I Came Back to Jakarta for FOOD
all right all right guys I'm back here in Jakarta Indonesia at the airport I just booked a grab uh to get to my hotel which is in the center of Jakarta um I was thinking to take the train because of the traffic but I checked on Google Maps and the traffic should be okay so let's hope for that and um yeah I'm excited to explore more of Indonesia now uh last time I only stayed on the island of java but now my plan is to visit some other Islands as well so make sure to um yeah follow along as let's go yeah and the good thing is that I registered my eim right before I came uh so I can book grab immediately because otherwise it's a bit of a hustle you know you need to buy the local Sim and um yeah it can be a queue really long or it doesn't work immediately and you need to wait for half an hour and uh it's a lot of administration so an eim is really really the way to go for me right now yeah I booked my grab and you can see there's like all the instructions here and I need to go to cofo that's the pickup Point uh excuse me sir coffee o cof coffe o it's there okay thank you oh I need to get my Indonesian going again T Massi so uh yeah and if you don't want to book grab there's so many people asking to be your taxi driver so there's lots of options look at this all taxis all taxis but for me grab is really the way to go you know it's connected to my credit card I don't need any cash to pay and also it's the safest way you don't need to high go you don't need to bargain okay so this is coffee o and the grab sign is right there you can see the green guys there so uh that's where I need to wait for the car yeah so another option was to take the sky train but the thing is I had to do the sky Train then another train and then a bus to my hotel so it was a bit annoying so I think like a taxi especially I'm a bit tired the taxi is like the way to go you know you straight to the place where you need to be and it's only $11 so that's okay you know that's okay for about an hour drive so that's okay okay seems like he has arrived black Toyota Mr sudadi hello Mr sudadi okay all right oh look at this Toyota avanza how does this work here okay hello yeah it's very yeah no no it's okay it's very heavy okay okay thank you thank you sorry nothing but Highway uh the fastest yes whatever is faster thank you mis thank you mister oh yeah I love how they call you mister here oh yes yes yes is it uh busy traffic yeah a lot of traffic yeah traffic oh it's rush hour yeah oh maybe I should have taken that train anyway I was doubting to take the train but the train is longer speak English oh not so much English okay okay no problem no problem [Music] hello hello good afternoon sir thank you very much yes please okay it's very very heavy that's okay yeah thank you very much okayi yeah all right made it to the Hotel let's do the checkin and then a quick room tour let's go let's go if you take photo I do video okay you YouTube oh YouTube yeah from Jakarta Jakarta no lamp lamp oh okay okay wait I'll let you pass I'll let you pass okay tassi have a nice day wow what a welcome I just got in the elevator these two ladies oh photo photo photo I'm like okay I remember in Indonesia people really love to be on the pictures I'm on the eighth floor and uh I must say I stayed here last time as well let me show you the view well the windows are a bit dirty we have a traditional Indonesian restaurant there you can see the m and here McDonald's all right oh it looks exactly the same as last time exactly the same as last time and I must say last time I really had a good stay here that's why I'm coming back because I know the area already I know the hotel already and uh I was happy so why not repeat my visit let me show you what you get for $30 per night in Jakarta entrance bathroom let's start with a bathroom a beautiful sink me pretty tired uh toothbrushes that's nice okay everything is here everything is here I've been here before I I don't know if I did a room tour last time but I think I did I'm not sure but now I'm doing one so this is the bed hell yeah hell yeah we have a little bench here and then here a working desk which is really nice we have a safe a fridge with nothing in it but it's on and tea and coffee and some water there and I think this is kind of cool I've never seen these from I's Hotel it doesn't look really my size though let's try well actually yeah not too bad not too bad let me try the other one because I didn't bring my slippers actually so this can work not going to roam uh the streets of Jakarta with these slippers but it's okay and what is our view here uh yeah this is Jakarta guys Jakarta so yeah $30 a night in the center of Jakarta and the reason I'm coming back here is because it's so quiet also that's very important to me because uh the traffic in Jakarta is really loud like honking and motorbikes