Here it is the long awaited Pete's Top Five places to eat in Jakarta:5. Abuba Steakhouse
After more meals of chili and rice that you can count, a steak can be hugely welcome. Abuba keeps if simple essentially just offering a choice of meats (I’ve plumped for NZ sirloin both times) which are served with vegetables and chips. The steak’s are grilled perfectly the whole meal comes in for under a fiver (remarkably you can even upgrade to a wagyu steak for an extra £3). Would be perfect to accompany with a cold beer but the only downside, Abuba is alcohol free.
4. Kuo Tie Dumplings, China Town
It’s a bit of a trek to Glodok, the site of China Town in North Jakarta, but worth the trip for the excellent grilled pork dumplings. A one dish meal in a market side café, the dumplings with pork and chives are grilled on an open fire and tossed on the table with some chopsticks and a bowl of chili. Few marks for service or general cleanliness, but somehow the food was still great.
3. Coca Suki
Site of my first lunch in Indonesia, Coca Suki offers a hearty Steamboat with your choice of a gamut of goodies such as kobi beef, seafood dumplings, Chinese mushrooms and a range of healthy greens. Served with rice and chili sauce (notice a theme?) and once the goodies have gone there’s a delicious soup remaining to wash it down. You can also get a great steamboat for an even better price at the Hai Tien Restaurant located near Tjen's house in North Jakarta.
2. Ikan Bakar, Canteen "BW"
This Manadonese food stall near my office offers a selection of fish that can arrive fried in a spicy sauce, or my favorite, grilled on the barbeque and served with a tomato and chili salsa. Stock up on the greens of the day, rice and a delicious sambal (fresh chili sauce usually with tomato and a little garlic – an Indonesian staple), this makes a perfect and healthy lunch. If you’re feeling extra hungry, they also do an excellent corn fritter. Expect to pay about £1 for the full meal. Yum.
1. Mie Laker
Situated in the Grand Indonesia Mall, this fast food chain attracted long queues at its opening last year, and still remains a popular favorite. In a city where dried noodles are the norm, Mie Laker’s unique selling point is freshly made noodles. In fact they are so fresh you actually get to watch them be made right in front of your eyes, as an extraordinarily skilled chef works a sausage shape of dough into a long string of noodles through a sophisticated skipping-rope type procedure. Served in a soup (or fried) with chicken, beef or seafood, Mie Laker is definitely the finest noodle bar in town.
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