And welcome to Pacific Place Mall Wow. Modern Jakarta, indeed. Look at this place. There's like, seven floors. You get all your fancy international brands Louis Vuitton, Lamborghini, Fendi, some Italian brands, which I can't pronounce, but I got to go get something that I know I can afford. So I find the themes very funny in here. You got the Ritz-Carlton ballroom, you got jewelry, and right above it, something you probably wouldn't expect. This thing is just so interesting too it's hard to sit here not just like stare at that the whole time. I keep forgetting, like, I need to keep moving, keep moving, keep moving. But here it was probably not what you expected about the Ritz-Carlton ballroom, right? A Wendyās a part of America right here in Indonesia. It's kind of a weird place to put the gym. It's actually probably very strategic. You've got the gym between a Wendy's and a Japanese restaurant. Nice thinking. Put the gym on the same floors, all the foods- Boom, right here, food and coffee. Hello Oh look. They get like all their sweets down here. Yeah. Can I check out your sweets first though? They're way down there so it's kind of interesting. The sweets are way down here, but then you can just look at them all displayed. Banana cake Oh is Banana Cake a fruit? Cinnamon Coffee Braid That one looks pretty good. That's up there on my list. WTF Brownie it's how I pick my coffee shops. I mean, I like coffee, but I'm honestly just going to come here for sweets Thatās the only reason I go to coffee shops. I want a sweet- and I usually like place with like no music that's easy to read. Cheesecake to go Oh, I don't know. Do you have like a best seller? Yeah, I have. For the sweet- For coffee umm Can I try the brown sugar latte. Yeah. One of our our best seller I have. [inaudible] Butterscotch Latte Okay, let me do the butterscotch then Best seller Basic caramel latte like that Okay, perfect. You can uh, choose, Ice or Hot sir okay, ice, Iāll do ice. Now for our beans. Dark. Dark, uh for milk. Is just- Just whatever is regular. Okay. Anything else, for snack? For sweets, Like whatās your- You got a best seller? Oh my gosh. This is too smart for me. I have our best seller, Sea Salt Butter Cookie Okay, then I'll do one of those. Add to cart. Anything else? Thatāll do. So I buy two items. Pay two items. We are cashless. Do you have card? Yes, I have a card. Iām amazed how many like, actually like stores in Indonesia are going cardless or sorry, not, are going cashless. So definitely make sure you're going get a card, little visa card that you can get some stuff with it. So you got like an interesting like, sitting section. It does not look comfortable at all. Like I'm sitting here, my butt is too close to these people's heads. So I think right here with nobody, like if I sat in that seat, I feel like my butt is just like too close to somebody's head. I do like the overview though. There goes in my cookie over there. You're like, minimalistic. Very pleasing for me though, for a coffee shop. I think the music's too loud because I want to sit here and I do some reading. This is more of like a you come, you take a break from shopping. You talk with your friends. I think I like coming to the top because, like, I'm king of the hill. Am I excited for this cookie? Yes, the butter content is so high, it looks like you're just melting through my cookie and it's just like, falling apart already. as I'm trying to open it. I love a salted caramel cookie. The balance of the sweetness, touch of bitter, the caramel with the salt. But problem is, they've kept them in the fridge. They reheat them, and because the middle is very thick and dense and the outsides is thin my middle is still cold, but I don't even care. It's almost kind of cold cookie dough with a little bit of warm cookie dough. if you don't like cookies, you just want cookie dough. Then I would just get this like that. Wow. You see all that butter? There's butter literally inside of that, rich, I mean, a rich rich cookie. It is definitely heavy. The I think I could have shared this cookie with somebody, ha just kidding, I donāt share cookies. That's a winner. Man, that salty, sweet balance again. This place got it down. It is very heavy, rich, creamy. It's almost got like a almost like a salty foam mixed in with a latte. This has to be like one