Culinary tours in Bogor

Bogor is just an hour driving to South from Jakarta (around 60kms), it's popular as the rainy city because of the frequent rain showers. The city has a presidential palace and a botanical garden (Kebun Raya Bogor) – one of the oldest and largest garden in the world in the middle of the city. In the yard of the predential palace you could see many flock of deers relax or finding food on the greenish field. It's a nice amusement for people who pass by the palace. Some deers have long and branches anthers, it's very beautiful. On the road you would find many "angkot" (public transportation) passing by.



It's lunch time when we reached Bogor, we directly went to Gumati Cafe - Resto - Gallery at Jl. Paledang No. 26 & 28 Bogor 16122 (Telp. : 0251 - 8324318, 8313422 email : gumati-cafe@cafegumati.com) to have lunch. The restaurant ambience and concept is nice, unfortunately the cleaness was not maintained well, so many dust and cobweb on the wall and decoration. From the restaurant you could see the scenery of Bogor city including the river, because it's higher than the city. A blue swimming pool made the environment more comfortable. The restaurant was decorated with painting, ceramics and also some traditional statues from Bali, Sunda and Java. They provided Indonesian and Western food, we ordered Indonesian food, such as nasi timbel (rice with vegetables, meat, and fish), fried chicken, and green chili chicken, for beverage we ordered coconut lemon ice.


After lunch we went to Jl. Surya Kencana to buy bread, asinan and ngohiang. Although it's very crowded, lucky we could find the parking lot right in front of the store. The bread store was not too big, the package was also not too good, but the taste for its chocolate bread and cheese bread were delicious. My sister bought "combro" outside the store, it's a fried snack made of cassava filled with chili fermented soybean. It's spicy, but nice if you like spicy food. We went toward the alley to buy "asinan" (salted fresh fruits) to bring back to Jakarta for my colleague. It's very yummy and juicy to eat together with cracker noodle.

We stopped by a store which sold many Bogor traditional food, such as candied nutmeg, Bogor peanut, "bajigur"(hot drink made of coconut milk and spices), etc. Right beside the store there was a small restaurant popular for its' "Ngohiang Gang Aut", such as a sausage roll consisting of minced pork or chicken seasoned with five-spice powder, rolled inside a beancurd skin and deep-fried egg. I bought 1 chicken and 1 pork for bringing back to Jakarta. I attempted to try "Rujak Pengantin", it's very delicious.


Finally we would stop by Roti Unyil Venus, Komp. V Point No.1 Jalan Raya Pajajaran
Bogor, Jawa Barat 16142, Phone(0251) 8364008. It's a cake shop which sold petit bakery with various flavor, they called it "roti unyil" because it's very small, just one bite. They're filled with a big amount of chocolate, cheese, banana, sausage, vla, corn, etc. Some of them could keep for 3 days if you plan to bring back to your hometown. It's very crowded in the store, we had to queue to wait for the waitress serve us. Meanwhile I bought 10 pcs of Kue Ape (such as pancake made of wheat flour, rice flour and coconut milk) on foodstall in front of the store. It's my favourite snack, it cost Rp. 6.000,- for 10 pcs.


Shopping was our next destination, there were many factory outlets in Bogor, such as Bandung, but it's less crowded. We parked on one shop, just walking distance to the other stores. The clothes were nice in model and material, you could buy any clothes based on your budget, so many options to choose. We didn't feel it become dark, so we decided to stop the shopping.


For dinner, my sister brought us to Novotel, it's almost dark there. The hotel is quite far from the city, it's very quiet but the scenery is awesome. So many pool with water lily (lotus) on it, the yellow lights also made the scenery very interesting. A large green garden made the weather very fresh and cool. We were eating in the gazebo, ordered soups, calamari and hot tea. A live music with male and female beautiful voice singers accompanied us to wait for the order and also enjoy the scenery. When the live music ended, we're also ready to go home. We were very satisfied with the activities for eating and shopping.

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