Cranky Crab

Initially planned to go for Korean BBQ for le Birthday Dinner. It falls between Chung Gi Wa, Bornga, or the Korean BBQ restaurant that le Bro's Korean Boss usually go to. Heard that the client there mostly Koreans. So I assume the food there must be similar to the one in their home country. So kinda curious. Coz seriously I don't think that I'm going to Korea anytime soon...*sobs*

However...

Ended up in a seafood place instead. The reason is simply because none of us ever been to this seafood place called "Cranky Crab". This one is kind of the cheaper version of Cut The Crab. Never been there either coz I am not that willing that say goodbye to 700++ for crabs. Unless it's for the infamous Hokkaido Crab or something.

The menu

(Took them off their web...y u so pixelated?)

Inside, there's 2 menu placed on your table. One menu similar to those you'd find anywhere in seafood restaurants. And another is the one above. The one we go for today was this. Ordered Mix Bag 2 coz somebody said that he don't want to eat crayfish. Plus I am not that cray over crayfish...so we went for Mix Bag 2 instead. And of course...my crab!! Takkan you go to crab restaurant and don't order their crab right? Especially on your first time! So must order whatever you want to try the most! *coughs*

What you wear while eating

(Quite embarrassing but everyone wore it...so yeah...thicken your skin bah!)

Mango Peach Fruit Tea

IDR 32k

Ordered this drink and I'm LOVING it! it's DELICIOUS! Not too sweet and not to bland. You can feel the peach more than the mango but overall this is pretty good. Price wise quite too expensive for a fruit tea. Unless it's from fresh fruit la...then maybe it'd be understandable.

 CRANKY FLYING BEER - Citrus Mojito

IDR 45k

This one is one of the eye-catching drink you can find in their menu! Pretty tasty! Suitable for those who love their alcohol sweet! Kinda reminds me of Absolute vodka plus coke. But this one is like flavoured beer. I love the presentation too...something new for me. *blush*

Mix Bag 2 | Asian Addict Sauce | Medium Level Spiciness

IDR 119k

I have no idea how do food bloggers take such nice pictures! Must be they have a LOT of dedication and pride in what they do. As for me, le S4 camera is more than enough...HAHAHA! Result is as seen above...OTL

Previously I bought my DSLR to a restaurant and I find it troublesome to carry them huge heavy cameras with me here and there (Since it was during a trip and I have to carry it with me the entire time...from morning till the journey ended). Trust me it was awful! Shoulder pain much! LOL! But honestly, pictures taken on that day was the most rewarding one...hahaha.

ANYWAYYYY...

Food arrived pretty fast in my opinion. To which I wonder if they have cooked the food earlier and just reheat them to serve. They come in a plastic bag (food plastic bag...not the plastic bag you get from supermarket...lol). Quite interesting coz it's my first time la seeing this kind of thing.

Basically they let you choose whether to serve your food on plates or right onto the table (wrapped with disposable "table mat"). Chose the latter coz never try...Excuse my sua ku-ness. 

The food in real life is pretty much like the one you see above. Plus the fine steam which my phone cam can't seem to capture them. Hahaha...Quite vomit look-a-alike la in my opinion. With all the many items all jumbled up at once and the sauce!! Similar to satay sauce~

My concern on that day was the sausages. Was wondering if you guys do actually tear off the plastic casing on your sausages or not? Coz I think I saw them plastics on the sausages. So I ended up de-skinning and eat only the inner part. Taste wise it was ok...Not as great as I imagined it to be.

CRAB | Medium | Black Pepper Sauce

IDR 255k

YAY! Finally the crab is here! It was bigger than expected~ The meat is goooooood too! Reminds me of the crab that dad's god sister send us yearly...lol. Definitely this is my pick of the day. Not to forget that the sauce is unique. There's something more than just black peppers. The sauce was pretty coarse (in a good way) and was it shrimp's shell that I taste? or was it smashed lemongrass? I can't decide. My tongue tasting skill still have a long way to go. Can give it a try la.

