Indragiri Indonesian Resto — Restaurant in Surabaya

Pada saat pandemi corona kembali kesini, semua prosedural kesehatan okay. So back talking about the food and the service. The service SOP is applied by assigning one spesific person to our table. He reacted quickly but somehow it is not easy to explain in details what we asked him to bring to our table.

Ok now the food. We order sop buntut, rawon, mie goreng Jawa, ikan gurami Rica rica, kerang hijau saus padang, es soda gembira and ice sweet orange. Somehow, all the ice sweet orange is literally too much sugar, we can fix it by asking for water and ice cube. The food is good, but to my palate the salt is a little bit too much, spesifically in mie goreng Jawa. Mie goreng Jawa is quite authentic, adapted to restaurant style. Using yellow noodle with slices of cabbages as I assumed cooked in a high heat wok with sweet soy sauce and several local spices. Cuts of boiled egg added to it, also crackers, cuts of cucumber and chili pickles. Taste good actually but I'm not a fan of too many ch salt in my food, but for my group they seems okay with it.

The gurami rica rica is good, loves the rica rica sauce, we asked to seperate the sauce from the fish because not all of us can eat spicy food. Their Rica rica was made from cube slices of tomato with slices of chili, lime juice and some other ringredient so it has refreshing taste accompanying spicy from the chili. When you eat it with the fish it taste great (I assumed the deep fried it in very hot oil for a short time and finished it on the grill). I asked for sweet soy sauce to balance the spicy taste from rica rica.

Rawon is one of original Indonesian food, a black beef soup, coming from 'kluwek' taste good, a feel of homemade food, add with the sambal, sprouts and splash of lime juice, make it perfect, eventhough one of our friend actually expecting more that the usual homemade taste (depends on what you are expecting)

The sop buntut (oxtail soup) taste good with clear light and refreshing soup, with the weet nest coming from the carrot and beefy taste from the oxtail. What it is lacking actually from the oxtail itself. It is not cook long enough on low heat, so the oxtail is a bit tough for us and still have strong beefy taste (again, because it is not cook long enough) but the overall taste is good.

Kerang hijau saos padang (padang style sauce green clamps) is good, the sauce taste great (a bit too salty too my palate but when you eat it with rice the saltiness is okay) the green clamps is big enough. you take one clamp add their sauce in the shell, plus paprika and a spoonful of rice,it is heaven bless for the taste 😁 when it reach your mouth.

So I will add more details when next time I visit here for another dishes.

Comfy big tall restaurant, full of wood interior. Clean, traditional but modern look. They have private room to accommodate up to 8...

Used to love going to this restaurant, known for the dish 'Sop Buntut' but today was very disappointing. We came in and the waiters are busy by themselves, we were not served the menu, have to go to the cashier ourselves to ask for them.

Then we ordered 2 portions of sop buntut bakar, 1 portion of sop buntut, 1 sayur asem, 1 tahu telur, 1 nasi timbel udang, rice and drinks. The soup was lukewarm, had to resend them back cause you know cold sop buntut is not good. Sayur asem was also cold. It's a pity caused the taste is good.

But the worst part is that only 1 portion of sop buntut bakar come out. When the waiters recite the orders we clearly remember he write 2 portions, but maybe some mixed up happened only 1 portions got through the kitchen. When we asked the waiter confidently said we indeed order 2 portions and just wait a bit. But I guess he don't have the decency to check, because after asking 2 more times it's still didn't came out. We finally confront the waiter and he said that the 2nd portions go through the kitchen late (in separate orders) that's why it took longer, but everyone else already finished eating, and it didn't look like it's going out soon. The waiter have no decency to apologized just argued it only take a little bit longer because they need to microwaved it first. What a disaster, we cancel the order, and still no apology.

Not recommend to go here anymore, very...

I've been their customer for many years. For these years they never dissapoint me.

In matter of taste, they have a solid taste and boldness. But, i can say for some people wouldn't find it pleasant, just because their authentic recipe, which use many spice, and their dishe tast classy.

For that reason, for meeting or bring guest from upper class whom i want to introduce east java culinary, i will held and bring them to this place. Their service also excellent , tiddy and with nice manner and help ful when i had my meeting there.

For price wise, this place has higher pricing and quite expensive, for rice binge eater i wouldn't recommend this place, but to enjoy their protein dishes [both animal or vegetable based] are decent in mount and excellent taste

Overall my must go menu from this place are Gurami pesmol, semur lidah and their golden sand soft crab.

PS: They have big VIP room for meeting or for small event. Their parking slot quite a few, kinda tricky if u go there...