INDONESIA: ARE YOU FOOD-MONSTER?

ARE YOU FOOD-MONSTER?

Bangkok punya Khao San Road, and Surabaya punya KYA KYA! It's a China Town that turns into a spacious outdoor eating place at night which located in Kembang Jepun Street, the old Surabaya. Kembang Jepun is Surabaya's China Town and in the nothern part of Surabaya.

 
During the day, Kembang Jepun is one of the busiest trading centres in the city. In the past, this area was very desolate at night because it was a very quiet area, nobody would dare to walk in this area at night.

Since 2003, Kembang Jepun street was turned to outdoor eating place at night with all Chinese adornment, namely Chinese paper lanterns, Chinese lion statues that guard the entrance gate for good luck etc. In this place you can have local, chinese and western dishes. My two favourite food stalls here are Ahong Chinese food and Mie Kembang Jepun (Kembang Jepun noodle). Their food is good with reasonable prices. Sometimes, there are live music performances, like dangdut (it is Indonesia's music specialty), jazz, Chinese, Javanese or Arabian music etc.

I like this place and it was a cozy place. The only problem is when the rainy season comes ... because it is an open space eating place, then as you can imagine, nobody want to have dinner under the rain right? :P

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