October
will ending very soon means the Halloween celebration will come very soon as
well. Most of the restaurants and cafes start to announce their Halloween party
and promotion to attract people to celebrate that kind of spooky yet funny
celebration. Before I start the
story, I would like to introduce you a bit about Café One. Located at the lower
ground of The Park Lane Hotel, Casablanca, Jakarta, this all-day dining
restaurant served an Asian Fusion buffet menu. You can enjoy selections of
Japanese food such as sushi and sashimi, a tasty range of Indonesian food such
as sop buntut, mie godog jogja or es campur and selections of Western menu such
as grilled chicken or beef along with their scrumptious array of cakes and
puddings for desserts.
Usually, Halloween identical with Western culture especially the presents of scary Western kind-of-ghouls from Frankenstein, scary movie’s ghouls to zombie, however, I found something different and scarier Halloween theme at Café One at The Park Lane Hotel Jakarta yesterday.
This October, they’re celebrating Halloween with Indonesian ghouls theme! They’re decorating the whole café with Halloween accessories and putting fake Indonesian’s ghouls in several corners. They even assigned the waitress to dress like ‘kuntilanak’. OMG, you know how scary the Indonesian ghouls are, named it from pocong, kuntilanak, tuyul, suster ngesot, etc., that kind-of-ghouls are even the scariest thing I don’t wanna see directly never and ever! That experience, however, were the frightening yet funny moment I’ve ever had. I even still feel surprise everytime the kuntilanak approaching my table just to offer me a drink hahaha…
Scariest
theme won’t be complete without the scary food. That’s the Halloween
celebration supposed to be right, bringing people to challenge their fear of
something scary and something they never had or try in their life and Café One at
the Park Lane Jakarta try to bring people to have scary dining experience with
their 13 Ghosts Spooky Halloween dishes on buffet.
Halloween Signature Drinks – Hulk’s Eye Mocktail
A
fresh combination of green tea, apple syrup, peppermint syrup and raspberry jam
and spooky eye ball made from white chocolate. Dare to try?!
Main Course - The Coffin
Trust
me you will be surprise even scream when seeing what’s inside the coffin at the
first time. It’s the scariest living corpse look a like I’ve ever saw! Geez,
two thumbs up for Café One’s Executive Chef, Chef Deden Gumilar, who creatively
create this scary yet edible corpse. Yup, don’t worry it’s all edible from head
to toe (bukan daging mayat beneran lah yaaa hahaha).
Here’s the short
description of what inside the coffin:
THE
BLACK HAIR: Angel hair pasta with squid
ink and parmesan cheese
BURNING
FACE: Baked beef kofta coated mozzarella
cheese
BROKEN
RIBS: Slow cooked BBQ Australian Ribs
THE
COLONS: Roasted beef and lamb sausages
coated chili sauce
EXPLODE:
8 hours low heat cooking Australian Beef
Brisket
THE
WORM: Spaghetti with Napolitano sauce
To
make it scarier Chef Deden Gumilar even add some real edible insects such as
grasshopper which bring everyone’s memory to the famous TV Show ‘Fear Factors’.
Frankly speaking, I amaze of how creative the team are, but to try all of menus
inside coffin I might thinking twice or five times hahaha. Don’t worry they’re provide
all of them in a buffet as well. But if you’re a fear challenger, you might to
try them.
Dessert- Edible Graveyard
Chef
Deden is also creating a cool and edible graveyard dessert. It contains of Head
Skull (white Chocolate), Bones (Bread Clay), Eyes (white Chocolate with Praline
served with Jelly), Soil (Crumbs English Cake), Gravestone (English Cake with
Chocolate Slab), Worms (Jelly).
Besides Café One, you can also enjoy a frightening moment at Riva Grill, Bar & Terrace at The Park Lane level one. Here’s you will be served with five dinner set menu containing a creative and frightening kind-of-food but all edible! Here’s the sneek peek:
Stuffed
Chinese bread with char siu chopped meat
WITCH’S CHICKEN
Chicken
liver pate with chicken feet – dead man’s eye, Spinach
salad and raspberry comfit - gelatin worm
THE DEAD QUAIL
Whole
Quail cream soup with drying ginger hair – thinly shred “nori”
SCREAMING MONSTER
Crushed
baked potato topped sour cream; roasted bunch vegetables - whole tomato; green
pea and pure, sautéed mushroom; slow roasted whole beef leg; and blended red
wine and beet root sauce
FAILURE
SURGERY
Brain
shape pannacotta, chocolate bone marrow, finger cookies and raspberry compote
Well,
you can enjoy all of the frightening 13 Ghosts Spooky Hallowen Buffet” starting
from tomorrow 28 to 29 October 2016 from 18.00 – 23.00 PM with only
IDR275,000nett per person including free flow Hulk’s Eye Halloween mocktail,
Iced Lemon Tea, or Iced Tea. Get also 30% off by using HSBC card or 20% by
using Permata or BNI Card. If you do not mind to try the Halloween buffet, you
can still enjoy the regular buffet containing wide range of Asian Fusion menu.
Don’t forget to try their Oxtail Soup or Mie Godog Jogja, they’re all so tasty!
So,
are you ready for this Halloween?! Challenge your fear and get ready to have
some fun at Café One, The Park Lane Jakarta.
Spooky yet creative hampers I've ever had from The Park Lane Jakarta. Thanks a bunch!
Cafe One Asian Fusion Restaurant
The Park Lane Hotel
Jl. Casablanca Raya Kav. 18
Jakarta 12870
Phone : +62 21 828 2000
www.parklanejakarta.com
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