Complimentary Ice Cream

FREE ice cream when you post pictures on Instagram. Was surprised with the generous amount of ice cream served. Usually restaurants only give one scoop...so this one is considered alotttt in my opinion. Too much till I took my own sweet time finishing it. Coz kinda feel guilty if I didn't finish it after people give much...lol.

Interior 1

Interior 2

The one we went to was quite plain in terms of the interior design. The one on the left side is much more interesting. But I guess that's the smoking area. They have more catchy lighting la. So if you don't mind smokes you can go there and enjoy a much better ambiance.

Something random I just thought of...it's quite fun to go here when you're angry or something...Coz you can smack that crabs all you want ala Thor's hammer...LOLOLOL!

Rice was sold at IDR 6k and there's Service Charge plus 10% Tax. Service charge is around half of the tax price if not mistaken. Total damage done was around IDR 534k.

If you like crab...seafood...or maybe just wanna play with that "Thor's hammer", feel free to give it a try. *winks* 

CRANKY CRAB

Gedung Samudera Rasa,

Jln Boulevard Raya QF 1 No. 1,

Kelapa Gading

Jakarta Utara

Sawatdee Ka Bangkok! (Day One)

Huff!! Supposed to be starting a new blog with le very own domain name. (Yar...that one with "dot com" behind the blog url. Yet have been reading like crazy and still can't understand how it works. Meh! Maybe my understanding level have decreased along with me aging...Hopefully it was just me not focusing enough coz the article is mad longggggg! And there I am able to read one Harry Potter book within 3 days...Hahaha!

Or is there any kind soul who can teach me step by step? I'm stuck at the hosting and which plan to buy. Plus I've been wondering if writing an entry is the same as writing in Blogspot? I mean in Blogspot you just have to click "New Post" and that'll bring you to a new page where you can start typing and adding pictures, etc. Will it be the same? Or it'll be...like...writing in script format in notepad? That will be troublesome for someone like me who have zero knowledge on that one...lol!

Anywayyyy, it's good to be back writing like this! Praise the Lord that I'm all good and had a good time in BKK with le girls! As some of you might have read in my previous post, I went to BKK on March to meet with the girls. Flying itself was one thing...coz then I feel life was unpredictable and frail. To have TV showing a documentary film on plane crash while waiting for my plane wasn't very encouraging. Not to forget the constant news on 2 plane accidents a few months back...kinda epic. Though I wasn't one who would get paranoid easily, still it got me thinking once in a while...a lil bit...

Then who would have thought that my own flight would experience a slight bad weather? That feels when you flight pilot asked you to fasten your seat belt coz he said that the weather wasn't very good...Plus the "total white" outside your window and that shake the plane makes...It would have been nothing if it wasn't for the plane crashes news...we'd end up thinking of the turbulence as something normal and not dire. But when I think of possibilities of the worst scenario ever...Simply magnificent! Got me breathless for a bit if not much. That was only a 2-3 hours flight! So you can imagine the probability of turbulence for long hours flight. Always pray I would suggest...

It comes back to God's timing...if we were to go to heaven (hopefully not to hell...haha) earlier then...hmm...if not...then....hmm...Always be ready...coz even if you don't leave your house...accident can happen. Plane crash right into your house (I had a dream on this situation before...trust me...it wasn't good!) or whatever-you-can-think-of...I'll leave it to your imaginations. So yep...it's best not to quarrel before your flights or whatsoever...coz we do not know when would be the last day of our life!

Thank God for the safe flights...Much thanks to the pilots and the people behind the radar tower for making sure the air route was ok too! (I even had le colleague who is so into planes to watch my flight from FlightRadar24 That's one interesting web! Give it a try!) Oh...this flight made me love clouds! I mean, look! They come in varieties...different types, different textures, etc! Beautiful! For a while I even thought of Katy Perry's Teenage Dream pink cloud! HAHAHA!

