【印尼游玩记】 雅加达 Fun In Jakarta & Bandung, Indonesia - Kelapa Gading Mall! Good Place to EAT & SHOP!

Indonesia Part 6 -  Kelapa Gading Mall, Jakarta.

Dine In - Eat and Eat and Pappa Kopitiam.

Waking up with such a beautiful morning in Jakarta would be the first thing to do!

- Jakarta -

Our tourist guide, Mr. Han recommended us to go for shopping at Kelapa Gading Mall, one of the largest mall in Jakarta. In fact, it really opened our eyes to so many good quality and reasonable priced goods!

In short, shopping in Jakarta is a good choice!

- Kelapa Gading Mall -

That's one side of the mall, it was nice, doesn't it?

- CNY at the corner -

It was my first to see Lions to be ride on by children. We laughed so hard when we saw it!

- Food Court -

It's time to fill our tummy, we ended ourselves at Eat and Eat, well maintained food court with so many selection of delicious food.

- One of the menu -

Pork Satay. That's one of the selection we had and it was delicious!!! Oh my!

 - Pork Satay -

- Juice and desserts -

We rest a while and went for shopping again!

So we normally walk and went for a short break at Pappa Kopitiam... again.. 

- Pappa Kopitiam -

We laughed when we saw Pappa Kopitiam (Pappa = DAD!) :)

- One corner at the Kopitiam -

- Coffees -

- Our finger food -

Finger foods and drinks were good, however, they really had their good time while preparing the food. Extremely passionate and slow while preparing our food. Oh my.

 

- Cold Stone -

I miss this ice cream! The first one I had was during my holiday in Taiwan!

And off we go! Back to the restaurant and had a good dinner with family and an uncle that happens to be my dad's secondary school mate! What a small world!

- Part of my treasure! -

Such a good buy in Indonesia, quality goods and designer pieces. I really love to shop in Indonesia!

Kelapa Gading Mall definitely one of the shopping mall that I will keep in my list!

Address :


Jl. Bulevar Kelapa Gading Blok M,
Jakarta Utara, DKI Jakarta 14240, Indonesia

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【印尼游玩记】 万隆/雅加达 : 零售广场与国家纪念碑 Fun in Indonesia : Bandung/ Jakarta - Factory Outlet & National Monument (MONAS)

Indonesia Part 4 -  Factory Outlet, Bandung and MONAS, Jakarta

Had a good night sleep at Carrcadin Business & Entertanment Hotel, Bandung the night before we start of our perfect shopping trip of the day! Our room was perfectly comfortable and the breakfast was good too. :)

- Bandung, Indonesia -

My morning with such a wonderful Bandung view with birds flying too. Moreover, the weather in Bandung is breezy compared to Jakarta, very nice weather and opened my eyes to the fog view above those buildings earlier.

So, off we go to FACTORY OUTLET!

Various malls, drugs stores and fashionable outlets are there and all for us to SHOP!

- One of the pretty outlet -

- Dresses -

I do love to shop in Indonesia, tops and dresses priced reasonable and with above average quality!

- The Summit -

It was one of the mall we had the opportunity to experience.

- Indonesian Dining at Kedai Belacan -

Lunch included in our package and definitely taste good too. :)

- Indonesian Cuisine -

Maybe my taste buds also affected by the Indonesian flavour in Sabah, Jawa food are easily found here!

After we had our lunch, we headed ourselves to JAKARTA!

- Jakarta Metropolitan -

Does Indonesia looks amazing? I'm totally amused with the buildings there with regardless to the citizen.

- Sculpture of Warriors -

- Cater Bus of the Government workers -

We passed by Jakarta Government department and it was mid- afternoon while we reached Jakarta to visit MONAS.

- Souvenirs -

Indonesian are hard working people, any where there's people, it means income to them!

- National Monument -

" The National Monument is a 132 m tower in the centre of Merdeka Square, Central Jakarta, symbolizing the fight for Indonesia. It is the national monument of the Republic of Indonesia, built to commemorate the struggle for Indonesian independence. " Wikipedia

My family took a beautiful family photo during our visit at MONAS, the local did it for us and SOLD the photo to us too. :D

- Me with MONAS -

Hastag selfie. Haha :D

That's all for today!

Location :
Factory Outlet - One of the area in Bandung.

MONAS - Medan Merdeka, Jakarta Pusat, Indonesia.

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【印尼游玩记】 万隆 ： 火山 Fun in Indonesia : Puncak/ Bandung - Tangkuban Perahu Mountain

Indonesia Part 3 - Sumber Wangi, Puncak and Tangkuban Perahu Mountain, West Java, Bandung

Awake from our beauty sleep and had our breakfast, waited for tour bus to arrive and off we go to the next destination! BANDUNG!

During our journey from Puncak to Bandung, we stop over for a short break at Sumber Wangi, whereby it is an outlet selling sweets and local delicacies. A short explanation that indonesian taste buds are more to sweet and savory food.

