Thursday, October 29, 2020

Laneige Eye Sleeping Mask


I don't know whether it's because October is "my month" or maybe because of other reasons, but I feel be more productive start this month. I've finished every job that has been postponed for weeks, and also I started to write my blog again. Actually still there are so many topics to be written on my blog, but I still want to continue write about the eye treatment. If you have read the previous post, you'll see some "recommended products" for eyes. I won't write about another product at this post. Instead, I'll write specifically about one of those product - Laneige Eye Sleeping Mask.



With no doubt, I would say that Laneige is my favorite brand for skincare. The formula on their products really hydrating my dry skin, and its brightening products also really show an improvement. For this good quality products, the price is very reasonable. That's the reason why I always repurchased their products. Lately, I just add their new product into my skincare routine. Yup, as written above it's the eye sleeping mask. 




At the first time I didn't believe with this product. However, since I've tried the lip sleeping mask (which is amazing) and I also have the travel size, I decided to bring it when I was traveling to Canada. As you know, the time difference between Canada and Indonesia is very long and it made my sleeptime really a mess. By that time I used this mask every night, and surprisingly my eyes wasn't look too tired - unlike when I was not sleeping because of Korean drama. Looking at its great result, I decided to add this product into my skincare routine and by the full size.



First impression when I see this product, it looks elegant. The bottle made from glass - not a plastic. When I openned it, I found out the applicator was made from ceramic ball and it has a cooling effect while you use it around your eyes. It's a huge plus point from me because at the travel size, it only use a plastic bottle with pump. While applying the mask around my eyes, I like to give a "little massage" by doing a circle motion with the ceramic ball.




When you use this Laneige Eye Sleeping Mask, do not think it will be show an instant result. Every skincare need a process and you need to use it routinely to see the result. Will I repurchase this product? OF COURSE!! As long as there's no other product with this function, I'll stay with it and put it in my night skincare routine.



Thursday, October 8, 2020

The Best Eye Treatment for Tired Eyes


The best eye treatment

Hi beauties, how you've been lately?
Did quarantine make you have enough time to sleep and take a rest at home? Or instead, it made your sleep time being disorganized? For me, this quarantine life really "destroyed" my daily routines especially my bedtime. At the beginning, I slept late because of watching Korean drama. I had no idea what should I do at that time so I just keep watching TV series (especially Korean drama) on Netflix day and night. After couple months, I have a new desire to build a new business. So I was working on it until midnight, and even sometimes I didn't sleep because I had a lot of things to do. At the end, I realized that my eyes looks very tired. I could see my dark circle was getting worse and I hate to see it.

Well, I realized it's not only because of my new "job". As I was saying at the previous post, I didn't take care of my skin at all during quarantine. I was too lazy to do it. But looking at how bad my skin was, I tried to fix it and started to do a complete skincare routine again. But this time, I’m not gonna write about my full skincare routine. Instead, I will write about treatment that I do for my eyes. I have 3 favorite products for tired eyes, and I will write about it completely below.



Ole Henriksen Banana Bright Eye Creme
Eye cream is the most basic treatment for eyes, and it's something that you must use everyday. Eyes is the part of your face that get aging rapidly. Some peoples -including me- got aging signs such as dark circle and fine lines around eyes at the young ages. Therefore, eye cream is as important as other skincare. I’ve tried many eye cream before, and currently I fell for Ole Henriksen Banana Bright Eye Creme. With Vitamin C and collagen as its ingredients, this eye cream can solve any problems around your eyes such as dark circle, wrinkles, and puffiness. It’s really good especially if you don’t have enough time to sleep which cause your eyes looks tired. 




Laneige Eye Sleeping Mask
Have you ever use sleeping mask on your night skincare routine? If you have, you must be know how it is work during your bedtime. I never forget to use sleeping mask twice a week, and I love the result which make my skin very hydrated. Sleeping mask works really well while you sleep and give extra hydration. That's what I got by using Laneige Sleeping Mask at night. Being success with sleeping mask product, Laneige has launched another great products which are Lip Sleeping Mask and Eye Sleeping Mask. I've write the review about how lip sleeping mask solved the problem at my lips, and now I gonna write about eye sleeping mask.

