Canary Cafe and Store, The Newly Born Vintage Cafe

There were so many times I tried to write my blog again since there are so many new place to grab awesome meals in Surabaya. However, my plan finally ended up with tens, uhmm I guess actually hundreds of pictures that only stucked in my gadgets or perhaps some of them are lucky enough to be posted on my social media (Instagram: @vitia_tandy or Path: Vitia Tandy). But finally after 9 months from my latest post, here comes the day when I finally post another update about my culinary experience. And since it has been so long, then I need to update something great, right? So here we go, Canary Cafe and Store, the newly born vintage cafe =)

This cafe is located in a three-floored building which actually consists of cafe (first and second floor), boutique (second floor), and photo studio (third floor). It brings a vintage concept which I adore. But if you notice, there is something different in the way you order the food and beverages besides the other cafe. You need to make your order, pay it straightly in front, find a seat, then wait for your order there. Yeah, like a semi-self-service perhaps. It is more like the way to order at Starbucks ;)

I've heard about many famous food and beverages here so let's have a try. For beverages we chose these four fabulous drinks. Choco Coconut (Rp30.000,00), Raspberry Mint Tea (Rp25.000,00), Strawberry Green Tea (Rp35.000,00), and Banana Berry (Rp30.000,00).

Choco Coconut - Raspberry Mint Tea

The Raspberry Mint Tea was so refreshing with the raspberry aroma and minty sensation. It was quite good and gave this chillin' sensation. On the other hand, the Choco Coconut tasted so unique. The blend of thick chocolate and coconut wrapped in whipped cream and shredded chocolate sprinkles were so exotic yet so creamy. A great choice for a chocolate lover =)

Choco Coconut

Strawberry Green Tea and Banana Berry gave their own different story...

Strawberry Green Tea - Banana Berry

Strawberry Green Tea is a great idea to pull apart ogura (red bean) from green tea =P Despite of the dazzling visual appearance, the strong taste of green tea somehow covered the sweet and sour of the strawberries. Then I disappointingly ended up sipping a plain green tea frappucino. Hmm, probably strawberry is not a qualified affair for green tea =P 

Strawberry Green Tea

Banana Berry is the mixture of strawberry milkshake blended with banana. Besides having whipped cream, as a topping, they also showered it with roasted diced nuts and topped it with a lovely red cherry. Every single elements were balancedly mixed well. I have no other words, but I think this was the best beverage that we ordered tonight =)

Banana Berry

For the main course, we ordered two savory waffles. First of them was Waffle Katsu (Rp42.000,00). This "sandwich-like" waffle was filled with ham slices, mozzarella cheese, enoki, rougut, and some sauce. After coated with bread crumbs, it was deeply fried, and finally served with fresh vegetables. Okay, the picture can describe the taste. Three letters, Y-U-M!

Waffle Katsu

And the second savory waffle, which is the most famous dish here, is the Waffle Tower (Rp99.000,00). From the top to the bottom, there are fried onion rings, waffle, chicken katsu, assorted vegetables (onion, tomato, and lettuce), another waffle, beef patty, another assorted vegetables, and ended up with another layer of waffle. Served with two type of sauce (modified mayo and tomato based sauces), all of them tastes so heavenly. I love the beef patty the most <3 Since it has an ultimate extra size (and of course an extra price too), it can be enjoyed by two or even three people..

Waffle (Pisa) Tower =P

And of course the last part of the journey is... DESSERT!! We ordered one sweet waffle and a piece of cake. Here we go, the Banned Apple Waffle (Rp45.000,00). 

Banned Apple Waffle

A piece of warm crunchy waffle, served with cubes of sweet apples, sliced banana, and almonds. Then lastly completed with a scoop of vanilla ice cream, chocolate sauce, and a sexy red cherry. This combination never fails, I guess..

Banned Apple Waffle

Last but not least,  a piece of good looking Cheese Tart (Rp32.000,00). 

Cheesecake

Based with a yummy pie crust, it was filled with a savory cheesecake. Next, it was layered with sweet delightful milk chocolate and topped with soft and light chocolate cream. An unusual form of cheese cake, but it was pleasingly good! The combination of the savory and sweet is just adorable. Big yum yum.. =9

Cheesecake

A really full of excitement culinary journey to begin this enchanting month. Hoping that many marvelous things will happen in this miraculous month.. Welcome, December!

