JIA — Restaurant in Jakarta

November 2023 Delicious and quality as always. Had dinner here, the food was tasty and fresh. Love the sesame ball filled with custard, sweetness is just good, it’s crispy on the outside and soft in the inside. Our only qualm this time is the service - it is lacking, had to remind them to refill hot water for the pot of Chinese Tea. Lack of man power, and they are overwhelmed so we poured tea ourselves throughout our dinner.

May 2023 One of the award winning, and best Chinese restaurant in Jakarta. The chef is from Malaysia. Good, attentive service and tasty food. Overall food was good, not overpowering, just nice in term of saltiness. Will surely come back to this Chinese restaurant. Love the signature peking duck. The wrap was perfectly made, not too thick. Spring onions was fresh and finely sliced. Cut cucumber stick was fresh too. Dark sauce for the wrap too was not overpowering. Another delicious dish was the beancurd with fungus. The pan fried lamb chop with black pepper sauce was equally. The meat was juicy, light red and with a little fat which is good and its my preference.

And i seldom rate a place for 5-star but the Jia Restaurant, the chef and its team deserve a 5-star.

And the very next day, we returned for the dim sum for Sunday lunch. More crowd. Dim sum are fresh. Love the authentic fried radish cake was authentic. Really like the red bean pancake, not overly sweet, perfect for...

Absolutely loved this Chinese restaurant with good quality food and a huge variety of items. I started my meal with half a peking duck (269K). The chef rolls out a cart and starts cutting off the duck skin which is then presented to your table. You'll then need to wrap it together with a pastry, cucumber and scallion. Towards the end of the meal, the rest of the duck was prepared with efu noodles and mushrooms, but I didn't particularly enjoy this as I thought the noodles were too salty.

I also got the braised birds nest with crab meat (398K) which was very flavourful. Then, I had the baked scallops with shrimp paste on beancurd (238K). This was really good, the scallop was fresh, and the mayo added a sweet touch to the entire savoury dish. The deep fried cod fish on crispy toast (198K) was decent, though the toast tasted a little stale.

As I was celebrating my birthday, the staff also gave longevity buns which were filled with either lotus paste or...

When I made reservation, was told that they open at 11. Came at 10.55 and there were families waiting outside the restaurant. 11 came by and door was still closed and no one is outside standing by the reception. If you said you open at 11, someone should already be out there getting ready to accept guests at 11. The greeter only came out walking leisurely with not a care in the world past 11. The whole restaurant didn’t seems like they were ready for service at 11.

Food is still good but getting a waiter to stop by is extremely difficult and frustrating. Everyone just seemed to ignore and tried to avoid eye contact. The classic avoidance technique.

You might be tired during this high season. But I am a full paying customer and I do not deserved to be treated as if it is my fault that you all are still working on this...