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Wednesday 30 November 2016

Pablo - Gandaria City

The anticipation is over guys! The number one baked cheese tart from japan has arrived in JAKARTA. Pablo Cheese Tart which originated from Osaka has open in Jakarta, Indonesia on 17th November 2016 at Gandaria City Mall. Fyi, I haven't try the original Pablo Cheese Tart in Osaka, Japan but I'll make sure I'm gonna pay a visit to try the original one when I come to Japan.

The outlet is located at UG Floor beside double pot restaurant. The outlet has several seating areas so you guys can choose whether you wanna enjoy your freshly baked product on the spot or bring it home to enjoy it later with your family/friends. (At that time I chose to bring it home and enjoy it with my family and friends)

Wide variety of pablo frute flavors. From left to right: Rich berry cheese IDR 60K, Special chocolate IDR 55K, Classic Cheese Tart IDR 60K, Matcha with shiratama IDR 60K, and Rich mango cheese IDR 55K.

Freshly Baked Cheese Tart IDR 169K

To get this beautiful freshly baked cheese tart you need to put a little bit effort which is queue in a very long line (For me, I waited approx. 2 hours!). The taste was quite nice, it was creamy and not too sweet which was perfectly paired with the pie crust. Unfortunately, the flavor of the cheese wasn't strong enough, so it tasted more like an ordinary sweet tart instead of cheese tart.

Matcha with shiratama IDR 60k

I really love this beverages, the matcha flavor smoothie combines well with the matcha jelly, shiratama, and ogura whipped cream. When you guys order this beverage, I suggest you guys to mix it well with the straw and drink it, but leave the jelly to be eaten later after you've finished your drink.

That's the end of this post guys, and this is the overall score for this cafe:

Crave factor 5/10
Satisfied factor 4/10

Return for more - No, except when I'm crave the frute

I hope you guys enjoy it and stay tune for my next post.

If you have some suggestions of cafes, restaurants, food or drinks that you want me to visit and make a review of, please leave it on the comment section down below. I would really appreciate it.

Keep craving till my next post! See ya!

Pablo Cheese Tart Indonesia

Jl. Sultan Iskandar Muda No. 11, RT.10/RW.6, Kby. Lama Utara, Kby. Lama

Daerah Khusus Ibukota, Jakarta 12240
Opening hours:
Mon - Sun: 10.00 - 22.00
Instagram:@pablo_cheese_tart_indonesia

Friday 25 November 2016

Starbucks

Starbucks Holiday Cups

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It's the end of november everyone, and you know what that mean right? it's almost Christmas!! it's my favorite time of the year, where you get together with your relative and having a Christmas dinner. I hope you guys also excited as I do.

Recently, Starbucks just has launched their holiday paper cups, which are available for every purchase of their hot drinks. Do you know? I just fell in love with their holiday paper cups. It's because the design is resembling the spirit of christmas, joy and happiness. Holiday paper cups available in 5 designs, which every design has their own unique characteristic (the crystal actually is definetly my favs of all).

Do you know the person behind all these holiday paper cups? I suppose no, hahaha. Holiday paper cups are designed by Indonesian Designer and Ilustrator, Florencia Selvi. if you don't know her, then you should follow her instagram @florencia.selvi and support her amazing artwork.

Thursday 24 November 2016

Tangerang

Kakolait - Gading Serpong

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ATTENTION PLEASE! I'm calling all the chocoholic!! For there's a new cafe in town named KAKOLAIT. Why am I calling only the chocoholic? Because, Kakolait is a cafe which has a specialty in producing chocolate-based desserts and drinks. The cafe is located in Gading Serpong, and it's only one shop away from Cotive Workingspace & Coffee. (Click here for my review of Cotive's).

Kakolait interior dominated mostly with the color of brown and white. I thought they wanted to show all the chocolate elements into their interior, and they had achieve it based on my opinion. (How about you guys? do you think they achieve it?)

Kakolava IDR 40K

This chocolate lava cake should ORDER when you come to this cafe. Their chocolate lava cake is so heavenly, You will taste nice rich sweet-bitter chocolate flavour that combine well with their vanilla ice cream. I think this is the best chocolate lava cake so far, because I think it is not too sweet for my taste. Since that day, I'm still craving it so much and I want come back continually to order it.