Canary Cafe and Store

Ruko Pakuwon Square AK2-47

Surabaya

(031) 88000820

Writer: Vitia Tandy

Editor: Ivonny Tan

Tomoto Restaurant 日本レストラン, Dining with Attraction

Seeing this blog again after a very long period brings me back all the memories about my culinary experience.. It is so fun to share all the great food to all of you but I am really sorry for my late update since I've been so busy with coass life.. However I still spend my spare time with eating and trying many good food.. So just in case you are interested in my culinary experience you can follow my instagram @vitia_tandy to get many up to date updates about my culinary experience.. I'll be glad to share =)

Last night I had my new culinary adventure at Tomoto Restaurant 日本レストラン: A Japanese contemporary dining. I went there with my sister, my cousins, my uncles, also my father =) yeap, my father is in Surabaya now.. and just like me, he likes to eat all around.. like father, like daughter =D We ate here as the recommendation from my uncle. We think it would be just a plain japanese dining, in fact last night was awesome. Here is the sneak peek.. 3 letters, W-O-W!

We ordered 5 sets of the Chef's Recommendation Special Wagyu Teppan Set for seven of us. This journey began with this appetizer.. A kind of salad that mixed up carrot, lettuce, raddish, tomato and topped up with dressing..

Salad

Then the chefs began to prepare the teppanyaki.. The word teppanyaki is derived from teppan (鉄板), which means iron plate, and yaki (焼き) which means grilled, boiled, or pan-fried. So that teppanyaki (鉄板焼き) is a style of Japanese cuisine that uses an iron griddle to cook food. Before starting to cook, the chef performed an attraction with their cooking utensils. They juggled the kitchen utensils and made harmony sounds with the iron plate. The show was cool! After that they started to put many ingredients on the iron plate. The ingredients consist of pumpkin, tamago tofu, mushroom, onion, and konnyaku.

Left to right: pumpkin, tofu, mushroom, konnyaku, onion

The next attraction was arranging onion rings into fire-shooting volcano.. Boom!

Arranging onion rings volcano

Fire-shooting onion rings volcano

After waiting for a while, then the first dish was served. Here we go, Konnyaku! Konnyaku (こんにゃく) was made from the root of Amorphophallus konjac, a kind of corm that has a large size. The konnyaku was served with thick sauce and sesame seeds.. It tasted so unique and authentic..

Konnyaku

The next dish was Tamago Tofu.. This was one of the best dish for tonight. This tamago tofu perfectly grilled in precise level of cooked so that the outside texture was a lil' bit crunchy but the inside texture was so soft. Furthermore, the egg flavor was so strong. Yummehh..

Tamago Tofu

So how about the pumpkin, mushroom, and onion rings? They were mixed up together with other vegetables to produce a mixture of teppan vegetables..

It had not stopped yet.. Our journey continued with grilled salmon.. First the slices of salmon were grilled on the top of iron plate with butter then they were marinated and cooked in salmon bones stock.. The chef was performed his job so fast until we cannot catch the picture well.. However, Chef Erwin was so nice to treat us well so finally he made his best pose for us.. great job, chef!

Chef Erwin and the grilled salmon =D

 Not waiting for so long, we already got the slices of grilled salmon served with salmon bones stock.. This was one of the best dish too!! The texture of the salmon and especially the flavor of the stock was so great! I loved this one >.<

Grilled salmon served with salmon bones stock

While waiting for the next dish, we also served with Miso Soup.. This authentic japanese soup always fits to others japanese cuisine..

Miso Soup

With a very full stomach, we continued the night with Teppanyaki Fried Rice..

And guess what he made.. A heart shaped fried rice! So cute =D

Here you go, the teppanyaki fried rice.. The buttery flavor was so yummy! Nom nom..

Last main course but not least, Wagyu Beef..  

They used the imported wagyu beef and take the strip loin part.. Cut from the short loin, the strip steak consists of a muscle that does little work, and so it is particularly tender. Strip loin also a fine choice due to its tast, melt-in-the-mouth succulence. Just in case you wonder about strip loin, here is a little hint for this part =D 

I'm just a normal woman with a limited stomach. Eating all of these made me so increadibly full.. But when it came to dessert time, I think I became a superwoman.. There will be always a space for dessert right?? We can choose on of three dessert available here, which are banana flambe with ice cream, ice cream only, and fresh fruits. It was not a hard choice, right? Lol.. So here I was, chose the Banana Flambe with Ogura Ice Cream as my dessert when my sister chose Banana Flambe with Green Tea Ice Cream. And they made attraction again!

Prepared to be burned :|

They are on fire!!

Banana Flambe with Ogura Ice Cream

Banana Flambe with Green Tea Ice Cream

They tasted so good.. The buttery flavor that attached firmly to the bananas also the sweetness and fascinating flavor of the ice cream mixed well in each bite.. Perfect ending, two thumbs up!

One question. How about the price? To be honest it was quite expensive :( We need to pay Rp395.000,00+ for each of the teppan set. So probably it will be good to have this experience in special occassion. Thanks for reading and please make your own culinary experience =)

Tomoto Restaurant 日本レストラン

Jl. Raya Kupang Indah 17

Surabaya

(031) 7311647