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Dijual Gedung Eks Takigawa, Panglima Polim Kebayoran Baru Luas tanah: 304 m2 Luas bangunan: 420 m2 Sertifikat Hak Milik Jumlah lantai: 3 Eks restoran jepang Takigawa Harga 22,5 Milyar

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Dijual Rumah di Panglima Polim Kebayoran Baru Jakarta Selatan

Dijual Rumah di Panglima Polim Kebayoran Baru Jakarta Selatan

Luas tanah: 121 m2, SHM

Luas bangunan: 180 m2

Jumlah lantai: 2

Kamar tidur: 5

Kamar mandi: 3

Carport: 2

Sumber air: Jet Pump

Listrik: 3500 Watt

Arah bangunan: Selatan

Masuk 2 mobil & bebas banjir

Harga 6,5 Milyar

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Kedai Makan Lumpang Emas

The Panglima Polim area of South Jakarta has been through some ups and downs recently. A number of old staples – Taco Local, Coffeebeerian, and Mama Goose, for example – have either closed up or moved on, and the district seems to be undergoing a change in direction. The old Common House building that hosted Mama Goose seems somehow to have been taken over by the Anies-Sandiaga campaign, while the Sate and Nasi Goreng Apjay corner is undergoing major alterations. We hope the area finds its feet again soon, as things seem to be shifting south to Dharmawangsa or north to Senopati, leaving Pangpol something of a relic of times past.

One new spot of brightness in Pangpol is Kedai Makan Lumpang Emas, a branch of the restaurant’s first location in Kemang’s Colony Building. Located opposite Martabak Boss, Lumpang Emas serves traditional Indonesian food on banana leaves, commonly referred to as nasi daun. There are several sets available, or you can choose your own dishes and share with friends.

We went for the pre-designed sets so that we could sample a wider range of Lumpang Emas’ food.

Kate went for the Nasi Lombok (above): lime leaf rice, shredded stewed beef, peanuts and anchovies, cassava leaf curry, corn fritter, and Lombok-style sambal. The beef was a sweet semur (stew) that had been shredded into small strips, and matched well with the spiciness of the lime leaf-flavoured sambal and the saltiness of the peanuts and anchovies. The corn fritter or pergedel jagung was to die for – crispy and chewy, with sweet morsels of fresh corn. It was so good we ordered one more each, especially as it paired so perfectly with the sambal.

James chose Nasi Kampar (above): red rice, shredded chicken, anchovies and peanuts, stir-fried papaya leaves, hard-boiled egg in chili, and sambal with garlic and red shallots. A great mixture of flavours, with nothing overwhelming anything else. The papaya leaves were not at all bitter, while the sambal was full of whole garlic cloves – we could have eaten it all day. The chicken was not at all dry, unlike many shredded chicken dishes, and the red rice was well-cooked and nutty.

The restaurant itself is very ‘old Jakarta’ in style. The walls are covered in maps of Batavia, old promotional tourist posters of Indonesia, and black-and-white photographs. The furniture is all wood, and the feeling is very homey. Service is reasonably fast, but there is plenty to look at during the wait anyway.

We’re keen to go back to Lumpang Emas and try a few more of their dishes, as what we sampled on this first visit was tantalisingly good. Check out their website for the full menu.

 Address: Jl Panglima Polim IX no.22, Kebayoran Baru, Jakarta Selatan.

Rating: Great Indonesian comfort food, and good value.

Price: Rp. 58.000 for nasi Lombok or nasi Kampar; Rp. 5.000 for extra sambal; Rp. 12.000 for two extra pergedel jagung; Rp. 22.000 for es kelapa jeruk; Rp. 8.000 for es teh manis

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Dijual Rumah di Panglima Polim Kebayoran Baru

Dijual Rumah di Panglima Polim Kebayoran Baru

Luas tanah: 334 m2, SHM

Luas bangunan: 690 m2

Jumlah lantai: 3

Kamar tidur: 5

Kamar mandi: 5

Kamar pembantu: 2

Garasi: 5

Taman

Sumber air: Jet Pump

AC, Water Heater

Listrik: 10500 watt

Genset

Line telepon

Sambungan internet

Arah bangunan: Selatan

Masuk mobil & bebas banjir

Harga 28 Milyar

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Taco Local

We’ve taken our time getting around to reviewing Taco Local, South Jakarta’s little bit of Mexico. Our reasoning? Well, partly because maybe we wanted to try every single item on the menu first, and partly because – sorry – we kind of wanted to keep it to ourselves.