No white clouds pic coz I was focusing on praying...lol! Landing was awesome. It felt great to be somewhere I've never been before. Although I was sure that BKK is pretty similar with Malaysia and Indonesia. The moment that the plane touched down Don Mueng Airport, I was like, "Wah...their airport kinda similar with ours! Surroundings too! Have I reached Thailand?"

Once you've landed, what would you do? HA! Of course head straight to internet provider! LOLOL! And so, there we have TRUE! Was planning to buy DTAC coz konon the customer service can speak English. But I saw only TRUE booth there...so I went ahead to buy the Tourist Plan for 7 days which costs 299 Baht. Went there for 7 days 6 nights...so this plan was perfect! Good to know that the sales can speak English. Had no problem conversing. The process was quite simple as you'll just have to pass them sales ladies your passport and wait and pay. DONE! On a side note, the sales lady is pretty! *winks

After reunited with le girlfriends, we headed outside to catch a taxi...Read from blogs that it's cheaper to get a taxi that've just dropped their customers as the taxi lined up outside the airport requires coupon and it costs more. So we went a little bit further to the end of the airport to grab a taxi. Konon we're being a clever tourist by researching before going for travel. But who knows that we would ended up in a taxi which cost double the airport taxi price! Very meh! And so their taxi is similar too with our taxi. Many of them don't want to use meters. That doesn't help first timers as we wouldn't know the distance from A to B therefore unable to ask for a reasonable rate...You'll get better after days on areas you go to frequently...But not places that are far and again if it's your first time going there...lol! Trials and errors...you'll leveled up for sure...on your second trip hopefully!

Zaabver Fried Rice & Tom Yam

(2/1 Soi Petchaburi 19 Pratunam 10400 Bangkok, Thailand)

Initially Jas and Elie wanted to try the famous SabX2. But it was closed by the time we reached there. If not mistaken they're closed quite early...3 p.m.? So we tried this shop called Zaabver instead. It's located beside SabX2.

Tom Yam Goong Milk Soup

Pad Thai

As someone who mad love Tom Yam and managed to eat Tom Yam for dinner 5 days straight, I'd say that the Tom Yam here doesn't kill my expectation on Thailand's Tom Yam. It have always been one of my wish to try the true Tom Yam from the land of Tom Yam itself. To see if the one we have outside Thailand match the authentic taste there. In conclusion, they're quite similar...although I've expected that the one in Thai would be much more spicy. The tom yam in this shop is ok. My fav would be the one in Alpaca Farm...we'll get to it on my future post...haha (On a side note, green curry in Thailand is more delicious than the one we have in our country!)

Pad Thai in this shop wasn't that great as the rice noodle is a lil bit too soggy. Taste wise is pretty good though. You can really taste the sesame oil and such (Or was it fish oil? Since Thai use so much Fish Oil...haha). Portion was small with huge chunks of squid...good for you who love squid. Hahaha.

Platinum Mall

Went straight to Platinum Mall right after our dinner. Unfortunately, many were closed by the time we got there...so we went to the building next to it. There they have Boots...A shop similar to Watson and Guardian. They carry interesting brands like No. 7, Botanics, Snail White, etc. Some branch have more varieties in terms of brands.

So excited to see Snail White as I kept seeing them in online shops here in Indonesia. It's sold at 950 Baht. Wanted to stock Liese and Beauty Labo hair here. But since it was our first day there, I thought that I should save and stock only on our last day. To which later turns into a tragedy...where I was unable to buy them since our last day was spend on Alpaca Farm and by the time we reached hotel it was already late at night and shops were closed...Flight was early morning...so yeah...

Oh! Both Jas and I spotted the famous Gari Gari Kun (the famous Japanese Ice Popsicle) in a shop just across Boots. Tempted to give it a try. However the soda one was out of stock...so we didn't try it in the end...hahaha.