Signature Hot chocolate

The cafe specialty beverage is its signature hot chocolate and it comes in some option such as Classic hot chocolate (IDR 35K), American marshmallow (IDK 40K), and Crunchy Waffle Balls (IDK 40K). You can choose between milk or dark chocolate for your hot chocolate. For me, I prefer the dark chocolate, but for you whose really love sweet stuffs you can order the milk chocolate instead.

Their hot chocolate was really good and I think it would be a perfect companion especially in the cold weather. The hot chocolate had the nice-smooth and creamy texture which you could find in every good hot chocolate. Then, the sweetness was perfect for me (fyi I'm not very fond of sweet stuffs).

Ice chocolate IDR 35K

For you who doesn't like hot beverages, don't worry for they also offer you some cold beverage! I ordered the ice chocolate and it was also nice, but please noted when you order the drink, you must mix the chocolate syrup quickly before it's harden because of the cold temperature of the drink.

Ice granita IDR 25K

If you're not in the mood for something sweets you can choose the nice and refreshing ice granita. Granita is a semi-frozen dessert made of sugar, water and various flavorings. They offer three options of the Granita which are the Red Granita (Dragon Fruit & Lychee), the Yellow Granita (Passion Fruit & Mango) and the Green Granita (Lemon & Mint). I ordered the Yellow Granita because my favorite fruits is mango!

The Yellow Granita was so refreshing and had a strong flavor but it wasn't too sweet for me. I would recommend this drink to be consumed in a hot weather or after long day of exercise.

Overall, this cafe meets my expectation very well. They served nice and good quality chocolate-based foods and beverages when it's kinda hard to find especially in Tangerang region. I'm definitely seeing myself come back for more.

The score for this cafe is:

Crave factor 9/10

Satisfied Factor 10/10
Return for more - Definitely YES!

I hope you guys enjoy it and stay tune for my next post.

If you have some suggestions of cafes, restaurants, food or drinks that you want me to visit and make a review of, please leave it on the comment section down below. I would really appreciate it.

Keep craving till my next post! See ya!

Kakolait

Ruko Golden 8 Blok I No. 33 Jl. Ki Hajar Dewantara, Gading Serpong, Serpong Utara, Tangerang

021-29238763

Opening Hours:

Everyday 10.00 - 22.00
Instagram: @kakolait

Friday 11 November 2016

Soft Serve Ice cream

McDonald's Matcha Ice Cream

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For all of you who is a Matcha-fans, McDonald's just launched a new seasonal menu called "Cita Rasa Dari Negeri Jepang". In this seasonal menu, they offer you some sweets as Matcha Top (IDR 7K), Matcha Ogura McFlurry (IDR 13K), and Matcha Oreo Mcflurry (IDR 13K). So, when I knew about it, I was like "Damn, I must try it soon!" and so I did.

After the I heard the news, I rushed to McDonald's after my shift at the hospital had over. When I arrived at McDonald's, I went to the cashier immediately with all of the exitement inside of me and told her that I wanted to order the "Matcha Top" and she was a little bit in shocked when I talked to her, I thought that maybe she has never seen such exitement in other people before me. LOL.

The ice cream base is actually the vanilla ice-cream and it's coated with generous layer of matcha. I also think that the coating contains the element of white chocolate because I could feel the sweetness of the white chocolate while eating the ice cream. You will get the nice and soft texture of the creamy ice cream and enjoying its sweetness inside your mouth with only paying for 7K. Such a big deal, right?

Overall, I think that matcha top is the best modified soft served ice cream that McDonald's has released so far.

Available at every McDonald's outlet.

I hope you guys enjoy it and stay tune for my next post.

If you have some suggestions of cafes, restaurants, food or drinks that you want me to visit and make a review of, please leave it on the comment section down below. I would really appreciate it.

Keep craving till my next post! See ya!

