My first post here - North Indonesia

Froggy · Feb 22, 2013

I work and live in North Jakarta in this area known as Pluit. Its north till its literally by the sea as I had posted before in the Thai thread. I wish to spend 40% of my time here and 40% of my time in Thailand and the rest play-masak but now its only 30-60-10.

Anyway here's my first pics of ,y post about Indonesia and its makan of course at a roadside seafood place

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See? Its really roadside type but the selection is really fresh and here how they all look after cooking

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Ikan Kuay

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Stingray

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Crab

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Brinjal

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Prawns with petai Because petai not enough so ordered extra petai

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I'll be here another 8 days so more posts to come if you guys like

Psycho · Feb 22, 2013

how much did you paid for all the above makan?

Froggy · Feb 22, 2013

Psycho said:
how much did you paid for all the above makan?

With a big bottle of Bintang beer it costs 203,500 rupiah or S$26.00 for two person.

Froggy · Feb 22, 2013

Went for my daily morning walks with the ah pehs and took this video of the surroundings of the main road of Pantai Mutiara, funny the video turns out to be blur despite I uploaded it HD into youtube. I used my iPhone 4s to take this.

[video=youtube;zSpngWOfpUI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSpngWOfpUI[/video]

At 0:32 you see the famous Regatta condominium this is a high-class condo and of course uncle me can only afford to rent the Pantai Mutiara Apartment you see beside the Regatta at 0:38. 2 bedrooms for $750 per month.

I'm uploading another video using my Samsung Galaxy Camera of a video of the surrounding but taken from the apartment.

Raiders · Feb 22, 2013

Thanks a lot brother. Very good thread and pictures. Makes me hungry early in the morning. Hehe. Remember to ask the cook to cut the petai always. I love these beans but if you don't cut them up, some of them might have worms inside.

Froggy · Feb 22, 2013

Here the video I took with the Galaxy Camera, its clearer than iPhone. The view is from my bedroom window. Note at 2:33 is the new mall with residential project this project is the start of the new Pluit City construction which included reclamation to literally build a city in the sea like our Marina. From 2:33 to 3:15 will be where the new Pluit City will take place [video=youtube;FuUlolRx8EI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuUlolRx8EI[/video] This is the website to Pluit City project, pretty fantastic I must say. http://www.pluit-city.com/

Froggy · Feb 22, 2013

Cheers buddy

Raiders said:
Thanks a lot brother. Very good thread and pictures. Makes me hungry early in the morning. Hehe. Remember to ask the cook to cut the petai always. I love these beans but if you don't cut them up, some of them might have worms inside.

Froggy · Feb 22, 2013

Very happy just got my driving license yesterday. Have been driving here without one and its no good because all work permit holder here require one to drive not the international driving permit only for holiday. This is how the Indonesian driving license look like. Now I have 3, Singapore, Thai and Indo kekekekeke

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Raiders · Feb 22, 2013

joetys said:
Very happy just got my driving license yesterday. Have been driving here without one and its no good because all work permit holder here require one to drive not the international driving permit only for holiday.

Hi brother, is it difficult to get the license? Any practical or theory test that you have to take? This would be useful information for brothers here. Thank you.

Froggy · Feb 22, 2013

I'm afraid this information I must PM you. I guess you know what I mean.

Raiders said:
Hi brother, is it difficult to get the license? Any practical or theory test that you have to take? This would be useful information for brothers here. Thank you.

po2wq · Feb 22, 2013

joetys said:
I work and live in North Jakarta ...

me was wondering where is north indonesia ...

den me saw north jakarta ...

Froggy · Feb 22, 2013

po2wq said:
me was wondering where is north indonesia ...

den me saw north jakarta ...

Ok ok its Pluit la

Psycho · Feb 22, 2013

joetys said:
With a big bottle of Bintang beer it costs 203,500 rupiah or S$26.00 for two person.

Considering $13 each person, is cheap.

Froggy · Feb 22, 2013

Look what I found this afternoon for lunch? Yes bah kut teh. Seriously its not too bad considering I'm in a foreign country. Found this above a wet market's hawker centre near office.