Our night ended in 7-11 like daily! We usually stocked our drinks and snacks there every night before returning to our hotel. Love the 7-11 there as it comes with varieties of drinks. I realized that they have lots of beauty drinks. Plus the packaging are really cute! Though my bias would be the Meiji milk! Banana Milk Flavoured is the bomb! Followed by the Plain and Chocolate...Others were ok!

Wish that Indonesia would carry these Meiji Flavoured Milk soon! Both Jas and Elie loves their Betagen...A drink similar to Vitagen and Yakult. Though for me I'd still prefer Yakult coz its taste much more stronger than Betagen. Followed by Meiji brand cultured drink. Again coz its taste much more stronger...haha. 

Bought Sticky Rice with Mango for 100 Baht at Pratunam Market on our way to the hotel. Mango was ok but the sticky rice is a bit hard. No pictures on it coz I only took video for instagram. So there goes the end of our first night in BKK!

If you're interested to read more, you can read Elie's version on the trip HERE! Her writing is much more neat and easy reading compared to my too-much-words writing. LOL!

Sunday Afternoon The Sun Is So Bright

Overly bored but don't feel like doing my work yet...So here I am posting random post. Got this from friend's friend mia blog. You can read hers HERE.

1. What is something you'd like to say to your best friend?
- Miss me?

2. What is your zodiac sign? Do you read your horoscope?
- Gemini. Only when I saw them somewhere.

3. What position do you sleep in?
- Dead log...with all my front facing down and face turned left when I ran out of oxygen...haha. Followed by random positions. Just as what you'll see in Keith Haring's work of art. Sorry but I don't sleep like a princess. *blinks

4. Do you get into arguments a lot?

- I'd prefer to avoid that. Too tiring and a waste of time. Unless it's proven effective and needed...then perhaps...

5. What is your favorite beverage?

- Green tea or chocolate related.

6. Who is your favourite Pokemon?

- Back then I was so into Jigglypuff and Pikachu...But now I love Pikachu the best of 'em all.

7. Name a band you wish more people knew about.

- The GazettE. His voice is the absolute eargasm awesomeness!!

8. What's something that's bothering you right now?

- A lil bit of this and that. You sure you want to know? HA!

9. Do you consider yourself an honest person?

- I'm afraid to say that I'm the best liar...I give out so many white lies.

10. Are you currently in a relationship?

- Friendship...Wanna join in the "ship"?

11. What kind of things could someone expect in a relationship with you?

- As in what I have in offer? A bit of this and that...

12. What was your 1st word?

- I have no idea.

13. When was the last time you went on a holiday? Where to?

- Sadly that was years ago. May 2012 where I fly to KL to visit le friends and went for David Choi's concert. Other holidays I just went to nearby places...OTL (Hmm...why does this sentence sounds weird?)

14. Are you a people person?

- Depends on my mood. I tend to have low batt...

15. Talk about the last book you read.

- The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho. Can't say much at the moment coz I've just read them till page 75. So far so good. Can give it a try. 

16. Random facts about my siblings.

- Close but not close...Not close but close...It's complicated. LOL

17. Random facts about my friends.

- They're all good people! I've pretty good eyes! *coughs

18. What is (one of) your fav. poems?

- To Be or Not To Be and Life's Brief Candle by William Shakespeare.

19. What is something that you can cook really well?

- Indomie...HAHAHA

20. What is a hobby that many people know you do?

- Playing otome games! I've always wanted to play them ever since there's Tokimeki during my younger years (where I am so addicted to shoujo kinds of manga)...unfortunately they're only available in Japanese at that time. So now that I found some otoge in English language, I'm happy! Especially games like Hakuouki. They have the best illustrations! All the guys look so delicious handsome!

21. Do you usually text people first?

- Depends.

22. Tell a ghost story/urban legends.

- I know not much of these...

23. What's your favourite kind of soda/pop/ or whatever you call it?

- Coca Cola

24. What was something important that someone said to you once?

- Put God first in everything you do. My 1st boss is an inspiration. *smiles

25. Are you a clumsy person?

- I think yes...OTL

26. Do you enjoy singing?

- I do...but my singing sucks badly. Plus my voice only suitable for singing anime's song...lololol.

