INDONESIAN DINNER - MENU incl here 4/21 $35 last call!

After lots of drama (moving venue, date and then the bar not allowing to bring outside food...) we have ALL THE details and headcount!

Date: 4/21 Saturday
Time: 6:30 pm
Place: 330 N. Jefferson St, 3rd Floor Party Room, Chicago, IL 60661
(check in with doorman)
Parking: There is street parking but if not, there is one parking lot on clinton and kinzie and another one on lake and jefferson
Cost: $35 per person
Drinks: BYOB

Buffet Items:
Appetizers -
Pangsit Ayam Goreng (deep fried wonton filled with chicken/shrimp with Indonesian Spicy Sauce)
Bakwan Jagung (corn fritters)

Main Course:
Gado gado (Indonesian salad)
Sate Ayam (Chicken satay)
Rendang Daging (Rendang Spicy Beef Stew)
Kare Ayam (Indonesian Curry chicken)
Lontong Komplit (Rice roll with coconut base, spicy soup, boiled egg and shrimp cracker)
Steamed Rice

Dessert:
Kolak (sweet coconut base dessert with jackfruit and banana)

Since I am having this at my party room, I'll limit this to 24 ppl:

So far I have (if I am mistaken here, please let me know):

1. Agnes (9)
2. GWiv (2)
3. Cynthia (1)
4. Trixie Pea (2)
5. Dfawley (1)
6. Germuska (1)
7. GAF (1)
8. Epoisses (1)
9. Dicksond (2)
10. Suzy Creamcheese (1)
11. m'th'su (1)
12. geli (1)
13. Gypsy Boy (1)

Unless anyone cancels, we are booked!!!

Agnes

Okay we are completely booked now, 24 ppl!!

please let me know if you need to cancel! thanks everyone!

Agnes

Stop 50 Woodfired Pizza for April 21@ 5:00 p.m is an option for those who would like to attend an LTH event the same evening.

The pizza is great.

Fabulous event. Thanks again, Agnes. The food was great. The setting was great. The company was great.

Thanks so much for all your work in pulling this together.

Thanks to Agnes and all who helped to put together last night's event. As usual, I took lots of pictures early and then flagged. There area few more in the LTH Flickr Pool but here are a selection.

When we arrived at Agnes' building, the caterers were still putting the finishing touches on the spread in the party room, so she invited us up to her home. She has a nice view of the city.


View from Agnes', South

The sate was to be grilled fresh on her balcony. (The party room didn't have cooking appliances.)


Sate before

Here's how that ended up:


Sate after

When we went to the party room, a buffet was spread in two stations. I didn't manage to get any good pictures of the appetizers and desserts, but I covered the main dish table.

I must begin with a disclaimer: my food reportage skills, never the strongest, were left behind last night. I think I was a little fatigued, physically from a long bike ride earlier in the day, and mentally from the recent Ghanaian banquet and a generally busy week. I'm hoping someone can fill in details better than I can.

The appetizers were corn fritters and stuffed wontons (stuffed with what? See disclaimer above). I stumbled across this recipe for Indonesian Corn Fritters -- ours didn't look like these much, but probably have the same basic intent.

I'm not sure an order after the appetizers was prescribed, but everyone seemed to start with the soup. This was actually called, I believe, "rice complete" which refers to the way that the ingredients together could form a complete meal. I think someone was speculating that the chafing dish component of the rice complete was livers.


"Rice Complete"


One component of the "rice complete"

Below in short order the rest of dishes:


Gado Gado


Beef Goreng


Curry Chicken

Also alas unphotographed (by me) was the dessert, which may have been my favorite thing of the night. Simply jackfruit and plantains in a sauce whose makeup eluded me.


As always, a group of LTHers is pretty much a guaranteed good time.


Some of the revelers: back: geli, trixie-pea, GAF, MsWiv; front: agnesfong


m'th'su

Thanks again!

Agnes,

Wonderfully enjoyable evening, the Kusumo's outdid themselves offering a window to Indonesia that is completely unavailable in Chicago and your hospitality, and generous nature, shown through in every detail.

Handojo, Agnes, Lucy, Bertha


Handojo grilling sate.


Nice technique!


An eclectic mix of people, LTHers, friends and family of Agnes's, plus local food writers Mike Sula and Monica Eng made for interesting conversation. I love it when conversation jumps continents, political boundaries, decades, lights briefly on a type of Taiwanese street food where a hot dog is encased in hot dog shaped rice, then moves on.

Germuska has posted pictures of the food, which, frankly, are better than my own so I'll simply post a few people pictures.






Gypsy Boy (Somewhere, someplace, someone is missing a canary)


Monica Eng, Lucy Kusumo


MsWiv, Pigmon


m'th'su


Geli (I was going for the art shot and failed miserably. )


Terrific evening, thanks again to Agnes for her hospitality.

Agnes Fong


A few additional pictures may be found here

Enjoy,
Gary

Thank you everyone for joining us this past Saturday. I had a very lovely time and hope to see you all again soon!!

Agnes