Culinary at Richeese Factory

Good day.
Today I'm about to post my culinary trial at Richeese Factory Fast Food Restaurant at Tuesday, 2nd October 2012.

First, the name of the restaurant. It's taken from the snack brand named Richeese from Nabati which is has many kinds of snack consist of cheese ingredients and unique kinds of snack. And it became the name of a fast food restaurant because it takes the concept of the cheese and the different types of food, perhaps.

Now, about the food. Just like a common fast food restaurant, this restaurant has different types of fast cooking-and-eating menu. But unlike the other fast-food restaurant serving fried chicken or burger, they serve it different. The signature dish of this restaurant is the Fire Wings. As its name, the taste is burning your mouth, just like fire. The unique of this fire wings is, it has the level of spiciness  You can choose from 0-5 of level. For beginner  try number 0 or 1 if you want it a bit spicy without sauce. I've tried until 2 (Hot) and yes it is as its name, Hot!
The one I like from this fire wings is the cheese dip. The cheese dip is like cheese at 7eleven, but it's not as thick as 7eleven's.

These are 4 portion of Fire Wings Level 2 and the Cheese Dip, Cheese cream soup, and 3leaf Tea  

The fire wings has 2 kinds of portion, 4 or 6 peices of its. The size is not medium. I can say, it's small. If you ever taste chicken wings by Pizza Hut or your mom's frying, it's as big as that. Just added fried flour to make it thicker and bigger, but it doesn't work that much.

The other unique menus are Chicken Sandwiches (spicy or not), potato wedges (with cheese dip and spicy sauce level 0-1 only), cheese cream soup, and cake in a cup with many kinds of flavor. And there are also some ordinary menus like fried chicken and french fries too.

The price is average, but don't forget that every meal or package you chose, not icluded 10% tax yet. I ate Combo 5 which consist of 4 fire wings, 1 rice, and cold tea. It cost Rp. 25.000 included tax. And I also ordered Cheese cream soup cost Rp. 5.500 included tax.

The outlets still not quite much, it's only available in Bandung, Sumedang, Jakarta, Bogor, and Cibubur. Will be coming soon in Surabaya.
In Bandung, you can found it at Paris Van Java Mall-Sky Level, IStana Plaza-3rd floor, and Jl. Pahlawan No. 19. While at Sumedang, you can found it at Jatinangor Town Square-GF. At Jakarta, you can found it at Arion Mall-2nd floor, Plaza Blok M-LG, Gajah Mada Plaza-1st floor, and Plaza Kalibata-LG (the place I took luch with my BF). At Bogor you'll found it at Ekalokasari Plaza-GF. And in Cibubur, you'll found it at Cibubur Junction-GF. It'll coming soon in Surabaya at Royal Plaza, Maspion Square, and City of Tomorrow.

So. are you cheesy enough?

Rainbow Cake a la Me

My post today will be about the cake I've made last week, Sunday, 30th September 2012.

Guess what I've made last week?
It consist various colors of each layer of the cake. Figure it out yet?
Yes, I've made Rainbow Cake, or short of.

I've decided to make it since 2 weeks before. 1 thing makes me interested to bake a cake is want to make a good cake for my family and BF. And so I started to make it.

The recipe I used in this recipe is:

- 226 grams Butter
- 400 grams Sugar
- 5 White Eggs
- 2 tsp Vanilla Essence
- 375 grams Flour
- 4 tsp Baking Powder
- 1/2 tsp Salt
- 355 grams Milk
- 6 Food Coloring Paste

1. I put together flour, baking powder, salt in a bowl. Put aside.
2. I mix white eggs until it stiff. Put aside.
3. I mix butter with sugar until soft, then added stiff white eggs little by little.
4. I added flour and milk mix to the admixture alternately. Then I put vanilla essence.
5. I take approximately 1 admixture and added red color, and bake it for 15-20 minutes in 160-190 Celsius degree. And I repeat to the rest like that with letting the admixture in the mixing bowl.

