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One of the highly requested blog post is this particular tutorial. I have been receiving so many questions (and *ahem* compliments) about the tone that I am applying for the pictures on the blog and Instagram, but truth be told, I am not 100% satisfied with my works because my blog concentrated on restaurant reviews and each restaurant has different setting and lighting situation and for some reasons, what I had in mind about the pictures can't always be translated as how I wanted them to be, I can't always shoot with natural daylight because some restaurants don't even have the sunlight access. Aside from that, I am still having so much fun tho!
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The trial of this recipe was executed a while ago but here comes the recipe. I am glad that when I post the teaser on my Instagram, people seem so excited and kind of waiting for it, that's why it's 3 freaking AM, I couldn't sleep and I am writing this post with such spirit!!!

I collaborated with Jansen Karyadi, a very very talented man who loves to cook and a self-taught mixologist! By the way, he also owns Elixcir Gelato and currently expanding his love for cuisine (and conscious for health) by curating his own healthy meals catering called Slimco. I am actually collaborating on this week's healthy issue so do follow my Instagram and Slimco's Instagram for the menu inspiration.

The preparation and production process of this Bailey's Chocolate Lava Cake is very simple and took around 15 minutes for the whole thing! I gotta be honest here, not that we're complimenting on our own creation (well I kinda do), but it's one of the yummiest most delicious chocolate lava cake I've ever had! Suck on that you crappy restaurant's lava cake, sometimes it's so horrible I could blood vomit (not referring to all but I don't name names). Scroll down as you're on your way to make just the most amazing chocolate lava cake!

Basically here are the ingredients that you're going to need:
Note: for three pieces

STEPS:
1. Heat the oven at 200 degree celcius and melt the chocolate. I recommend using premium chocolate, even though more expensive but worth the result ;).
2. While waiting for the chocolate to melt, you can mix the eggs, with the sugar and butter (you can melt the butter first) and stir until the texture's smooth.
3. After the chocolate melt, quickly mix it along with the baking flour to the sugar, butter and egg mixture and followed by Bailey's.
4. You're going to be needing the rameskin as it will be the mixture base and rameskin is heat-proof and made for baking. Apply a little amount of butter to the surface and cover it with a little flour. This to prevent the mix from sticking to the rameskin.
5. Bake your cake for around 12 minutes and your life just turns better!
This baking tutorial is not a rocket science and so damn easy! GOOD LUCK BAKING!!!
Special thanks to Jansen Karyadi for this recipe and for letting me bake and shoot in his house!

If you have any special recipe that you want to share, drop me an email to eatandtreatsindo@gmail.com and let's collaborate!


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When you have a food blog, I think one of the most important elements in your blog must be the photos. The photos must be good enough to emphasize your description of the food, well, at least clear and appetizing. If your photos don't speak for themselves, how can you convince your readers that the food actually as good as how you described?

I have been frequently asked to do a food photography tutorial, I actually don't know how to teach you guys because I always shoot with my own style and I believe everyone has their own style of shooting. If I describe my own photos, I think they're mostly close-ups (I like to show the texture to emphasize the appetite), clean and (some people mentioned) bright! Some like their photos to be underexposed, but I think I love them when they're a little overexposed. To be honest, I don't even follow the rules and technique of photography, just follow my own instinct.

I think it's a must for me to take pictures of my food before actually eating them. I understand that I am mentally strange, but since I see everyone's doing it, I think everyone's sick lately hahaha! #neveralone. Some just love to do it, some might be food bloggers in disguise, but mostly I think because of the social networks, we all such an attention seekers and a little mainstream. Anyway, you can take photos of your food everywhere on certain situations, and this time I'll be helping you guys with my tips and trick for food photography.

