Rose Flower Restaurant — Restaurant in Bandung City

Whenever in Bandung, I would eat kangkung hotplate, usually I ate at Ah*ng, roadside chinese food, but this time, decided to try a certain chinese resto recommend by a certain blogger.

Parking spot are not too hard, parking is within the road side, and the road is big. Not much could say for interior since this is an old type chinese restaurant. Place are spacious has many tables.

They serve full and half portion which is a point plus for me.

We order the kangkung hotplate (IDR 65k) half portion, portion are enough for two people, taste sweet savory, generous fillings of beef and quail egg. This is probably the only decent dish I've ordered here.

The cingkong (IDR 100k ish) half portion consist of 4, is nothing but a tiny bit of crab meat coated with crab cake dough and sweet red sauce . Texture of the dough is hard and cold, barely any crab meat, very fishy , kinda lack seasoning the sauce didn't help.

The udang telur asin (IDR 100k ish ) for half portion consist of 4 big prawn. This is the worse experience I've had in Bandung. The prawn dish is the type of the prawn not peeled and just directly dip into the batter and deep fried, makes the prawn looks big but actually not. The telur asin is definitely not the salty egg sauce you meet everyday, like literally the real telur asin, fried and crumbled into pieces poured over the shrimp. Which is okay for me. But the prawn is not properly clean, and there is blue color as in picture , I feel disgust already, not feel like eating it anymore. And this prawn is so tasteless , the fried egg didn't even help seasoning it. And since I'm the type of person that eats peeled shrimp, this is not for me.

The waiters when asked why the color blue, he just casually said "I DONT KNOW"

And the madam at the casher makes excuses as if saying " it's not our fault, sometimes it is just bad luck finding prawn like that among hundreds of prawn we cook, not poisonous just color " hellow, I pay for your food here, not eating it free. And imagine eating something you usually see white flesh, has blue color within it.

Gosh, definitely wont came back here ever. If not because of the Kangkung Hotplate, I would have rate it 1, 0 if possible.

Many other chinese restaurant here in Bandung, and should better explore other. This restaurant might be too cocky because of a certain food blogger loves it, but definitely...

One of my fave nostalgic restaurant in my hometown. They were famous for fried noodles, cingkong, kepiting saos tiram, and kangkung cah sapi. Unfortunately my most fave dish - kepiting saus tiram was out of stock when I visited. Kangkung beef was still tasty, a little bit saltier than before, but still good. Cingkong was made from prawn and crab meat. The sauce lacks flavour to enrich the taste of cingkong. However, cingkong itself was already delicious without the sauce. Fried noodle was the star for me and reminded me to...

The real hidden gem for tourist in Bandung.

Buat yg suka Chinese food peranakan, this is a MUST VISITED PLACE in Bandung.

Saya hanya pesan 2 menu nasi goreng special setengah porsi dan ayam nanking. Jadi ga punya ekspektasi apa2.

Tp pas makanan datang, wow wow wow...

Nasi goreng yg bikin nostalgia sama old Chinese food resto di Jawa Tengah n Jawa Timur, sejak suapan pertama. Rasanya berani, gurih asin manis jadi satu, ditambah high quality topping yg melimpah (udang babi lapchiong you name it lah). Kekurangannya cuma satu, kualitas nasi terlalu bagus n kurang kering, lebih cocok jadi nasi putih aja. Tp selebihnya no comment, salute for the cook.

Ayam nanking, ini parah sih, kepikiran aja atasnya lapisan udang cincang, bawahnya fillet ayam yg dipukul2 sampe tipis. Rasanya??? Luar biasa!!! Kebayang lah gurih manis udang ketemu gurih ayam (ayamnya rasanya kaya chicken katsu hokben, gurih berlada). Kombinasi luar biasa. Kekurangannya cuma 1, sausnya. Perlu ditambah sedikit rasa manis n sedikit dikurangin asinnya biar lebih balance.

Harga??? Ini on point harganya. Mungkin terasa mahal buat sebagian orang, tp kl mau objektif dgn kualitasnya, harganya sangat sangat pas n acceptable. You pay what you get

Kesimpulan Kalo saya punya prinsip gold standard chinese food itu angke resto, but angke resto ga akan pernah bisa touch resto2 Chinese peranakan kaya gini. Kenapa??? Krn resto2 Chinese peranakan gini punya taste yg unik sendiri yg angke ga bisa copy. So, cobain d, really...