and yeah it's very loud so I know this hotel is not loud at all it's quiet here and I really need that for good sleep all right guys it's now the next day and the plan is to go and find some saté we want to find the best sa in Jakarta and also I need to exchange some money and also I want to get a massage because I really need it like my shoulder is clicking or something not sure what's going on but before all that we will go to Holland Bakery because there is one nearby and so many people have told me that I need to try the lamper aam uh in Holland Bakery so that's what we're going to do first let's go okay okay let's rewind real quick picture this you just a 12-hour flight a 3-hour layover and another 4-Hour flight and you arrive in the new country exhausted you want to get to your hotel as soon as possible to chill out and relax but you first have to get that local Sim to be able to book a grab to text your mom that you arrive safe and sound so the solution to that is eims an eim is basically a virtual SIM card that you can buy online and activate on your phone before arriving to the new country so as my eim provider I use Holly and it's so easy to use really you just open the app select one of the 180 plus destinations and choose the right data plan for you and you can also um select a multiple country package like for example the one that I'm using right now which is the Asia package and it's unlimited data I installed the eim right before coming here and it literally took me only 2 minutes okay eim setup done let's go to the next destination if you would like to check out Hall of fly and travel easy and hasslefree as well check out the link in the description or use the promo code Tim 10 and get 5% discount the legend floor yeah so I'm on my way to the Holland Bakery it's just a few minutes down the road and uh I've been there last time as well I've been there last time as well but uh I didn't try the lamper aam and everybody told me you need to try the lamper am I think I got like hundreds of comments saying that so uh I'm going to try the lamper am because if local people say it's good I have to try it hello hello how are you oh little C oh yeah people are so nice here I remember last time as well everybody always saying hi so nice so nice so uh let's find Holland Bakery I think it's somewhere here it's not too far away yeah we have the BMW garage here I wouldn't mind uh test driving one of these maybe I should go in and ask for a test drive that would be cool oh oh CH traffic yeah the traffic here in Jakarta is really on another level it's super busy yeah it's a a big city you know a city of millions of people I think Jakarta has more people than the whole country where I come from I was almost going to say like it's further than I thought but here it is Holland Bakery and just for the record it's not a Dutch company it's not actually from Holland it's just a name so uh let's find that lamper I am tar P so um I hear the best Bas tree ever in Holland Bakery is lamper aam L you have it this is L which one is it oh this is lamp am okay can I have one please or should I take it okay wow it's like wrapped in a Banana Leaf yeah everybody tells me I have to try it it's so good very good I think last time I had this one the chocolate oh and I had this one that's what that was that one was my favorite but that's very sweet obviously this uh in this one yeah yeah my favorite also but but people told me I need to try this one L how you say l l i Am L I am yeah L I am 94,000 94,000 yeah okay okay well here um H it's okay you can uh the change you can keep it you can keep the change sure yes yes yes yes can I can I try it here can I eat here because it's the AC is so good here you know outside is hot it's hot outside can I eat here yeah okay like honestly I I'm going to try it here because the AC here is really nice and outside it's super hot um and if I really like it maybe I can buy more but the thing is we also need to go and get some sauté later so uh not sure yet oh yeah maybe thank you thank you this change for me or yeah for you and your colleagues and for everyone okay thank you thank you thank you okay lamper I am he said so it's wrapped in a Banana Leaf it's actually even uh properly closed look at this it's a bit oily so I'm not quite sure how it will taste look at this it's like um yeah I I don't even know yet is this with um sticky rice uh S no Katan Katan yeah so it's with Katan not sure what that means what is it uh Katan coconut milk oh it's with coconut milk yes and chicken uh yes yes yes yes okay let's give it a try I mean if more than 100 people commented like you need to try lamper I am uh then that's what we do of course it's a little bit tricky to open though I'm just trying to open it I just washed my hands by the way so don't don't worry that I'm touching my food okay okay okay this