One of the things I miss the most about home is the array of bistros dotted around the lanes of Brighton. You can pretty much lose yourself in the myriad of cobblestone gangways that make up the north and south lanes and be guaranteed to discover some new and exciting little French, Italian or Bratislavian joint along the way...more

Saint Seiya, Akira, Naruto, Inu Yasha, Fushigi Yuugi – sound familiar? No, they are not names of past Japanese emperors but of anime characters, which refers to Japanese animation...more

I have a problem with Japanese food and I'm the first to admit it. I just can't get enough of it. Maybe it's the fact that, in Jakarta, sushi is not that expensive at all and the standard of quality is generally pretty good (so long as you keep your distance from the cholera carts patrolling downtown)...more

It's a brave man indeed who challenges the curse of Pondok Indah Plaza Two. You see, the Plaza Two area (around the Citibank Pondok Indah headquarters) is a veritable graveyard of restaurant enterprises and businesses gone bust and no one, it would seem, can provide any reason as to why...more