Bison Penyet

There's this weird growing trend of "penyet" in Indonesia. It wasn't big about 5 years ago, and I think it started with ayam penyet. Just what is penyet? It literally means "crushed", but after reading several recipes online it just means the meat has been poked or slammed with a meat tenderizer. Like this Or this Alternatively, we Indonesians tend not to rely on specific tools that serve nothing but one purpose. Don't be surprised to see...

Read More

Hurricane Irene - Gone

Irene was my first hurricane experience and I didn't really know what to expect. I am always prepared with extra food and everything; kinda glad my parents always taught me that. Aside from that, I live in a temporary place - it's not my real home and I don't have a lot of things to take care about other than important documents and myself. On Friday, I went to Wegmans to buy bottled water as recommended by any hurricane-related emergency prep websites. They were out of stock. I have about 9 bottles of water that I previously bought, so I wasn't...

Read More

First Baseball Game

Went to my first baseball game ever. I was pretty excited. I roughly know the rules because we used to play some sort of softball in elementary school back in Indonesia called kasti (but since we aren't very hi tech or meticulous about the type of balls we're supposed to be using, we used tennis balls haha). That was fun! The stadium was packed with people dressing up in Phillies T-shirt and even their baseball uniform. The sky...

Read More

Community Service: I'm a Big Kid

Community service is fun! I'm not including all the pictures here because I probably need permission to post other people's pictures. Half a day with kids definitely drained all my energy (especially with running around chasing them). Eventually I became one of the kids playing for the entire time LOL ...

Read More

Philly Cheese Steak

Since I live very close to Philly, I decided to go try Philly Cheese Steak. Like, the original one x) My friend recommended me to look up online on how to order because yes they have a specific way to order and if you mess up with your order you have to go back to the end of the line and re-order. It's not that hard... basically you have to order the cheese steak in 3 words: 1) How many cheese steak you're ordering 2) What kind of cheese...

Read More

Jerky

Not trying to be a jerk, but it's called "jerky". From wiki: Jerky is meat that has been cut into strips, trimmed of fat, marinated in a seasoned sweet rub or liquid, and dried or smoked with low heat (usually under 70 °C/160 °F) or is occasionally just salted and sun-dried. The result is a sweet (occasionally semisweet or savory) snack which can be eaten immediately, or which can be stored for months without refrigeration. The...

Read More

Mooncake

It's finally the time of the year again! I think I haven't had mooncake for about 3 years because there wasn't any shop that I know of around campus that sells mooncake. I went mooncake hunting around Philly's Chinatown today. Didn't find much varieties. They don't even have soft skins. Or maybe soft skins only exist in Singapore. Either way, flavor choice is very limited. I expected to see at least chocolate or coffee flavor; I only found lotus...

Read More

Braised Duck

Whenever I got back from work I just feel like leaping on my bed and take a nap. On top of that, working in a food company means you're pretty much surrounded by food. I used to have dinner at 5:30 ish, but now I can wait until 8 for dinner. It's Friday and I got back from work early so I thought I'd cook something a little bit fancy for dinner tonight: braised duck. Wegman's is an awesome place to shop compared to Super Walmart. Well, it's...

Read More