OKIROBAR - GRAND INDONESIA, JAKARTA

Excited when I know there's a new join in Grand Indonesia shopping town Jakarta. Looks like this mall keep giving us a new place to have dining. Like this one, Okirobar, a new Japanese restaurant that become a new member since last April.

Looking at their restaurant, suddenly make my eyes so bright. With the colorful yet edgy look on this restaurant, make every single corner from Okirobar worth to shot.

Okirobar have an open kitchen concept. where you can sit at their bar while  you watching the Chef making your order on their flat iron. The situation can be a bit hot from the smoke of the stove if they have full packed order from their customers. But if you don't mind with a little heat, you can seat at the bar. Or perhaps you can just sit in their uber cute sofa.

Beside their regular menu, Okirobar also allowed their customers to customize their Okonomiyaki, Monjayaki and Negiyaki  as they like. Pick your 3 favorite toppings from the shelves then give to the servers.

 

STARTER

TAIYAKI (REDBEAN / CHOCOLATE & CHEESE) - IDR 35.000
The warm snack from Okirobar is really good. The 1st thing I tried is this fish shaped Japanese cake that is so fluffy and moist. Better eat it while it still warm to get the best texture of the filling and the cake.

ENOKI FRIES - IDR 22.000
Not so good looking appearance, but the taste quite good. It so crisp and crunchy.

YAKITORI

KING MUSHROOM - IDR 15.000
This king  mushroom is so delicate and  Nice seasoning. Love it.

PORK BELLY - IDR 23.000 - NON HALAL

DRINKS

There's a drink station that you can have it here at Okiro Bar. And the great thing it's BOTTOMLESS! Yeeaaii... They have green tea, coffee, tea, chocolate milk and lemon tea.

THE STAR

Okiro Bar serve  Okonomiyaki, Monjayaki and Negiyaki. That day Okiro Bar served us their best of those 3. And also Okiro Bar gave us a chance to cook one of their menu. Yes... I cooked! Don't laugh...

OKONOMIYAKI - CARAMELIZE WAGYU HIROSHIMA - IDR 159.000 (M), IDR 219.000 (L)
Okonomiyaki is a savory Japan's pancake that topped with various toppings. The main base of of this okonomiyaki are usually shredded cabbage, eggs, water and flour. Here at Okiro Bar, we served their signature Okonomiyaki that consist of caramelize wagyu beef, crispy beef bacon, enoki mushroom, soba (cold noodle) and topped with extra sunny side egg with scallion and katsuboshi (a dried fermented fish). The combination of those ingredients with their savory and sweet thick sauce make this Okonomiyaki is outstanding. It melt in your mouth right away. Best eat when it still warm.

The based of Negiyaki

NEGIYAKI - IDR 50.000

Negiyaki is another version of Okonomiyaki where the base is liquid dough like crepes cooked with lots of green leeks. Actually I'm not a big fan of green leeks. Sometimes it have a very strong taste and aroma. But, here since it topped with lots of toppings, so the toppings a bit covered the green leeks  taste. Here we have Negiyaki topped with fish ball karage, melted cheese, katsuboshi and another green leeks. Surprisingy, the taste is good. The green leeks not too strong like I'm worried earlier.

Aannndd.... OMG! I cooked that Negiyaki above with my own topping. Getting nervous at the beginning. Well its a crepes based with tons of green leeks. What if I turn it into soome  kind a dirt? Hahhahaha...

Darn! How is that Chef on TV still fab in front of a hot stove without sweating like a pig? LOL...

Anyway that’s me in action

And voila! that is my creation above.So, I made Negiyaki with Salmon as a star. I prefer choose Salmon because I saw my contender already packed their topping with beef and pork. So I combine the salmon with enoki mushroom and cheese. Topped with lots of katsuboshi and mayonnaise. It turned out to be yuuummm... *PukPuk my self LOL

Too bad I don't have a chance to get a Monjayaki picture. Beside Okonomiyaki, Negiyaki and Monjayaki, Okiro Bar also have Takoyaki ( a ball shape Japanese snacks made from wheat-flour). Unlike the Okonomiyaki, the takoyaki price is more affordable.  

DESSERT

PANCAKE (SNICKER / REDBEAN) - IDR 40.000
This thin crepes is so good. Filled with snicker (as a snicker bar) and topped with chocolate sauce. Served with Matcha green tea. Also available in redbean flavor.

ORIGINAL CREPES

2 folded Original Pancake served with hot chocolate sauce.

At the end... Okiro bar place quite fun to visit. They have a great food with a great quality. Keep up the good work guys! Good Luck

OKIRO BAR
Grand Indonesia Shopping Town
West Mall Level 5
Jl. MH.Thamrin No.1
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Cooking Class with TenTen Tempura House & Indonesia Food Blogger

Recently, I've got an invitation from TenTen Tempura House and Indonesian Food Blogger to attend TenTen new menus spread and for Cooking Class. I'm so excited for this event. Well, all this time, I'm so damn curious with TenTen tempura.  How they can make that tempura crispy outside but still tender inside. So here I am with several blogger mates early in the morning at 9am, even when Plaza Indonesia still not open their mall yet hohoho...