of the most unique lattes Iāve ever had. It's not just like a milk foam, but it's almost like this this salty, fatty cream foam that, you know, you know, when you get like the milk tea, sometimes theyāll put up that salty foam on top. It's almost like they've done that with a latte. It's so good. I mean, they've balanced, salty and sweet perfectly here. Some days you just need to relax and have a cookie. [Donāt stop frapping now] Did you hear a single thing from that cafe review? I don't know, but it was awesome. Hit all the notes that I wanted, all the things that I wanted hit every single one of them But let's keep exploring. There's more. There's this is the Pacific place, but there's more, Max Do not run into the babies when vlogging. Less vlogging. More walking. Now you can tell more to explore Uh it looks like we got some stalls out here. Maybe selling some food, Well they sell more coffee. Definitely don't need more sugary coffee, but got some music going on. Get up in here and see what all was going on. I'm just. I'm following them. Not signs. Don't follow signs. Follow people. They got Soto Semarang here. Hello. Like I wonder if you got to get like, some type of, like, license to be able to sell out here. or I wonder it itās just, like, first come first serve because everybody still has like, the same type of tents and everything. So I don't know what the difference between somebody selling like here as opposed to other parts on the streets would be. I kind of wish I wouldāve stayed over here, because there's all this sidewalk space to kind of go for walks and runs in the morning where- When I stayed at four seasons. It's like you're on a big, big, busy road, So Iāve been having to wake up in like 4:30, 4:00 a.m. Just to go run because there's no traffic at that time. Instead of this I mean, here afternoon and it's still peaceful, nice little breeze, lots of trees and shade, so it feels good. You aināt got to wake up at 4:00 a.m. to go for a run. But yeah, definitely worth the money. Little story time. When I was a kid, you know, they had the American Iron Chef, but even before the American Iron Chef, they had the Japanese Iron Chef as the American Iron Chef was taken from the Japanese TV show Iron Chef. Anyways, Morimoto, one of the most famous chefs on Iron Chef has a Jakarta location, and I've never been to any one of his restaurants and so, to me, I thought it would be a lot of fun just to be able to try this. And so I got to hurry because they do closed pretty early for lunch. I'm hoping I can get in there, but I don't need a reservation. But man it is in a posh place. I think were at the Langham Place. Ah, Langham Hotel, and I just got to find his restaurant. Hello. Do you know where Morimoto Jakarta is? -in here?
-this way to the left To the left. Thank you. Thank you. Oh we gotta go back out. But look they got a- Arabica very fancy coffee brand. I don't know where it's from, but I always see it in the most posh of malls wherever I travel. Just another thing I've been disappointed in the amount of supercars I was expecting more supercars. Hello is Morimoto Jakarta? -yeah
-oh yes It's in here. Okay. Perfect. 63rd floor 63rd? Okay, Perfect. Thank you. Okay, perfect. [transition to inside] This place is nice. Is the elevator this way? Ah here. Right here. Ah 63rd. 63rd. That's Morimoto Restaurant, right? Okay. Perfect. Yes. Coming with you. ;) Get in sir. [inaudible] Yes. And you're going to L XD :D Oh man, Weāre at 37th, my ears are popping. [opens the eustachian tubes to regulate the pressure in the ear] oh, we are so high up. Actually, 30 seconds to go up. 30 seconds. Itās not been 30 seconds. Okay, It's fast. I can feel it. Oh, L comes before 63rd. Weāre at 62nd now. -All right, see you.
-All right, thank you, nice to meet you. :D Hello. But I feel like everybody at this uh- this hotel, I don't know, what hotel I'm in right now. I think it's Langham Palace or something like that or Place. Ah there! The Langham. Hopefully we can get in here. Like I said, I don't have a reservation, so weāll try our luck. Ah you can see over. Ooooh Fancy. -Hi, hello.
-Hello. Good afternoon. Do I need a reservation? Yeah. I do? Yeah. -Ahh
-Under what name? I don't have a reservation. I was gonna see- Can. I can still eat? Yeah. Okay, perfect. -How many person?
-Just one. -One person.
