It's my late post, continuing Dopamine Booster: Round 1 - Myeong Ga post before. After eating lunch at Myeong Ga, we headed to Ciwalk. Kak Avi said that she wanted to buy some toast at Roppan. Kak Avi and I had almost bought some before, but it wasn't so convenience at that time, so we ended up saving that for another time. Finally, we've got a chance to go there, even though our stomach were already full. But there's always an empty space for dessert right? ;)

Roppan stands for Roppongi Pan, which means "bread that bring happiness" (if I'm not mistakenly recall it. CMIIW). And surely it does. There are a lot of kind of toast at Roppan, I couldn't remember one by one. But one thing for sure, they're all tempting! They were all displayed near the cashier so the customer can chose anything they like through its display shelves then being served right away.

Since we split ways because some circumstances, Kak Avi and I riding a public transportation came earlier than others, so we ordered first. We ended up ordering a Honey Toast Matcha Matcha, a lychee tea, and a peach tea. Honey Toast is a signature dish from Roppan, it's a big chunk of toast bread's crust as a place to put the contents. The contents itself consist of toasted bread (the white part) with honey spread all over it, and on the top of it, there're 3 scoop of green tea ice cream with almond, sweet red bean sauce, and dark chocolate as toppings. It's served with green chocolate paste on each corner of the plates.

Honey Toast Matcha Matcha

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Yay! Right when I needed! \(^0^)/
Yesterday, Kak Avi, a close friend of mine came by from Jakarta, and she said wanna hang out for some time. And there we go, to Myeong Ga, a Korean restaurant, or I should say a Korean food stall in front of Korean groceries. She said she'd been craving for its jajangmyun (자장면, black bean paste noodle) for a long time. It's not just the two of us, there were others who came along with us: Reli, Rendy, and Ican. We were planning to go there for lunch, but for some reasons we end up having a late lunch there. Poor our empty stomach..
Anyway, we decided what we wanted to eat. I ordered sundubu ramyun (순두부 라면, ramyun with tofu and egg), Ican ordered bulgogi kimbab (불고기 김밥, kimbab with bulgogi or roasted meat filling), while Kak Avi, Reli, and Rendy ordered jajangmyun. And we also ordered a portion of tteokbokki (떡볶이, rice cake with sauce) as a snack. They're all emptied in no time after it's served. haha... Guess our empty stomach didn't want to compromise more. :D
Now, here're the pictures that Reli had taken. -all credits goes to her-

our tteokbokki snack and kimchi

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Now, I'm going to make a review about my favorite Korean movie. Its title is "Hello Ghost". I actually knew this movie because the main actor is Cha Tae Hyun, whom I adore for his acting skill. :D
I have watched movies of him such as Babo (Miracles of a Giving Fool) that brings me tears and Speed Scandal that brings me laugh. And this one, brings me to tears every time I watch it. Yes, every time. Even I watch it many times. :'(
But you know what, I end up using it. Every time I feel sad or just want to cry, I watched it. It helps me cry. And then I feel much better after crying. hahaha... :D

• Movie title    : Hello Ghost
• Release year : 2010
• Country        : South Korea
• Language      : Korean

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Yesterday, when I had this-not-really-great mood and coincidentally I had some kind of debt on my friend, Bayu, I wanted to buy him a cheesecake. So I asked him, whether he's able to come and get me to buy those cheesecake together. Then an hour later, we went to this cake shop called "Cizz". It's a small shop that sells cheese based cake only, it's a cheesecake shop. It has many variations and flavors of cheesecake. And after about 30 minutes ride, we arrived there. Thankfully, it's just really us as their customer at that time, so we could enjoy our cheesecake there -you know, since it doesn't have a large space for dine-in purchase-
We chose what we want to buy in the refrigerator display shelf at the side of the cashier. I picked a caramel cheesecake, while Bayu picked a cookies and cream cheesecake. Those cake we picked being served directly from the display. Each of it priced Rp 17.000,- (about USD 2). After paying those two cakes and a bottle of water for Rp 3.000,- we sat on empty seats in front of the cashier and ate it right away. Yummm... :9

Cizz's Caramel Cheesecake

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Finally I read this book! So late to read it now maybe, but hey, it's never too late to read a book anyway. Book doesn't old. :D