Like other "sleeping mask" products, I use eye sleeping mask while I was sleeping during night time. This product used as a replacement of eye cream. While in the morning I use eye cream, at night I use eye sleeping mask. The thing that makes me love this product is the applicator which is a ceramic ball. It has a cooling sensation, and it's good for tired eyes. When I use it, I put the ceramic ball onto the area around my eyes, and do some circular motion. After that, I also give a little massage with my finger around to help the dark circle disappear. 


Besides the applicator, I'd said that Laneige Eye Sleeping Mask has a good formula in it. I've bought the travel size before and used it while traveling. As you know, while traveling we'd have a less bedtime and it made our eyes looks tired. However, since I used Laneige Eye Sleeping Mask, I didn't have that tired looking eyes during the trip. And that's the reason why I bought the full size and use it every night.



Heimish Hydrogel Eye Patch Bulgarian Rose Water
The last product that I use for my eyes is an eye patch. It comes from Heimish which is a Korean brand for skincare. I never used eye patch before and I didn't even know it was exist. Until I watched a beauty blogger introduced this product at social media and it looks promising. I bought it immediately and tried to use it. Since the first usage, I felt this eye patch was really refreshing my tired eyes. It has a cooling sensation and a rose scent which are relaxing. The formula also really helps to hydrate the skin area around my eyes. Every time my eyes looks very tired, I always use this eye patch and after that it looks much better. Besides, Heimish Hydrogel Eye Patch also contains Niacinamide which usually can be found at brightening skincare. So hopefully, with regular use it can get rid of my dark circles.



Well, that's all the eye treatment that I use lately to help me with the tired eyes problem. But using all those treatment doesn't mean you can sleep late anytime you want. You still need enough time to sleep because when you sleep, your skin also "take a rest" and it will looks fresh -naturally- after you wake up.

Saturday, July 4, 2020

Jarte Beauty X Kokumi Creamy Lip Tint [Review and Swatches]


#Dirumahaja selama hampir 4 bulan bikin aku bener - bener jadi cuek dan ga ngurus muka sama sekali. Baik itu skincare atau makeup, I didn't take care of them at all. Karena sebelumnya kan aku makeup cuma saat mau keluar rumah, jadi biar ga keliatan kucel ketemu orang. Setelah pulang aku bersihin makeup, lanjut pake skincare biar muka mulus dan hasil makeup juga bagus. Sejak ada PSBB, aku bener - bener full di rumah aja, kecuali mau ke supermarket. Itupun juga muka aku ketutupan masker. Jadi aku tuh mikirnya, "Buat apa makeup? Ga keliatan juga udah ketutupan masker." Pokoknya aku jadi kaya keluar dari dunia beauty dan udah ga ngikutin perkembangannya lagi.

Beberapa minggu lalu, waktu aku lagi scroll feed di Tiktok, aku liat ternyata ada banyak banget merk lokal baru di dunia kecantikan. Skincare, makeup, semuanya hadir dengan packaging yang bagus banget dan bikin hasrat aku untuk shopping kembali "bergetar". Apalagi setelah baca review kalau kualitasnya bagus dan harganya affordable. Alasan lain yang bikin aku tertarik dengan produk - produk lokal ini adalah banyak produk mereka yang statusnya "LIMITED". Terserah deh kalian mau bilang aku lebay atau ga penting. Tapi saat aku melihat barang yang akan launching adalah produk limited, aku langsung antusias banget and do everything to get it. Rasanya tuh kaya punya kepuasan tersendiri kalau bisa dapetin sesuatu yang limited.