is how it looks so it's with coconut and Chicken ooh look at this m it tastes a bit um sour I love it has like a sour taste probably some lemon in it definitely some spices wow oh wow I can definitely agree that it's really good m not going to eat up oh yeah it's really good really good wow so good you're point one one or 10 sorry uh this taste one or 10 oh one or 10 H yeah yeah coin coin coin coins uhh oh so you want to have a review one to 10 yeah um I would say 11 11 I'm not quite sure what it is it's like coconut but very sticky but it's good I would almost dare to say the chicken is a little bit like Tom Yum like that that kind of sourness wow wow definitely approved okay okay thank you very much J see you see you next time okay I will be back for more okay okay okay thank you oh yeah oh wow okay no regrets coming here thank you to everyone that commented that I have to try lamper I am because it's so good wow okay now still processing so now the plan is to find some sauté exchange some money and have a massage that's my idea let's go hello uh do you speak English English no I'm looking for s s s s good the best s not open yet oh it's too early to early oh so what time do they open mostly maybe at night at night like 5 maybe or yes oh okay it's too early okay too early okay okay then we go see oh yeah I forgot about that yeah it's actually 3:00 now so I'm not going to find any sa right now because who's eating at 3:00 except me so H let me see what we can do then instead we still will have that sauté but later on look here this guy he makes his own stamps I think it's called stample and that's the same word that we use in Dutch oh you make um stample personalized stample can I uh can I see can I see uh uh logo you do logo logo logo yes okay wow that's cool actually I'll show him my logo and then see if he can he can do it uh my logo look this is my logo is can you it's possible yes yes and uh bit upper uh logo here so I copy it like this so we do this and here like this okay B okay okay H yeah wait how much is that 150,000 okay okay so I sent it on WhatsApp let's see if it will receive how long do you think it will make to make the logo sa to uh sat to jam yeah I think it's 1 hour okay 100 now later 50 okay so the price is 150 in total and I gave a down payment of 100 already and I got a receipt okay D Massi ah the color I can choose the color ah color color uh maybe oh the size yeah the size um maybe like this four four uh four how much is four again yeah four four four okay okay I didn't expect this but uh I will make uh my own stamp which is kind of cool actually I remember my dad he was also had his own business and he also had his own stamp and I really loved it it was so cool you know you can just make your own logo wherever you want well only on paper I guess but I made an agreement with the stample man and uh hello I made an agreement with the stamp man I have my down payment receipt here and he said it will be ready in 1 hour but I'm not sure if I will be back in 1 hour the only thing is I need to remember this place so I need to somehow um pin this on my map or something because otherwise I will never remember where it was so uh oh this is the area I think this is the name here Tut Jam book jam oh no those are the hours the opening hours um yeah I'll pin it on my map so I don't forget where it is because that would be sad no wow wow really good wow look at this can I see can I open oh wow intense what he did it really fast it's less than an hour really good really good Tim t look at is I'll give it a try also yes so okay thank you see um so we set 50 extra right okay okay thank you okay wait I'll I'll give him something extra here 50 more okay okay okay for you okay okay thank you very much turn wow he was so fast he told me 1 hour and I came back after 20 minutes because I wanted to film how he made it like while he was making it I wanted to get some shots but it was already ready so I don't know how he does it I think he cuts out um the the shape from the logo and everything it's something like that so yeah it was faster than expected hello how are you what are you making for a car yes oh license plate oh nice M smells good also very fresh very good nice nice nice problem problem ah I don't know if you can say in for that but yeah so I did a Google search on a money exchange in Jakarta and it seems like the best place to be is katua which is the old town of Jakarta I have been there before um but that's where all the tourists are and that's where you can find money exchanges I guess so I'll try to hitch a ride uh to cotat Tua maybe I'll do grab I'll see I'll see so you go to Hello uh do you go to cotat yes yeah I can drive I can do I book on grab or I can go direct with you yeah I can open the app as well if uh kot yes yeah okay let's have a look on grab here a c tour should I book with you