-Just one. Lonely :( May I know your number please. I'm not staying here. I just want to come try the restaurant. Oh sure can. Yeah. -Perfect.
-May I know your name? Max. -Mr Max.
-Yes. Certainly. Please. -I will show you the table.
-Okay, perfect. On the table. I have this two table by the window and inside the main dining. -Okay.
-Which table do you prefer? Oh I think- I think I got to do by the window right here. Is this what you recommend? Yeah. Okay, I'll do this. Perfect. Thank you. [inaudible] Okay, perfect. Oop, I got it. No worries. -Here's our full menu.
-Okay. And hereās the drink list and wine list. And we have special price this menu. Okay. Only for this month. Okay. And the server will come to take your order. Okay. Thank you so much. What was your name? Isna. Isna? Thank you Isna. Thank you enjoy your lunch. Okay, thank you. Okay. This is awesome. Probably. Good Try. Morimoto Restaurant so. kind of surreal to think like watching somebody on TV all your life and then finally getting to try the restaurant. So I was thinking to be like, 5 to $6 for, like, a starter and main meals kind of looked like they get up to 228,000 [mathing] rupiah would be 3 or say like 12, anywhere between like 12. and like, oh, it does get up here though that'd be more expensive. Kinda just wanna do some sushi. All right. And so like most menus, they help you out. You got chef's recommendation here. Tuna pizza. I'm sure it's better than it sounds. I think if I was anywhere else in the world. And you be like, āwe had tuna pizza.ā I'd be like, I'm out Ahh Toro Tartare. Popcorn Shrimp Tempura. Oh hello. Sorry. And this we got the whole day menu. Ahh So this is the menu for the dinner, actually. But if you want to get the menu from the dinner menu as well, itās possible sir. It's okay. Okay, perfect. Thank you. And this is a, we have a Omakase set menu. Okay. How long does it take? This is ah the seven course, will take around 45 minutes. Okay. Yeah. And there are seven course will take around 50 until 1 hour sir. Okay. Yeah. Can I do. Can I do this one? Uh this one? -Yeah.
-The nine course one. So it's is okay because this is for dinner, so. Yes. Itās Okay. For the- now is possible sir. Okay. Yeah. Let me do this one. Yes. You have any allergy or restriction? No, nothing at all. All right sir. Awesome. Thank you. What's your name. My name is Ranga. Ranga, -Ranga, and you sir?
-Max, nice to meet you. Nice to meet you sir. -Nice to meet you.
-Welsome to Marimoto Jakarta. Ah thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Yeah. Let's try this. I want to try a lot of everything's. Certainly sir, and uh, for drink? would you like to get some, [inaudible] Can I get some still water? Certainly sir. And do you have like a tea as he has signature tea. So I don't know. Yes, we have the Genmaicha & Peach, the Yuzu & Honey, and we have Sencha & Osmanthus Okay.
Can I do the Yuzu & Honey? -Yuzu & Honey sir.
-Perfect. Thank you so much. Thank you, sir. All right, letās do it. Yāall haven't got to see the view. Iām sorry. but we are up here, I got to be very careful, because when you're spending the money on an Omakase like this, you got to make sure you got the good lighting. Oop sorry. Thank you. Youāre welcome sir. Thank you. Yuzu honey is here. Just kidding. You canāt do that here. -Already.
