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Wednesday, March 30, 2016

Coffee With Me





As you know, coffee shops lately have been spread out among of Jakarta area. They carried out many concept of coffee shop, from vintage style into pastel mood. Lucky me when I stroll around Pantai Indah Kapuk, north Jakarta area, I found this cute local coffee shop around the block. Their unique design and color attracted me as I passed by. So I decided to go there and have some coffee with my husband. So here's some capture of this local coffee shop named Coffee With Me





First image that comes across my mind is their unique colors and design. They used mostly pastel colors combine with white paint on the wall. They also used soft tones colors for their chair and couch but majority in tosca. Here some fascinating corner in the shop.





Cozy couch 





Inside the coffee shop, pastel and tosca dominated the colors choice





Their counter


So I order hot flat white and iced cappuccino. Not only coffee, they also served food like cookies and smoothies bowl as well. If you're not a very coffee lovers, you can still enjoy their hot/iced tea or juice instead. So here's picture of my coffee yesterday.






My flat white



Iced Cappuccino



My favorite corner



Cute Giraffe





In the making of espresso 


To be honest, I was amazed with their creativity and imagination to design such a cute local coffee shop like this. I surely will come back soon for one or two cups of coffee there. So if you are a coffee lovers or coffee addict, it's a must to visit this place for sure.

Oh and for your information, there's a yoga in their 2nd floor also. 
Happy coffee hopping! 


Coffee With Me
🏠: Rukan Exclusive blok A no 32 Pantai Indah Kapuk
Opening hours : 7.30 -18.30 


Photos by me

Sunday, March 6, 2016

Bazaar Bridal Week 2016 : "Silent Poetry" by Imelda Kartini




Last week I attended Indonesia's Annual Bazaar Bridal Week 2016 at Ritz Carlton, Pacific Place. This event last for 3 days, from Friday to Sunday, featuring some of the best Indonesian designers. They showed off their bridal collection. 

One of my favorite designer, Imelda Kartini, closed the event with a spectacular fashion show, themed Silent Poetry, inspired by the poetry from Victorian era. This fashion show was supported by many vendors; Magnificent Decoration by Lotus, Flawless Make Up and Hairdo by Donny Liem, Awesome Accessories by Morphacio Body Art, and Gorgeous Shoes by Rina Thang. 

Every piece was designed heart fully; the chosen fabric, silhouette, and unique details will took our breath away. Here are some pictures of her collection. I hope you will be amazed like I did!










 











Photos by me

Tuesday, February 16, 2016

My Wedding Journey Part II : Catering and Decoration




Continue from my previous post about my wedding journey and what to prepare for your wedding day, I want to share about how I picking Catering and Decoration vendor.

After picking your venue, of course you have to search for decoration vendor. Just like before, because I'm in charge of my wedding preparation it self (I'm not using wedding planner for this case, but you can if you want), so it's me and Reza's duty to looking around decoration vendor. Actually we're quite overwhelm to search all of this item just two of us. But since we want to make sure every details of them, so we had to continue and keep moving on.

Talking about decoration, it best when you find the vendor who had done wedding decoration in your chosen place before. Why is that? Because they already had an experience with the location and they can offer or suggest you the decoration as it's best.

After strolling around to couple vendors, finally my choice fell on Lily Vicky Decoration. They known Plaza Bapindo so well that gave me confidence to entrust them decor my wedding day.
I decided to use Garden theme for my wedding with combine green, pink, and purple colors.

For wedding gate and standing flower, we using more branches with cherry blossom flowers combining with street lamp standing flower. For the  there's many lightning tree with bird cage, bench, and fence too make garden theme more real.

Tips. Try to using various spotlight colors because it will enliven the atmosphere. Try to cover your front gate or front desk with fabric to create a full hallway dimension.






Receptionist desk (front gate)


  




Photo gallery



Branch with cherry blossom






Wedding gate


















Fence, bench, tree, and bird cage


The other most important things on your wedding day is catering. One of key succeed of your wedding  is determine by the food you choose and how much food you ordered will be enough for all guests. You will served food in two kind of ways, buffet and stall. For most people it's taboo if your buffet is empty or not enough to fed the last guest attended. But if your stall food is empty somehow they think is common. So try to precisely count how many guests you invited before determine how many food you ordered.

A good caterer will know how many food (include cakes and pastry) they have to suggest to you at the moment you told them how many invitation you distributed (including proportion of youth and the older ones). They have their own calculation to make sure your buffet won't get empty until the last guest standing.

First thing you have to do before choosing your Catering vendor is to continuously trying their food in every wedding exhibition. Try to check their consistency of taste and preparation as well. 

After taste couple of Catering vendor in every wedding exhibition, I entrust Chez Ingrid to handle my wedding catering. Chez Ingrid is one of Plaza Bapindo engage catering vendor at that time.

Tips. Just like I told you before, some of venue have their own engage vendor including to catering, so make sure to pick your catering vendor align to your venue list. 






Cookies and cakes



Barbie pudding



Serving table decoration


As because my father is from Makasar, we want to bring our culture to our wedding as well by serving this Makasar traditional cookies that arrange well in circle line.



Makasar cookies


My Wedding Journey Part III : Pre-Wedding Photo will be up on the next upcoming blog post.

Thursday, January 7, 2016

AMBER Chocolate Bar



Senopati always been a great choice to search for good restaurants or cafes. They grew up so fast that every time I passed this area there's always a new store open here. AMBER Chocolate Bar is one of them. Located at Senopati street across Cacaote, they have three different concept for each floor of their store.

1st floor was about pastry boutique with luxury interior. 2nd floor was a restaurant that design as a library where more casual for dining. 3rd floor was a rooftop that design like lounge and bar to chillin' out with your best friends while DJ playing the music. It will boost your mood like once!













Because it still early in the afternoon and we're quite full, so we decided to try their pastry at 1st floor. There's many variety of pastry there. There's 13 flavor of macaroons, each was IDR 15k. They also have about 9 flavors of chocolate pralines each IDR 20k. You can also find cakes, pastry and another sweet stuff.

After seeing their menu, we decided to order their Signature High Tea and Chocolate Overflow.


Chocolate Overflow IDR 70k
Like a classic lava cake, this soft baked with melted chocolate in the center served with vanilla ice cream. They also add small macaroons and fresh fruits like strawberry and blueberry. I love the balance of sweetness and sourness combination.





Signature High Tea IDR 210k
Consist of all sweet treat in two-tier plate consist many variety of chocolate, macaroons, cakes, etc. This set also allow you to choose two kind of drinks (classic twinning tea or variety of coffee). 









Signature Twinning Tea (Unparalleled Interlude) IDR 50k
A great combination of sencha green tea and fresh juicy taste of honeydew, sweet pineapple, kiwi, and zingly lemon balm




Premium Twinning Tea (Jasmine Pheonix Pearl) IDR 70k
A premium and one of the finest Chinese jasmine green tea which gives a sweet alluring fragrant of jasmine blossom and sublime, sweet flavor





I love the whole place ambiance, it feels so homey yet luxury. I'm not yet try their 2nd and 3rd floor this time, but surely I will go there again and try another menu in another thematic floor of their store. This was a fun experience having tea time at AMBER.

















Photos by me



Amber Chocolate Bar
Jl. Senopati Raya No. 61, Kebayoran Baru, Jakarta Selatan
Phone: (+6221) 29044412
Instagram: @amberchocolatebar
Opening Hours: Pastry Boutique 07:00 – 22:00, Library 10:00 – 23:00, Sky Lounge 17:00 – 01:00

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