After strolling around Pecinan Kota Toea (Chinatown at Old Town Jakarta) with a tour held by a community, we ended up having lunch at Pantjoran Tea House. This is a tea house that also serves main dish. Although we didn’t have tea here, but we really enjoy the tasty foods. They also provide frames that will give you information about Chinese, tea history, and many more.
Pantjoran Tea House consists of two floors. The first floor is smaller without air conditioner, whereas the second floor is bigger and comfortable with air conditioner. For the food, they it provide in three sizes, which are Small, Medium, and Large. We were group of four ordered all food in small size, and you know what the portion was quite big and fit for us.
Here are what we tried :
Sapi “Canton” small portion (IDR 80,000)
Large, thick, and tender slide beef with sweet canton sauce.
Udang Telur Mentega Krispy small portion (IDR 80,000)
One of the chef recommendation menu from Pantjoran Tea House. Prawn with butter egg and crispy floss.
Kailan 2 Musim small portion (IDR 55,000)
One of the chef RECOMMENDATION menu from Pantjoran Tea House and also from me! Vegetable named kailan that is served in two "seasons’, which mean in two different kind of cooking. The left one is my favorite! The leaves are served crispy with garlic. It similar with crispy seaweed snack.
And the right one is the common sauteed kailan with garlic.
Tahu Lada Garam (IDR 32,000)
Again, this one also one of the chef recommendation menu. Crispy beancurd with salt and pepper. The rounded beancurd is thick and soft. I like the sauce, too.
And last but not the least, don’t forget to eat all of these with warm rice with chopstick 