Food notes
Every meal, scored the same way.
A Jakarta review every few weeks, plus the good meals from trips. Full reviews get a Signature Meter. Short notes just say whether to bother.
11 notes across 5 places
Newest first
9.1
Kindling
Three rooms, one set menu. Intimate, not polished. Crab custard was the best bit.
Expensive but worth it · birthday dinner
9.1
August
Third visit, still no weak dish. More polished and modern than Kindling.
Worth it · date night
7.2
Saawaan
Serious Thai cooking, great service. The Raw course clearly missed.
Beautiful craft, not automatic return
Gyukatsu Motomura
Finish each bite yourself on the hot stone. Best first meal of the Tokyo leg.
Go · best gyukatsu
CoCo Curry, Shin Umeda
After Osaka Castle. Crispy cutlet, warm sauce, easy travel-day comfort.
Fine · easy lunch
Ryunosu yakiniku
Yakiniku near Shinsaibashi — legitly good meat, plus a big udon bowl.
Go · late lunch
Shiroi Koibito soft serve
Delicate and sweet, eaten outside in freezing weather after the biscuit tour.
Go once · sweet stop
Lunch near Hokkaido Jingu
Omurice, fried seafood, salad, hamburger patty — comfort after the shrine.
Fine · shrine day
7-Eleven hotel dinner
After Mt. Moiwa: convenience store snacks, crab-style bites, egg, chicken, dessert.
Do it · hotel night
Salmon & king crab lunch
Forgot the restaurant. Remember the salmon sashimi and king crab leg.
Go · seafood
Arrival night ramen
A 22:30 bowl after landing in Hokkaido. Cramped, cosy, savoury broth.
Go · first nightNothing written in this city yet.
We ate there. It just hasn’t been written up.
Coming next
More Jakarta, and a Malang list.
A new review every few weeks.