Pink and Undecided: food review

Gluttony Runs in the Family...

Hiya everybody!

I'm gonna dip my feet into food blogging again now! Okay, just kidding, we all know i suck at describing food (heck, i have hard time even remembering food names :p)! But since i love food (i am at awe but also envious at the same time with people who actually aren't interested in food! You know, the type that only eats to sustain themselves and even find it to be a total chore? Why can't i be one of them? WHYYYY? *whines incessantly*), i can't help but feature at least pictures of them in this blog!

As the title suggested, i'm not the only glutton in my family, in fact i can safely say that most of my family members are total gluttons as well *LOL*. And whenever my big bro KC and his wife CL is in town, we'd be eating out a lot more than we normally do (because most food like steaks are not readily available in Banjarmasin-where they are staying, so they would have more than a few food cravings on every visit), we also like to try out new places that we've never been to with them.

I'm just gonna mini review (and show food pictures, so if you're hungry-just like me-while reading this... I'm sorry!!!) a few places (old and new) that we went to on their last two visits (that i remember to take pictures on).

1. Harvest Patisserie

Well, this one must not be a stranger for most of you who lives in big cities like Jakarta, Surabaya, Bandung etc because they have branches everywhere. It's also our go-to patisserie whenever we need a ready stock, super yummy rich cakes! One of my old fave from this patisserie would be their mean Devil's Food (that is now baptised Devil's Cake for some reason)!

You might think our outfit looked familiar, that's because we went there (before a shopping session at CW) straight from Etienne's birthday party!

CL was actually craving for some gelato but since we seem to go to Pisa Cafe whenever they're in town, we decided to go somewhere else (not much choices for nice gelatos in Surabaya, sadly). Just our luck (it seems like whenever we're looking or craving for something, then the universe would deliberately make sure that it's the day that those particular something's not available! Have you ever felt this way too?) but their gelato machine (or was it their frigde?) was broken. We ended up stuffing ourselves with cakes and macarons instead.

Au's errrr... Chocolate something something :p

Hunny and i's caramel something something >.<

At least i remember this one! It's CW's Black Forest! LOL, that's the easy one

Some macarons. Same as gelato, it's definitely NOT easy to find decent macarons in Surabaya, the best i've tried to far would be Harvest's (not that i try too many of them, like i said many times already-i don't have the biggest sweet tooth)

The new sensation : Cronut! Mt and Baby Boy had one each. It's pretty humongous and to think that Baby Boy actually finished more than half means he really liked it! And he kept on mentioning cronut as well now, so i guess he really did. It's crispy and crunchy on the outside with rich (but runny) fla inside. I find it way too sweet myself.

Hunny's usual annoying expression whenever i ask him to pose

Totally unrelated but don't you think my accessories are pretty appropriate? Especially the cupcake ring hahaha

2. Daily Sweet

Now this one... I actually didn't have a good first impression with them. Last October i tried to book a table for my birthday but they answered us in the snootiest, most arrogant way. Not only they told us they do not accept bookings on weekends (which is totally acceptable since some restaurants does have that policy), but they went and boast about how "It's always incredibly crowded here on weekends" and added "If you don't believe it you can come and check it for yourself". Arrogant *$^*!(@^$*(Y)!!!! In fact if you Google Daily Sweet, the foursquare would be on top and my comment's one of their very first comments, b**ching about their CS haha.

With that fact, we've managed to steer clear of the place for almost 5 months, then when CL said "Let's go to a new cafe!", we decided to give this place a chance (and check if it really was that crowded ===> deserted was more like it).

Everything was quite peachy at first, hunny brought his NX300 that he brings everywhere now and flipped it out as soon as we entered

We even snapped these dessert pictures freely, in front of their manager, waiter and waitresses

This is the cashier area, and clearly they had no problem with us taking pictures everywhere!

But then we decided to move to the second floor, because hunny said the decor's even cuter there and our main purpose there was to take pictures!

As soon as he snapped that picture of me, a snooty waitress approached him and chided him, telling him (in the most disrespectful tone) that he should stop taking pictures with the camera "Use your phone's camera, okay!!!".

Now, don't get me wrong. If from the start they already told us that they do not allow photography there i won't be (too) mad, but why would they let us take so many pictures on the first floor? Plus, we're paying customers (i know i seem to be using this word a lot, that's because i'm very frustrated on how paying customers are treated in some places!!! Like we're beggars or something!), shouldn't she use a more apologetic, friendlier tone? Even my usually non-plussed brother was super pissed and started barking at the rude waitress *LOL*.

As the food itself? Mostly are okay, some barely edible. Price wise, it was not expensive but with that kind of service we got-i wouldn't pay half of it.

CL's cake, i think it was so so because i didn't hear her saying it's super yummy or super yucky

Baby Boy's cream of mushroom soup, which probably is the best tasting food there

My drink, it was okay too

The pasta was actually not too bad either

This is the barely edible one. Beef Wellington that was super duper sweet! I've never tried beef wellington before, but i'm pretty sure it's not supposed to be that sweet! Hunny said Gordon Ramsay would definitely throw this in the bin, screaming *LOLOLOL*

Totally forgot to take a pic of my steak before starting devouring it! My steak was actually not bad, a bit tough maybe but not super bad either

In short, their food's rates somewhere in the middle. Only one out of everything we ordered was actually disgusting, so it was still acceptable. Price-wise it was okay too. Too bad they had to ruin our visit with sucky services (not only we were treated less than friendly by one of their staffs, the waiter actually forgot CL's order-a creme brulee that she actually really wanted! By the time we checked on why the creme brulee doesn't seem to make an appearance yet, they told us thee kitchen's closed already. WTF).

Needless to say we most probably wouldn't be visiting the place ever again. And i wouldn't recommend it either.

3. Gojumong

I don't know if i've mentioned this before, but we LOVE Korean BBQ! We love it so much that we often attempt to do it ourselves at home (multiple times already, actually). Our favorite local Korean restaurant would be Myoung Ga (always so yummy!) but this time round CL actually wanted to try out Gojumong.

The place looks like the typical Korean restaurant (they tend to all look similar to me)

Cute wall stickers, though!

Scary yellow photo of us because of the lighting hahaha

The food there was nice (but i much prefer Myoung Ga), the service excellent and professional (we're quite scary when it comes to consuming the lettuce you eat with the BBQ, the waitress kept on topping our bowls up promptly. We sometimes need to wait very long for the waiters/waitresses in Myoung Ga to top up the lettuce bowl) even though they seemed to be a little confused and flustered at times, but still totally acceptable. Price wise, it's quite expensive (like every Korean BBQ restaurants in Surabaya are!), especially if you compare the size of the meat portion they have with Myoung Ga's.