Uh, they were busy doing their role as parents and though they never complained, I thought last month we should do something for them. Yep, my brother and I bought them a cake, which was a tiramisu cake.



You have no idea how grateful I was to see their response. They were surprised at first and became shy afterwards. The sparks on their eyes... I will never forget. Maybe I am not a superb daughter but the idea of sharing little pretty things with my parents is now on my routine agenda. They deserve it!

About two weeks after the anniversary of my parents I had to stay in a hospital for couple of days. Sigh... Not good. I did need a rest but that wasn't kind of rest I'd like to have. One of the causes was stress. Yep, being stressed ain't good for health! In my case it triggered digestion problems. 



The above one was taken in ER. It was early in the morning and luckily I was not alone! Based on my condition, I had to stay in the hospital for couple of days. I got rest and errrr... I know I was sick but I couldn't resist taking photo of one of my lunch. I think it was delicious (for hospital's food) and of course healthy! Hehehe...



Good the hospital thing was done before the event “Adventure Holiday with The Avengers & My Little Pony”. I had to attend its opening together with Anin. They had Capt. America, Thor & Iron Man for photo sessions and some original merchandises from Marvel.

I also started new habit which is eating oat meals. Yes, oat meals for breakfast. My favorite one is oat meals with avocado and banana. They taste delicious! Yum yum... It is not typically Indonesian's breakfast but I am excited about it and looking forward to try some oat meals recipes.

If I am into oat meals nowadays, what about you? What is your favorite breakfast? Are you into oat meals for breakfast as well? I'd love to hear from you.

How would you like to spend an evening with friends? Dining out? Window shopping?

One of my favorite things to do after passing by the office hours is doing karaoke. My friends and me are fans of karaoke. Once in a month we will do karaoke. It's a yay-moment for us. We can sing (and pretend we are Adele) or we can hop dance as if we are bunnies J-Lo.

In order to save our stomach from hunger, we usually get something to eat first before doing karaoke. We usually have “premature-dinner-time” . We feed the worms right between 5 pm and 5.30 pm. Yeah... the worms need to be calmed down before being attacked by our fantastic voice! You don't want to sing while they are pursuing foods.

Wednesday this week, we planned to go to Hello F-KTV for la la la la. Before singing, we decided to dine out at Le Waroenk. This place has affordable-price-foods which are so perfect for students. You can find Le Waroenk on Jalan Cik Ditiro.

The concept of Le Waroenk is angkringan. Angkringan is a food stall which serves variety of foods at very cheap prices. They serve rice in a small portion and you can taste it together with any other side dish. They offer you various drinks too by the way, such as tea, milk tea, coffee, ginger drink, ginger milk, hot chocolate, etc.

 What did you have Eunike? I had rice with sambal teri, fried tempeh, otak-otak and orang juice. Sambal teri is hot sauce mixed with anchovies. Otak-otak is made of fish meat. I really like otak-otak here. My tongue could taste the fish meat and it wasn't fishy. I bet this will be perfect to eat even if all I have is only hot rice in a bowl. Hmmmmm... Yum yum... And FYI, I didn't spend much on my food. It was pretty economic – IDR 12,000.


Done with our cheap-price-dinner, our motorcycles took us to Hello F-KTV in Seturan. This karaoke has 50% Off for Employees on Wednesday. You can use this if you book for at least 2 hours and you show your name card. Each hour costs IDR 80,000 for a medium room.

We chose medium room since there were 8 people. Fany joined us with her hubby. Benny was with his buddy, Carlo (hi Carlo!). I went with Ella, Anin, and Pomo. We sang older songs such as “Greatest Love of All”, “Endless Love”, and “Killing Me Softly from Roberta Flack” to newer songs such as “Love Me Like You Do” and Sam Smith's “I'm Not the Only One”.


Anin shocked the guys when she was singing a K-Pop “Very Good” from Block B. Yeah, she went crazy singing this song, crazy enough so that the guys opened their mouth! Hahaha... Ella and me supported Anin as her dancers! (Hmmm...those guys suppose to do karaoke more with us!) If you are curious which song Anin sung, see this:

Have you done karaoke? What is your must-sing-song? If you were in Jogja, you can easily find places for karaoke such as  Hello F-KTV, Inul Vista, Happy Puppy, Sangrilla, Top 40, Hyperbox and Nav.
 
To end this post, I'd like to share a photo of Anin and Ella. This is the side effect of K-Pop euphoria!  Yeah, we sometimes are silly hehehe...