Showing posts with label Events. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Events. Show all posts

Monday, December 28, 2015

Palembang Trip - Happily Ever After, Ahin & Juli!

The final day was finally coming.

We planned to have traditional Palembang breakfast, visit the sport complex of Palembang in Jakabaring, have traditional Palembang lunch, have legendary Palembang snack, and go to Ahin & Juli's wedding.

We achieved all the itineraries that have the 'food' element in it.

We started our day by having a morning chit-chat in my house.

With all the foods from Palembang, Manado, Medan :)

We set out of the house to have our late breakfast: mie celor! Mie celor is traditional Palembang food. It consists of thick egg noodle with thick prawn curry soup. Topped with fish crackers or melinjo crackers, it is heavenly delicious.

The place to eat this food is Mie Celor 26 Ilir. No other place can beat mie celor in this place.

Pretty mie celor

Because of traffic jam, we reached here pretty late and finished pretty late as well. Therefore, we decided not to go to Jakabaring and straightaway go to our second food destination: traditional Palembang lunch. Pindang Meranjat Ibu Ucha.

This is the place where you can get the best pindang ikan, the best pepes ikan, the best ikan seluang goreng, and the best ambiance of traditional Palembang.

Pindang Meranjat Ibu Ucha is located somewhere in Demang Lebar Daun. The venue is considered huge with traditional wooden huts all over the place. Inside the huts, there is only low table. Basically, you are required to sit on the floor and eat traditionally, too.

Friends from the sea

The highlights here are:

  • Pindang ikan - spicy and sour fish soup
  • Pepes ikan - grilled onion & chilli spiced fish wrapped in banana leaf
  • Ikan seluang goreng - crispy fried rasbora fish

The fish are usually panga catfish or ikan patin, coming from the river. However now, people farm it in the pond for industry purpose.

Other than those menu, Pindang Meranjat Ibu Ucha also serves gurame bakar (grilled carp), sambal udang petai (spicy shrimp & petai), pepes tempoyak (grilled fermented durian spiced fish wrapped in banana leaf), lalapan (vegetables), many types of chilli sauces, and other seafood products cooked in traditional Palembang way.

Eating here can cost IDR 50,000 to IDR 100,000 (~SGD 5-10) per person depending on the varieties of food that you order. It is not necessarily inexpensive, but it is worth it.

Group photo time! See the ambience? Like it?

After lunch, we sat around for awhile before making a move to our next destination: Martabak Bangka Pulau Mas. This is one of the iconic snack of Palembang. Nobody can ever leave Palembang without tasting this. My favourite is the original flavour, peanut. When I recommended this flavour to my friends, they thought no good of it. Until they tried it.

The peanut is ground peanut, not peanut butter
Super Martabak Bangka
One portion cost IDR 30,000 (~SGD 3.2) and lasted less than 10 minutes on the table. 

After that, it's time to party. We wished Ahin & Juli a happily ever after.

The king and queen of the day
Wedding kiss
Group photo!
<3

And we ended our journey in Palembang with much happiness and love.

Love is in the air,
Little Feet

Wednesday, September 23, 2015

Palembang Trip - Another Wedding Project for Bouquet & Boutonniere

Bouquet & Boutonniere was so delighted when the bride-to-be decided to have the wedding planning service.

The wedding shall be about the two lovebirds. So I decided to ask more about them and to propose something uniquely for them.

  • Theme: Winter
  • Colour palette: White & Tiffany Blue
  • Ornament: penguin, snow flakes

The bride is so in love with penguins and the groom is so in love with the bride. So, I believed the groom's main objective would be to give happiness to his wife. Winter-themed wedding seemed a great choice.

B&B was engaged since March 2015, first proposal was out in the same month and the concept was approved from the first cut. While waiting for the confirmation of the ballroom, B&B assisted the bride in recommending places for pre-wedding photo shoot in April 2015.

Photos in Arab Street area, Singapore - recommended by B&B

The ballroom was confirmed sometime in May 2015. Before the confirmation, I took a tour there to see what kind of decoration would be required for the wedding.

A new event venue in Palembang

After the ballroom was confirmed, we started working on each of the elements of the wedding, i.e. stationery, decoration, vendor engagement, event rundown.

Wedding stationery set

We started from the idea of having a paper wedding invitation with fold-over card and inserts to cater for both Indonesian and Chinese Insert. However, due to circumstances, the plan changed. In the end we decided to have a not-so-normal invitation card in the shape of a spunbond shopping bag. The front is the 'cover' and the back is the invitation details in Indonesian. There is double-sided insert card in the bag for Chinese version and location map of the ballroom. The addressee card was tied to the handle of the bag.

Nearing to the date of the wedding, more and more things came up. The bride was stressed up at some times but together we went through all. She is a lucky bride. The ballroom threw stage decoration, 8 standing flowers, and 1 wedding gate in the package. We only needed to do some 'enhancement'. Apart from that, the ballroom is so pretty that it is almost enough without anything.