Di antara sekian banyak merk lokal yang sedang launching produk baru, aku tertarik dengan 1 brand lokal yaitu Jarte Beauty. Jujur aja, aku ga pernah denger brand ini sebelumnya sama sekali. Aku itu bener - bener buta banget sama local beauty brand di Indonesia, karena biasanya aku belanja skincare sama makeup cuma saat sedang traveling  ke luar negeri. I might know some local beauty brand in Indonesia, tapi itu hanya sebagian kecil. Rata - rata juga karena muncul di iklan Instagram saat sedang scroll feed. Kenapa aku tertarik dengan Jarte Beauty? Karena dia baru aja launching produk baru, yang merupakan kolaborasi antara Jarte Beauty dengan Kokumi. Yesss, Kokumi - salah satu minuman boba terbaik di Indonesia.

Awalnya aku lihat di insta stories beberapa influencer dan beauty blogger yang uda dikirimin duluan produk dari kolaborasi Jarte Beauty X Kokumi. Produk yang dikeluarkan dari kolaborasi ini berupa creamy lip tint yang tersedia dalam 2 variant, “Okinawa” dan “Unicorn”. Yang suka atau pernah minum Kokumi pasti familiar dengar kata - kata itu. Kata - kata itu adalah nama dari minuman bestseller Kokumi. Salah satu alasan kenapa aku tertarik dengan produknya adalah karena first impression reviewnya pada bilang setiap lip tint ini memiliki wangi sesuai dengan minumannya. Wow!!  Ga kebayang deh punya lip tint dengan wangi yang sesuai dengan minuman favorite aku - Okinawa Brown Sugar Big Boba.

Lips : Jarte Beauty X Kokumi in Unicorn

Waktu itu aku langsung buka instagram Jarte beauty, dan dapat info kalau produk ini exclusive dijual di Beauty Studio by Female Daily . Aku langsung tanya di Instagram @beautystudiobyfd untuk tanggal launching, dan saat dia sudah launching langsung aku beli. Hahaha. Happy banget saat dapet email confirmation kalau uda berhasil.

Package from Beauty Studio by Female Daily


Review Creamy Lip Tint Jarte Beauty X Kokumi
Pertama kali liat packagingnya, aku langsung suka. Designnya ga mewah, tapi lucu dan sweet banget. Di box nya ada gambar boba dan unicorn khas Kokumi. Untuk kemasan lip tint nya sendiri memiliki warna pink and I love it!!



Seperti yang aku bilang, creamy lip tint ini memiliki 2 warna “Okinawa” dan “ Unicorn”. Okinawa memiliki warna cokelat natural, yang cocok buat dipakai sehari - hari. Kalau kalian mau yang agak cerah, kalian bisa pilih “Unicorn” yang memiliki warna agak kemerahan, tapi hasilnya tetap natural. Pokoknya warnanya top banget deh. Cocok untuk warna kulit wanita Indonesia.

Jarte Beauty X Kokumi in Okinawa

Jarte Beauty X Kokumi in Unicorn

Pertama kali aku swatch lip tint ini di tangan, aku agak shock karena texture nya beda banget sama liquid lip color aku lainnya. Texture nya itu bener - bener ringan banget, dan gampang di blend. Akhirnya aku coba di bibir aku dan hasilnya bagus banget. Mau dipake full di bibir dan dioles berkali - kali juga dia ga gumpal. Jadi ga kelihatan tebal dan natural banget hasilnya.

Jarte Beauty X Kokumi Creamy Lip Tint Swatches

Hal lain yang aku suka dari creamy lip tint ini adalah formulanya yang ga bikin bibir kering sama sekali. Kalau kalian uda baca blog aku sebelumnya, kalian pasti tau bahwa bibir aku kering banget. Dan aku harus pake Laneige Lip Sleeping Mask tiap malam, supaya besok pagi bisa pake liquid lip color dengan hasil bibir yang halus. Tapi biasanya, setelah pakai liquid lip color seharian, sorenya bibir aku jadi pecah - pecah lagi. But it’s not happening when I used creamy lip tint dari Jarte Beauty. Seharian pake ini, bibir aku tetep halus.

