Kicking the new year off with BritCham’s first business and social gathering party in 2017, the sensational gathering was held at Hard Rock Cafe Pacific Place Jakarta. More than 80 professionals attended the event, where free flow drinks and foods were served all night long. Just two days away from Chinese New Year, it was the perfect time to wish everybody best of luck and good fortunes. Sponsored by Attarine Jakarta, a brand new restaurant in Gunawarman, lucky winners also received IDR 500,000 vouchers to try their unique fusion menu.
Tuesday, January 31, 2017
Wine and Dine your Valentine in Style only at Sheraton Bandung Hotel & Towers
Bandung, February 2017 – Welcome February, month of LOVE and ROMANCE. Valentine’s Day is always used to express affection to loved ones. Food has long-been described as the way to a loved one’s heart, and no meal is thought to be more romantic than valentine’s day dinner.
To celebrate this moment of love, Sheraton Bandung Hotel & Towers has prepared a range of exciting offers to celebrate Valentine’s Day which falls on the 14th of February.
For those of you who want to enjoy dinner with a romantic atmosphere, Sheraton Bandung Hotel & Towers offers a romantic set menu only Rp. 1,000,000++ for couple. With candles, flowers, scents, wines, music even more romance than normally during this month. Our Director of Culinary, Severin Huerlimann has designed seductive set menu for this special month, pairing with the great wines to match and more magic will be created by beautiful acoustic music to accompany your romantic dinner.
Start with a hit of luxury Snapper Ceviche with Edamame Beans, Seared Tuna with cucumber, wasabi, and tomatoes, White Tomato Cream Soup with Pesto Grissini, continued with main course that wow; Beef Short Rib with sweet potato and Red Wine Reduction, and there’s always room for dessert Warm Walnut Brownie with Milk Chocolate Mousse, Raspberry, Mango and Crispy Wafer. All the menu will be pairing with wine from Tierra del Fuego.
You can also choose the location of a romantic dinner in the area of Sheraton Bandung to complement your dinner with loved ones. Towers garden’s gazebo, Feast Terrace or Feast pool deck can be one of your favorite.
Alternative dining also available at Feast Restaurant, all you can eat buffet Rp. 260,000++ per pax. Romantic live music will complete the evening and becomes your memorable Valentine’s dinner.
Celebrate this special day with loved ones only at Sheraton Bandung Hotel & Towers. For reservations and further information, please call +6222-2500303 ext. 7544 or visit our website http://ift.tt/1Fi0SlI
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Monday, January 30, 2017
Lion Dance To Celebrate The Year of Roaster At Hotel Borobudur Jakarta
Hotel Borobudur Jakarta welcomes the arrival of the Year of The Rooster on 28 February 2017 with an array of special festive offerings and invites guests to ring in the new and prosperous year by enjoying a range of dining indulgences overflowing delicacies at Teratai and Bogor Cafe.
Families spent quality time in the comfort of the hotel’s comfortable rooms with the Chinese New Year’s special accommodation offers. To add more joy to the celebration, lion dancers spread the festive spirit around the hotel on Chinese New Year’s Eve and Chinese New Year’s Day. Seen in the pictures, Mr. Patrick Beck, General Manager of Hotel Borobudur Jakarta opened the ceremony and feed the lion with lettuce that thrown away right away as representing prosperity in the Chinese culture. The lion dancers made their way through the various outlets of the hotel, bestowing wishes of good fortune and prosperity on the hotel in the Year of The roaster.
Hotel Borobudur Jakarta
Jalan Lapangan Banteng Selatan, P.O Box 1329, Jakarta 1070 – Indonesia
Tel: +62 21 380 5555, 383 5000| Ext: 72022 | Fax: +62 21 3440675 |E-mail: indira_p@hotelborobudur.com http://ift.tt/1FQs4va
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Must Try: Keraton at The Plaza’s New Chinese High Tea
Keraton has always been our favorite high tea spot for their many selection of sets; from pretty Indonesian-inspired snacks, the Sawadee High Tea, International, Nutty to their signature Tutti Fruity. As seem to not satisfied with all that, they always keep upgrading and adding more unique selection to choose from, courtesy of their creative and lively Executive Chef Gennaro Avagnale.
Last November, they invited a guest celebrity baker from Malaysia, Shaun Teo, to lend his creativity and expertise to whip up unique sweets and cakes. This time, to coincide with the Chinese New Year, they have added another selection of high tea: the Chinese High Tea selection.
This new Chinese High Tea is presented in a beautiful white wooden box with three drawers, which we think fits more contents of little canapes for you and your friend, which means bang for your buck!
On the top tier, there’s a couple shots of tapioka pearl in sweet coconuts milk, also known as pacar cina in Indonesian, fried wontons in Thai sauce, moon cakes, and agar pudding on rice. Save for the moon cake, we would think that this tier, is more thai-inspired than Chinese.