B&B also gave the concept of the wedding cake. To suit the theme, a wedding cake with snowflakes and penguin cake topper is proposed. As the room is so big, I told the bride that at least 7-tier cake would be needed.

And this is the result!

B&B also assisted the bride in searching her dream bouquet. Cascading bouquet with roses and orchids were the idea. Since orchids were not in season, the florists changed it to carnation.

Pink roses and blush carnations

We did not forget the personal flowers/accessories. I created the bride's wrist corsages and some corsages/boutonniere for the family.

Boutonniere for the family
Wrist corsage for the receptionists
Wrist corsage with satin flower
Wrist corsages for the bride for her holy matrimony (gold) and wedding reception (white)

And of course, B&B is so delighted that the couple entrusted the decoration enhancement of the venue to us. Let's tour the ballroom to see what B&B has done to enhance the wedding theme!

The canvass picture of the bride and the groom
Reception table
Photo album table

These were the decoration for the reception area. All the props were specifically created/chosen to cater for the theme. 

A photo wall was installed to serve as both photo booth and photo gallery. As the expected numbers of guests would be enormous, the photo wall would be beneficial to let the guests enjoy the pre-wedding photos of the couples without the need of queueing over the photo album.

The photo wall specially designed for them 
The table decoration
My favourite photo!

Not much enhancement needed for the ballroom as the standard decoration was already sufficient. What I did was only to fill in the aisle and add on the colour. And of course, adding a little bit of decoration to the VIP area.

The stage
The start of the aisle 
The wedding gate with our enhancement
Going nearer to the stage
VIP area with table number card specially designed for the wedding
Also with chair ribbons

The event ran smoothly according to what we wanted although some changes were required here and there. Good coordination with other vendors is needed to ensure no hiccups in the event rundown. And thank God, we managed it. The main procession started on time and it ran smoothly till the end. We did not even have proper full-dress rehearsal due to time constraint. I was relying on proper briefing to the families, master of ceremony, dancers, and ballroom staff.

The King and The Queen of the Day, learning how to walk on the aisle
The main procession of cake cutting

I am so happy to serve the couple and I am more than happy to bring smiles to their faces at the end of the day. I am turning their dream wedding into reality and the hard work for these 6 months have been paid off. All thanks to the assistance given by the vendors and of course, my crew for the day.

Pretty dresses from Proper Pride by Jesica Glenny
The guests with the bride and the groom

Bouquet & Boutonniere is ready for new projectsssss. So, do not hesitate to contact me. B&B knows how to turn your dream wedding into reality.

Febrina Aryani
Wedding Planner
Whatsapp: +6590029460
Line: febrina.li
BBM: 55966470

Love is in the air,
Little Feet (your Wedding Planner)

Wednesday, March 4, 2015

Bali Trip - New Year's Eve in Bali

The third day!

To be honest, the breakfast at that villa were not up to our standards. So, we decided to head out somewhere for breakfast.

Based on recommendation by someone, we drove to Revolver Espresso at Jalan Kayu Aya No. 50, Seminyak.

Vintage, vintage, vintage!
The interior: woods and old school~~~
Hello, Mr. Barista!
The cafe starts its operation from 08:00am and served a sumptuous choices for breakfast and brunch. We reached there around 08:30am and there were already some customers enjoying their meals.

We were seated at some cozy corner of the cafe!
We started ordering straightaway. Avocado on Toast, Double Barrel, Holster, and pancake. Caffe latte, mocha, and picollo.

Avocado on Toast - crunchy toasted sourdough with avocado and tomato. Taste was just normal.
Double Barrel - poached egg on toasted sourdough with tomato, bacon, and vegetables. Taste was good.

Holster - panini with bacon, cheese, egg, and mayo. Taste was amazing!
Pancake with vanilla ice cream, berries, and syrup. Pancake was fluffy and pleasing
Coffee was at the acidic side and not to my taste.

We waited very long for our foods until I needed to ask the staff twice. It was lucky that the taste of the foods were not disappointing. And what made the visit here more pleasing other than the food and the ambience, the service was great! The manager actually gave us 25% discount as an apology for keeping us waiting for too long. In the end, we only spent IDR 300,000 (~SGD 33) for the whole feast.

And you still can take photo outside with the photo wall!
I will surely recommend Revolver Espresso to everybody who is visiting Bali...

We left Revolver around 10:00am and we drove to Denpasar. We did not have clear schedule for the day as we heard that most roads would be closed by 04:00pm for New Year's Eve.

The first stop was to try speciality snack of bali, PIE SUSU. Pie susu is milk pie if translated directly. Pie susu is actually similar to Portuguese egg tart but the filling in the middle is milk curd instead. The pie is not so crusty as compared to egg tart.

We went to Pie Susu Asli Enaaak which is the most famous pie susu in Bali.