- Handmade Goodies -

Very cute frogy keychain and I didn't buy them. :(

You know what? The spirit of earning money by "chasing" us to purchase their goodies which selling outside Sumber Wangi's outlet just amused me. Yea... I did bought two bracelet from them! So pretty and colourful. I love colourful accessories. :)

- Local Delicacies -

Of what I have bought - Peanuts and crackers.

- Sumber Wangi -

- Fried Tofo -

I would love to try some and despite of their hygiene, I was a bit afraid to taste a bite. *Yaiks*

- Welcome to BANDUNG! -

Finally we were there!

- Lunch -

We had Chinese Indonesian Food by Masakan Ikan Restaurant, operated by Chinese Indonesia and quite tasty too! I do impressed with the tour package we subscribed during that CNY 2013.

- Heading to the next destination -

I truly love the view like above, feeling calm and green. Just love it so much.

- Tangkuban Perahu Mountain -

It was only a small part of the mountain, first we will be transferred from the lower part of the mountain to the highest place to see the amazing mountain view.

- The sleeping Valcono -

They said that Tangkuban Perahu Mountain is well known with Sangkuriang and Dayang Sumbi Legend.

Well, there's always a lagend about mountain, just like our beautiful Mount Kinabalu here in Sabah. :)

- Gotcha Selfie! -

- Souvenirs for remembrance -

Somehow Indonesian are friendly people, they won't really shout at you if you don't want to buy from them. haha :D

- Hand Crafted -

- Gunung (Mountain) Tangkuban Perahu -

"Tangkuban Parahu or Tangkuban Perahu is one of the mountain located in the province of West Java, Indonesia. Approximately 20 km to the north of the city of Bandung, with a lush pine trees and expanses of tea gardens in the vicinity." (source)

With Mr. Hon, a very down to earth man as our tourist guide (Indonesian Chinese) and I still remember he sang for us a few love songs (although he can't understand the meaning in that Chinese love songs) on the day we left Indonesia.

- Love this Shot by my sister -

This is yours truly and till next Indonesia post!

Location :

Tangkuban Perahu, West Java, Indonesia

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Jakarta, Indonesia : Indonesia in Taman Mini "Indonesia Indah" (Beautiful Indonesia Miniature Park)!

Indonesia Part 1 - Taman Mini "Indonesia Indah", Jakarta

It was the first time we celebrate our Chinese New Year outside the country last year (2013).

And it was also kind of different experience that we actually had KFC as our reunion dinner for the first time too!

- The morning Sun -

We reached Jakarta on the reunion night and the first day of CNY was wonderful with all the smiles from tour mates too!

By the way, it was midnight when we reached Jakarta, we saw fireworks from above the sky. Yup! There are Chinese Indonesian who celebrate CNY there (not many, but still there's spirit of CNY. :)

- Kek Lapis -

Local cake that was delicious which our tourist guide treated us on the first day of CNY. :) Mr. Han Han, our local Chinese Indonesian tourist guide who seldom communicate Chinese language but able to communicate with us and even sang songs for us on the day we left Indonesia. ADD OIL Mr. Han Han!

He told us that Kek Lapis for them is a symbol of growing up in their Chinese culture. Just like our  年糕 (Nian Gao)!

- Sumatera Barat (West Sumatera) -

The first destination was Taman Mini "Indonesia Indah", Taman Mini is a tourist destination that displaying the miniature houses of  at least 26 provinces in Indonesia. Besides that, there's art and handicrafts display as well, we can purchase them and experience the lifestyle of Indonesian as well.

In fact, Sabahan like us are used to have Indonesian around us since young age, therefore, I'm still okay with their culture. One more thing that for those who thought Indonesia is not a good country, you are WRONG!! And I've said that to myself as well, Jakarta is well developed with high rise buildings and even well managed infrastructure and shopping was GREAT there! Affordable price with good quality (depends where we are heading).

 

- Spotted this -

Well trained monkey for entertainment. Indonesian really are hardworking people, they find ways to earn for a  living, even at the main roads when vehicles stopped for red lights! Gosh!

- Sumatera Barat (West Sumatera) -

The must have pose of meitzeu at one place.

I wonder how many times more I can do that!

- The temple of Kung Hu Zhi (孔子) -

The confucius philosopher.

- This is Indonesia! -

Random shot from the tour bus and it was crowded with the locals there!

- Bali in Taman Mini -

Another province in Indonesia. I want to visit Bali!!! I mean the real Bali. :)

 

 - Bali -

- Bali -

- Skylift Indonesia -

Our tour was inclusive of skylift sight seeing as well (ticket Rp. 25,000), the scenery was great! Many miniature provinces that we saw.

- Skylift Indonesia -

- Skylift Indonesia -

Even they resized that map of Indonesia, Kalimantan etc.

I saw Sabah and Sarawak too, but not the above!

- One of the Miniature House -

After our tour at Taman Mini, we went for lunch. The tour package arranged by the tour company we subsribed really put effort on food, they search meals that suit us most and gave us the luxury that we should have!

- Buns -

I never knew Indonesia have their own version of buns, just like the Chinese.

Location :
East Jakarta, Jakarta, Indonesia.

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