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Ocharaka at Food Culture AEON Mall BSD City: From Taiyaki To Kakigori Still remember clearly that 2 years ago was hard to find Taiyaki here in Indonesia, but lately it's getting easier. Taiyaki Parfait is one under the spotlight, such as Tai-Parfait at Gandaria City and Pungopang at PIK. Here, it's the place for regular taiyaki. Warm fish-shape cake filled with blueberry and cream cheese, yes it's not only sweetened adzuki bean, matcha also available. Soft pancake-like texture with crisp edges.  Korean has Bingsoo , Japanese has Kakigori . Shaved ice dessert that is perfect for summer, well here it feels like summer everyday so you can have Kakigori whenever you want. Matcha Red Bean Kakigori was my first choice, surprisingly the matcha was quite nice though it was way too sweet for me.  One more, it's Ricotta Berry Kakigori - luscious cheesy ricotta combined with sweet and sour berry sauce, delightful! But again for me it was too sweet, it costed IDR 45.000 quite p

Yamatoya at Food Culture AEON Mall BSD City: Super Takoyaki!! A very popular Japanese snack, takoyaki the octopus balls. To be compared with some others that I had in Jakarta and around, here at Yamatoya was my best takoyaki experience so far. It is inside of Food Culture AEON Mall not too far from Kushiya Monogatari , yes currently the hippest shopping mall in Serpong. Dominated with Japanese food tenants and the AEON supermarket also offers wide selection of sushi and some Japanese snacks. But, please do a queue at Yamatoya first then tell me. What makes it special here, the size of delicious octopus chunks, crispy on the outside, hot steamy and soft inside. It was quite addicting, a box filled with 6 balls for only IDR 29.000, pretty affordable. Hard to forget and every bite was absolutely worth, creamy batter was none like any other places. Let me repeat, creamy on the inside. The thing is the creamy texture that creates a unique sensation, melt in mouth! Here there are only few