Surabaya is in the air !! (Culinary part 2)

Hellooo,,,
This is the second part of my previous writing. I still gonna share about Surabaya Culinary. Here we go. Stay Tune !

1) Nasi Campur Tambak Bayan (Mixed Rice)
This dish consist of a scoop of rice (absolutely) which is completed by the small portion a number of dishes such as brown seasoning egg, sweet seasoning noodle, a slice of meat, vegetables, and kerupuk. I love the meat and egg, but I don't really like the noddle because the taste is too sweet for me. Maybe the Surabaya like a sweet dishes so they make the noddle as sweet as that.
One thing that I should warn you, be careful with the Sambal !!!! It is very very very HOT !!
If you don't like sambal just like me, take just a little pinch of the Sambal, but if you like spicy maybe you will like it.
I heard the red bean ice in this place is also delicious, but at that time, I didn't taste it. hehehe.
You can find Nasi Campur Campur Tambak Bayan in several location, there are :
-  Jalan Pasar Besar Wetan No 7, Surabaya
-  Jalan Raya Darmo Permai I
-  Ruko Gateway Waru
-  Galaxy Mall II Food Court

2) Penyetan Padin Bu Dewi Ahmad
The word "penyet" for Indonesian is very familiar. But if you don't know, penyetan is rice served with many kinds of side dishes such as chicken, fish, tempeh, tofu, seafood, or meatball (fried or grilled). Completed with vegetables likes cucumber,cabbage, long bean, and some people also like Pete (but I don't). What special from penyetan is sambal. Yessss, the Indonesian really love sambal. So that you could find many kinds of sambal in Indonesia.
In Penyetan Padin, you could chose the side dishes by your self. They display all the side dishes they have, you also could ask them to grilled the chicken, fish, or any other.
My favorite is  grilled gurameh , deep fry shrimp, and also grilled eggplant. Yess,, I like grilled eggplant, cannot eat penyetan without it. hahhaa.
There are 3 level of spicy for the sambal : Not spicy (mix chili and a lot of tomatoes), Fair (mix chili and little bit tomatoes), and Spicy (only chili).
I always chose Not Spicy, hahahha. Two of my friends chose Spicy, but then when they ate with the sambal, they were gasping for breath. They admitted that the sambal is very very hot. So then in our next visit, they chose Fair level.
If you feel hungry in the middle of the night, you could go there. Because this place opens 24 hours. ^_^
It is located in Jl. Kranggan No 26 D, Surabaya.

3) Zangrandi Ice Cream
This place is also famous in Surabaya. Has an old style decoration and very authentic.
They did not only sell ice cream but also snacks. I forgot the ice cream name that I ate, but as I remember It was a strawberry ice cream with peanut shredded. The taste is good, but actually not so special for me. I don't know why, hahaha. But I love this place style. Like we are living the colonial era. The price is expensive, around 30.000 - 50.000 rupiahs for each portion.
You can find Zangrandi Ice Cream in Jl. Yos Sudarso No 15 Genteng, Surabaya.

4) Ayam Asli Pemuda
This place also sell Penyetan, but we cannot chose the side dishes by ourselves. We just order what we gonna eat, then the waiter will come several minutes later to serve our food.
Actually I like the taste of the dish, but the portion is very small, hahaha. We have to order at least two portion of chicken. This place serves chicken, seafood, and duck. The sambal is fit for me who don't really like spicy.
The price for one portion fried chicken is 17.000. You have to pay also for the rice and vegetables.
This place location is on Jalan Tidar No 21, Surabaya. Only 10 minutes from Tunjungan Plaza.

Okey, that's all of my briefly reviews about Surabaya Culinary.
You can see the part 1 here. Hopefully it is useful for you. ^_^

Surabaya is in the air !! Culinary (part 1)

Hello blogger, miss me ? I guess No, hahhaa.
I  just find that starting to write again is not as easy as I thought. -___-
Actually I have so many things to share, I just cannot chose which part  I should write first.
Hmmm, in this session I am gonna write about Surabaya.
I visited Surabaya on March 2016, I was there around 11 days. But, don't you know? I didn't go to any tourism sites because of my working agendas there, poor me !
Yeaahh, I know it was so sad. But, fortunately I still had time to taste Surabaya Culinary for dinner time.
Here, I try to summarize and give some reviews for Surabaya Culinary.