After 7 hours using Jarte Beauty X Kokumi Creamy Lip Tint in Okinawa

Selain itu, lip tint ini juga lumayan awet. Meskipun ga “maskproof”, tapi tetep oke kok. Di atas adalah foto aku setelah 7 jam pake Okinawa lip tint. Masih keliatan kan warnanya? Meskipun uda mulai pudar, tapi masih wajar sih. Secara selama 7 jam itu aku makan minum, dan pake masker terus. Pokoknya creamy lip tint ini recommended banget deh. Ga nyesel belinya. Bikin makin cinta sama produk - produk Indonesia. Anyway, harga lip tint ini IDR 139.000 , dan menurut aku worth it banget untuk kualitas yang sebagus ini. 

Thursday, July 2, 2020

What to eat in Bangkok - Part 4

Welcome to the last part of this food guide in Bangkok!
Actually we should be have 5 days trip in Bangkok. However since my flight got cancelled, so I bought new flight tickets and back to my country one day earlier. (You can read more about my travel experience during pandemic at this post). We chose Garuda Indonesia to took as back for safety reason, so we departed from Suvarnabhumi Airport - Bangkok. At this airport, there's one restaurant that we love the most, and it's always be a mandatory for us to dine in there even we're just having a short layover. If you want to know more about this place, keep reading this post until finish because I'll write completely about the 4th day in Bangkok - or we could said “What to eat at Suvarnabhumi Airport?”

Day 4 : Suvarnabhumi Airport

Asian Corner
    It's not the first time for us to be at Suvarnabhumi Airport, and believe it or not, we have our favorite restaurant here. It is Asian Corner. We even remember the location of this restaurant exactly, where everything looks the same here. It is located at Concourse D, after you pass immigration check. If you just having a transit at Suvarnabhumi Airport you also can visit this place. I've tried some of their dishes and they are delicious. Even I'd said it's too good for a standard of airport food. 


    However, in between many options, we have our favorite meal. It's a set of rice, tom yum goong (prawn), and fried (omelet) egg. It looks like just an ordinary meal, but it's not. The tom yum has a tasty soup and it also comes with medium size prawn. It's really good to eat the soup together with rice. But what makes it better was the egg. It was the best fried egg that we ever had. We never found any fried egg taste like that. It was little bit crispy at the outside, but it still soft at the inside. It's not too dried at all. They also seasoned it very well and it's really tasty. No matter how long the layover time, this place is a must for us when we're at Suvarnabhumi Airport.

Burger King
    
    
    You must be familiar with this burger. Who doesn't know Burger King? You can find it in every country. So why do I want to eat it at Bangkok? The reason is because it has "pork" options for the meat and it's really delicious. Believe it or not, it also something that we must it when having a transit at Suvarnabhumi Airport. But this time, we tried to order a new dish which is a Taro with Corn Pie (THB 35). OMG! It was very very tasty. This pie has a hot melted creamy taro flavor as the filling, with some corn and it's a perfect combination. It's really something that you must try when in Thailand, because you'll never get it in any Burger King in other countries.

Taro with Corn Pie at Burger King Thailand




    It was the end of our culinary trip in Bangkok. Actually, before we went to Bangkok, we had a lot of lists about food that we wanted try. However because of Covid 19 (which made us worry all the time) and Ivan also wasn't feeling well at that time, we couldn't complete it. But that's fine. Everything we had during this trip, has fulfill our desire for food in Bangkok. Bangkok, we love you.. Once this pandemic is over, we'll be back with our children, for sure....

What to eat in Bangkok - Part 3

Hi everyone!!
Thank you for read my previous posts about "What to eat in Bangkok". As I was saying before, I made this topic into 3 parts which each part is for each day in Bangkok. This blog post is the third part and it's gonna be a long story because we were eating a lot at this day. Besides, we also move to another hotel which not located at Pratunam and we found something good at this area. 

