Bari-Uma Ramen - Lippo Mall Puri — Restaurant in Jakarta

The taste of both the pork and chicken broths are nice and savoury. They are quite thick and concentrated, but I found the broth, especially the chicken one to be a little too oily, so it's a bit heavy and not too enjoyable in the long run.

The noodles were nice and chewy since I asked for the al dente ones instead of the fully cooked one. They did give us that option, so that was nice.

Now, onto the ranty part of the review:

They also have a system in the restaurant where pork (non-halal) eaters would need to use the red coloured utensils and non-pork (halal) diners should use the black ones, but I don't know if this is a system that can really be well implemented because you never know if the guests will stick to this. You know people. It's hard to enforce this rule and completely prevent cross contamination.

I tried my best to stick to it; I had the chicken ramen and my dining partner had the pork. But when I wanted to try her broth and initiatively took a red spoon for that (because of the system), I noticed the server was already behind us watching us like a hawk and inching closer to us when I picked the red spoon up. I guess the server thought I was about to use the red spoon for my non-pork dish, but then she walked back and looked away when she noticed that I was actually grabbing the red spoon to try out the pork broth. It was such an uncomfortable experience for me to go through--to notice the employees surveilling me as a customer so closely and knowing they have no trust in the guests (which is very fair because I also think that this red-black system is far from foolproof). It's simply a dysfunctional system to have, and it's difficult to completely enforce it.

I'd say if you are a strict halal diner, don't go here to eat cause anyway there must be some kind of contamination with the cutlery. And I would suggest the restaurant to keep everything halal if they cared about it that much. It would be better for them to just keep everything completely halal than to watch their customers like a hawk while eating. I would rather just eat at a halal restaurant even though I am not a halal eater, because it was just super uncomfortable being watched like that. Their food was fine, nothing special, but fine. But the overall experience wasn't great, especially for the price of the food which isn't too affordable for what it is.

⭐ 6.5/10

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How to eat here: -find ur comfy seat -call the waiter -order ur meal -ramen is commin based on your ramen type (halal =black bowl, non halal =red bowl) -use the spoon & chopstick base on ur bowl's colour (if ur bowl is red, please use the red spoon & red chopstick ,and vice versa) -finish ur food -bring ur paper order to front cashier -go pay there

*dont throw the chopstick's wrapping paper , its voucher for free upsize noodle for ur next arrival, ask stamp at thr cashier to...

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