Saturday 5 November 2016

UPO

UPO Coffe & Co. - Pantai Indah Kapuk

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Good news everyone, cravingsatisfied's first post is finally HERE. I have always dreamed about having my own food-blog and today is the day when I finally decided to post my first writing. I hope you guys enjoy and your taste buds run wild while reading my blog.

In this past few weeks, Jakarta has been poured by a never-ending rain which maybe makes most of us became a couch-potato or I would say "mager" to leave our house just like me. But, I have a solution for you who live near Pantai Indah Kapuk (PIK).

There is small and cozy coffee shop in Pantai Indah Kapuk (PIK) and the named is UPO Coffee & Co. The place will make you excited to go out and meet up with friends or family even it was raining outside. Little tip for you guys who doesn't know PIK very well to use google-maps or waze instead, if you're interested in visiting this coffee shop since its located behind the main districts.

The coffee shop has 2 floors and the unique thing is that the interior between these 2 floor is in total different. On the first floor you will see a nice and modern interior style which is suitable for having a quick zip of coffee but still enjoying the bright and clean environment, while on the second floor you gonna find it more in urban-style and you can meet their famous teddy bear. I personally prefer to be on the second floor since its comfier for me to have some good and private conversations, take pictures of the beverages even to have a good ootd-photo.

1st floor

2nd floor

2nd Floor

Meet UPO's Teddy Bear Mascot

So now let's move on from the interior stuff and get ready to have your taste-buds run wild. Me and my friend ordered a cup of cappuccino, an affogato, and a beef burger.

Affogato IDR 45K

UPO's affogato contains choco-chips ice cream some cocoa powder at the top of the ice cream, it's placed in a beautiful short-clean glass. Usually they use espresso as the complement to be poured on the ice cream but this time we requested them to change it with the chocolate syrup since my friend couldn't eat nor drink any high-acidic food due her recent medical condition which didn't allow her to do so. For us the affogato were great even when we changed it to chocolate-syrup, it taste just fine, it didn't turn to be too sweet. I don't know if the taste were great because of the chocolate syrup or not and we're still curious what if we ordered with the espresso, would it still taste as great as it was? Hmm, maybe we could get the answer later on my next visit.

Cappuccino IDK 40K

I couldn't help myself to not take the picture of my cappuccino with their bear mascot. Their cappuccino had nice and bold flavor, low acidic, and you won't find the aftertaste-burned and that would be a reason I could say I really love their cappuccino.

Beef Burger IDK 80K

UPO just launched their brand new dish and I thought that they hadn't named the dish yet so they still called it as a beef burger. Fyi, it wasn't on the menu either, so how could we order the dish? The waitress asked us if we would like to try their new dish, so me and my friend agreed to taste it and we ordered it. There were a lot of component that I would be aware of when eating a burger such as the buns, the patty, the sauce, the condiment, and the side dish. The buns of this burger were perfect for me, I got the nice-toasted sesame buns. The beef patty was cooked with perfection. The condiment, the sauce and the side dish as you can see that they used french-fries as the side dish were all taste good. After ate half of the dish we felt that it became a little bit too salty and made us really thirsty. But, overall they got a perfectly good-looking burger. But, for me the price of this burger was a little bit overpriced because when you ordered a burger at this price usually you're gonna get a perfectly-cooked homemade french-fries as in this dish I would say that they only fried some frozen french-fries.

Finally, we come to the end of this post and this are the overall rating from me:

Crave factor 8/10

Satisfied Factor 7/10

Return for more - Yes, maybe for the coffees and cakes.

For you whose not aware, I used Crave Factor and Satisfied Factor on my rating since the name of my blog is CravingSatisfied. So I will explain a little bit about it.
The Crave Factor is a scoring that I use to rate how much the crave that I feel on the scale 0 - 10 for return and order the same menus.

While, the Satisfied Factor is a scoring that I use to rate how great is my experience on the scale 0 - 10 during my visit at the restaurant or cafe.

Well, that's all for my first post. I hope you guys enjoy it and stay tune for my next post.
If you have some suggestions of cafes and restaurants that you want me to visit and make a review of, please leave it on the comment section down below. I would really appreciate it.

Keep craving till my next post! See ya!