But now is the time.  Taco Local is one of our favourite spots in Jakarta, and definitely our most frequented. Located in Panglima Polim, the burgeoning area for all things cool and hip in South Jakarta, Taco Local was one of the first on the block and they’ve gone from strength to strength over their two-year tenure. The restaurant recently went through an expansion to cater for the growing crowd, and even though it’s bigger, it’s still retained its comfortable cantina aesthetic. The place is littered with mismatched wooden tables, stools and chairs, and features whitewashed brick walls, Dia de los Muertos art work, and one surprisingly large dream-catcher (not quite sure how this fits in, and we’ve contemplated pointing out the cultural oddity here, but they seem to like it). Oh, and there are still a few bicycle frames hanging from the wall – a remnant from the days when Taco Local shared the premises with a bike shop. There’s a lovely outdoors section, too,  so if the weather is nice you can enjoy your Taco Local experience while gazing up at the stars – or maybe clouds. This is Jakarta, after all.

  Taco Local does a wide variety of Mexican food and drinks, and it does them extremely well. We’ve had almost everything on the menu at least once, and we can safely say that there isn’t anything that we avoid. A couple of the items on the menu – notably the nachos – are little underwhelming, but they’re still tasty enough, and we wouldn’t say no if they found their way to our table by accident.

It’s best to share when at Taco Local. There are just too many choices. This particular visit,  we ordered the carne quesadilla, and a margarita and sapaquilla to drink. The carne quesadilla is a juicy slow-cooked beef and cheese filled toasted tortilla – delicious. The beef just falls apart, and unlike a lot of Indonesian restaurants, Taco Local uses good quality cheese, which enhances the flavour. They’ve also recently begun adding more flavours into their quesadillas, like onion, tomato and capsicum, which give a great fresh flavour. Always a great starter – we always used to have nachos, but have come to the conclusion that the quesadillas kick their arses. By far.

Taco Local’s drinks have interesting Indonesian twists to them. The margarita – frozen, always frozen – is packed full of coriander, and the sapaquilla, uses Indonesian-made saparella rather than imported sasparella, and throws in lime and a shot of tequila. They are both refreshing, pleasantly alcoholic, and very reasonably priced. Also, they’re huge.

To follow, we ordered the Al Pastor and Elote Con Carne Tacos, and a Pollo Burrito. Taco Local’s tacos come in singles or doubles, so they cater for both the hungry and the famished; all are soft shell tacos. The elote con carne is a spiced corn and beef filled taco, and much like the quesadilla, the beef was beautifully cooked, falling apart with ease. The corn is a chipotle-style spiced mix, and there’s generous lashings of fresh red salsa, too.

The Al Pastor taco is probably Taco Local’s best dish – pork shoulder cooked in a sweet and tangy sauce, with pineapple chunks for a burst of sweetness. It’s one of the best things to eat not just at Taco Local, but in the whole of Jakarta. Seriously – we’re not kidding. Sweet, spicy pork on a bed on crispy red cabbage is what our dreams are made of.

The pollo burrito is filled with lovely succulent chicken, cheese, salsa, and dirty red rice. It’s taken Taco Local a little while to perfect their dirty rice, we’ll be honest – back in the early days it was quite dull, but now it has a great cumin and onion edge to it. The side condiment of salsa verde is a nice touch, but is really lacking in the chillies – we reckon a few more jalapenos, or even some cabe keriting hijau, are needed here.

We had a discussion during dinner as to whether Taco Local is our favourite place in Jakarta. We think it probably is. We couldn’t think of any other eateries that serve such consistently good food, that are constantly trying to improve themselves, yet still serve delicious food at an affordable price. Never been? You’re missing out!

  Price: Quesadilla Rp 45.000, Tacos (single) Rp 36.000, Burritos Rp 70.000, Cocktails Rp.70.000

Rating:  The best Mexican in town.