Day 3

On Lok Yun
    What I love by visiting one place is going to local place and looking for a popular place to eat. A tourist spot also has a famous yet delicious food, but sometimes local place has something different and it's worth to try. It was the third day and we had no idea what to eat for breakfast around the hotel area. One thing that we didn't want to do while traveling is eat the same food more than once. We might found some good place nearby for breakfast such as Go Ang Chicken Rice or Kuang Heng Chicken Rice, but we wanted to try another food when in Bangkok. So we're searching about a good place for breakfast in Bangkok, and this place came up in every page - On Lok Yun.


On Lok Yun is not located at Pratunam area, so we ordered Grab and it took around 20 minutes to reach there. It's just a small place at the street side and it looks very old. FYI, this traditional coffee shop has been there for almost 80 years, and it's still popular until now among locals and tourists. However since I was there during pandemic, there's no tourist at all. I only spotted some elder, and also some locals wearing formal clothes. It looks like their having breakfast here before go to the office. 

Hot milk tea - THB 22 and free hot tea

They don't have many options for the menu, but they're all enough for breakfast. A toast bread and a western style breakfast set are the bestseller, so we ordered each of them. And one thing that we never forget to order in Bangkok, cha yen (thai tea) - and of course it's the hot one because it's for morning breakfast. 


Let's start from the western style breakfast (THB 55). At this plate there are pork sausage, bacon, chinese sausage (lap cheong), and 2 eggs. You can choose how the eggs gonna be cooked, and we chose scrambled. It might looks simple and nothing special, but it was delicious. We love the bacon which is very thin and crispy, and also the pork sausage which is very tasty. But what we love the most is the chinese sausage. We've tried many kind of chinese sausage but this one is the best. And it's something that you can't get in any western - style breakfast menu.

Toast bread with butter and sugar - THB 23

Next is a toast bread with sugar on top. Little bit crispy at the outside part, mixed with the sugar, it's really good. Beside a toast bread, we also order egg custard bread with kaya (THB 28). Basically it's a steamed soft white bread that comes with kaya as a dipping sauce. The bread was really soft and the kaya was also good. 


Haidilao Hot Pot
    When we talked about hot pot restaurant, there's one name that people would think about - it's Haidilao. Haidilao is a hot pot restaurant that comes from China. This place is really popular for hot pot lover. Not only because their delicious food, but also their service. Their service is the best. Even though you haven't come inside the restaurant and still queueing, they'll provide snacks and drinks for you. We've tried this restaurant while we were at Kuala Lumpur, and we really love it. So when we knew Haidilao has an outlet in Bangkok (precisely at Central World shopping mall), we didn't want to missed it.

Pork bone soup and Tomato soup at Haidilao Hot Pot

We came for lunch, and there was no queue (another advantage to travel during pandemic. LOL!) However, almost every table filled with guests. They have many variant for the soup, and we chose 2 types which is our favorite - Tomato soup and pork bone soup. Not forgetting the bean curd roll which is really good after dipped at the soup. It's all taste exactly the same with the one we had before. The price was also quite affordable this high quality restaurant. Unfortunately they don't have a fresh live tiger prawn like we had at Kuala Lumpur. But overall it's worth it to have this hot pot dish when in Bangkok 

Fire Tiger
   
Fire Tiger Milk - Central World, Bangkok

    We wouldn't missed any day without trying a new boba drink in Bangkok. After having lunch, we're looking for boba drink at the same shopping mall and we found - Fire Tiger. Fire Tiger is a brand for boba drink which originally from Bangkok. This boba drink has a unique concept, where the pick up point is from tiger's mouth. It becomes a mandatory for everyone to try this drink when in Bangkok, especially if you're a boba addict. I ordered their bestseller which is "Fire Tiger Milk" (THB 150). It's the most expensive boba drink I ever had, but it's also the best. It has a strong taste of brown sugar, the boba also very good. One thing that make it special is beside boba, it also has jelly for the topping which also delicious.