-Here for the first course. All right. [inaudible] Okay. Bluefin Tuna with Caviar. And up to six condiment. From the bottom thereās a Nori placed. Okay. Wasabi, Sour Cream, Guacamole, [inaudible] and Tempura crunch. Perfect. Thank you. You can scoop the Bluefin Tuna and wix with the condiment, And you can dip it into the Dashi Soy. Okay, perfect. Thank you. If you don't take a picture, did it really happen? [snaps] I actually do not know how well yāall can here over there. Looks like an ice scraper. When your car has ice on it, you probably don't. Nobody from Indonesia understands what Iām talking about. Yow, that's crazy, that Bluefin Tuna at Toro and then the caviar. I like that- I like the six sauces almost at triple sauce because I've ever had six sauce before. But the more sauce, the better. ;) I'm all about the sauce because I am the sauce, boss. And y'all know that ;) Oh itās real- Itās real Wasabi. Yeah. Right here to spread it like it's butter. Little- Sturgeon. Egg butter. There you go. This turned me off, yāall. This got guacamole on here and sour cream. And to me, like, I wasn't expecting that. I don't know how it's going to. I don't know how I feel about that, but it goes, okay, okay, Ooooh Tuna down. But I'm thinking just make it into a sandwich. Boom. The way they've just like, Cut, and cut, and cut, it's almost it's it's just such a nice texture. They had that tuna the way they've just sit there and cut it and cut it, it doesnāt feel like itās gone through a food proser- -ser -food processor at all, because it still kind of has just that little bit of- togetheness chunk, Itās not pasty at all, but the way when you just chop it so fine, it melts in your mouth. Incredible. Yes. Thank you. Yeah. I knew he was going for it. When you used to work in food service. You know what other food service people are thinking. Yes. Here is our fish carpaccio. Okay. Sear with hot oil. Okay. And for today. For the fish we use the [inaudible] Red Japanese name, Oh Red Japanese [inaudible] Enjoy yeah. Thank you. I almost said, āArigato Gozaimasuā My bad. I forgot to do this, āItadakimasu!ā forgot to do it with the last one, ācause they didnāt have chopsticks with it. Man the oil, and then the way I like it kind of reminds me of like in Hong Kong when you get the whole fish and they give it with the soy sauce, the ginger, the scallion, and hit it with the hot oil. They call it a carpaccio, though. Which is more Italian cuisine. I guess, you do Western cuisine. It helps increase the prices right? Whether it's right or wrong, I guess, itās what you got to do. Yeah, to me that's more of like a Hong Kong style soy sauce, ginger, scallion, hot oil than it would be a carpaccio. But thatās just me. And everybody can interperet- it- can inter- pur- can- [brain.exe failed] You know what? You can think whatever you want. All right. You've seen two courses so far. Put in the bids. Am I going to be full at the end? Yes or no. COMMENT NOW!! Ah, Iāll trade you. Trade you plates. There you go. Thank you so much. This one our, third [inaudible] -Okay.
-Course. Oyster, we are using [inaudible] oyster, Mm-hmm and we steam it, with a [inaudible] sauce and uni butter, Okay. Oh sorry, foie gras Okay. And then this is a egg custard. Okay. almost egg custard and with foie gras, and is sliced with duck [inaudible] Wasabi. And sir, we recommend to mix all of them- Yeah, mix good. Okay, perfect. Thank you. I didn't understand everything you said, but I got the gist. Oyster sauce, foie gras, I think you can put the lemon on it, Mix this up, itās duck. and it's Chawanmushi, which is like a steamed egg in Japan. Almost dropped it. Wouldāve been like a- Probably like a $30 or $40 dropped oyster. It's actually the first time I've had, like, a sweet, salty, briny oyster with a sauce like that. The foie gras kind of got lost in the sauce, but, man, the sauce is like heavy, thick, pasty fiscus soy sauce on top of the oyster. Oh with a lot of sugar in it. Okay. I'm sorry. I thought this was gonna be, like, Chawanmushi but, that is more like an egg custard. Oh with a duck little bite piece here, It's like egg custard sauce. [mindblown] To make the egg a sauce is so brilliant, because I believe eggs are God's given sauce. O_O You can crack out the yolk you get the perfect sauce. Yes. You like it? I love it. Nothing left They are gping to prepare the next course. Perfect. So this is for the next course. Alright. [inaudible] sushi Okay. From the left side. thereās a A5 wagyu with bok sauce, Okay. And in the middle we have tuna with caviar, Okay. and on the right side is salmon with uni butter. Okay, Perfect. -Yeah, enjoy yeah.
