MOTTOMOO HAMBURG PANTAI INDAH KAPUK - JAKARTA

This will be a short review about this newly opened Japanese restaurant in Pantai Indah Kapuk named Mottomoo. I wasn’t exactly in the mood to take a lot of pictures as I went here right after I landed on the airport from Bangkok (more stories about Bangkok coming very soon!).

Mottomoo’s located align Cake-A-Boo and the recently opened Abura Soba Yamatoten, something about the place that’s quite catchy but honestly very simple, wasn’t sure if it’s the minimalist-industrial design or the cat illustration on the wall. Anyway, their concept is Japanese Hamburg house and align with that you’re going to find hamburg selections on the menu. Honestly, I would see this more like a Japanese modern fusion cuisine instead of authentic Japanese, as I saw some menus  heading towards the western side. 4 main food genres here would be: appetizers, hamburg, rice and pasta dishes.

Enough yakking, let’s move on to the food!

Tebasaki

IDR 45k

I was happy for the chicken wings as they’re beautifully cooked (very juicy and tender) and dressed in glazy caramelly soysauce, the flavor was the lovely combination of sweet, savory and garlicky. Best have when it’s hot!

Hamburg Gratin

IDR 99k

The main idea of this dish is hamburger meat cooked and presented in Gratin style. They’re using Australian Black Angus Rib Eye with NO FAT for the meat, and dressed with Bechamel Sauce and topped with Mozarella and Parmesan cheese. The meat was beautifully cooked with tender and juicy inside. Surprisingly, as I was digging in, I noticed that they also put spaghetti below the hamburg and consistency wise, the spaghetti was cooked on a good temperature, quite al-dente even though not completely.

For some reasons, aside from the generous amount of sauce, I feel like the consistency of the sauce wasn’t thick enough for my liking and in a way, I also expected the flavor to be richer and bolder, my experience was like 75% out of the full expectation, but I am not saying that it’s bad, in fact nowhere near, it just can do better.

Premium US Beef Stew

IDR 150k

I freaking love the presentation of most Japanese rice dishes, it’s just that generous amount of sauce not only make the food look prettier, but it drooled the hell outta me! Now I found that the sauce here was thicker and tastier (better seasoned) for my liking and OMG that beef stew was cooked perfectly with uber tender beef. Pairing it with a rice was in fact a genius thing to do. I wonder how would it feel if they actually put omelette into the portion. I GOT DAYUM ON MY MIND.

This time, I don’t want to conclude because I barely had a lot of their menus, but my experience was not bad, even though generally I feel like they can do better with certain things, but that’s normal, there will be positives and negatives on every visit. I like the range of the menu and the three outcomes I tried, pricing wise, I wouldn’t say that it’s exactly cheap.

Anyway, goodluck Mottomoo!

Mottomoo Hamburg
Ruko Garden House Blok B/21
Pantai Indah Kapuk, Jakarta Utara 14470
021 - 9505 1043
Opening Hours:
Weekdays: 11 AM - 10:30 PM
Weekends: 11 AM - 11 PM
Pricing: $$ (IDR 300k for two)
Dresscode: casual
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ABURA SOBA YAMATOTEN JAKARTA

Three weeks away from Jakarta and the F&B scene is going crazy rapid! My radar noticed six new restaurants opening that I haven't visited. You know I've mentioned so many times how I love visiting new places, but it's an exception when it comes to travelling, OMG I obviously prefer travelling and breathe that different air, I don't know why but I feel pretty stressed with all the works in town, I really need to change how I see about the city or else I'll be very bored and lost interest about it, it feels like this city is my favorite "eating" and "working" site, and not more than that, but hey, positively thinking, the "eating" part is not bad :""").

When I was away, I saw people posting about this recently opened soba house (as this post is written, it exactly opened one week before) in Pantai Indah Kapuk called Abura Soba Yamatoten. My friends have been raving quite intensely about it and quickly enough, this lands in my "must visit" list by the time I'm back in Jakarta and yes I did it just yesterday!!! Abura Soba Yamatoten is located align the Cake-A-Boo and Mainichi area and the place was actually way smaller than I had in mind (judging from the pics I saw on Instagram), but I heard the second floor construction's on progress.

Currently, probably around or less than 10 tables being occupied with 2-4 seating capacity, the interior was very simply designed and nothing special about the design, it's just the typical proper dining restaurant, somehow since it's quite packed and crowded right now, you kinda have the feeling that you should leave early knowing people are waiting. BTW I was super duper lucky because I arrived at 2:50 and they're closing at 3PM before the next service (I literally have no clue about it) and I was the last customer! YEAY LUCKY MUCH!

Okay, let's just talk about the food. The menu's very limited: 4 types of soupless sobas, 1 rice dish and some side dishes selections. It was an "huff" moment when they're running out of side dishes because I really want to try out their pork, corns and chicken karaage :(. BTW, if you initially think soba is this thin soft noodles usually in greyish or green colour, then you're right, but what some of you don't know is that soba also comes in this jelly-ish, chewy form, and by the way, the texture of the soba here was very lovely! Firm, chewy and just perfectly cooked.