On the second tier, there’s the Indonesian classic of kue mangkok or steamed cupcakes, peanut filled mantaus, and green tea ganache filled praline.
Below that, comes the more ‘heavier’ savory items; roasted duck and pickle rolled inside a thin pancake, mantau burger with beef, and onde onde.
On the bottom tier, instead of the regular scones (found in all other Keraton’s high tea selection), you will find scones filled with taro and green tea paste, served with sweet coconut cream, instead of the traditional clotted cream.
You can enjoy this limited edition Chinese High Tea from January all the way to March 5th, 2017 for Rp. 298,000++ per set for 2 persons, inclusive of premium tea for two. Isn’t it a real bargain?!
For more information and reservation, call: 021- 50680000
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Lunar New Year Celebration at Gran Melia Jakarta
Commemorating the Lunar New Year, Gran Melia Jakarta will extend the tradition of delivering good fortune and prosperity to the New Year of Rooster. The Rooster is seen as a symbol of integrity and efficiency. The Year of the Rooster is set to be filled with hard work and, ultimately, success. Gran Melia Jakarta had prepared Chinese New Year dinner at Tien Chao with Chef Eric Lau’s menus starting from Rp. 7,888,000++ per table of 10.
Culinary team of Gran Melia Jakarta meticulously selected the finest ingredients to prepare an authentic and nostalgic flavor that are rooted in Chinese tradition. A must have-Salmon fish Yu Shang to wish for a prosperous new year, Braised ten heads abalone and dou gen with dried oyster and black moos yu piao dumpling and season; Braised sea cucumber, dried oyster and black moos chicken ball with abalone sauce are a few to mentioned on the menu that is specially picked by Chef Eric.
Another must-have in Lunar New Year are lion and dragon dance performance where guest could feel the spirit of Lunar New Year with the lion and dragon dance that will perform from the lobby of the hotel to Tien Chao. The lion will approach the red envelope that hanged on some front doors of the hotel including Tien Chao and it is believed to bring luck and good prosperity for one year ahead. This memorable moment is a good choice for guest to celebrate the Lunar New Year with the family.
Completing the spirit of Lunar New Year, Gran Melia Jakarta also provides Nian Gao to sweeten the moment of Lunar New Year. It would be made as a unique presents in this Lunar New Year with “fish shape”, available from 18 – 31 January 2017. For reservations or further information, please contact 021 5268080 extension 2322 or send an email tienchao@granmeliajakarta.com .
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Unveiling Plataran L’Harmonie: West Bali National Park Eco-tourism Destination
Located in the western part of Bali, Plataran L’Harmonie encompasses the ecotourism forest area of West Bali National Park, covering an area of 382 hectares with a coastline of more than 7 km facing Menjangan Island, an island well-known as a divers’ paradise for its exotic beauty of the underwater world. This area has been developed for 18 years as an eco-tourism destination in Bali, of which for the past two years, the developments were done by Plataran. The park was first officially recognized as an area of importance in 1917 when the council of Bali rulers designated it as a nature park before it was fully established as an Indonesian National Park initiated in 1941 by the Dutch government with the purpose of protecting the endangered Bali Starling bird and the last remaining wild Banteng.
The integrated eco nature tourism area of Plataran L’Harmonie is the primary habitat of the Jalak Bali or Bali Starling (Leucopsar Rothschildi), an endangered and protected rare exotic bird. The population of this species is estimated to be very few in the world, therefore making this particular bird a World Heritage. The forest in Plataran L’Harmonie is also a unique forest, as it possesses distinct characteristics in the dry season and the rainy season consisting of primary monsoon forest, mangrove forest and lowland rain forest.
With more than 175 species of flora and 167 species of birds, the park is also used as a place of research, protection and preservation of natural ecosystems and their wildlife. Fauna that lives in the park is very diverse, some of which are rare and protected, among them are the Bali Starling, menjangan deer, grey monkey, bull, pheasants and leopard cats. For the flora, among others are sono keling, intaran, pilang, pangkal buaya, kesambi and sandalwood.
The wealth of the underwater nature in Plataran L’Harmonie is equally abundant. 110 species of coral belonging to 18 families, of which 22 species were of the mushroom coral family (there are only 29 species of mushroom coral recorded worldwide), and at least 27 species of Acropora coral are recorded. The area lies within the Coral Triangle, which is a 2.3 million square mile area that contains over 40% of fish species and over 75% of known coral reef species.
There are at least 8 dive spots found in this area; Eel Garden, Anchor Wreck, Sandy Slopes, Coral Gardens, Temple Point/Bat Cave, Pos Dua Nico’s Rock and Mandarin Point with depths ranging from 5 up to over 40 meters with visibility levels ranging from 10 up to 30 meters. Some species of fauna can be found at some points mentioned above including turtles, reef sharks, wahoo fishes, green turtles, moray eels, barracuda, crocodile fishes, trumpet fishes, eagle rays, pigmy seahorses, mandarin fishes and whales.
