Sunday 18 October 2009

Aisa's Restaurant

After a tiring week, my family and I decided that we were going to go to the Asia's Restaurant. Around 6:00pm we went down to restaurant at the Ritz-Carlton. Now it is Asia's Restaurant, but it used to be The Airlangga Restaurant until the bomb explosion happened and they changed the name to get their business back. It took the restaurant a few months to get back to normal. Luckily I was not in my apartment when the restaurant blew up. My family and I wanted a memory of this place, since it was our last meal there, because we were going to move to another apartment in Kuningan. The buffet is amazing with foods all over Asia. From Japan it had sushi, from China Peking duck and roasted duck and with many more Chinese foods, from Thailand skewers, traditional foods from over Asia and it had all sorts of noodles and soups. My favourite food there is sushi and Peking duck.

For my starter I went directly to the sushi counter at the beginning of the buffet, knowing me I took loads of it and waited for my family until I was allowed to eat. My main meal came and I got my soup, duck and various dishes of Indonesia. Finally I was allowed to get my desert and I went straight to the chocolate fountain and to my favourite apple crumble.

When my sister went to ask for the bill, she came back confused. So I went up and after a while I found a waitress. She came back with the bill 10 minutes later. My mum checked the bill before she paid, but there were mistakes. We explained but the waitress still didn't understand, so we explained the promotions (children which are 12 and under eat for free otherwise half price, free flow of wine and we had a 25% off coupon). After 4 trials we finally received the correct bill, my mum signed it and went up, but frightened that an aftershock of the earthquake would strike on Jakarta.

2 comments:

Michael said...

Thomas, I didn't realize you were so close to the bombings of last summer.

I also didn't know you were such a fan of sushi. Ben is going to take me out for a great sushi meal someday soon. He loves it, and I really haven't had it much. We'll see.

mjh

Ms Schwarzkopf said...

YUM! Chocolate fountain and apple crumble.....you can keep the other stuff, just give me that! :)

I'm glad you were able to make a new, happy memory at the restaurant.