We are separated in 5 groups. With 1 group filled in with 5 peoples. The place became a bit crowded, since there are only 5 stoves to cook the rice and 2 deep frying pan that we can use together. But heeyy... the more peoples the more merrier aight?? hehehe... My fab team are Aline Foolosophy, Mullie MyFunFoodiary, Tikka The GourmetChic and Novi FoodieFoodgasme.

After a lil speech from TenTen, then Chef Dian from TenTen start presenting how to make tempura and omurice. It already succeed making me drooling.

Chef Dian presenting Tempura Omurice

and this is Tempura Omurice receipe...

Ingredients

Tempura Omurice

Ingredients:

Tempura
2pcs Prawn
40gr Sweet potatoes
8gr Green Beans
2pcs  Carrots
52gr Japanese pumpkin ( Kabocha )
70gr Nissin Tempura Flour (you can get this in big supermarket)
140ml Clod Water
Vegetable Oil for frying

Omurice
15ml Oil
10gr Julienne Carrots
10gr Green Beans
10gr Corn
10gr Onions
Salt and Black pepper
180gr Rice
20gr Butter
2 eggs
2gr corn starch mixed with water

Demiglace Sauce
27.5gr demiglace powder
250ml hot water

How To Make:
Tamagoyaki: Mixed eggs with cornstarch  and water, then whisk it. Heat oil on the pan, and pout the egg mixture to the pan evenly. Cook until done

Butter Rice: Heat oil on the pan, saute the onions, carrots, green beans and corn until it cooked. Put in rice, salt and pepper to taste, mix it well. Add butter then mix again.

Tempura: Mix tempura flour with cold water, put all the ingredients into the batter. Heat oil on the pan with low heat. Deep fry the ingredients one by one. Swirl some batter onto the ingredients to make extra crunch. Take it out when it turns to golden color.

Demiglace Sauce
Mix all the ingredients, stir it with low heat.

How to Serve
Spoon the butter rice into the tamagoyaki and fold gently. Put tempura on the side, served with chilli and tomato sauce on top the tamagoyaki that already filled with rice. Pour it also with demiglace sauce in the side of the rice.

Receipe

Tips & Trick:
- A good stove temperature to make tempura is 160-180celcius
- Use the vegetable that have a bit hard texture like sweet potato or carrot
- If you want to use chicken, use the breasts one. Because it more tender
- To get shrimp shape like in TenTen, give a massage in the back of the shrimp while you batter it. OMG... even shrimp need a massage hehehe...
- If you don't have Nissin flour like i mentioned above, just use flour the usual flour and mix it with egg with composition 1kg flour + 2litre of water + 2eggs
- To get golden brown color, just fried it 2-3 minutes.

After Chef Dian done demonstrating the Omurice Tempura, now it's our chance to make the duplicate of Tempura Omurice. And... we WON!! yeeaaiii... So excited... We named our dis with I Heart U Tempura. This just because we love tempura so much, and when we stack the veggies, the shape is just like the heart shape.

I Heart U Tempura

Our Team In Action

After that, the Chef told us the ingredients and the preparation for making pannacotta. Since it took a while to serve pannacotta, they only describe us the ingredients and the step by step of making it.

Since lunch time is coming, so TenTen generously served their newest and yummy donburi and tempura dish that we ordered at the beginning of the event.

Ebi Yose Katsu

Ebi Yose Katsu served as our appetizer from TenTen. Crunch batter outside and juicy ebi (prawn) inside. Pour with teriyaki sauce and mayonnaise. It so yummy...

Tenbara Donburi

Tenbara Donburi is what I had for my lunch. A bowl of rice topped with shrimp tempura, shitake tempura poue with tonkotsu sauce and sprinkle with sesame seeds. The taste is pretty great. Tempura texture still crunchy and the sauce a bit sweet and sour which is good.

Donburi is a meal which rice topped with tempura of beef dish. Beside Tenbara, TenTen also have many varieties of Donburi, like Seafood Furai Don, Tori Soboro Don and Spicy Beef Kinoko Don.

Above : Spicy Tempura, Blackpepper Tempura & Seaweed Tempura

Below : Curry Tempura

TenTen as a Tempura specialty have many bariant of Tempura. TenTen just launched several new menu like Kinoko Tempura that is served for ala carte or for Tendon menu (Kinoko Tendon). All those new menu launched to complete the existing menu like Original, Spicy, Seaweed, Curry and blackpepper. If you like a bit spicy choose blackpepper or spicy one. All those Tempura you can order ala carte or complete package with rice and miso  soup.

Foret Noir Cup & Oreo Cheese Cup

Foret Noir Cup is a chocolate mouse cake with dark cherry and rum. The cake is so moist. Meanwhile Oreo Cheese taste more milky. But the cheese cake and milk layer was not to moist and blend well. It because I still can taste the milk powder within the cake. So I like the the Foret Noir better.
 
Overall, I had a very great time attending this Cooking Class event. Beside my blogger mates that I already known, I also get a chance to met a new fellows from Indonesian Food Blogger. So... More experience, more knowledge and more foodies friends...

Thanks for the gift TenTen

Ten-Ten Tempura House
Plaza Indonesia, Level Basement Unit 16-17
Jl MH Thamrin Kav 28-30
+62-21 299 23730
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