The signature Ricotta Hotcakes in bills with honeycomb butter, banana and icing sugar plus mapple syrup. A very high breakfast calorie in the morning.

This is the signature honeycomb butter. Crushed honeycomb being mixed with real butter and moulded then being refrigerated and cut just before serving.

Ini galantin dan risoles kecil pakai saus gravy.

ISCC adalah kepanjangan dari Indonesian Senior Citizen Club. Suaru non-profit organisation yang didirikan Pak Adji dan Ibu Meliana dari Jakarta. Pak Adji adalah pemilik Panorama tour dan Ibu Meliana adalah mantan manager Panorama yang mengundurkan diri untuk mengelola ISCC secara full-time. ISCC bertujuan untuk mengajak orang-orang tua alias para senior untuk berkumpul bersama-sama untuk berdoa, bernyanyi, dan memuji Tuhan dalam berbagai acaranya. Salah satu acaranya adalah tour naik bus keliling kota, makan bersama-sama teman-teman ISCC satu grup maupun bersama-sama grup luar kota. ISCC punya cabang di berbagai kota di Indonesia. Cabang di Perth akan dibuka September ini.
Bahasanya formal banget yah? Sekian aja perkenalan dengan ISCC.
Ibu Meliana yang disebut-sebut itu adalah mami angkatku. Waktu aku ke Solo beberapa waktu yang lalu, dia kembali lagi ke Solo untuk acara ISCC dan aku diajak ke Wonogiri. Seumur-umur kayanya baru kali itu aku ke Wonogiri. Seingatku dari pelajaran IPS, Wonogiri mah tempat waduk Gajahmungkur. Ternyata memang benar-benar masih desa getu. Pas kesana sudah malam dan mendung serta hujan deras, jadi ga bisa liat-liat pemandangan waduk dari tempat makan ikan bakar yang terkenal disitu.

Ini oleh-oleh foto ikan bakarnya:

Ada juga "rabuk" alias sambal Wonogiri yang bahannya dari kelapa dan biji wijen. Warnanya hitam pekat, waktu itu si "rabuk" dibagi2kan dalam keadaan dingin dan rasanya pedas manis enak. Aku sempat bawa satu buat Mama di rumah. Sayangnya si "rabuk" dihangatkan sama pembantu dan akibatnya baunya yang aslinya tajam jadi keluar kemana2 dan baunya benar2 tajam sekali sampai-sampai ga ada yang nafsu makan, terpaksa dibuang.

Buat yang belum tahu soal roti lapis surabaya Solo alias roti mandarijn Orion, ini dia fotonya:

Ini es dawet pasar Gede. Pemilik kiosnya jualan di dalam pasar Gede Solo dan sudah tua sekali. Isinya ada tape ketan ijo, jenang sumsum (dari tepung beras), jenang ketan item, biji selasih, dawet dan kuahnya pakai santan dan gula pasir, ga pakai gula jawa karena ga cocok warna dan rasanya tar. Rasanya enak dan unik, serta segar kalo lagi panas2nya di Solo yang lembab udaranya.

Penjual gandos. Penganan Solo kesukaanku.

Ini si gandos, sepiring begini kalo ga salah cuman 2000 rupiah (?). Isinya terdiri dari parutan kelapa, santan dan tepung beras yang dimasak di cetakan agak lama. Di Jakarta ada gandos juga tapi ditaburin gula pasir diatasnya, which I didn't like, rasa yang dah pas asinnya koq ditaburin gula pasir. Nama lain gandos adalah kue rangin.

Nasi liwet Solo, aslinya berisi cuilan daging ayam, kuning telur kocok+santan yang dimasak steam, putih telur kocok+santan yang dimasak steam juga plus nasi santan-nya yang enak.

Yang ini nasi pecel merah. Mbok penjualnya jualan naik sepeda onthel, biasa parkir di dekat lapangan Manahan tiap pagi. Isinya nasi merah, daun kangkung trus bumbu pecelnya, trus katanya ada lamtoro, tapi entah yang mana. Pedasnya bener-bener pedas sekali.

I got stumbled with the same song that I had prepared for my close friend, Kus, when I want to continue my project for her. It made me crying long enough and will continue till I sleep if Beve did not chat with me and told me her stories in Taiwan. Yeah, then I was thinking about those women that Beve still helping them out in Taiwan. Seem she already find out what she wants to do. Like my friend, Kus, too. She already found out what God wants her to do. For what God had planted in her, she had to go back to Indonesia. I feel sad because there are more people that I would miss a lot in Indonesia than in here, Aussie.

Her friendship story with me started a long time ago. It was in 1996 when I knew her. We got into a hot argument about someone and she was angry to me and Sylvia. Both me and Sylvia were trying to welcome her and greet her everytime we saw her eventhough she barely notice us that time. Then not long after, she joined me and Sylvia then we become close friends from that time. Kus was always there when I got into trouble and lots of problems. Then without realising, I know her time to go back to Indonesia will end soon this month. Although she said that she will be back again to Australia for her graduation ceremony, I know that God already planted her place in Indonesia. She told me that about last year, a minister had a prophecy that she will be a business woman. That time we didn't know if that mean she had to go back to Indonesia to hold into a position that was previously held by her dad. She always wanted to start her own business from scratch. Then her dad passed away last February without any will or any last message that threw her into confusion and doubt, but then it's all end very well for her. I was worried about her future that time, then after hearing from her, I feel happy that she is now very well cared for, even if that mean that she had to stay in Indonesia.

Also, on 29 June on last Friday, she called me and sms me to tell me that she passed her final exam. That mean she is now finished her study after a long struggle with her study. It was God's hand that hold her in here and it's also God's hand that send her back to Indonesia. I feel so sad, but I didn't want to cry or sad in front of her. All I can do is spending more time with her in here at the moment, so I asked my supervisor to alter my next week shift, so I'll be able to serve God together with her in here for the last time before she is going back to Indonesia.


I agree with the lines in the song:

Her fertile soil that God had prepared is in Indonesia,
the hope that God granted to her is in Indonesia,
a chapter of her life in here is through (it's full of memories in here),
I'll keep her close always (deep embedded in my heart),
Cause our hearts in big and small ways,
the love that keep us strong (as sister always),
she is my friend forever (nothing will change our relationship),
If the Lord's the Lord of them,
and I will not say never to her,
my welcome to her will not end (in fact I hope I can welcome her always whenever she come over),
it's too hard to let her go (really really hard),
but I know that a lifetime is not too long to live as friend (in fact I hope that we will still be friend in the heaven above),
with the faith and love that God's given to her (during her stay in here),
I hope that she will always live in joy (joy is come within and it's from God),
her joy is the strength that she always show to me (she shows lots of her strength characters that grown a lot in here).

Wait, what is missing? Here, this line:

It won't even seem you've gone <-- I cannot pretend on it, it seem you are going for a long time, that's why I'm still sad.