[Grab Food] Moo Tong Congee
    At the afternoon, we moved another hotel which located at Sathorn (near river area). By chance we started to hungry but feel lazy to go out because we just arrived. Well, it's the perfect time to order Grab Food. New place, must be there's something new to try around this place. At the moment I was craving for something warm such as porridge, and I looked that there's one place, very recommended for pork porridge. It doesn't have any English name so we couldn't find out about the review of this place on google maps or instagram. We just trust what's written at Grab application. After looked at the menu, we ordered their bestseller menu - pork porridge and chicken rice (again! We love chicken rice :P)

Hainanese chicken rice - THB 50

    It wasn't took a long time until the food has arrived. Once I opened the plastic, the smell of its broth came out from the porridge. It was really good as well as the taste. The thickness of the porridge was just perfect. It has pork meatball inside which is very tasty, and also have some onion leaves and ginger as the garnish. Beware!! Ginger in Thailand has a very strong taste. I just put a little bit ginger but it was very spicy. But it's perfect to warmed up my stomach. The chicken rice was also delicious. We ordered the combination of boiled and fried chicken as the toppings, and both are so tasty. Somehow we felt it's more delicious than other chicken rice that we ate before. 

Pork Porridge - THB 35

    Feeling satisfied with all the food, I started to match the location between the map at Grab application and Google Maps. And we found the name of this place. Surprisingly, this place has many good reviews and it's also quite popular. If you're looking for this place at Google Maps, just type "Moo Tong Congee". Another good news, it opened 24 hours. So you can order it anytime you want.

Sooksiam
    After took a rest, we decided to go to a new shopping mall nearby called Iconsiam. What makes us visiting this mall is there's a food court with floating market concept. It's called Sooksiam. At this place, there are many variety of Thai street food and that's what we're looking for. I realized that street food will taste good if we eat the original version which sold at the street side. However because of Coronavirus, I was afraid to go to traditional market and tried their street food because of hygiene reason. So here we are, at the Sooksiam, looking for something good to try.

Chocolate Banana Crepe and Mango Sticky Rice at Sooksiam

    Since it was already night, we're not looking for a "heavy meal". We're looking for a light dish and durian. Yup, we're durian lover and we couldn't hold ourselves looking at the "fat", yellow durian in Bangkok. After looking around, finally we found a stall who sells crepe, and in front of it there's a place selling mango sticky rice. I just realized we haven't eat this popular food since the first day, so those became our choice. The mango sticker was really tasty, as I was expecting. Neither the crepe which is freshly made when you order. We ordered banana and chocolate flavor crepe and it's the best combo ever. However we were disappointed with "the looking good" durian. Even though it has a lot of "meat", but it was really bland. I felt cheated by paying expensive for durian taste like this.
(Sorry we forgot to take picture of the durian. But if you want to have a good durian in Bangkok, I think you need to do a search first and not buy it at random place.)


Saturday, June 27, 2020

What to eat in Bangkok - Part 2

หมูตั่วเฮีย อร่อยเฮียเฮีย (Mootuahere) - local restaurant in Bangkok

Continuing the the first part of my culinary trip in Bangkok, this time I'll write the second part of this journey. It was the second day of our trip, and we started our day at Pratunam area. However because of coronavirus, we didn't go to the market area or bought any street food. We just visited Platinum Fashion Mall and Central World for having a lunch. At the afternoon, we were visiting local area - but still at Pathum Wan district. FYI, Pathum Wan district is where the famous Siam Paragon and MBK shopping centre located. Do you want to know what we had for dinner at this area? Keep reading until finish ^^
 
Day 2

Kuang Heng Pratunam Chicken Rice
    As a chicken rice lover, seems like we'd never get enough with this comfort food. By chance we found out about another famous chicken rice at Pratunam, it's called "Kuang Heng Pratunam Chicken Rice". Since it's not far from the hotel, we decided to have breakfast here. Unlike the chicken rice that we ate before, they have fried chicken option for the topping. So we decided to ordered 2 types of chicken (steamed and fried) as the topping for the rice. Not forgetting, we also ordered other famous dish in Bangkok for breakfast - steamed bread with kaya pandan.