Location: Jalan Panglima Polim V, No 38, Kebayoran Baru, Jakarta Selatan

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Coffeebeerian

Beer. It’s one of the few things that James really craves from Australia. ‘But Jakarta has beer!’ I hear you say. Yes it does, and no it doesn’t. Indonesia isn’t a renowned beer country. It has a couple of mass produced locally brewed pilsners, namely Bintang, Anker and Bali Hai, and that’s about it. Even the Heineken and Guinness (which is served cold and is carbonated) is brewed in Indonesia, for the Indonesian palette. Furthermore there is a total lack of imported beer, simply because the import tax makes it financially unviable to import beer. As a result you’re limited to pilsner, pilsner, pilsner or some kind of weird carbonated cold stout.

Coffeebeerian in Panglima Polim is a welcome oddity in Jakarta. It’s a little coffee and beer café that specialises in homebrewed beer. They produce a variety of beers – IPA, Pilsner, Belgian Ale, Russian Stout, Porter, Jakarta Pride (Amber Ale), Wheat, Cider and Ginger Beer – but they only produce limited stock so everything is not always available and they run out pretty quickly, especially the ginger beer if Kate’s visited.

The beer is good, without being fantastic. It’s a little watery, and occasionally the styles are a little confused. For example the Jakarta Pride was described to me as a pilsner, but what came out was a dark amber coloured beer, that reminded us of the James Squire Amber Ale. The beer was lovely, but I wouldn’t have called it a pilsner. Another great thing about the beer they serve is that it is strong, it has a lovely kick to it (just ask Kate who was on the floor after 3 ginger beers).

The simple fact that they offer variety, and lots of it, makes it the best place to get a beer in Jakarta, if beer is the thing you’re after. Coffeebeerian is offering Jakartans something that is very hard to find, at a very affordable price. They have a bit of work to do overall, but the progress they’ve made over 18 months suggests they will get there and soon.

Price: Rp.58.000 Beer; Rp.30.000 Coffee

Location: Panglima Polim IX, 8A, Kebayoran Baru, Jakarta Selatan.

Rating: Beer. 

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Mangia

Mangia is one of several hipster joints competing for business in the growing Panglima Polim strip near Blok M. It’s a quickly-expanding area so you have to be good to stand out in the competitive market. We visted Mangia for breakfast a few months ago, and the food was average, as was the coffee. The juices, however, were amazing, but you need more than just a good juice to stand out in Pangpol. But, having some time to kill on a recent weekend, we decided to give Mangia a second chance.

The restaurant itself is quite lovely – aesthetically, it’s got a summery Mediterranean vibe, with lots of pastel yellow and whitewashing. We suspect this retro chic decorating is what keeps drawing Jakarta’s hip young folk here. It’s a nice space spread over two levels, but rather narrow in the traditional shop-house style; we imagine it would be mighty cramped when full. The menu is large and varied, and as most foodies know, that is often a sign that the food may not be amazing. Having Indonesian, Italian, Swedish, Chinese, Korean and a whole host other cuisines on the menu is usually worrying. It makes us wonder if they don’t believe in their skills enough to focus on one or two cuisines, so they instead aim for being average at a lot of foods.

Our second visit delivered much better food than the first. We ordered Mangia’s most popular dish, Swedish Meatballs, and a Chicken Penne Pesto Pasta for mains, pergedel jagung (corn fritters) as a side, and washed it down with a juice each. The juices are Mangia’s specialty, yet they don’t seem to get the praise they deserve. They are freshly made with high-quality ingredients, and are inventive enough to be interesting without going over-the-top. Our favourite is Sunset – carrot, orange, and honey, with just the right amount of fruit and vegetable pulp in it. Yum. Two, please.

The Swedish meatballs were very nice. Five big juicy meatballs on creamy potato mash, swimming in gravy and rounded off with a little strawberry jam – yes, you read that correctly, strawberry jam. We were doubtful, but the jam gives the meal a great extra dimension, a sweetness to cut through the savouriness. However, there was something missing. It lacked that little extra oomph. Maybe it was a lack of seasoning in the meatballs and gravy, or was it missing some green vegetables? Something wasn’t quite right. It was good, but it could have been great.

The Chicken Penne Pesto Pasta, on the other hand, was spot-on. Plenty of pesto, several juicy chicken strips, and a slice of surprisingly-good brown bread. It was devoured in minutes; we’d order this one again.

