Cuisine-Cuisine

Last weekend, me and Si Om lazily followed my mom on and errand to the faraway land of... PLUIT.

Being a smart and attentive daughter, I remembered seeing an ad of a new restaurant in the vicinity, Cuisine-Cuisine. During the period of 21 November - 30 November, they are selling a whole bird of Peking Duck for just IDR 1,000!!! YES! That's less than 10 cent US dollars!!!!! I can't even ride angkot from the bus stop to my house with IDR 1,000!!!! THEY MUST BE JOKING, RIGHT?!

When we got in Pluit Junction, the place was full of screaming tweenies, armed with their camera phone. Turned out, there was some sort of a live-taping of a TRL rip off. The screaming didn't deter us from proving the myth of IDR 1,000 Peking Duck, so we hurried up to the 1st floor.

Well, the myth was partially true. Yes, they were selling Peking Duck for IDR 1,000/bird, but there are some prerequisite. 1). Minimal for 4 customers; 2). You have to spend minimal IDR 200,000. No problem for us because later my step bro came along with his girlfriend so we were preparing our tummies for a duckie FIESTAAA!

Here's what we had:

Hakaw a.k.a steamed shrimp dumpling (IDR 16,800/3 pcs). Yummy, with juicy prawns inside!!

Xiaolongbao (IDR 12,800/3 pcs)- this was slightly disappointing. It was not hot enough, so the broth tasted too savory.


Shrimp in beancurd rolls (IDR 16,800/2 pcs) - extra yummy! We asked for extra mayonnaise to dip in.
My mom carelessly ordered food for us without even looking at the menu. She was too blinded by the sheer power of almost free Peking Duck. This would later spell as A DISASTER.

She ordered these foods:

Vegetables with Three Kinds of Eggs


Fried Rice

We actually ordered Pork Ribs and Honeyed Pork Barbecue, but they run out of it.

See? Doesn't look like our bill will reach IDR 200,000 right?

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WRONG! Because the damn fried rice costs IDR 116,000!!!!!!!!!!!
SERIOUSLY!!!!!!!!!!! The egg and veg dish costs IDR 58,000.

We feel like they deliberately upped the fried rice to cover for the almost-free Peking Duck, so in the end we didn't fuss for it too much. BUT STILL! The next time we dine here, we will STAY THE HELL AWAY FROM THE FRIED RICE!

And here it is... the Peking Duck...
and yes, it only costs us IDR 1,000...



Here's the poor ducks (in the background) ready to be Peking-ed for the dinner crowd.


WE WILL DEFINITELY BE BACK BEFORE THE PROMO's OVER! AND NO WE WILL NOT ORDER FRIED RICE AGAIN.

Cuisine-Cuisine
Pluit Junction, 1st Floor
tel 021 - 66607330