got a tour uh here entrance of the museum is okay this is pick up how much is that okay I do 50 yes 50 for you 50 uh lima lima lima I only know five that's Lima 50 okay okay okay deal we have a deal okay YouTube YouTube you what's your name what's your name your name Nama Arin okay Tim nice to meet you yes yes yes so we're not using the official grab oh he has a helmet okay can I put I put this here okay okay going Johnny s for a minute to get the helmet on safety first so we're not doing the official grab but it's okay you know it's a faster he was just around the corner so okay let's go to cotat oh I didn't close my helmet yet though it's all good yeah I'm always impressed how local people are texting while being on the back of a bike like I need my hands you know I need to hold myself hands free I can't do it yeah be careful with this car because uh you don't want to you don't want to scratch this one here the Porsche Porsche that will be an expensive joke if he's if he scratches that porch not porch Porsche or how the Americans say it porcha you can see we're getting closer to katua lots of artists and everything here also selling local crafts wow really cool maybe I should come back here later wow he's really going for it wow look at this St okay okay perfect okay channel YouTube Ah YouTube channel yeah I'll share my YouTube channel oh yeah wait then here this one okay subbe oh thank you thank you very much 50 yes okay thank you thank you very much Edwin was it right okay nice meeting you byebye okay what a legend of course I know I could have used the app and book book like on grab directly but um he was just around the corner and I was like okay I'll ask him and he said yeah and the thing is if you book uh without grab it's cheaper for him and I gave him a little bit extra okay we made it to cotat oh I remember that from last time so uh the goal is to exchange my money here and uh I see that there's so much street food here as well so 100% sure I will find a good sa here but I think I will first do the money exchange so that's out of the way oh wow this is good this looks nice nice nice hello maybe later maybe later not now oh yeah I think I will find a lot of food here you can see it already wow I don't know wow look at this we're here at the entrance of Jakarta katua and uh look at all these people here wow well it's a Saturday today uh and last time I was here during the week I think and also the temperature is lower than last time so I guess that's why there's more [Music] [Applause] people thank you Mr you a photo okay okay let's do a photo wow everybody is attacking me here for pictures with the whole family wow a lot of attention here a lot of attention here but I want to exchange my money actually yeah okay hello so cute okay there's another white guy there you need to but him they take pictures with [Music] them okay why are they attacking me I think I need to get away here Tim T Tim T I show you I okay okay everybody subscribe okay in the meanwhile we'll do a selfie here as well where are you Belgium oh belum hello where are you from from Belgium from Belgium where you from ger Germany oh meet you from Lebanon oh Lebanon nice to meet you nice to meet you too yeah oh yeah nice to meet you oh you're a tour guide wow it's here okay I give you my YouTube wait it's loading loading loading here subscribe okay okay okay thank you I'm leaving I'm leaving I need to get away here okay okay thank you wow I really need to leave it's too much it's too much okay after taking probably at least 100 pictures in 5 minutes um I'm in another Street of katua and I'm on the lookout for money exchange so Google Maps was sending me here and I ended up in Chinatown in a mall for the money exchange but I don't really uh see anything yet so I guess I need to ask around there's a lot of jewelry shops here and I know um jewelry shops in general they um they also do money exchange so maybe I'll just ask one like here this is jewelry uh money exchange H where this way oh thank you okay we have a we have a clue we have a clue uh where did he say okay so uh finally we made it to a money exchange and they even have it in Dutch here H whist cista let's see let's see Sal um do you do a money exchange dollar US dollar to rupia oh we don't exchange US dollar for a while no because there are not the people who wants to buy US dollar I'm sorry oh so what what do you exchange then Singapore dollar ring oh really do you know where I can exchange dollar uh there there's another money changer here also there's another money changer in the same Mall oh no uh you can go outside this building across the street there's another Mall yeah the yellow one just go inside and you will find the money changer uh name MBS you can the security there okay MBS thank you very much ter Massi so according to the guy at the money exchange office he said