This is what happens when a friend give me FREE mangoes and me come upon a recipe for it!
I had some trouble getting some of the ingredients so i altered a wee bit of it.
(Tilapia is known as Ikan Nila in Indonesia and for the chinese Fei Zhou yu “African Fish”)
Taste: Tangy-Sweet Fishy Mango 
It was so good that the stray cats came to find where the whiff of the aroma was from and they were rummaging the garbage bin… heehhehe.
:: I’m LOVING it ::
McD is the ‘new’ Hearty Breakfast in Indonesia for exam stress hungry students. We stayed up till 4am or so, had to pay the internet bill and have a side trip to Happy Land for the most awesome breakfast of the week! Word.
To think Youmouma and I was going to have a nice quiet breakfast by ourselves came a group of hyperactive, noise polluter Kinddie kids!! I swear i’ve never seen the play pen at McD having a massive Jamm!
A Beautiful morning at 8 something in the morning, they were celebrating a 5 yr old boy’s birthday!!
It’s weird to see birthday parties held so early in the morning!! Back in Msia, the kids birthday are either lunch time or dinner time.
Balloons make lil kids go beserk :p
And there was a line of traffic stopper. It’s normal here for school kids to perform their music band by taking the whole stretch of road by themselves with a few policemen assisting them.
Vehicles in queue to pass.
Last night i had dinner with a bunch of crazy people 
We had a vegetarian meal prepared by these people below!!
PaiSEh! They prepared everything, and i didn’t help. Plus i was 20 minutes late. Perangai buruk betul!
I suppose we can call this fusion of culture- ever had Indian cuisine by dining Chinese style? hahaha.
<3 Thanks guys i had fun and it was great! xoxo
I’ve been doing lots of going up and down on getting back to socialising (hehe) and doing work. I can’t believe i have more work outside of academics boundaries. Sigh~ There are moments i wish it was exam period!
My schedule is back to classes, Thesis exploration, plucking hibiscus, and two more new additions: participating in the preparation for Social service and the Malaysian Society trip to Bale Kambang! I’ll be clad in the same clothes from day til night.
Rats came injected with Alloxan to induce Diabetes in it the dosage was 4omg on five below 200g rats, all died within 3 days! Dosage was too high. Then Wednesday, we tried too different dosages and inject four rats and checked it out yesterday. One died not too long that day, the other 3 survive but only one was succesfully induced Diabetes. OH man, it feels like i am paying money for rats to die! Well this is an exploration process which is needed to spent on Rp35k/rat.
Manage to visit those new houses that my friends shifted to! Aaahh… the company was good! I had good time catching up with many people.
Speaking of gallivanting, i did, we did!
Boogie Woogie the Saturday night away!
Oohh, it was a big group and we had the whole upstairs to ourselves! Groove our beat out! I had fun in the end with the best party people though i was a lil’ reluctant for a bit because i was thinking of some unfinish work i got to do.
We dress to our nines and Nad the mamasita was most gracious that night!
At the end of the fiesta, we bummed at the nearest McKers for some chow time! Spending the remainder hours there in good humour and high spirits!
Sunday just came too soon. Caught a few hours of sleep and was getting ready to Miss K and the gang’s house for lunch!! haha! So nice to have people cooking especially for you ! Unlike some that takes you as a garbage bin. Wokay, sense the resentment there? Well that’s another thing i don’t want to elaborate
:: Home-Cook Indian Food ::
Yummy Licious! Papadum is my first love of keropok.
They whipped up this meal for us!
We went room hopping! Exchanging ghost stories and sharing funny moments!
Later that evening, they made tea, fried fish keropok and serve cookies as well! Too well fed i tell ya.
:: the attic::
This is their attic where the bicycle sound was heard at the witching hour a few days ago!
Attic is kinda like a secret hiding spot, since the entrance to it is one small window size. It will be the perfect secret hideout for them to escape assassins.
Earlier of March, I join the merriment of four to make this merrier! (lol)
Forgive my failing memory, i can’t recall the names of those Japanese girls… hehehe. Opps!
They were on a one month Language student exchange program.
:: Dieng Club house ::
The Japanese girl in Blue has been traveling around. She went to London for a year just to learn English!!! Imagine that, and she is Indonesia to learn the language, though she took classes back in her homeland.