After all admixture done, I made the butter cream with this recipe:

- 750 grams White Butter
- 1 can Sweetened Condensed Milk
- 50 ml Simple Syrup

1. I mix them all until it soft.

And then, I put them in layer and spread the butter cream in each layer. This is my first time, and it's still not quite good. After I've layered them all, I spread the butter cream to cover the whole cake to be like this:

Then, I took my first cut to see how it is. Wanna take a sneak peak? Here it is:

Quite good for beginner. But still so much to learn. Now, how about the taste?
Well....
I don't know how to say it. But, everyone in the house was laugh after taste my cake. At first, I don't realize what's wrong, but after I tasted it myself, well...
It's TOOO SWEEETTT!
But you know what? When I asked my BF to taste it, he said it's good. And he suggested to grate some cheese, just like my mom said. So I grated some cheese to it, sorry I didn't took the pictures.

And I've recognize what's wrong.
First, the sugar. I realized that I used local sugar which is sweeter. The color is bit more yellowish, not so white. If you wanted to used the local one, use 1/2 from the recipe. and it will be better if it is castor sugar, because it safe time to mix with the butter.
Second, the milk. I should use the evaporated milk than milk in cartoon package. It's, again, sweeter than evaporated.
Third, the brass. I think it's too big for small amount of 6 layer admixture. It'll be better if you use smaller one.
Fourth, the scale. Well, this is crucial since a not quite right amount of ingredients may ruin your cooking. I used the measuring glass which is not recommended at all. Use scale next time.
Fifth, the butter cream. I can't figure out the problem from this butter cream, but overall the taste is not good and I think I've missed something. I hope you can find some conveying butter cream recipes so it will taste real good.

I hope you can made your own better rainbow cake than I do. And put some comments, because I'd love to hear some critics from you.

Short Weekend Trip at Aston Marina, Ancol

In this post, I'm about to write my short trip to Aston Marina, Ancol on 28th-29th of September 2012.

Last week, my family and I went to Aston Marina, Ancol at 4.30 p.m. and we arrived there at 5.30, since it's friday and traffic jam everywhere. If the road wasn't too crowded, we may arrive faster.

After that, we went to our room at 912. It was a family suite with 2 bedrooms, bathroom, kitchen and living room. The room is very homey, I can say. It's not much like most or common hotel I met, which prior to luxury and hotel-like. The room is so homey. Is it because it has the same concept with the both apartment tower next to the hotel or is it because I went there with my family? Well, you decide.

Start from the living room and kitchen. This is what you see after entering the door of the family suite:

The living room completed with sofa, AC unit, and a flat screen TV. It also has the TV channel guidance so that we can change the channel we intend to watch straight by pressing the number. And the kitchen is next by the living room. The dining table has 4 dining chairs, and quite cozy too. And the kitchen itself is using electric stoves and electric pot to boil tea or coffee served near it. It also have some cabinet and a wastafel. And next to the kitchen is the balcony with glass door. These are the pictures of the view from the balcony:

Now the rooms. I will start from the single beds room. This room has 2 single beds with a closet with mirror doors and window in front of the beds. It also completed with AC unit that we can adjust the temperature as we desire. Here are the pictures:

Next is the double bed room. It only has a double bed, completed with AC unit with adjustable temperature, a closet with mirror doors, a flat screen TV, a table and chair, and 3 table lamps. Here are the pictures:


















Last but not least is the bathroom. The bathroom is not big, but it's complete. It has shower cube with adjustable water temperature (hot-cold), a toilet, and an adjustable-water-temperature-tap wastafel with cabinet and mirror. It also completed with 4 towels, complete set of bath and shower gel, conditioning shampoo, razor pack, cotton buds pack, sanitary bag pack, shower cap pack, tooth brush pck, and 4 bottles of mineral water with the mouthwash glasses. Here's the picture:

And a little plus here is breakfast I got in the morning  Two pieces of waffle with whipped cream, raspberry jam, and chocolate topping and a glass of apple juice. Here's my breakfast:

That's a short information about my short trip at Aston Marina, Ancol. Hope you interested to spend a night there anytime you visiting Ancol.