As you -perhaps- already knew, it's about a boy named Santiago that traveled along the continent -if I may said- from Andalusia (Spain) to Egypt in order to find his hidden treasure buried beneath the pyramid, his Personal Legend. It all begin after he dreamed about finding some treasure on the pyramid, twice. Then he asked a gypsy woman about it who asked him for a share after he got the treasure. He also met a man that told him to go find that treasure. That man claimed himself as the king of Salem and then gave the boy two stones, Urim and Thummim, to help the boy in his journey when needed.
The boy sold all his sheep, crossed the sea, got robbed, and even trapped in a tribes war to get there. He met an english man when he tried to cross the desert. That man was also in his way finding his own Personal Legend, to find The Alchemist and learn from him.
Santiago also met a girl that made him fell in love in the first sight in an oasis. And so did the girl. Her name's Fatima. She became the biggest thing that held him back. Or I could say, obstacle. His big love for Fatima made him doubtful, whether to continue his journey till the end, or to stay right there in the oasis and live happily with her forever. Eventhough Fatima herself said that he should go on with his journey. But no one knew what desert could do to him. He might be died because of the tribes war or maybe lost in the desert. But still there's a chance that he could came back alive.

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This is a culinary story long time ago, when my friends in Gemati and I went for a trip to Pameungpeuk, remember? When we went back to Bandung, we decided to eat first before reaching campus. Bayu did the browsing. They said they wanted something fresh. And since it's kinda rainy that day, soto is a good choice. Then Bayu found this blog talking about Soto Ojolali in Jalan Cibadak 79. And we decided to go there. Actually, it's pretty far from the exit toll gate in Buah Batu, but we thought it's fine, since we still have a lot of time before the due hour to return the car.

As you know, soto is one of Indonesian's food. It's more less like soup with vegetables, meat or chicken, and sometimes vermicelli. There're so many kinds of soto here in Indonesia, you might find different kind of soto in different place. First, I thought that Soto Ojolali served Javanese soto because the term "ojolali" is actually Javanese mean "do not forget", (by the term Javanese here, I mean Central Java, East Java, and Yogyakarta). Javanese soto usually use turmeric as one of its ingredients. But when they served the soto, it's soto Bandung instead. Different from other Javanese soto that had yellow color of turmeric, soto Bandung have a clear soup with meat, radish, and fried soybean. It tasted a little bland for me, but you can add salt or soy sauce to match your taste. But overall the soto felt so fresh. I liked it pretty much. At first I thought, we won't be full enough with the portion served especially for the boys, but I was wrong, they all said that they're full. :)

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It's one of my favorite books by Dee. I love her way set the plot, although it's kinda cliche for a role like Kugy as a fun, ignorant, dreamer girl and just do whatever she wants, get the most handsome almost perfect guy like Keenan. And don't forget about Ojos! Oh, I just find it like an FTV. But yeah, I admit it, a confident and independent person is waaaay more attractive than the others.

So, this book is actually talk about Kugy : a dreamer, active, ingorant girl, and Keenan : a painter and sculptor, handsome, perfect guy. Thanks to Eko, Kugy's best friend's boyfriend, which is also Keenan's cousin, they met and knew each other, then became great friends since then.
Kugy's already had a boyfriend since high school, Ojos, before she met Keenan. They're good until Kugy started being busied with her social agenda in Sakola Alit and Ojos started questioning Kugy's feeling for him. Then Wanda, Noni's cousin, came into the circle.

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Okay, this is the book I’ve just read. I found this book on Goodreads on my book-walking. Those days were the days I missed reading a novel or book –fyi, I didn’t read novels for a very long time– and I think I was pretty excited to choose what books should I buy, that really fill my taste. After some times spending on this book-walking, I found this Indonesian novel by Tasaro titled “Galaksi Kinanthi” (in English “Kinanthi’s Galaxy”) so interesting. It’s included in Indonesian’s Best Book category by Goodreads. And when I read its official review also its readers, I got this “must-bought” feeling. I was captured by its tag line: “Sekali mencintai sudah itu mati?” (english: “Love once then die?”). From its review, I know that it’s a romance novel. Moreover, there’s a review that wrote: “It’s about a 20 years love unsaid love”, and I directly think, “How can be, a love still exist for 20 years without any confession?” Then two days later, I was planning to look for it in Palasari, a book market in Bandung that usually have a cheaper price than the ones in big book store, and I got it for Rp 42.000,00 (USD 5) when usually it’s sold for Rp 60.000,00 (USD 7) in the store. ^^

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