Hello Asean Hive Community
I am back writing about foodie here as usual, however this time I would deliver something else here. Maybe not only for today, but for this week.
I love to share my cheap budget friendly meals, however there are reasons why I keep telling you call it is frugal living. This time, or this week, I am posting the way if I would not do the frugal living.
It is not about getting into fancy restaurant or having a fine dining. It is the same thing, but doing it differently.
This was not fancy place, but I often came here in the past. This post was about last month, the second of December 2025. It was a favorite place for my late father, so after he passed away, I intentionally avoided this place.
But that time it was a rainy day and many street food vendors closed down. So I thought maybe it's a sign that I should visit this place.
Their signature dish was this Nasi Uduk, or rice with coconut oil. It was similar to Malaysian Nasi Lemak, but I do not need to explain the different here. I already post it several times so I do not want to inflate my post's words by telling the same thing over and over.
Another uniqueness they offered was free refill or free flow fresh vegetables. You could ask for more if you run out of them or you want to add some veggie more.
For example, I love this leaf. It is called pohpohan here. It is a herbal leaf that could be eaten directly like this or you could boil them and to make a tea.
Pohpohan is good to maintain your blood sugar. Some believe it is traditional diabetic medicine. It also has high anti oxidant, which you should already know what for. if you don't, you can say that eating this leaf is the same as eating omega pills
however... yes there is a however here... If you eat this leaves too much, you could get cancer lol.
What I liked about them that they always gave us two kind of chili paste. The first one was this ordinary chili paste, made from red chili pepper. The taste was decent, not so good, but atleast you could say that they knew how to make a good one, although it was not special.
The second one was this a mix of red and green chili paste, we called it sambal rujak, or Salad chili paste. It was called salad because it had a mix of sweet and spicy taste with some acidity that stings like a salad dressing. I do not know how to describe it better in English, but we had a fruit salad that use spicy dressing here and the taste and flavor was the same with that.
However I am not a big fan about this Salad Chili paste.
Now let see my main dishes here
This was my main dishes. In the front, you can see some chicken intestine deep fried. Almost all dishes in Nasi Uduk were deep fried, except their lalapan or fresh vegetables. So do not expect non fritters here.
On the back, this was a duck leg. It was a duck, not a chicken. I liked duck a lot but I could not eat them too often because somehow I could get bored about them and did not want to it anymore for months.
So this was how my table looked that day:
and this was the bill
It was 64.000 Rupiah, it was more than thrice of my regular food I got for lunch and dinner. I did not go to fancy restaurant here, I just ate in the place I regularly ate.
You could ask @arveno about this pricing, I bet he could say it did not cheap nor expensive, but it was more on what I ate that day. Recently I see @gibic is active on Asean Hive Community too, he lives in the same city as mine, and I believe he knows this place too. You could ask him for another opinion.
Anyway my point is that my food cost would double or thrice if I loose my frugal living "restriction" here. It is not about where I get them, but more what and how much I get them.
Ok that is my foodie post today. Feel free to share your opinion below and I am really looking forward for your feed back here.
Thank you for coming and reading my post. I live in Jakarta, Ex-Capital City of Indonesia. I used to live by making money online, that's why I like being here, on HIVE, and in #PIMP - (Paper In My Pocket) community.
