Jakarta - I spent so much time on the road that writing about the traffic woes is most naturally. My partner, Yudi says that he will grow old very fast driving around Jakarta - it is so choatic. He picked me up at 8am for a meeting at 9am at the customer place for a location that is not far. He instead of going through a tunnel, he took a wrong turn and ended up having to make a U-turn and this takes about 30 minutes to get back to the correct turn-off.
Yudi too sometimes have a problem because there are few road signs so you really have to know your Jakarta roads very well otherwise you will spend hours on the road and this can be an expensive and unpleasant journey.
Taking taxi is also another risk - take the only reputable Taxi company - Blue Bird group with with their famous Blue Bird taxis or Silver Bird taxi (this is the executive taxi).
Dinner we had at one of Indonesia's popular restaurant situated in the middle of Jakarta - Pondok Laguna @ Jl Batu Tulis Raya No 45-47. This was one of my my favourite restaurant 10 years ago - nothing really change. They had the streams of water flowing inside the restaurant, which you can sit in the hut and enjoy the fishes below. We ordered their famous “fried gureme” (gurame goreng) and fried tofu stuffed with shrimp (tahu kipas). Also ordered grilled cuttlefish (cumi bakar), fried sambal Kangong sambal and Oxtail soup. Every order usually followed by warm rice placed in a banana leaves covered basket. Their snacks of Emping (Crackers made from flattened Belinjo seeds) dipped into chilli is very tasty. Emping has a slightly bitter taste.
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