Convenience stores are slowly crowding up our city, Jakarta. From the wildly popular among the youth, Seven-Eleven chain of convenience store, which now can be found almost every 100 metres (haha, a bit exaggerating, but true to a certain extent), to Circle K, and now we have a new addition on top of those:
Lawson Station. The store I visited in Mangga Besar was quite small, but on the second story, they provide sitting & dining area with open air concept (no air conditioning, sorry) overlooking the bustling Mangga Besar street.
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| Lawson Station Mangga Besar |
What caught my attention was of course, the quick bites and fresh snacks available. Apart from the must-haves do-it-yourself coffee machines, there's also onigiris, rice bowls and a melange of fried treats on sticks. Although I personally don't have the guts to try out the fried sticks (no idea when was the last time they replenished the frying oil), but the onigiris actually looked quite appealing.
Then I went to the cold section, as expected, you can find microwavable simple meals such as spaghetti, etc. And there's the dessert, like the Mochi and Cream, as well as chocolate eclairs, etc. I bought the cute looking Ichigo and cream mochi (ichigo is strawberry in Japanese). I was disappointed to find that it was actually 95% cream inside and only a pathetic piece of strawberry in the center. The cream was way too fattening that I only end up eating the soft snowy skin of the mochi.
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| Affordable Fried Snacks-on-a-stick IDR 2,000 - 6,000 |
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| Rice-based food IDR 7,000 - 19,500 |
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| Ichigo Cream Mochi IDR 12,000 |
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| Ichigo Cream Mochi dismantled (LOL!) |
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| Japanese Topping for Rice IDR 27,700 |
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| Japanese knick knacks |
Maybe other Lawson outlets will have wider and fresher selection of goods? If you feel like having some Japanese flaky topping to go with your rice, then Lawson is probably the only convenience store (outside the high end supermarkets) where you can find it, and at quite affordable price.
JL. Mangga Besar Raya No. 80C
For complete list of other outlets, click
here.
oh wow! never seen a Japanese based convenience store in Jakarta before! would love to check this out :)
ReplyDeletewaaah ada jual furikake jugaaa, lain x bs cari disana juga brrt hehehe :)
ReplyDelete@irene: Lawson is relatively new, compared to other convenience stores I mentioned above. Do visit when you're back in Jkt =)
ReplyDelete@anakjajan: Furikake nya tergolong murah nih, daripada beli di Takahimaya singapore =P
Onigirinya juga enak! cukup buat ganjel perut kalo jam nanggung.
ReplyDeleteUdah beberapa kali maen ke culinary bonanza, tapi baru kali ini comment.
Salam Kenal! :)
Hi Andy! Salam kenal juga. Makasih udah sempet berkunjung ya. Gw juga udah visit blog lo, tp blom sempet comment hehe...will do soon!
ReplyDeleteUseful information ..I am very happy to read this article..thanks for giving us this useful information. Fantastic walk-through. I appreciate this post.
ReplyDeletemay i ask ? itu snack on sticknya basah" based on pic or is it fried ? well thanks a lot infonya sangat" useful , i've seen a few stations at the corner tp ga pernah stop by, well keep blogging about new things i really do appreciate it. thanks blogger please answer my question tho :)
ReplyDelete@Anonymous: Yup those odens are dunked in oil the whole time. Maybe you can request them to fry fresh sticks for you. Thank you for dropping by my humble site, always my pleasure to help others =)
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