The comprehensive natural ecosystems, unique local cultures, and sustainable ecotourism facilities, have brought Plataran L’Harmonie West Bali National Park as a national ecotourism pilot project, as appointed by the Ministry of Tourism. This recognition marks another award for Plataran, joining a list of other accolades including an award as the Best National Park Operator by the Ministry of Environment and Forestry in the year 2015. Internationally, Plataran L’Harmonie has been recognized as one of the 100 World Green Destinations, obtained after going through several stages of rigorous selection by a panel of judges representing five international associations in the field of Sustainable Development. Finally, on 27 September 2016 in Ljubljana, Slovenia – the green capital of Europe, coinciding with World Tourism Day and Green Destinations Day, Plataran L’Harmonie was presented with an award as one of the 100 World Green Destinations, in the presence of 350 invited guests of the Global Green Destinations Gala, including representatives of the World Tourism Organization, a United Nations agency specializing the fields of responsible, sustainable and universally accessible tourism.
Furthermore, as a reflection of its commitment, Plataran has built a wide range of tourism-related facilities such as The Octagon – Ocean Club & Restaurant, Plataran Menjangan Resort & Spa, as well as private cruises and Phinisi that has been operating in the area of Plataran L’Harmonie. In addition, Plataran has been continuously developing more sustainable ecotourism facilities and programs, such as a summer school program organized by the Scientific Education Research Center (SERC) in cooperation with the Biosphere Foundation and Charleston College since 2012 with a focus of the introduction of the environment that has been successfully participated by the young from various nations (including the US) and. The native plants nursery is one of the interesting initiatives amongst other forest conservation programs.
In creating and conceptualizing an overall Master Plan for the area, Plataran L’Harmonie has appointed Hitesh Mehta, the world-renowned award winning sustainable tourism planner, of whom the reputation has been notably acknowledged by prestigious institutions such as the National Geographic. The overall master plan is then developed by Plataran L’Harmonie.
One of the attractive experiences offered to the visitors is a travel package to the Ijen Crater that is only 30 minutes by sea from Plataran L’Harmonie. Ijen crater is a high acidic crater lake located at the top of Mount Ijen, 2,443 meters high above sea level with a depth of 200 meters and a broad Lake crater reached 5,466 hectares. The lake is recognised as the largest highly acidic crater lake in the world.
Plataran Indonesia itself was founded in 2009 as an Indonesian company that houses various business units of tourism such as hotels, resorts, cruises, spas, restaurants, event venues and nature development area, spread across exotic regions in Indonesia. The word “Plataran” itself means “The God’s most favored place”.
The underpinning concept of Plataran is summarized with the Three Xs, namely: eXoticism, eXperience and eXcellence, with an emphasis on being a True Indonesian Icon.
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New Dining Spot: Gourmet Bar by Novotel
Novotel Jakarta Mangga Dua Square introduces its new modern looking eating place called Gourmet Bar. Transformed from the previous Lounge Bar, now Gourmet Bar has a refreshing open space with comfortable tables and sofas.
It is located strategically as a center point at 5th level, next to an energetic fish pond to elevate your dining experience. Dominantly colored in dark gray and lighted warmly, Gourmet Bar looks relaxing and effortlessly elegant. Not only its appearance, the bar-restaurant also prepared a new menu, including options of new drinks and desserts.
Guests can explore both eastern and western foods, which many hide a pleasant twist. There are also authentic local pernakan cuisines such as Kwe Tiauw Siram and Penang Curry Rice Noodle. In the western side, there are potato farci, a potato snack with smoked beef and melted cheese, and choices of sandwiches and burgers. Here, the chefs escalate an ordinary menu into gourmet creations.
The desserts also look more vibrant and modern, continuing the theme that runs through out the restaurant. Guest will find many glazed cakes with light taste. As for classic heavy cakes, Gourmet Bar will serve them as a special cake of the day.
Novotel Jakarta Mangga Dua Square is in a mission to transform their hotel into a modern, artistic, and friendly place for its guests. Beside the newly opened Gourmet Bar, there are also new rooms to enjoy, including the sleek looking meeting rooms and colorful kids play room.
Experience the new Novotel Jakarta Mangga Dua Square here:
Jl. Gunung Sahari Raya No.1
Jakarta 14420
+62 (21) 6231 2800
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Sunday, January 29, 2017
ExtravagANZA Coffee Morning at Vie for Living
Last week special extravagANZA coffee morning was hosted by Vie for Living at their store in Jl. Kemang Timur. Mikha, the owner of this furniture gallery, gave some useful tips for when choosing woods in Indonesia. She also brought an antique collection of cups and saucers from mamitoko to elevate the morning tea experience!
ANZA Jakarta also took this opportunity to discuss some of their new programs this year, including the mission to ‘bring the fun back’. The community expects to have more vibrant and diverse members, and closer relationships with sponsors in 2017.
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