Monday, September 19, 2022

Nasi Goreng at the Mojo Market in Sea Point

Lynne discovered that Sea Point now has an Indonesian restaurant. It is called HONG (House Of Nasi Goreng) and is in the Mojo Market in Regent Road. As we are huge fans of Indonesian food, we decided to go there for lunch with friends last week. The menu is small and compact; they just serve Nasi Goreng and we were delighted to find that it could offer our vegetarian friends three different versions, with several meats and a prawn version for us carnivores. The Nasi comes with a small bag of Kroepoek (prawn crackers). If you want extra sambals, you can order those to add to your dish

Mojo Market has many different food stalls, where you can buy to take home
or to eat down or upstairs, where there are tables and chairs

Woks going full blast. The rice has the sambals incorporated in it

The take away restaurant is run by Ben Ungermann
If you are a fan of Masterchef Australia, you will know he was twice a contestant
Memorable were his interesting and sometimes strange ice creams and his good Asian cookery
He told Lynne he has now settled permanently in South Africa

Ben has some Indonesian blood from his parents,
 which is why he loves to cook their food, which he grew up with at home

The Babi Nasi Goreng is topped with a gooey egg, and crisp and spring onions
Then the pork slices, which look like barbequed spare ribs without the bones
We needed a knife to slice these and luckily John had his pocket knife
The rice is very good in texture, not at all mushy and the flavours are spicy and warm and very authentic
Lynne liked it very much and will return to try another dish, but this time to eat at home
It is a huge helping for her, and was served for lunch the next day
Just needs a fried banana perhaps.... And yes, you do see some fresh cucumber salad tucked in the corner,
another traditional sambal, which you can enjoy or ignore at your pleasure

John chose the smoked beef which is sliced and plated on top of the Nasi rice

Our bill. The bill for the vegetarian food was a lot less

We drank a bottle of Woolworths lovely dry Strawberry Rosé, made by Weltevrede,
such a bargain and such a good match for the spicy food. We took our own glasses too

Which noise? Actually, there is a LOT of noise in the market,
the music is played at an ear-splitting level and we regret to say that we will not be eating there ever again,
just doing takeaways
There is a block of flats next door and we are sure that noise complaints from them,
which is probably why these windows are sealed shut

The tables with the best sea views are high and have uncomfortable wooden seats
The tables are sanitized but are sticky and not pleasant

Upstairs, downstairs. Perhaps we should have sat downstairs, but it was louder there with no sea view

Then we went in search in the market of some dessert in the market
This was John's choice, the most expensive, one scoop of chocolate and raspberry ice cream
in a tiny container measuring 5cm deep x 7 cm, but it was very good
Lynne tasted the pistachio, but it was just a (coloured pistachio green) vanilla ice cream
with a few nut (?) shavings and the vanilla was fake
No thank you, very disappointing. At the prices they charge, it should be real

R44.90 for one small scoop!

Loraine and Ronnie opted for two small squares of pistachio baklava from a Greek stall they often visit
Very moreish

and Lynne bought a slice of carrot cake for R35
this is just half the slice; John had the other
Good moist unsweetened carrot cake with lots of nuts, with a very sweet icing to balance it out
We had our dessert at home with a good cup of coffee made by John

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