Not our ordinary padang

Today we set out to try the new padang restaurant called Garuda. It uses the font and colour of the old Garuda Airlines logo, bright red font with small g. The place itself quite is intimidating. Looks more like fine dining restaurant, well at least in my eyes. The room is white. Tables, chairs and plates are white. Plus there is a small white vase with white flowers. Nothing like any padang restaurant that I know. A bit worry on the price...

Food looks great, and lots of variaty to choose. We've picked chicken rendang, ikan kembung, paru, and sayur nangka for the start. Plus es kelapa muda and es teler. On the way we added ikan asin to our pile. Whoa! Food is great. The bumbu rendang is awesome. Love it! As 2 more friends joining our table, we added more food. Gule kikil, ayam cabe ijo, and gule daun singkong. And, of course, more steam rice.

Then it was time to fetch the bill. As we expected, more than our usual nasi padang budget. But nonetheless, it was worth it. We surely come back next time, plus we haven't tried one of their best dishes: ayam pop. And the ayam bumbu kremes looks yummy. Yes, I am sure we'll be back.