Let's walk around our neighborhood! It's fun, doesn't need any vehicle running around...at least for me, as the car-less person. If i just lazy enough to take a bus for self-travel around the city, well...easy, just walk. My neighborhood, Kemang Pratama I, Bekasi, near the great city of Jakarta, just a friendly, quiet housings with a few cool public facilities. There's groceries, restaurants, cafes, sport club, reflexology/massage parlors (oh yeah!), and the awesome "Pondok Kuliner" or culinary garden, it's a clusterized open-aired restaurant, almost like hawker center in Singapore.
It's a new 'guerilla' institution though, this public effort has been hailed from savings the huge amount of hawkers due the super sucks hawker-free birocracy in our housings. Usually, the private house owner's open their field to let the hawkers stays, with much less taxes. It's a new social revolution in culinary world that must have sort proud of achievement. I love this concept, most because i hate the snobbery for just simply act as 'eating-a-food'. I don't blame any luxury actvities, i like and enjoyed that, but because the 'overrated' act that people these days made it, luxury became dumber and dumber.
I have a lot of favorite "Pondok Kuliner" around my neighborhood, but the most visited (also the nearest from home) is the place called "Sweet Mayo", and it's not all mayonnaise-based i'm afraid. I became regular fan of their "Bubur Ayam Sukabum", Indonesian/West Java speciality of chicken porridge. Different than Chinese version, the porridge has a dense intensity, which i prefered best than runny/watery texture. And the "Krupuk Kanji", crunchy-goodness savory cracker perfecting the meal itself. As for this pic, it shows the "Soto Ayam Wonogiri", traditional faintly-herb chicken broth based soup, true Indonesian food which gained popularity beside satay and fried rice. I don't really savour it much, well...personal taste choice.
PS: It's early in the morning, so it's not open yet, love the empty-ready-to-occupy space, CALMING!
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