Original Abura Soba

IDR 59k

This is their signature dish as well as current best seller! This original version came with oil and shoyu (Japanese soy sauce) seasoning, and for the toppings: spring onion, bamboo shoot, dried seaweed, sesame seed and roasted pork! As I told you, the consistency of the soba was good and the seasoning was top notch! THE VALUABLE TIPS THAT YOU SHOULD NOTICE is to season the portion with two rounds of Japanese vinegar and chili oil for that lovely foodgasm moment. You get that burst of flavor from the seasoning and I honestly even love it more the fact that I didn't perfectly mix the seasoning, the parts where there are less and more seasoning just personally added the excitement.

PS: it's not recommended to take too long for the photos as the soba quickly drying and it will become sort of sticky.

Karami Ontama Abura Soba

IDR 68k

The spicy version of the original soba and additional soft boiled egg (Onsen Tamago), gotta root for this one and this was my personal fav! The egg gave the creamier texture to the portion and sort of contributing to the neutral thicker milder flavor. DAYUM!

Jya Jya Abura Soba

IDR 68k

For some reasons this reminds me of Korean Jajangmyun, especially since they're using red bean paste sauce too (with choices of minced chicken or pork depending on your preference), but of course this one's Abura Soba Yamatomen's home-cooked. The sauce was clearly the bomb that was such a big role to this dish! I love that sweet-savory-slightly tangy flavor and that creamy texture.

Short to say, I am happy that FINALLY, another decent place to have your meals in Pantai Indah Kapuk! Seriously tired of recommending ramens and ramens all over again like there's not that much out of the world good food in PIK. Was a pleasant lunch and I found myself having no complaints for the food, but the toilet, they should really take care of that because I found that quite displeasing to the eye!!! Used tissue freaking everywhere #gross.

Anyway, congrats on the opening and thank you for being delicious!!!

Abura Soba Yamatoten
Ruko Garden House A/12
Pantai Indah Kapuk, Jakarta Utara 14470
Opening Hours:
Weekdays: 11 AM - 3 PM, 5:30 PM - 10 PM
Weekends: 11 AM - 10 PM
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Tuck and Chug Pantai Indak Kapuk (PIK): Relax and Sip Some Drinks!

If you happen to miss my last post before this one, make sure you click on this link -> here, because this post I'm writing is another episode of that post. Let me give you a time to read the post. Starting from...now.



...done reading?

wait what? NOT YET?!

Okay, okay I'm going to retell the story for you because I love you all so much for always stopping by here.

So last Sunday and like any other weekend is best-friends quality time, talking about best-friends quality time, I'm going to share some things non-related to the place I'm giving review at...well my suggestion for you all if you still can go out as much as possible with your friends/loved ones, do maximize the usage of those times because you're going to miss it when you're in a state when it's hard to meet each other, when everyone's graduating and you're separating yourself and living the real independent life. (be right back I'm getting some tissues, I'm getting very emo what the heck) but that's actually just a little intermezzo for you to think about. Do love your friends but naturally you can feel the vibe of best-friend ship.

If you already click on the link above about the last post, on Sunday I went to Ikkudo Ichi Pantai Indah Kapuk to have my late lunch and initially we wanted to go straight to another place but suddenly PIK is drenched by the rain and we decided to stop by at this new place that often caught my eye whenever I go to PIK because I am loving their exterior and interior design, but haven't got the chance to go there, but now...

Ladies and Gentlemen, let me introduce you to... "Tuck and Chug". It is located beside Gastro Alley and still on the Rukan Crown Golf Blok D area.

I didn't have any meal here, it was around 5 PM and we're initially waiting for the rain to stop and it actually just rain harder and harder for the last one and a half hours, we had our pretty drinks and maybe you could also try it out if you happen to visit this gorgeous venue.

I honestly think that this is probably one of the best designed restaurant in Pantai Indah Kapuk. I just feel almost like home, another reason is maybe I was a little emo due to the rain, the cool breeze and the staff didn't turn the lights on so you can imagine how hollow mellow the situation was. Let me take you for a little tour.

If you walk into the restaurant, maybe the first thing that you're seeing is this ladder that delivers a way down to the basement, beside you'll see a wall with grafitti, but I'm not sure what the underground floor was and I skipped the thought of asking the servant because they were kinda busy.

We had a little so-what-if-we-call-it romantic drink and chatting session while waiting for the rain to stop and we actually pretend like we're in Bali, the situation was pretty convincing and pretty Bali-like.