The other Nippon girl in white, she is the more curious one and owns this marvelously informative bilingual menu book of Indonesia. When were in Warung Bali, she whip out her book to look up what is Jus Tape.
Tape or Tapai is a fermented cassava (type of potato), that is blended with condense milk and water. One of my Favourite drink, and among my friends i’m the only one who have a liking to it.
So they were brought to Warung Bali to try out some sinful food.
:: Babi Guling ::
Warung Bali serves famous traditional Balinese food. It’s not Halal. For halal, balinese food it will be in Nuansa Bali.
Anyway, this place serves awesome spicy food! Such as, ayam plecing, kangkung plecing and ayam bertutu.
Surprisingly, Japanese do acquire a little wasabi when eating sushi, unlike Malaysians that i known, they will take a generous amount of wasabi to eat with their sushi or sashimi.
Wasabi is not suppose to be mix with the soya sauce or sweet sause, it’s suppose to be on or in the sushi.
:: NaV karaoke ::
That was my 2nd time in Nav and compared to the last time, they have less variety of songs from different language.
They use to have Hindi, Tamil, Japanese and Korean songs.
So these two girls didn’t get to sing much, but listen to us crowing for an hour and dance to Project Pop- Goyang Duyu~! hhehehe.
We headed to Dieng Clubhouse for bowling, unfortunately, that day there was a bowling competition so the place was fully booked. We only did some sight-seeing at the clubhouse.
A week later they went away. I must take up the opportunity with them to go Japan one day 
since they offered.
We were allowed to decorate the room and blast some music of our own
it sort of looks like we were in a conference room or meeting room.. hehhe but it was the Birthday girl’s turn to give a speech!
After nearly one year in RPC, their menu doubled! They not only serve Western food but Local menus and of course Japanese food too! I ordered the food in the pic above! Ayam plecing is spicy (i like), a little different from where I ‘ve tried in the Balinese resto and i ordered that white tofu looking thing, which is well known to the Hock Kien clan (Singaporeans and Indonesians) as TauHwa and famously known to the Cantonese clan (Malaysia and Hong Kong) as Tau Foo Fah! Err.. it had too much ginger flavouring inside! Slightly different from the ones i have back home, which has no ginger flavour at all, just your choice of brown sugar or white sugar syrup.
Who is RPC’s owner? To be more precise, the woman whom i met in RPC may or may not be the owner, perhaps she was helping out to run the place. Oh my GOSH!!! Anyway it’s a nice place to chill =)
hey verbatimcries,
well i have read your blog,
you said that you ever went to cafe royal?is the owner female? i’m not sure, i just wanna prove that the owner like a boy? but she’s female? oh no,, she’s my rival i think hehehhehe
can you email me?
thanks a lot
ROYAL CAFE, Jln. Merbabu, 21
The first time i visited *click on * Royal Priesthood Cafe was on the new year’s eve 08, it was a pouring one. My friends and i were sloshing all the way there… they were probably half swearing for making them walk somewhat far. Iron Chef and I stumbled on this rather cool ‘makan’ spot by accident. Guess it was the night of Xmas when J.C lead us there after lingering at Ijen Catholic Church (hehe). ” Wei, new eating-makan spot in Malang!”, that’s what we said, and decided to tak a look and report back to our friends later on. We were greeted by this woman, whom i assume was the owner because she sat behind the paying counter and she was so nice! =) Nice people are hard to forget.
:: Ijen Church during Xmas 07 ::
Back then, the food menu were not many and most dishes were beef base, not many choices for my Hindu friends and some of my Buddhist friends who does not take beef due to religios reasons. To the Hindus the cows are their sacred animal, to some Buuddhist who prays to the Goddess of Mercy they too don’t consume beef. However, i got to say the name of their dishes are very intriguing!
Hei! Did i mention the atmosphere of the place was good??!!! The soft lighting used definitely help create the nice atmosphere. Their dining style is Al-fresco and they have a room for those who wants to host a mini party!! They have a mini bookstore that sells christian songs, books and some de-stress hand balls =) lots of cute accessories there too
Nearly one year later…
So back in November 24th 2008 i think… someone asked me where should they host a private party? Jeng… Jeng… Jeng… I reccomended RPC! (Probably sounds like i’m bragging here just in case Aka reads this! I’m not, merely telling the truth.)
A mismatch party was held! We had a great time in that private room and the service was great!