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evi's memoir

my thoughts, emotions, reminiscences, gratitude & kvetch.

Tuesday, October 11

xiao nan guo




accompanied my mum, mami, papa & another two elders for dinner about a week or two ago. xiao nan guo at mangga besar. we all thought it was the same xiao nan guo as the one in shanghai, but apparently not. the resto looked rather deserted when we first came. after a while, i found out that mami & papi knew the guy who is in charge of the resto. and that was why we were there.


anyway, the head waitress from china introduced us a few dishes. their most popular dish was the soup that has been "grilled" with charcoal for more than 3 days with clay pot. we ordered two different soup. one was yummy, the other just normal.

then they had a lot of other interesting dishes on the menu. the food there was especially oily and tasted so much like china food. quite authentic, i would say.

there were so many dishes that i had never taste before. what i mean was: there were normal food & vegetables but cooked in a different way. those that i like included pork and soy bean soup in claypot, fried tofu with mushroom with brown colored sauce, another oily soup that has almost everything in it and the fish that was dipped in i am not sure what oil (it was so fresh). the catch is, you can't eat much since it is so freaking oily. but i would say it was definitely worth a try. i would want to go back again sometime.

by the time we left (around 9.30), the resto was starting to be busy. the resto is located at the red light district area and opens from evening till 2-3 am in the morning.

xiao nan guo
jl. mangga besar 1, no. 22
jakarta, indonesia
t. 600 6483

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