Medan Kota

I love eating… who doesn’t… before this whole MedanKu.com got started… I was eating out a lotttt… like all 6 lunches and 3 or 4 times dinner per week… so my dine out bills were like ‘oh my lord’ … but that’s how I pampered myself…  and now that the whole website got real popular with over 260,000++ page views per month… and going strong …  well.. I still do.. but not as often…

ever since the 3 major five stars hotels made their presence in Medan; the poshy JW Marriott Hotel Medan, the modern resort Aryaduta Hotel and with the centrally located Grand Swissbel hotel, I have since became a regular fixture at these hotel on weekly try out….

practically every week.. the PRs will contact me for feature @ MedanKu.com … it’s either for their food promo or something else… at first.. it was FUN.. like really really excitedly fun… now it’s like.. let’s find someone to do it for me…. well .. I am not complaining.. its good fun thing to do rather than office work…so I am now limiting it to just 1 hotel per week for only 1 try out….

well, I have to say that I do love their presence in this Town that I longed for since I moved to Medan… of these 3 hotels, here’s what I usually go for at each on them on my own personal expense account….

let’s see, I have been indulging myself at Marriott Gourmet for their sandwiches, cakes, pastries and bread… I hardly go over to Clover Bakery anymore… the pricing ,… though slightly more by about 35%, but well worth every cents for the top notch quality that I get… I’ve recently tried out their Tiramisu… so so so heavenly… the little cup that is filled with the rich mascarpone is made of white chocolate.. !!!  this is a must must try…. even the cheese cake!! simply perfect… we know how the French eat, go for Quality and not Quantity…. since I set foot at the Marriott Gourmet, …. the ordering of birthday cake for my entire family has been handed over to Mr Gomes, the Executive Pastry Chef…

then when I crave for the Singapore style food or good quality simple Chinese food… I can be found at Grand Swissbel Hotel,….  the Hainanese chicken rice is just about as good as the Boon Tong Kee at Balestier Road in Singapore, … the man in-charge, chef Steven a true Singaporean, has experiences at many of the top end hotels in Singapore like Raffles as well as Shangri-la…… I particularly like the omelette with oyster.. also known as OarJian in hokkien…  I was lucky to have him fried it all up personally…. very mouth watering…. and the best part… it’s buffet style and very reasonable in price @ just Rp 88.000 per person on weekdays… my only saying… even after taxes and drinks… say Rp 280.000 nett for 2, it’s good value…. in fact the correct wording will be cheap….

as for Aryaduta Hotel…  I like to go over when I want to have the occasional long slow quiet dinner with mr hubby without the boys… Risotto is my favorite dish at The Kitchen…  we have a lot of good fun memory at the place….  once,  we went there on Elson’s birthday for dinner,… he literally scared everyone off…. he screamed so so loud at the fried Ice Cream … not that he is afraid, but he find it rather thrilling when the chef pour alcohol over hot pan and a big fire will then light up … and with him sitting over at the teppanyaki table and have the full clear view…. he simply love love it…  imagine this…  The Kitchen restaurant is one of those restaurants where couple people go for quiet night or business people dine for business meeting… the place is dimly light, perched on the top floor of the Palladium Mall, no sound of road traffic what so ever… very very very quiet… and that weekday night… everyone in the restaurant were just having normal quiet dinner while my family watched the chef preparing the food… the boys starring at it quietly with fasination….. BUT the moment the alcohol touched the teppanyaki pan, Elson just SCREAMed … the kind like when young kids scream and any parents will drop everything and run over…  he was ooonn top of his voice…   the scream was just so loud, …. loud enough to make everyone turned their head… but when it’s a scream that made you turned to the direction of the sound and you saw hugeeee FIRE…. god….. a group of guys sitting beside our table aged about late 40s looked startled… and one of them sort of stood up and ready to run off… (but he sort of get the point when big laughter broke out) that’s when me and hubby just have to hide our face…. we were so so embarrassed!!!  a cleaner standing near by was trying really hard to control his laughter avoiding being rude…  I was hiding my face in my palm… and couldn’t stop laughing…. even Jadon laughed so loud at his own silly little brother….    that was just about the last time that we took the boys to the restaurant…

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