The 'factory' of Pie Susu Asli Enaaak

The place was so so so crowded. Pie Susu Asli Enaaak offers 2 variants of the milk tart: original and chocolate and the price is only IDR 2,500 (~SGD 0.3) per piece. We bought 5 pieces of original and 5 pieces of chocolate flavour for testing.

The cartoon says: Pie Susu Asli "Enaaak" since 1989, Special goodies from Bali

And about a few hundred meters away from Pie Susu Asli Enaaak, we stopped to taste another milk tart in a shop called Pie Susu Dhian.

Pie Susu Dhian

Pie Susu Dhian offers more flavours other than original and chocolate. There are also cheese, chocolate cheese, blueberry, strawberry. After tasting both, all of us agreed that Pie Susu Asli Enaaak was too sweet and Pie Susu Dhian suited our tastebuds. So we ordered almost 600 pieces to be brought back to our own places.

And yeah, Pie Susu Dhian is cheaper. One piece of milk tart costs IDR 1,500 (~SGD 0.17) only.

Then Bro drove us to Pasar Seni Kumbasari. Before flying to Bali, I read somewhere that Pasar Seni Kumbasari would be a good place for shopping of souvenirs, figurines, paintings, etc. But to be honest, it was not worth the trip.

The drive there was hard. Small roads. Traffic jam. Difficult parking.
The weather was hot. The distance from the parking lot to the market building was far.
Most of the shops were closed.
The building was not maintained well.

Yes, the prices there were indeed very cheap and we did shop. But I felt the time was wasted for making a trip specially there. I did not even take photo.

So I must borrow the picture from bali.panduanwisata.id

The next stop was lunch. Bro brought us to Sanur for tasting the really famous Balinese fish soup. The place is called Warung Sop Ikan Mak Beng. According to the story, the founder of this restaurant was a lady with a son named Beng. As she is the Mak (mother) of Beng, the whole village called her Mak Beng and voile, there was the name of the restaurant.

The restaurant is just a single storey low ceiling building with little ventilation and natural lighting. However, this doesn't prevent people from patronising the restaurant. When we arrived there, the place was full and many people were waiting for their turn.

People say, don't judge the book from its cover

But, do not expect to get a queue number. What you need to do is to eye on other people and stand in the close proximity of almost-finish tables. When they get up, you rush to claim the seat. Once you are seated, the so very experienced waitress of the restaurant will record your order.

The menu offered was standard. White rice + fish soup + fried fish costs IDR 34,000 (~SGD 3.7). Although the menu was standard, the taste was goooood, especially the chilli sauce.

The standard menu. The fried fish impressed me more.
Still eating. Already full. Not full at all.
Thanks for the breeze. Inside was too stuffy!

Tummies were happy and it's time to get some souvenirs. We went to a very big souvenir supermarket called Krisna and spent an hour or so to shop this and that.

You can find almost everything here but it's so shameful such a huge place does not have air conditioning system

We were still full but the culinary journey did not stop there. We came to Bali all the way so we should taste the famous gelato.

Gusto Gelato was so famous and titled (by whom???) as the most delicious gelato in Bali. We passed by this place when we headed back to Seminyak, so let's eat again.

The so so so famous Gusto
Enjoying the gelato, yeah

Two scoops of Gusto gelato cost IDR 20,000 (~SGD 2.2) and there are many many many choices of flavours. Yes, I found it nice, especially when the day was so hot, but to say it as the best gelato, I think it is too overrated. It is nice but more are nicer.

It was almost 4:00pm when we drove back and surprisingly, no traffic jam! We reached the villa quite fast. I went for shower before urging everybody to accompany me to Legian 66 Beach.

The villa is so near to the beach and it only took us about 10 minutes walk. There are shops along the road so don't be afraid of a boring walk.

It was still bright as a sunny day
It turned amber but cloud was coming
And all of a sudden, everything was dark blue

I was so sad I did not manage to catch the last sunset of the year, but I was still thankful that I had the chance to enjoy the ocean breeze for a while before it started to rain. We quickly ran back and still got caught in the rain.

Still nice to look upon, right

Actually there are a lot of eateries along the way to this beach and along this beach itself. However, we did not try anything as we have prepared something special for this New Year's Eve at the villa.

It.

Was.

BBQ.

Setting up the temporary BBQ pit
The foods: enoki beef roll, king oyster mushroom, pork satay, spiced chicken
Grilling grilling~~~
Yummy foods

The end products
The residue. Thanks to the biscuit tin. You have served us well.
P.S. All the foods were brought from Palembang and Singapore, except the nasi jinggo (white rice and vegetables) that was brought when were walked back from 66 Beach.

We ate and feasted to our heart content. After eating the main BBQ foods, we feasted on ripe and sweet mango brought from Palembang. And thereafter, we sat and played Monopoli Deal until the time to say 'Happy New Year' was ripe.

And yeah, farewell 2014 and welcome 2015!

Love is in the air,
Little Feet