Today's quarantine menu at the Holiday Inn Express at Empo Pluit...
SOOOOOO MUCH F*CKING CHICKEN AND RICE!!!
Seriously, three meals = three rice and tiny-a$$ portions of chicken with some garbage veggies. I called the front desk and requested the western option with NO RICE starting with tomorrow's breakfast. The room is fine. The beds (long story why that is plural) are fine. I always try to look at the bright side of life, but the food is just ridiculous. It is similar to what one would get if a company requested boxed lunches but with a budget of 15k IDR per meal. Anyway, sorry about hijacking the thread; feel free to move it to that new hijacked discussion thread. Cheers!
Pics or my sympathy didn't happen!Today's quarantine menu at the Holiday Inn Express at Empo Pluit...
SOOOOOO MUCH F*CKING CHICKEN AND RICE!!!
Seriously, three meals = three rice and tiny-a$$ portions of chicken with some garbage veggies. I called the front desk and requested the western option with NO RICE starting with tomorrow's breakfast. The room is fine. The beds (long story why that is plural) are fine. I always try to look at the bright side of life, but the food is just ridiculous. It is similar to what one would get if a company requested boxed lunches but with a budget of 15k IDR per meal. Anyway, sorry about hijacking the thread; feel free to move it to that new hijacked discussion thread. Cheers!
You are right, and I still have two kids approaching college age who need those millions of IDR more than I do.Not to say I told you say but I have warned previously about the perils of quarantine in a not 5* hotel for the sake of a few million rupiah more
After the sandal of hotels allowing people to roam around freely, the health ministry has significantly cracked down on what we can do while in quarantine. Hotels now explicitly state that outside food orders are verboten, though I was able to order some pop-mie & other snacks via IndoMaret's app.This is the norm, but you can still order Grab and GoJek. My wife said the food looked like prison food when she saw the pictures I posted on Instagram.
Pics or my sympathy didn't happen!
This shows a depressing lack of sambal. Was never one to seek out the spiciest food in the States, but I've found that bland meals like the one you have there become much more palatable when covered in well seasoned chili paste.View attachment 1845
A small piece of chicken and a ton of rice EVERY F*CKING Meal... I thought the "Indonesian option" would have better food, but I cannot imagine that the "Western option" is any worse. The disappointing part is that the meals resemble what one would get when ordering lunch for a Kantor if one were given a budget of 15k per person. Anyway, I am happy that my Pop Mie order came through via the Indomaret app. Strangely, packages are allowed to be delivered, but cooked food is not.
Order in an airfryer & then order in packages of food & cook for yourselfView attachment 1845
A small piece of chicken and a ton of rice EVERY F*CKING Meal... I thought the "Indonesian option" would have better food, but I cannot imagine that the "Western option" is any worse. The disappointing part is that the meals resemble what one would get when ordering lunch for a Kantor if one were given a budget of 15k per person. Anyway, I am happy that my Pop Mie order came through via the Indomaret app. Strangely, packages are allowed to be delivered, but cooked food is not.
Breakfast
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Ayam Kampung , tougher than an old boot no matter what you do with it , yet they all drool over it !we eat out most days and then Sundays I bbq chicken or burgers with mixed veg andmashed spuds or homemade chips/fries.
Sidenote, the other week I bbq'd my first ayam kampung....... tasted ok but was tougher than owlsh*t. Any advice for future attempts gratefully accepted
After the sandal of hotels allowing people to roam around freely, the health ministry has significantly cracked down on what we can do while in quarantine. Hotels now explicitly state that outside food orders are verboten, though I was able to order some pop-mie & other snacks via IndoMaret's app.
Oh !? Did my kids have breakfast at your place?Jam on toast because someone drank most of the milk & then put the bloody carton back in the fridge with about 2 ½ mm left in the bottom of it didn't they!
That sounds like hell for a French guy- a diet made up of leaves & seeds bleurghOh !? Did my kids had breakfast at your place?
It just drives me crazy to find (near) empty cartons of milk in the fridge, (near) empty jars of jam in the fridge, (near) empty... etc.
But sensitive stuff requiring refrigeration are brought to my office where I have a refrigerated show case, because "there is no more space in the kitchen fridges". We have two huge f+++++g fridge in the kitchen and are only a family of 6 + maids !!!??? But they are full of empty containers.
Got home made muesli for breakfast made of rolled oats, kacang mente, pecans, pumpkin seeds, coconut flakes, dried cranberries and VCO. Plus coffee.
Will get a home made salad and cheese later for lunch while the kids and wife will have a full buffet full of stuff I love but can't eat because I am on a diet. There's a birthday at home and I will spend my time explaining that no, I don't eat nasi with my salad and cheese because I am on a diet. And no I don't want buah segar, and no, I don't want...etc
Tonight I will get juicy saint louis style ribs that we will barbeque (no nasi because... etc). Rest of the menu unplanned yet.
Actually I love nuts, seeds and leaves. Manadonese food, which I love, uses a lot of leaves (albeit no seeds nor nuts). I have made myself daily salads for years, with varieties of lettuce and combinaison of nuts, flax seeds, sunflower kernel, almond, walnut, dried fruits, sesame seeds...etc. And feta, emmental or even bits of diced gouda. Lovely and healthy. My kids have grown loving them too. My wife not so. My maids think I am an hybrid between a rabbit and a squirrel.That sounds like hell for a French guy- a diet made up of leaves & seeds bleurgh![]()