there's nobody interested in buying dollars here because Jakarta is not really on the tourist map I would say um that's why it's a bit hard and I could have exchanged everything at the airport yesterday but the airports have a really bad exchange rate so I wanted to avoid that uh but now it seems that it's really hard to exchange dollars as well so let's try in this mall here he told me there's a shop called MBS here that possibly will exchange my dollars but it's not even sure yet okay let's hello guard hello um do you know where the shop MBs is MBS money exchange MBS for uh dollar to rupia uh oh I can ask someone inside as well [Music] money changer uh money changer yes yes straight uh straight here and then left okay see okay fingers crossed that they want uh exchange dollars US dollars not Singapore dollars oh the liquor store so somewhere here hello sir uh salang uh do you exchange US Dollars yes yes uh what's the rate for uh dollar versus rupia you want sell uh sell sell yes yes uh 260 I think let me check the rate on my phone as well so this is for one $1 okay 100 wait I'm checking oh the internet is so slow here I cannot even verify it but yeah either if it's a good rate or not I don't have much options honestly so I'll just take it I guess so we have 1 six 26 uh 226 okay yeah okay yeah $226 to Indonesian Rook okay okay oh I don't have any Internet connection here so I cannot even check if it's um a good rate but I'll know later yeah I went to another office they told me there's not a lot of dollars here it's hard to find dollar which which money is the most popular for exchange Chinese yeah Singapore dollars mostly oh okay yeah yeah not US dollar and Euro what about Euro also no oh zero or a little bit 36 yeah 3.6 million okay 3.6 wow I never had that much bills in my pocket I think look at this thank youi so this is the official exchange rate okay the money exchange mission is accomplished now the next mission is to secure some saté and uh I could probably find it here in the street as well because it's full of street food but uh I will go back to katua and uh figure it out there okay back at katua and look at all the street food so many options so many options but honestly before I even touch any food I need some drink like really some uh soda maybe I could do it because I've been uh baking in the Sun the whole day I'm sweating and everything so uh I need some drink hello hello how are you good good yes oh I could do some lemonade or something let's see what the options are first and then uh we will decide what is this sbell that's not for drinking what is this uh s what is this Coca-Cola no ah how much 5,000,000 5,000 okay let me get some money I don't know what it is though okay okay what is this which one what is the name ice tea okay I do ice tea okay oh nice call thank you oh I thought it was maybe like some kind of Coca-Cola but it's ice tea which is even better honestly oh yeah o it's good it's good it's a nice nice tea hell yeah [Music] no no no no no no for eating this side okay okay oh yeah I think I walked past pretty much every street food stall here around katua and I don't find any s uh but she said somewhere there somewhere there I don't know where no that's me I am where is the SAT oh there I think there yeah I see some smoke there it should be should be there should be there okay let's try to cross here can I this is tricky this is tricky but not impossible okay is that sa yeah that looks like sa and a very nice street food stall as well it's like made of wood hello sir do you have saté saté ready yes sat am uh sat sat okay has the fire going and everything here they always use these really thin charcoals to make them going faster I thought I would find sa so easily and it seems pretty uncommon here in this area and also here there's nobody maybe it's too early or I don't know it's more like a breakfast thing or something I remember last time I was in Indonesia I had saté as breakfast so maybe it's more a breakfast thing I really love the design of this it's uh like a retro street food style looks nice looks nice I like it I prefer these over the the metal ones actually yeah so I have this theory that the sa is somewhere here because of all the smoke they don't want to put it in between all the other street food stalls because it's so so much smoke you know if you put like three sauté stalls there you know imagine there's a sauté stall there there there it would be like one cloud of smoke there so I guess that's why they put them in the corners like this guy here is really like somewhere you would never find him you really have to know about it oh yeah you see all the smoke hello M hello Miss oh so okay so he just marinated the meat and then put it back very nice very nice okay okay yes yes oh yeah it's for dining I will eat here eat here eat eat here okay okay yeah H okay okay