-Thank you so much. I don't know if yāall heard this, but we got A5 wagyu. We got the actual tuna with caviar on top, and then we got a salmon with a uni butter melted and just dripping everywhere on our third piece. ;) I wanna go with my hands, I always eat sushi with my hands. At least you're supposed to. I guess that's quite up for debate Imma cleanse my palate first. Oh, ho, ho, ho, ho, no. Every time I see a5 wagyu that's been like kind of like a blowtorch. I don't know if they actually put it in a wok or they blowtorch it. I think of the Thai movie āHungerā, and that girl where she went through just huge chunks of A5 wagyu trying to perfect her cooking method. And that's what I imagine her final product to be man, still melt in your mouth. Just the juices on the outside of that beef ready to hit your taste buds. Theyāre not dry and hard. That's all that matters. If it's me, after they just had my tuna raw. and the last one you could see the butter dripping down and flowing down. That- You can do anything with butter, canāt you? If you put- If you want food to be good, just put butter on it. That's what we learned from today. from the cookie to here, just put butter on it. Thank you. Iāll prepare the spoon. Okay. oooh The dashi, and Kombu, the dried fish flakes, Oh just the aroma in general. I don't- I'm just gonna stop naming ingredients. The aroma, wow. Thank you. Yeah. The plate is hot. Wow. That is boiled in flavor. Looks like a honey of some type of viscous sugar sweetness coming from it. Wow. Very, very sweet. I like how they've- kind of charred that tofu as well. Wow. I find that's about the only thing the broth goes with well, for me, the broth is a little overpowering, the sweet. But when you got just beef butter with fat melt in your mouth, the sweetness has calmed down a lot. Sorbet our sweet Warabimochi Okay. Thank you. Palate cleanser time. Got some mochi here. Looks like peanut mochi. Ooohh Warm mochi. You know, it's funny that Mochi is famous around the world, from Japan, because I feel like there's other Asian countries that do like pounded sticky rice better. Fight me on that. Oh, that sorbet though. Raspberry- tart raspberry. -Excuse me sir.
-Yes, it's all you. This is uh. [inaudible] cod, Okay. with ginger soy reduction. [inaudible] tofu, bok choy, -Okay.
-[inaudible] and then carrots. -Okay, thank you so much.
-Enjoy. Oh look at that, reduced sauce on there. HUGE piece off cod. with them flakes To me when you have such a meaty fish, that flakes off like big chunks like this. You need a very reduced down strong sauce to combat those big chunks of white flaky meat. But to me, that's what it's all about. You get with the skin, fish skin, it's hard for me to choose because I love so many, like, you know, like fried chicken skin. But to me, the skin on the fish may be my, like, number one pick. If I had like, a draft, fish skin maybe my number one choice, I usually don't like cod, but you put that reduced down. Little demi glaze sauce right here on a shoe. I would eat a shoe if I had that salsa top of it. Here for the A5 sample. Okay. Perfect. Thank you. I think this oneās just- A5 different cuts of it from the cow I guess? I donāt know he just said it was an A5 sample so, I guess different little cuts, but you can see how they scored it. Almost like duck. Oh, and some sauce. Dipping. Okay. [inaudible] Konbuso And this one's what? What is this one? [inaudible] and this one is a yuzu kosho Oh yuzu kosho Awesome, thank you. No clue what pieces is there or anything but, They said this was yuzu? and something. Yeah, I don't like that piece at all. Let's just say if it's A5 I don't think I should be doing as much. Oh it's all gristle. I really don't want to swallow this. So awkward. But everything deserves a second chance. Let's try one more time. Oh, I need some drink. Oh, that one was just gristle and fat. Letās try again. Look at the way this thing is glistening. Looks like me walking around at noon in Jakarta. Okay, that was better. I think here's my experience with A5. When itās just by itself youāre dipping it in sauce. It's too much fat to me. You get very thin pieces. You put in a piece of- rice like sushi, rice or pair it with something else. Love it. But by itself, it's almost too much. This is the citrus and matcha. Okay. comes with a yuzu granite or a yuzu sorbet. red bean paste, Okay. Perfect. matcha jelly, matcha ice cream, rice mochi and matcha [inaudible] on top. Perfect. Man, long time no see. I saw you at the beginning,
I saw you at the end. Enjoy sir. Okay. Thank you so much. How was your [inaudible] station? It was good man, that was good. Iāll let you know, I got to finish it off. Then Iāll let you know. Thank you very much. -Enjoy sir.