27. Appearance wise, what's something that you look for in a boyfriend/girlfriend?

- Alluring smiles! Tee-hee~

28. What's your favourite dinosaur?

- Milo dinosaur! Google it and you'll know! Hehe...

29. What's the last thing you regret doing?

- ...

30. Do you try to eat healthy?

- I do...but always fail miserably...haha

31. What was the last thing you ate?

- Carnivor's Babyback Half Rack with Mashed Potatoes.

32. What was the last thing you watch on TV?

- I can't remember.

33. What size shoes do you wear?

- 35? 5? 4?

34. How many books have you read this year?

- 1...One...LOL!

35. Have you ever had a detention? Reasoning?

- No.

36. What's your relationship like with your parents?

- Friendship

37. How did you meet your best friend?

- Which?

38. Do you know how to read music?

- You mean those piano scores etc? A lil bit...if I haven't forgotten them already...hahaha

39. What is something you do out of habit?

- Mumbling to myself in random languages...biting my nails (sometimes I painted them nails so I can avoid biting them).

40. Random lyrics. Go~

- 你算什么男人。。。算什么男人~~

Blogging from Smartphone

So I re-downloaded the Blogger apps from le phone. Was hoping that this would be handy during le trip to BKK. 

Hmm...hope this turns out good in PC screen...ciao!

Ao Haru Ride

Mad HAPPY when I saw this anime on the list of new anime released! Been reading this manga and fell in love with it right away. So definitely am gonna watch the anime too! You guys should check this manga out if you happen to love reading shoujo manga! Romance genre! *winks*

The story revolves around Futaba Yoshioka and Tanaka Ko who likes each other. But due to some misunderstanding, the relationship kinda ended as the guys transfer school. (Epic timing!) Apparently 3 years later they meet again and that's how their love adventure begins!

The logo...obviously

3 years ago

3 years later

Since I didn't take any nice screenshot of them...

(Left) Futaba Yoshioka (Right) Tanaka Ko a.k.a Mabuchi Ko

Seriously I'm really happy with the art. Both anime and manga. It's good! Not to mention that my beloved HoneyWorks contributes for the opening song. The insert song during the "confession" scene and the ending song itself are good too! What more can you ask for?

Yes...the insert song for this scene is lovely!

Other than the storyline, art and songs, I also love the voice of Tanaka Ko! To which I found out that the seiyuu was Yuuki Kaji. The same seiyuu who voiced for Noragami's Yukine, Final Fantasy XIII's Hope, Diabolik Lovers' Kanato and more! For more chara he have voiced, click HERE!

Although it seems like he voiced quite alot clingy, mama boys type of chara, I am really liking his voice in Ao Hara Ride! I just love that deep low voice of his. Especially when he said "baka" to Futaba. Sweet! HAHAHA...it's perfect! Definitely gonna keep an ear on his voice and add him to the list of my fav seiyuus!

FAV GESTURE

3 years ago

3 years later

I also love this gesture of his in the anime. Somehow it's sweet to see him to be still doing something that he used to do. It almost feel like the old him was here but wasn't. You'll understand as you watch the anime or read the manga. Seriously this anime managed to make my heart race...*coughs

Trailer 1

Trailer 2

Trailer 3

Am really hoping that you guys will give this anime and manga a try. It's one of Sakisaka Io's sensei best work I've read. Do buy the ori DVD or manga when it's available in your country. If there's none then you can read the manga HERE.

Seriously I'm looking forward for epi 2 and so on! Other than that I still have Hunter x Hunter, Sword Art Online 2, Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun, Akame Ga Kill, Sailor Moon Crystal, FREE! Eternal Summer, One Piece, Naruto Shippuuden, Glass Slip, Soredemo Sekai Wa Utsukushii and Fairy Tail to follow. Kinda sad that No Game No Life has ended...Hopefully there's a second season. *fingers crossed