yeah sorry I didn't understand okay okay a that's peanut sauce oh and they add some awesome lime okay so peanut sauce with some lime then some ketchup ketchup yeah yeah yeah okay mix it uh a little bit a little bit very spicy probably oh yeah now it mix it nicely yeah okay a tiny bit spicy okay okay perfect oh I even top it off with more CCH okay okay we have our sa and I was looking forward to this for a few weeks already like as soon as I booked my ticket to Indonesia I knew that I would have some saté and here we have it wow it looks really good let's try a little bit of chili as well drenched in peanut sauce ketchup um and some other stuff M that peanut sauce is so good M wow I really love sauté right [Music] yeah very good very good oh yeah thank you I love when the meat is a little bit burnt and it's the case here you taste that burnt meat mixed with the peanut butter a little bit sweet because of the ketchup a tiny bit spicy because of the sambar yes please so you might be thinking why did he also give me a spoon well that's for the [Music] sauce so good oh I took it that was a big spoon big spoonful of chili SBO w still good though uh B uh okay 20,000 [Music] okay okay okay the sa mission is accomplished let's move to the next and last mission let's go hello sir uh can I have one uh water satu satu water one water one water five okay you have uh CH one two uh one okay one well no uh cold you have uh yeah oh yes is thank you okay thank you where you from from Belgium Belgium yes yes yes oh you come here every day every day every day every day okay okay okay thank you thank you very much thank you okay finished you must be surprised I finished at like in 10 seconds half liter of water I just downed it in one go because I was so thirsty it's thirsty weather here in Jakarta that's all I can say okay let's cross the street again It's Tricky here It's Tricky here and this ladies and gentlemen is how the Taman Fila Square looks on a Saturday night thank you thank you thank you thank you okay here we go again currently I'm walking to the massage place that I found on Google Maps let's see if it's legit or not I'm really not sure uh so let's see it's a little bit in a back alley of kot T so it might be a bit dodgy maybe it's not even a massage place but something else I'm only looking for a massage nothing else just saying just saying and that will be the happy ending to my first full day here in Jakarta let's see so Google Maps tells me that it's right here huh I don't see anything hm that's weird I'm not lying guys look massage therapist even with four reviews so it's definitely here look at this it's definitely here but I don't see any signs um and not even a door where I can enter so uh let me find another place I guess maybe that's the kind of massage I need look at this [Music] hi wow just still standing on the back hello Mr sorry sleeping always sleeping oh so tired oh so always sleeping he says so um this seems exactly what I need 150,000 rupia for 90 minutes let's go and ask maybe finally I found someone hello good evening hello can I get massage here massage yes it's okay possible now okay okay what kind of massages from Belgium huh from Belgium I said Belgium belgia belgia belgia oh belgia come here visit visit yeah tourist tourist yeah and you from Jakarta yes not speaking English here not English not so much just a little 100 what okay I hope this is a normal massage because it's a bit dodgy it's in a room from a hotel that looks kind of dodgy but I don't want that oh oh like this yeah that's uh hard massage but it's good it's good hot hot hot it's good it's good yeah all right guys the massage is finished and that means that we accomplished all our missions today great success but the massage it seemed a bit dodgy at first in the hotel room and everything like that was a bit weird to me but uh I think the massage culture here in Indonesia is not so common as in other Asian countries so uh it's a little bit strange but the massage was not too bad after all she was like standing on top of me and everything it was kind of good uh a little bit like that little girl was doing to her mom there before I went to the massage kind of funny but it felt kind of good uh because I I'm dealing with a little bit of um yeah I'm dealing with a little bit of a vlog shoulder a vlogger shoulder because I always hope my camera I think and for that reason wow it's so wet here and so much rain for that reason my shoulder is a bit painful and she kind of fixed it I think so that's that's good news uh but now um I'm heading back into katua I'll probably find some dinner and um yeah this is the end of the video so yeah you already know if you're still watching you're a legend legend those are the bitter B this is bintang beer and here more chicken sauté with rice cakes
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