Hi guys, it's my frist time when I decide to write a blog in daily life blog in Peakd. Recently, I was busy managing my career, as a none of result, as a freelancer with a few of clients. Then, I hope Peakd can cover my passive income through writing many blogs. I think on this day and the day after, I could focus as a Peakd contributor.
So, whenever my monthly income is not really fulfilled in a routine, I keep on track to order some online food via one of the biggest food order and delivery online platforms called Gojek. Yet, I can not ignore my attention to the absence of ordering food online, whether I unconditionally have a money income, so that saving money, and some of the money that my mother gave to me, is spent just for finger-licking comfort and viral food.
When you have the Gojek application, is rarely like a one-stop delivery food, package, or shopping until the order driver goes wherever you want. I think you can not resist the most sparkling services that Gojek has, called GoFood. My mother or sister has proven that Gojek is the one ordering online food platform that we all use, by this insane quote, "Gofood Apa, dek?" It also means "What are you GoFood, Dek?" literally means "What food do you order?".
"GoFood" is the utmost changing quote for "Order online food" not just in my home space, but also wider for many Indonesian folks who pick GoJek as the delivery online partner. Then, I loved to use GoJek because they have integrated e-money payments called GoPay. Which is this e-wallet can be used for many payment methods using QRIS in many store stands and also for paying on many platforms like application subscriptions and many else. However, there a plenty of delivery orders besides GoJek in Indonesia, called Grab Indonesia, Shopeefood, and any else that I don't remember their name.
I think that GoJek and plenty of delivery orders that I referred to before have a difference, which is that GoJek is one of the online delivery order services that is punctual just in my country, not like Grab or Shopeefood, which is a wider business in the other countries in SEA. So, I have also piqued my attention from Gojek that their company is named "PT Aplikasi Karya Anak Bangsa", or also "Children of the Nation Creation Application". That also informed well with Tokopedia (one of the largest marketplaces in Indonesia), then it compounded into GoTo now. GoTo becomes one of the start-up unicorns in Indonesia.
There are also many kinds of Indonesian food merchant businesses which is displayed in the application and have become GoFood partners. Not just helped through the food business, that list of the top-notch, like branded chicken, pizza, or sandwiches franchise businesses, but also touches the small food businesses who is remain as the micro denizen able to develop and gain their daily income through selling their meals and culinary.
At the GoFood Application, you can find many selected categories of what kind of cuisine you want to order. Let's say you want a Japanese, Korean, or Western food, and other categories are like snack, bread, chicken, beverages, and so on. With many kinds of categories, the local food business can adapt and innovate a diverse range of food that they want to sell. More inventions are elaborated through their merchants, which might mean that many people who find specific food can choose their merchants.
The Application of GoFood works for many users who have picked the seller merchants based on their consideration of how the merchants have the best rating of their services and food, their menu variants, and, somehow, the promotion that is eligible within that time in one or another of the food merchants.
Yet, in these past five months until October, I have chosen and ordered food in GoFood more than 5 times. In this blog, I want to share with you my favorite food merchants, the 5 most tempting local foods that I ordered. Here it is:
Pizza Box
Whenever I want to eat pizza, since Domino's or Pizza Hut are tracked as boycotted restaurants, I have to change my preference for buying pizza. I found a local Indonesian food business that offers pizza with near-qualitative standards like Domino's or Pizza Hut, but it's called Pizza Box.
For my third time, I tried those local pizzas, and I valued this local pizza brand that suited my taste. I think Pizza Box did work well to produce pizza with more than I expected in terms of this business level, which is not bigger than Domino's or Pizza Hut. Pizza box is just a small franchise food which is my country that small franchise hasn't had bigger-scale production, unlike the smart kitchen, until the store management organization. Although Pizza Box might have many branches over the Jakarta, Tangerang, or Bekasi region, their store is just smaller than you have imagined.
However, their Pizza is very tasty, and the quality is closer to the biggest Pizza retailers. I loved their pizza bun, which is fluffy and airy, then their topping and basic sauce can also be quantified as other big pizza retailers.
They have a diverse kind of Pizza, maybe 10+ more with different toppings, a few that I have remembered are Meat Island, which has many colorful paprika toppings with beef sausages and base sauce, hot and sweet mayo. The last time I ordered pizza here was Chicken Crisp Pizza with a huge and many chicken nuggets spread on top of the pizza, sweet onion, and green bell pepper with the barbecue sauce. The pizza box also served the pizza menu in many sizes, such as small, medium, and large. They also sell the side dish like potato wedges, beef sausages and many different kind of pasta.
