Tuesday, December 13, 2005


Nice sunny weather yesterday! Went for cycling in East Coast Park. Man, the place has been changing ever since, more amenities, more eateries, more sports activities and even new street lamps that would even look good if you take it home. Anyway, saw this wierd color-coated cat on the overhead bridge in AMK ave 5. It has orange, grey, black coats. Strange combination eh? What's even more strange is that it has to choose that dangerous position of sleeping at the corner. I mean, what happens if a naughty kid scares it? Surely it'll fall right down the bridge.

Though it's Monday, there's still many kids running about, teenagers trying to ride in Singapore's pathetic waves and parents running after their kids. I guess, it's the school holidays and I have to expect this. I almost cycled the entire stretch of East Coast Park, gave the side towards the hawker centre I pass because the bicycle seat was so very uncomfortable. My buttocks were numb and pain after 2 hours of cycling. I'm pretty impressed by the newly renovated East Coast Park hawker centre. It looks so nicely designed, unfortunately, the designer didn't consider that Singapore is all-year sunny and hot because he placed some translucent shelters for the seats. What's worse is that he didn't leave a pathway between those shelters and I have to walk a big round before I could reach the stall that I want. Oh yah, guess what I spot next to the hawker centre!? A cable ski area!!!!! So similar like the one in batam. But most probably it's going to be expensive because it's the only cable ski in Singapore and Singapore is crowded and ....... You know the rest.

ANYWAY, time for another episode of

HO JIA EHTM

Well, it's the holidays for me, so that means there's more time for me to go around places to find FOOD again. So most definately, there'll be more of such episodes in my blogs for this month and so until school cycle returns once again.


Kartini Indonesian Restaurant
80 Marine Parade Road
Parkway Parade
#02-31
Singapore 449269

One SPECIFIC thing I must say is that, though their dishes seem cheap and all in the menu, they really know how to charge stuff from other miscellaneous stuff. My bill was supposed to be around less than 30 bucks but due to mineral water, towel, appetizer, rice, GST and Service charge, it added up to abit more than that. I ordered three dishes only. It was WAY enough to fill my stomach. Firstly, the appetizers which came even before you ordered anything. It consists of some really agar-agar-like kuay and some crackers which I shall name it as bitter-crispy crackers. These small amount of appetizers were really a good start as I look through the menu. Please note that they charge money for these appetizers too. :( (cunning people eh?)


Gado Gado

Something I thought was just a simple salad came out rather tasty and amazed me. Somehow like rojak, it's a mixture of smaller pieces of the bitter-crispy crackers, cucumber, potatoes(they were nice), bean sprouts and a generous amount of satay sauce. Okay, I must admit that those crackers really go extremely well with the satay sauce. Yummy.


Mutton Rendang

The lamb meat was just right, tender and chewy. Try not too smear too much of the sauce over the meat, because what I found out if you do that is that the meat would not taste as nice. This is yet another high recommendation by the restaurant itself.

Tahu Telor Jakarta

If you have tried the normal indonesian tahu telor, you should never miss this one. A special version of tahu telor(maybe from jakarta only), the tofu is fried so crispy that as you used that spoon to slice it apart, it can hear it cracking just like breaking some potato chips. Mixed with the sauce just like the normal tahu telor, the crispy tofu really makes all the difference.

One word of warning, since this is an indonesian restaurant, most of the dishes that they whip out are spicy. Those dishes that I ordered were so spicy I had to be forced to drink the bottle of mineral water(which they charge money again and the only water that they offer) that they placed on the table together with the appetizer and towels. However, they were really kind enough if you do not want to drink the water, use the tower or eat the appetizer, they would not charge money for those. Ambience there is great, cosy with a minature house on the table with a candle. Music they played on that day was classical and they even have a fake coconut tree in the middle of the restaurant. Most of the customers there were malays, so it could only mean that the restaurant is quite authentic. :)

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