1) Sate Kelapa Ondomohen (Satay with Fried Coconut Flakes Topping)

My driver took me and my friend here for dinner. He recommend me to try Mix Satay. I thought that the satay only consist of chicken and beef, but jengggg jenggg jengggggg after the satay served on my table, I knew that the mix satay consist of almost the whole part of cow, I mean the beef, the grease, the kidney, the skin, and also the intestine. Oh God.....
What makes it special from the satay here is because it served with peanut sauce and srundeng. Srundeng is an Indonesian spicy fried coconut flakes, which is made from sautéing grated coconut, and is often used as a side dish to accompany rice (wikipedia). I ate the satay with lontong (rice cake), but you can order rice if you don't wanna eat that with lontong.
Actually, the taste was good. I could accept the peanut sauce mix with srundeng. But I couldn't eat except the beef satay. So if you don't like the grease, the kidney, the skin, and also the intestine of the cow, you may not order for mix satay. That is my best suggestion. Overall, the taste is good.
It is located on Jalan Walikota Mustajab No 36 Surabaya.

Courtesy : wisatakuliner.com

2) Bon Ami Restaurant
The place is cozy, romantic, quite, and the food is very delicious. I do love the decoration. It looks like we will be brought in the colonial era. As I remember, me and my friend ate Satay, Grilled Prawn, Chicken Teriyaki, and Rujak Cingur. I like all foods served except Rujak Cingur. For me, this dish was too fishy, because the sauce is mix of peanut sauce and Indonesian shrimp sauce (we called it Petis), and I don't like it. hahaha.
How about the price ? Hmm.. maybe lil bit expensive. Around 30.000 - 50.000 for the food and 10.000 - 30.000 for the drink. But you will not regret. ^_^
Here the location address : Jl. Dr. Soetomo No 94 Surabaya.

Courtesy : Tripadvisor.com

3) Depot Anda
This is my favorite place since I visited Surabaya. I do really want to go there again. My favorite is the oxtail soup. Big portion and very very delicious. The meat is so soft. You could detach it from the bone easily. The price is quite expensive, You have to spend 55.000 rupiah for one big portion of the oxtail. The other dishes served are nasi Campur, Nasi Rames, all Indonesian foods.
The location is on Jalan Walikota Mustajab 72, Surabaya.

Courtesy : kuliner.adadimana.com

4) Rawon Setan
Here we come to the most famous dish in Surabaya. Yesss,, It is Rawon Setan of Satanic Rawon. Hahahhaa. Don't be afraid of the name, the place is not haunted.
At the first time I heard about the Rawon Setan, I thought that the dish would has a very very spicy taste. Because in Indonesia, food that named with Setan, Iblis, or the other haunted name usually have a very very spicy taste. But then I knew that I was wrong.
The Rawon itself is not spicy, but the Sambal is (all sambal are spicy, hahahha).
Why it was called Rawon Setan, because thousand years agooooo this place only open near on the mid night, around 23.00 until 02.00. That was the time when the ghost came out. hahhaa.
But now, someone informed me that the restaurant open 24 hours a day. Wowww.
Back to the taste of the Rawon, for me, I like it. You can see the black soup from Kluwak, and the big slices of meat, I compared it with the other Rawon I have ever seen. The beef is soft, and the seasoning is light but tasty.
The condiment you gonna find such as salty egg (it is really salty, trust me), many kinds of kerupuk (Indonesian crackers), and also perkedel (Indonesian potato pancake)
The other interesting from this place is when you ask for an extra rice, you will get a bigger portion that the previous portion you get with your rawon. I don't know why. hehehe.
The location of Rawon Setan is very easy to find.
It is on Jalan Embong Malang Surabaya, in front of JW Marriot Hotel.

If you want to know more about Surabaya Culinary and the Hotel I slept in, go to my next post. Enjoy ^_^