Rika ordered Fruit Punch
IDR 30.000 (before tax)

Corina ordered this Apple Lime Lychee Mocktail, loving the presentation of this glass, almost looked like you're drinking alcohol when it's actually not included any alcohol, just a little soda. (IDR 28.000)

and I ordered this pretty Caramel Matcha Blend
IDR 35.000 (before tax)

Overall I think they really do give a nice looking presentation for their drinks, and they help me a lot for my photos. I personally wanna thank the drinks for being pretty, and also whoever made this, I wanna give you a very big hug.

I took some photos of Rika while we're waiting for our orders to come. Initally I have some of my other best friend photos, Corina, but she sneakily deleted the photos! grr.

Photos below are not edited, I just set the lighting for the camera and the color here is the natural light, we don't see any sunset but we got to be very chilled and relaxed.

I really recommend this place for you to simply have your light bites and drinks or even dinners, make sure when it's raining (and when we air is cool, sometimes it's raining but it tends to be very hot) you guys sit outside, or else sitting inside is also a great option.

Leaving you with a photo of an airplane.
"Can we pretend that airplanes in the night sky are like shooting stars?"

Thank you for being so awesome T&C!
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Ikkudo Ichi PIK: Ramenizer!

Don't you think it's a little too late for me to post this?

I had eaten here before, even when I haven't created this blog, but now that I finally have a media to share and review the food for you (who haven't got the chance to go here), so I guess better late than never.

This ramen house is very famous at Pantai Indah Kapuk, they have another outlet in Pesanggrahan, Puri Indah (west Jakarta) but I guess this outlet got much more attention and spotlight, thanks to the exterior and interior eyecatching design, to find this place is pretty easy, drive by at Rukan Crown Golf Blok D and go straight to the end of the food boulevard and you'll see a ramen house with giant ramen lightbox and lampions shining bright, that's Ikkudo Ichi.

I ordered their famous menus: Buta Kara Ramen, Tori Kara Ramen, Tori Ebi Gyoza and Japanese Beef Ebi Fried Rice and absolutely my ultimate choice of drink everytime I went to a Japanese restaurant: cold ocha!

I order my ramen with the curly noodle, I guess it's a little bit boring to have the normal noodle, don't get stuck on people's opinion, well sometimes you just gotta take a chance (okay this conversation is getting heavy and serious for a bowl of ramen).

Tori Ebi Gyoza
IDR 25.000 (before tax)
Deep fried gyoza with chicken and prawn meat. This is delicious and well seasoned, I think it's a perfect appetizer.

Buta Kara Ramen with straight noodles

IDR 45.800 (before tax)

Buta in japanese is PORK, so remember that this meat might against some people's belief, so it's not halal for them. I'm just saying and this doesn't mean anything, but for my personal taste, ramens are best with "Buta". Nomnom.

What's special and different from their original signature Buta Ramen is the KARA SAUCE, it's their special red sauce to spice the ramen up, it's not very spicy and definitely for people who love spicy flavor, they still  need to mix generous amount of chili oil. In my opinion, most ramens are famous for their thick soup (and they all have their own signature soup) so I guess to have a little spicy touch to your soup is a great idea so that you won't end up feeling sick of the whole thing for being too thick and almost too creamy...and yet again it all goes back to your own personal preference :).

I'm happy that they actually give their costumers option on some things:
- Soup: You can choose to have pork or chicken extract (but still don't want to assume it's 100% halal)
- Noodle firmness (soft - normal - hard)
- Noodle flavor strengh (weak - normal - strong)
- Noodle richness (light - normal - heavy)
- Noodle choices of straight (normal) or curly

Buta Kara Ramen with curly noodles
IDR 45.800 (before tax)

Tori Kara Ramen
IDR 45.800 (before tax)

Tori in japanese is CHICKEN, I'm not saying that this is completely halal for some people because I am not sure about the ingredients they're using for soup and I didn't want to assume anything.

Basically the meat they're using is different, this one is chicken (tori) and the soup also tastes different, still, my personal favorite is the Buta Kara Ramen, but this one is totally not bad too :).

Japanese Beef Ebi Fried Rice
IDR 55.000 (before tax)
Hands down this is one of the best dish here, I once tried their Salmon but I prefer the beef after a current tasting, you can smell the signature Japanese fried rice, and in some case, I am not a big fan of traditional Japanese fried rice where they use sticky rice and thank you Ikkudo for not using that kind of rice because I would turn it down. If you happen to have issues like mine, do ask before you order, that's essential.

Maybe the only problem is the portion, I wish it was bigger, it was so delicious, yummy and smells really good.

I went here by two of my friends and together we spent around IDR 282.800 after tax and three glasses of Cold Ocha for IDR 9.000 each.

I leave with a very full belly and happy feelings!

This is undoubtedly one of the best place to fulfill your ramen cravings, if you ask me what to order here I'll definitely say: Buta Kara Ramen with the curly noodle, I find the curly noodle more of a fit for me.

Thank you for reading peeps :).


Ikkudo Ichi Ramen
Rukan Crown Golf Blok D No. 2-3
Bukit Golf Mediterania, PIK
Jakarta Utara
Ph: 021-96628677

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