Boiled and Fried Chicken with Rice - THB 50

Steamed bread with kaya pandan at Kuang Heng Chicken Rice - Pratunam

Well, I love their fried chicken so much. It's really flavorful, and not plain like the steamed chicken. And for the bread, it was really soft because they steamed it first before served. It was really good especially when I dipped it into the kaya pandan. It's perfect for breakfast dish. 

Tiger Sugar
    Boba lover will know this brand because it's really famous. This brand comes from Singapore, and they have opened their brancehes in many country such as Indonesia and Malaysia. First time I tried it at  Kuala Lumpur - Malaysia, and it becomes my favorite boba drink EVER!! I love the "Brown Sugar Pearl Series" - which has a combination between boba and pearl (a small size of boba). The other things that makes me like Tiger Sugar is the cream mousse. It so tasty, so creamy, and the sweetness level from its brown sugar is just perfect.

Brown Sugar Boba + Pearl with Cream Mousse - THB 120

When I knew Tiger Sugar also has its branches in Bangkok, I didn't want to missed it. I went to one of its branch at Platinum Fashion Mall, and ordered their bestseller - which is my favorite menu as well. Its boba and its pearl was as delicious as I was expecting. However, I thought the brown sugar was too little because I couldn't taste the brown sugar. All I taste was only the milk and the cream mousse. I felt disappointed because it's quite different with the one I had in Kuala Lumpur.

Fuji Japanese Restaurant
    We love Japanese Food!! So wherever we go, we always looked for a good Japanese restaurant. In Thailand, we have a favorite Japanese restaurant which serves delicious food with affordable restaurant. It's Fuji. You can find their outlet everywhere in Thailand - not just in Bangkok. This time I had lunch at Fuji Restaurant which located at Central World. It's not the first time for me to eat at Fuji, so I know exactly what I gonna order - Fuji Spesial Steak Set - my favorite dish at Fuji all the time. Since Ivan wasn't feeling well and craving for a soup dish, so we also ordered a Sukiyaki set.

Fuji Spesial Steak Set - THB 390

Sukiyaki Beef Set - THB 290

If you ever eat at Fuji, you might know that all their food is delicious. I always asked "well done" for the steak and it's really delicious. Even though its well done, but the meat was really juicy and it's so tender. Usually I ordered it as ala carte menu (only meat). But this time I ordered it as a set menu and it was really satisfying. The set menu comes with rice, salad, side dish (including a tasty grilled salmon), and also a drink and dessert. The sukiyaki set was also the same. It was too much until we couldn't finish it all. However every dish was really delicious and it also comes with affordable price. If you're in Thailand and started to get bored with Thai food, I recommend you to visit Fuji Japanese Restaurant.

หมูตั่วเฮีย อร่อยเฮียเฮีย (Mootuahere)
    This time we're going to local place and had dinner at this "porky" restaurant. Knowing this place from explore page at Instagram, and this place was on our food list. This place basically, serve food with pork as their main ingredients. They well known for "Pork Meatball Soup" and "Crispy Pork Belly". The pork meatball soup served with noodles, and you can choose what kind of noodle that you want. Since its local place, they can't speak English so it's kinda hard to know the name of the dish. When we're ordering, we just showed the picture on Instagram about the menu that we wanted.

Crispy Pork - THB 129

Pork noodle soup - THB 69

However, going to this local place is not a disappointment for us. All the food was really good. At first we ordered "Pork Meatball Soup with Noodle" and "Crispy Pork Belly" Everything was really tasty especially the pork meatball. I love how it taste and also the texture. It's not too chewy and I could taste the pork melt in my mouth. The pork belly also very delicious with its crispy crackling layer. Another thing that makes this dish taste better is the sweet soy sauce. 

Kanom Kheow snack by Jaru bee - THB 120

Beside that, I also ordered a Thai Crispy Pancake as an appetizer. I saw many times the video about how people make it and it becomes a must try (street) food in Bangkok. Knowing they also have it on their menu, so we decided to try. If you're a sweet lover, you must be love it. But I'm not really a sweet addict so for me it's just so so. I didn't mean this food is not tasty. It has a sweet taste, and that's it - nothing special.

