Waroeng EmJay — Restaurant in Rotterdam

Been once to dine in and once take out. Overall mediocre food, dine in was a little better, whereas most take out places actually give more on take away around the area.

Some of the ingredients and tastes are uniquely and native indonesian, but some things are also missing.

Generally speaking not super convincing. Taste is mediocre, variety of foods is decent, it's half-fresh (made today, warmed up in microwave for you). That last part is a bit of a shame because things like nasi shouldn't be made in a microwave.

So yeah comparing to the other toko's around I guess it captures some of the authentic indonesian flavors better but it falls short on most other things. Shame because I had high hopes...

We came for dinner on a Thursday night after we booked a table and we were sat upstairs because downstairs were busy. It took a while before they came upstairs to take our order but they did come before we tried to go downstairs to call. We had bakso kikil, mie ayam and tempe mendoan. Although it brougt back flavours I had in Indonesia, the broth/soup of the bakso was lacking depth of flavour, it's nearly there but it needs a tweak. The tempe mendoan is more like tempe tepung (battered rather than half cooked as tempe mendoan should be). We had the cendol that was nice but I felt the portion is a bit too small. The staff were friendly so...

Came here for a birthday dinner for more than 10 people. The restaurant accomodated us and we sat in the upstairs area. We all ordered different things but I ordered the Rames Emjay which had 2 meats, 2 Chicken Satay, 1 Sambal Goreng Ei (spicy egg), Gado Gado, Acar (sweet sour cucumber) and Korepoek (onion crackers). All of the food was great and for someone who never ate Indonesian food, this was really nice to try everything. For a drink I ordered the Es Cendol which is Cendol Pandan Jelly, Coconut Milk, Jackfruit, Palmsugar and Crushed Ice. This drink was instrumental in bringing down the spice. Overall great food and would...