But the best of the day was the pergedel jagung, the big crunchy corn fritters. The corn’s sweetness popping with the light savouriness of the batter, accompanied by a tangy mayo – just delicious. Just one slight annoyance was that the waiter, seeing us as bule customers, came over and explained in broken English: “We call these bakwan.” Uh, thanks for the explanation, I guess, but actually, they’re pergedel, not bakwan (the difference is the ratio of corn to batter – pergedel is more corn and is the preferred fritter in Eastern Indonesia, while bakwan is more batter and is favoured by Western Indonesia). We found it very patronising, too, to assume we don’t speak Indonesian, but perhaps that’s actually a reflection on bules in Indonesia, rather than the waiter at Mangia.

Overall, Mangia is a bit hit and miss. The juices are a hit – they are by far the best things on the menu. The food, though, can be a bit of a miss. It’s not as though it’s bad – it’s just mostly average. Is this enough to survive in Pangpol? We’re not sure.

Price: Rp.25.000 for pergedel jagung; Rp.52.000 for chicken penne pesto pasta; Rp.59.000 for Swedish meatballs; Rp.27.000 for juices

Rating: Joyous juices but hit-and-miss food.

Location: Jl. Panglima Polim V no.38, Kebayoran Baru. Next door to Taco Local and across the road from Woodpecker.

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Convivium's Gelato Platter

As much as this restaurant has drawn gasps with its infamous red velvet cake, I'm not going to talk about it this time. I'll save the red velvet roundup post for later :p Throughout this month (and hopefully for good), Convivium is serving 10 unique gelato flavors including bacon, yes you read it right, and red velvet. An easily beckoned customer I am, I didn't think twice and came tonight.

The 10 flavors are red velvet, vanilla balsamico, squid ink, orange basil, lychee, lime rosemary, risotto mascarpone, earl grey, strawberry chili, and bacon. Each platter is priced at Rp 70.000 which is quite a bargain considering you'll get 10 mini-scoops of this interesting flavours.  

The gelato platter. Rp 70.000.

I'll try to share my impression on each flavour: 1. Red velvet

This one was easily the favourite of the bunch. They put lumps of the red velvet cake inside and it was just very good. The ice cream itself tasted like mild chocolate or perhaps cream cheese ice cream and it went well with the cake lumps. 

2. Vanilla balsamico It tasted a tad different with the usual vanilla, but I couldn't really trace the balsamic. Pardon my insensitive bud. 

3. Squid ink Though squid ink doesn't really have distinctive flavor but its colour, this one was lovable. Tasted like an intertwine between vanilla and taro ice cream. 

4. Orange basil Orange sorbet with basil hint. Better than the strawberry chili but lesser than lime rosemary. I liked it. 

5. Lychee Nothing special, canned lychee flavor. If only this were lychee martini flavour. 

6. Lime rosemary Striking astringency from the lime followed by rosemary flavor afterward. This one would make one hell of a palette cleanser. 

7. Risotto mascarpone Very nice! It taste very mascarpone-y and you get lumps of rice in some bites.

8. Earl grey This one was lovely. I think tea just goes well with milk like how matcha ice cream turns out to be so good. Imagine having ice cream form of milk tea. 

9. Strawberry chili Strawberry sorbet with spicy finish. I think they're doing an awesome job with this sorbets; all the lime, orange, and this one were quite solid.

10. Bacon It's sad to say that this flavor turned to be the worst amongst all of them. This thing just tasted funny, totally weird. It's a bit salty but I didn't taste the smokiness of the bacon. My 3 friends all agreed that this taste unpleasant.

My favourites in more -> less order: 1. Red velvet

2. Risotto mascarpone

3. Earl grey  

Pannacotta. Rp 30.000.

Ever since I tasted Capocaccia's pannacotta, I haven't really found any in Jakarta that meet its bar. This one also didn't do it. Compared with Capocaccia's, it was too soft to be jiggly. Tastewise it was pretty okay. It was adequately creamy and would have been better if it had more vanilla taste. I appreciate the generosity of the berry coulis serving, but neater would have been better. It tasted fine though, the coulis.  

One thing that I don't get about the restaurant is the puffed-up service. I'm not going to talk about how hard it is we have to beg for a slice of red velvet. I was asking the waitress if we can have a one-scoop serving of the red velvet gelato since we loved it and she excused herself, 5 minutes later came back and said they couldn't serve in single scoop. Wow, I was surprised.