-You're welcome. I mean, if you were like, āGive me a fancy Japanese dessert.ā For dessert, it would be this right here, matcha, red bean, motchi all mixed together and different textures. That is some quality green tea. The bitterness from the green tea is such a powerful kick that if they gotta add lot of sugar again, I've been amazed by how sugary the things have been
in this tasting menu. But this time when you mix it with that bitterness
from that green tea, Very nice. You know, jellies, motchis, green tea, red bean, yuzu. Can't do any much better than this, Got all the textures. But for me, for dessert. Got to give me something kind of like chocolate and buttery. That's how I am. Surprisingly. More full than I thought I would be. Alright. 3,718,330 Indonesian rupiah. Let's move it. Thank you. Bye bye. -Thank you all. Bye bye.
-Thank you Max. Have a good day. Oh you remember my name. Nice. I was not expecting that. Um. That was good. I enjoyed it. Finally-
You know, it's like one of those things, like, you always kind of wanna check off your list and, Saying, āI got to eat at Morimoto Restaurantā to me is, Somethiing I'm happy I got to do. I know some of y'all are wondering, like, why wouldn't you done like Indonesian if youāre gonna spend money, why wouldn't you done something Indonesian? I tried. I try to get into Namaaz Dining, but I couldn't get in there and I couldn't I just couldn't get in there. None of my times really worked to get in there. Um. They're closed- on strange days, and they were booked out. So apparently very popular. I've had to guess had probably been about half the price, but, I don't know where to go. Ground floor. Namaaz Dining is like the first molecular gastronomy in Indonesia since like 2013, I think. So I really want to go there. I didn't get to, so, I went to the next thing I want to do, which was to check off that Morimoto restaurant off my list. Wow. I'm more full than I thought I would be. Thank you. Just pretty walking out as it was walking in. Oh man. Thank you. And the rain is going to plague us. Somebody was asking, āMax, what's the one job you would never want to do in your life?ā This is it right there. Window cleaners. These guys aw. I just- So- Thank you for your service. Thank you for cleaning the windows, because that is just something I could not do. That is like the one job. Theyāll be like, āMax, I'll give you this amount of money to do it.ā I'll be like, āNoā āNo, no, no, and no.ā Especially in like, places like here where the weather I mean, in 5 minutes could change. Nope. I don't ever relate to the clothing brand, but if you got a Bottega restaurant, you know, there's some old money here in this area. Hello? XD :D We got- We caught each other, where- You know that awkward thing where, like, sometimes you catch eye contact with people and they're smiling, you're smiling. You're both like, :D So you just got to say hello. Thatās what happened. Okay, there's one. I was curious. The Bluebird wasn't, like, allowed here. You got Silverbird, which you get a black one. A bluebird? Okay. They do let bluebird in here. I was like, āMan, weāre in such a posh area, they don't even
let bluebird in here.ā And as some of you may not be interested in stuff like this, but you deserve to see every part of a city, right? The the street food, the- you know, stuff like this. But if you had to ask me, āMax, what's the real reason you're showing this today?ā And if you think I would eat 50 plus Chili's yesterday and not want to spend a day the day after this close to nice, clean public bathrooms. You're crazy. You're always going to be thinking about the day after. When you eat as many chillis as I did. All right, that's gonna do it. That weather did change. It started raining and I had to get to the airport because I had no clue what Jakarta traffic is gonna be like, Anyways, thanks yāall so much for watching this video as always. I am about to get on a flight and move it on So weāll catch you at- at the next one, peace!
