Bandar Djakarta @ Baywalk Mall

Jakarta - this city is famous for their traffic jam and I had to sit stuck in one for hours on the way to this famous Jakarta seafood restaurant - Bandar Djakarta @ Baywalk Mall, Pluit. This location is near the sea and the ambiance smells of fish and seafood.

entrance to the restaurant

It was really a fish market to pick our fresh seafood to be cooked to our liking.

tanks of fresh seafood

There were quite a number of choices and in the end we chose one fish and one mud crab.

Grouper and XL mud crab

We walk over the restaurant laid out over the water and order the vegetables and coconut drink.

4 Raja Sayur

4 Raja Sayur means 4 king of vegetables. This dish is a stir fried of wing-bean, ladies fingers, Brinjal (egg plant) and petai. Petai is a bean vegetable used in dishes from Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore. There are many recorded health benefits for this vegetable especially to strengthen the kidneys.

This is one restaurant that presentation is not their forte. Looking at this dish of 4 vegetables might turn some people off but the mixture tasted pretty good.

butter garlic crab

Lots of garlic and butter stir-fried with the mud and the result is less than acceptable with the meat of the crab sticking disappointing to the shell. A super fresh crab would have their cooked meat easily removed from their shell.

Steam grouper

The steamed grouper does not taste fresh and soft. The meat is slightly tough and the HK sauce is mediocre.

large local coconut

It is very hard to find any good coconut that can compare with the Thai young coconut.
On a whole the journey to this restaurant was a good experience but the food though reasonably prices was below standard.

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