D'crepes
The one most biggest and famous crepes retail store in Indonesia is called D'crepes. This retail crepes store is survive almost 20+ years until this year, yet this crepes store is one of my fav when I want to buy or snacking. Because of GoFood is application for order manykind food business then D'crepes also provide in this apps.
There are four kind of crepes in D'crepes, is sweet and savory, and soft peak with the ice cream topping or crips crepes also there are limited edition crepes skin flavour in limited duration. In Indonesia, some of food stall stores that has a bigger scale and spread among many shopping centre is likely to do some of promotion in their SNS or Instagram like bundle promo or buy 2 get 1 that the cost is more relative save. Yet, D'crepes is one of the food stall corner in shopping centre which has very cheap price than many other food stall. The most cheap prices menu is peanut-choco flavours which the price is Rp18.000 or just $1,25 dolar. Then the most pricy menu is steak and cheese with cost is Rp36.000 or just $3 dolar.
Last time I have ordered D'crepes via GoFood is by choose these two sweet variant menu, the peanut choco and choco cheese. However the menu at there is to far too diverse. They have 11 savory crepes menu like chili dog, spicy tuna, chicken honey mustard and many more. Also have 14 sweet crepes menu a few of that is nutella cheese, double choco, banana vanila custard, cookies and cream and many more.
Hungry Kitchen "Ayam Koplo"
Indonesian people very like rice bowl, then Hungry Kitchen is the most famous cloud kitchen-retail which is has many kind of rice bowl brand like the one brand most I like called "Ayam Koplo" in Indonesian slang. Hungry was a famous chicken restaurant cloud kitchen that now is turn to 5 years old, however in many online publication told that, this business has a multiple profits up to billion rupiah.
"Ayam Koplo" itself, is sells many kind of deep fried chicken skin rice bowl with many variants of side dishes that the unique selling points is in the price, more many side dishes in the one menu of rice bowl are more expensive. Because of Indonesia very loved to eat rice with those of fried dishes whichever also called "Nasi Lalapan" in Indonesia language that served with the diverse kind of sambal, the most authentic Indonesia chili sauces and eat that with hand, then "Ayam Koplo" served this into the more advance style with using a rice bowl that we eat that with spoon.
The several variants of side dish in the "Ayam Koplo" rice bowl are limit with the deep fried Indonesia mushroom called "Jamur Kuping" the mushroom that has a white colour and shapes like unordinary mushroom, Chicken "Geprek" or deep fried chicken that smashed with sambal, Indonesia style omelette, then there are also sunny side up. That complete menu rice bowl is sell with the Rp37.000 price or just $3.
Burger Bangor
These Indonesia brand burger franchise that almost fancy and eradicate is Burger Bangor which has style of burger that categorize them for the online food order and small but modern fast food stall spread in many places in Indonesia. Burger Bangor are the fast food burger franchise which the owner is most famous Indonesia public figure, Denny Sumargo. That brand has polished of their online marketing then they like to make some events and joined with the big food festival in Indonesia.
Because of it brand has a great branding, they have seriously with their store selling and buying merchandise, they used many kind of brands logo and identity through their packaging. Their spound bag until their spicy sauce sachets is remodify with the identity of Burger Bangor brand, that using black, white and green colour. I think its burger franchise is the one of brand that adapt the deeply mean of successfully branding identification like in this era has arise.
Takoyaki Joyboy
Do you love takoyaki? I am one of the fans with takoyaki, the street food come from Japan. Then, in Indonesia there also many kind of Japanese restaurant or food stall which is sell takoyaki. In my near of my house which is In Ciater, South Tangerang there is takoyaki seller called Takoyaki Joyboy. In these takoyaki store, there are many different takoyaki like octopus, the original one, cheese, shrimp, beef and many else.
Takoyaki joyboy has also unique of sauce topping through spread on top the takoyaki with the katsuboshi, the "japanese style of dancing fish shreeded topping". There are mentai sauces, bbq japanese sauce and chesse sauces. The portion of takoyaki selling up to many kind variants, more smaller is more cheaper. There are small up to 4 portions, and the bigger one the 20 until 30 portions.
This is my first time to order takoyaki through the Joyboy, and I am very satisfied with the taste of the takoyaki that nearly same with what I expected for. The octopus chunks is big and the takoyaki batter is so moist and umami with the great original and mayo sauces that feel like is the perfect takoyaki in the local place.