Baca di koran kalo di Ancol ada Dragon Boat Parade, pergilah kita sekeluarga sama mama juga ke Ancol, yah pikir2 ketimbang bosen juga dari kapan ke kapan ke mal melulu .. kebetulan untuk Sincia (Imlek) kali ini karena kita sudah pergi ke tempat bokap di bsd, jadi pas sincia-nya kita ga ada jadwal harus kemana lagi.
so there we go, no plan on going anywhere in Ancol besides seeing the parade ...
The Chinese New Year Celebration at Ancol started with the several Barongsai show with the Liong -- barongsai yang ada di tengah-tengah danau ancol (terkenal dengan bebek2an) -- bbrp show barongsai, setelah itu bbrp direktur Ancol sama bbrp pejabat invitation mengadakan acara pelepasan Dragon Boat Parade from that spot berjalan ke arah timur , menuju ke pantai timur Ereveld dan terus lagi sampai perbatasan menuju bbrp ratus meter sebelum Dermaga Ancol.
Acara sempet ngaret karena mereka menunggu2 pejabat2 invitation yang pada telat datengnya. (from plan 1pm to 3pm, ckckck). Pertama kita sempet bolak balik mondar mandir, krn waktu mendapatkan informasi, ga ada yang kasih info lengkap, barulah ketemu seseorang yang mampu ngejelasin dari awal sampai rute dan finishing line, barulah kita jelas dan langsung menuju ke lokasi pertama. Ampun2 juga jalan kaki dari parkiran pantai timur (kira2 depan rest AW) menuju ke danau bebek2an , jalan lagi ke sepanjang pantai timur, then finding out harus balik lagi ke danau... hehehe... dengan sebentar mau hujan, trus terang lagi, hujan rintik sebentar, going back to the sunny bright... cuaca yang ga stabil banget ...
Ga foto2 , krn sangat kecewa dengan what i see about the dragon boat parade there compared with my assumption what is dragon boat parade supposed to be like... totally disappointed, with the event barongsai and Liong show yang cukup ok, ada bbrp tv like sctv and rcti yang ngeshoot ... the dragon boat hanya perahu2 kecil (maybe total 5) dengan bbrp pendayung didalamnya, ujung depan dikasi kepala naga, dan belakang kapal dikasih dekor buntut naga .... hhhmmm.....gak bangetlah, so different version from eyes and mind,, hehehe ....(untunglah, Jul n my brother's fam didn't go,,otherwise i feel bad) I had it in my mind that Dragon Boat Parade is something like what I watched maybe 20 years ago in Hongkong ... the parade full of quite big boat with Dragon and some lamps decorations ... lol,,, i really can laugh all day long because of this,,, o, well ... that's why feeling ill-feel bout these, i put my camera from the start in my bag ...
Anyway, since we are in Ancol, might as well enjoy the atmosphere ... setelah keliling, pertama berpikir mau makan di Mercure Hotel (my son said food not too good), Segarra (again both my children said food is just so-so), so we decided to eat at 'Bandar Jakarta' karena kita belum pernah masuk kesana, setiap kali mau masuk selalu full of people... this time also full, but we decided to wait,,, doesn't take too much time to sit and wait to get a table ....
The atmosphere of 'Bandar Jakarta' is very nice, we happen to get the table outside, very windy, although the area covered with some kind of canopy. Nice place, simple table and chairs, not a lot of decorations, and imagine ALL PEOPLE FROM ALL NATIONS EAT THERE ... ckckckck .. this place is no need of promotion, you can see lots of Indonesian (of course), Malay, Chinese, Caucasian, Middle East, yep yep, almost every nations eat there. How nice to have this kind of crowd resto.
Eating at Bandar Jakarta is another new experiment for us, since from getting a table, getting served to buy the fish and the seafood, get our food, are a process of waiting at every step ... but it's all worth it when we get our food on our table ... we ordered : Grilled baronang fish (ikan baronang bakar), Fried Prawn with Black pepper sauce (udang jerebung saos lada hitam), Kerang Dara saos singapore, side dish kangkung cah, tahu, and with each drink Kelapa Muda dari batok ... Yummy, Yummy, Yummy ...
My mom is rather afraid of the cholesterol from all these seafood and wanted to eat the regular anti-choles, so did she asked me to eat the anti-choles but I insisted that she didn't have to take it if we don't feel headache... I remember one Japanese friend once told me that if we eat fresh seafood directly from taken the sea, we don't need to afraid that it will cause the sudden cholesterol raise up... And I proved it several times when eating with him , so did this day.
A day isn't complete without a stop at Mal -- again! hehe ... we took a stop at MKG, Yes! have to admit that we are more 'Mal' people .. especially MKG is our family's 'second home' maybe ... place where we already feel very comfortable at ...
@MKG : get a chance finally to watch the 'Spheric Emotions' -- some kind of dance performed in a giant ball ... the dancers are from Europe (i guess it maybe from eastern Europe) -- was quite nice dance performance , although it's not too long -- i suppose this kind of dance cannot be too long anyway, because who can stand breathing inside of those closed ball for too long ... my daughter wanted to take picts with the dancers -- the picts turn out very nice. ...
I think next time going to Ancol, we stick on the regular place like Dufan, Seaworld, etc. ...