Chinese Sausage Pork Fried Rice - THB 89

While we're enjoying our food, we looked at another table and they're eating "Lap Cheong (chinese sausage) Fried Rice". It's looking good so we also gave it a try. As our expectation, the fried rice seasoned perfectly. It's really good and I love the lap cheong as well. Overall, the food at this place was all good and didn't give any disappointment. It's something that I expect from going to local place - a hidden gem that's not written at tourist guide book.


Wednesday, June 24, 2020

What to eat in Bangkok - Part 1


Traveling during pandemic, didn't make us forgot the purpose of our trip to Bangkok - shopping and culinary. Bangkok known as a paradise for shopaholic and food lover. Since I ate many tasty food during in Bangkok, I'll share with you about every food that I ate. Not just the food that I ate at the restaurant, but also what we ordered through Grab Food. It's gonna be a long story so I'll divide this topic into 4 parts - which 1 part for 1 day.

Anyway, if you're wondering "How could I travel to Bangkok at this situation?', you can check out this post. I've written the reason why we're in Bangkok and also our experience during this trip.

Day 1
 
Go-Ang Pratunam Chicken Rice
    This chicken rice restaurant is really popular in Bangkok, and it's on our first list. Thankfully it's located right in front of Berkeley Pratunam Hotel - the first hotel that we stayed during in Bangkok. Once we arrived, we went to this restaurant directly for lunch. there's not much menu at this place. And it also seems like everyone come only for their chicken rice. So we ordered 2 portion of chicken rice, and a cold Thai tea because the weather was really hot and we need something cold and sweet.

Chicken Rice - THB 40 & Iced Thai Tea - THB 25

In my opinion, chicken rice in Bangkok is different with the usual chicken rice that I have in Singapore and Indonesia. Usually, chicken rice is quite oily and the chicken also soaked at the sauce and oil. In Bangkok, the rice is really dry, but it has a richful fragrant. The chicken was thinly sliced - with no taste. One thing that I love from this chicken rice is the dipping sauce. It is a perfect combination between dark soy sauce and other ingredients. While people use this sauce to dip the chicken, I poured this sauce over the rice and the chicken, and it's really tasty.


[Grab Food] Siam Seafood - Pratunam & Bear House
    Felt lazy to went out for dinner, so we ordered some food through Grab Food. We had no idea what to eat, and found "Siam Seafood" as a recommended restaurant nearby. Even though it's a seafood restaurant, we didn't order seafood meal. Instead, we ordered "Stir Fried Pork Belly with Chili and Basil (served with rice)" and "Seafood Pad See Ew". I love the pork belly so much. It has a perfect taste, especially when you eat it together with rice. However, it was too spicy for us who's not a spicy food lover. Yeah, we're in Thailand and their spicy food is extremely spicy :) 

Dinner from Grab Food

Stir Fry Pork Belly with Basil (Pad Kana Moo Krob) from Siam Seafood

About the Pad See Ew, it wasn't as good as we were expecting. It's not sweet like other pad see ew that we had before, and even we think it's quite tasteless. If you're wondering "What is Pad See Ew?", Pad See Ew is a stir fried rice noodles with soy sauce and other ingredients such as vegetables, pork, seafood, and chicken. You can choose your favorite protein as the toppings. Ivan really love this food and everytime we visit Thai restaurant, this dish is a mandatory. 

Bearhouse Milk Tea - THB 75

Besides food, we also ordered a drink. Since we're a boba - milk tea lover, tried the famous boba milk tea in Bangkok was on our "list". This time we ordered milk tea from Bear House. I've been eyeing on this drink before we're in Bangkok. It has a simple - cute packaging, and the drink itself looks different with the usual boba drink. When I tried, I found out this milk tea taste better than I was expecting. It has a perfect sweetness level, and the boba size was really small and not too chewy. Very different with the usual boba which has bigger size. Actually, besides boba milk tea they also well known for "Mochi Roll". However it was sold out at that time so I didn't order it. Maybe another time when I back to Bangkok again.