I was born in Bogor and lived in this city for six years during my secondary school. I love this city so much, for its cold temperature and its yummy food.
Bogor used to be known as Buitenzorg (Dutch) is a city on the island of Java in the West Java province of Indonesia. The city is located 60 kilometres south of the Indonesian capital Jakarta.
Bogor is also known as the city of rain (Indonesian: kota hujan) as its frequent shower even during the dry season. Compare to the other cities in Indonesia, Bogor has quite cold climate and more humid as it's surrounded by Mountains. Bogor, famous for its botanical garden (Indonesian: Kebun Raya Bogor). It is one of the oldest and the biggest botanical gardens in the world. It is located next to the presidential palace where you can find thousand of dear live freely in the garden.
Bogor also famous because of the richness of its culinary. Many domestic tourists visited Bogor only to taste the food. Sundanese and Chinese are the majority population in Bogor so anywhere you go in Bogor you can find mix of Sundanese and Chinese restaurants or food stalls.
Bogor is also known as the city of rain (Indonesian: kota hujan) as its frequent shower even during the dry season. Compare to the other cities in Indonesia, Bogor has quite cold climate and more humid as it's surrounded by Mountains. Bogor, famous for its botanical garden (Indonesian: Kebun Raya Bogor). It is one of the oldest and the biggest botanical gardens in the world. It is located next to the presidential palace where you can find thousand of dear live freely in the garden.
Bogor also famous because of the richness of its culinary. Many domestic tourists visited Bogor only to taste the food. Sundanese and Chinese are the majority population in Bogor so anywhere you go in Bogor you can find mix of Sundanese and Chinese restaurants or food stalls.
Here some of my favourite place to eat in Bogor
Jalan Surya Kencana
One of the best place to go to taste some of Bogor unique delicacy like: Ngoh yang, Soto-mie Agih and Soto mie Ciseeng (pork soup noodle); Soto kuning; Lo-mie (thick noodle soup with pork); Gado-gado (Indonesian mixed vegetable with peanut sauce); Ba-cang; toge goreng (traditionally stir fried bean sprout); sate babi (pork satai); is Jalan Surya Kencana (Surya Kencana Street). This street is unique - one-way street who dedicate it self to culinary lover. You can park anywhere along the left side of the road and walk along the street and choose what ever you want to eat from any food stall and then chose one of the restaurants to sit and order drinks (you can also order food from the restaurants). Don't forget to tell the food seller in which restaurant you will be waiting for your food.
Rumah Makan Dunia Baru (Dunia Baru Restaurant)
Sells varieties of chinese food. If you haven't tasted frogs (Indonesian: kodok), and brave enough to try, this restaurant makes really yummy frogs dish, like: Kodok goreng kecap (fried frogs with soya sauce); kodok goreng mentega (fried frog with butter sauce); kodok sayur asin (frog with vegetable). If you like deep fried food, try usus babi goreng kecap (deep fried pork intestine with soya sauce). This restaurant also sells many other Indo-chinese food like: cap cay (stir fry mixed vegetable).
I will add the address later.
Rumah Makan Sahabat (Yun Sin)
JL. Jendral Sudirman No. 12 Bogor (0251) 8325 195, (0251) 8347 488
Located near the presidential palace, this place really easy to find. This restaurant sells variety of home made noodle that has it unique taste. If you noodle lover like me, this one is a must try. However, some people found the taste not as they expected. Well like I said, their noodle is unique.
One of the best place to go to taste some of Bogor unique delicacy like: Ngoh yang, Soto-mie Agih and Soto mie Ciseeng (pork soup noodle); Soto kuning; Lo-mie (thick noodle soup with pork); Gado-gado (Indonesian mixed vegetable with peanut sauce); Ba-cang; toge goreng (traditionally stir fried bean sprout); sate babi (pork satai); is Jalan Surya Kencana (Surya Kencana Street). This street is unique - one-way street who dedicate it self to culinary lover. You can park anywhere along the left side of the road and walk along the street and choose what ever you want to eat from any food stall and then chose one of the restaurants to sit and order drinks (you can also order food from the restaurants). Don't forget to tell the food seller in which restaurant you will be waiting for your food.
Rumah Makan Dunia Baru (Dunia Baru Restaurant)
Sells varieties of chinese food. If you haven't tasted frogs (Indonesian: kodok), and brave enough to try, this restaurant makes really yummy frogs dish, like: Kodok goreng kecap (fried frogs with soya sauce); kodok goreng mentega (fried frog with butter sauce); kodok sayur asin (frog with vegetable). If you like deep fried food, try usus babi goreng kecap (deep fried pork intestine with soya sauce). This restaurant also sells many other Indo-chinese food like: cap cay (stir fry mixed vegetable).
I will add the address later.
Rumah Makan Sahabat (Yun Sin)
JL. Jendral Sudirman No. 12 Bogor (0251) 8325 195, (0251) 8347 488
Located near the presidential palace, this place really easy to find. This restaurant sells variety of home made noodle that has it unique taste. If you noodle lover like me, this one is a must try. However, some people found the taste not as they expected. Well like I said, their noodle is unique.
What to visit in Bogor
Istana Bogor (The Presidential Palace)
Located at Jalan Juanda no 1, Bogor, Indonesia, just across the road from my high school ( SMA Regina Pacis) :)
The gardens of the palace covers an area of 284,000 square metres. The palace is decorated with an extensive art collection (448 paintings, 216 sculptures and 196 ceramics), 90% of which were accumulated by Sukarno. The original historic collection of the palace was looted by Japanese and Allied force during WW2, leaving nothing but 5 mirrors in the palace. What interesting from this palace is you can find spotted dear roaming freely on the palace garden.
Kebun Raya Bogor (Botanical Garden)
Located at the same block as the presidential palace. It covers an area of 87 hectares (210 acres) and contain 13,983 different kinds of trees and plants of various origin.
Located at Jalan Juanda no 1, Bogor, Indonesia, just across the road from my high school ( SMA Regina Pacis) :)
The gardens of the palace covers an area of 284,000 square metres. The palace is decorated with an extensive art collection (448 paintings, 216 sculptures and 196 ceramics), 90% of which were accumulated by Sukarno. The original historic collection of the palace was looted by Japanese and Allied force during WW2, leaving nothing but 5 mirrors in the palace. What interesting from this palace is you can find spotted dear roaming freely on the palace garden.
Kebun Raya Bogor (Botanical Garden)
Located at the same block as the presidential palace. It covers an area of 87 hectares (210 acres) and contain 13,983 different kinds of trees and plants of various origin.
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