1. Own a camera!
I think it's essential that you own a camera, trust me, the sensor of a compact camera comparing to your phone camera is different, and there are so many cheap cameras with decent quality in the market. You don't need to have a heavy-ass thousands of dollars worth of DSLR camera, just a decent compact camera with nice handy features will help you enough, but if you can afford it, I would still recommend DSLR or "Mirrorless Cameras" more for the end result, still, you don't need the most expensive one. On the next post, I'll be helping you guys with food photography editing tutorial to emphasize the photos. I am currently using Nikon D3000 to take photos that you guys see in my blog (that's the cheapest Nikon DSLR on the market at the moment) with Nikkor 35mm f/1.8 prime lens. and Samsung Galaxy Camera GC100 for direct uploads. I use my Samsung Galaxy Camera to take photos of landscape (such a handy travelling camera). I have another camera that I use for a more commercial purpose, but the main reason I bring my Nikon D3000 along is because it's light and handy and when you know how to use it, that is such an amazing weapon.

 Some people say it's not about the gun, it's about the man behind the gun, but still, you need to have the gun right :).

2. Understand your Shooting Equipment
This one is slightly essential, not only for food photography, but on the general photography as well. Know your camera and lens to maximize the output. My lens (Nikkor 35mm f/1.8) has a wider range than 50mm and is good enough for close up shooting, (and sometimes landscapes), so I tend to take close-up shots of the food to bring out the texture and the more blurry background. Another important tips related to the equipment, just remember to always hold your camera steady, and steadier during low light to prevent the blurry crap.

3. Visualize the picture you'd love to have in mind!
Along with knowing your equipment, most of the times when food are served on my table, I see the food and in a flash got the visualization of the picture that I want to have and I knew how I wanted the picture to be, and since I am used to shooting with my camera and lens, the visualization that I had in mind match the picture that I wanted to have, including the cropping. It's a little tricky to explain to you but most of the times I did have that visualization of how I wanted the photo of the food to turn out.

4. Good lighting
Trust me, the best kind of light for food photography is natural daylight. I think natural daylight just brings out the beauty of the food more alive, it sometimes can even be better than studio light. Most of the times if I have to shoot with the help of natural daylight, the best hour for me is around 9-11AM or whenever when the sunlight is not overpowering and tend to be "harder" and that "yellow ray" starts to disturb your frame.

Giving you guys examples of good natural daylight and overpowering natural daylight.
These photos were taken at Union Plaza Senayan around 4PM. If you've ever been to UNION, the lighting  during the day is kinda tricky, especially since the restaurant's wall and ceiling were mostly glass and sunlight can easily make its way inside. The first two photos were the examples of good daylight.


At times, when the sunlight gets really strong and randomly spread at certain areas, it gets irritating. This one is the example of the bad one. The overpowering daylight turns off the color.

5. Learn to shoot in Manual mode
It's not that you are not allowed to shoot in "Auto" or whatever mode you want, it's just that at certain point, the quality of a picture created when you shoot in Manual mode can be pretty surpising, in a good way, for there is certain range that can't be reached by "Auto". I always shoot in "Manual" and I really suggest everyone who's about to learn more about photography to get used shooting in Manual :).

 6. Practice times infinity
The key is to practice practice practice. On my early days learning about photography, my photos were rubbish, but at that time I thought they were cool as hell. I still need to learn more and practice everyday, but at least I know my photos are a lot more decent looking now.

7. Browse for Reference
It's not a sin to look online and actually looking for references, I do that a lot even until now from whenever sources I can find, sometimes when you see others take better photos than you, you tend to pace yourself more and eventually learn to take better looking photos (or is it just meh? HAHAHA), So you end up not only learning, but also pacing yourself. Experience is such a teacher.

8. When everything fails, just never stop shooting or be creative!
There are certain situations where the situation itself ruin everything you have in mind, then I would suggest you to keep on shooting, sometimes whenever I am so stuck and mad at the photos that I took, I will just keep shooting and shooting, sometimes the result is pretty surprising and even better than the one I originally wanted, well, never stop shooting!

This was taken at E&O Jakarta and God knows how dark E&O is at night, this was taken with the help of guess what? Cellphone flashlight! It might not be a really good picture but at least it's clear. Prove that the simplest thing can actually help, when there is a little light, there is a way!


9. Ask for opinions
Humans are social human beings, and therefore, in a way we kinda need others help to improve ourselves and to complete one another. We can't always be too confident of ourselves, and we can always reflect to people's opinion and critiques to our works to get the most out of ourselves. As a human being and (ehm) blogger's perspective, you need to know how to handle critics :).

I hope my tips will help you guys in optimizing your food photography skill, but for the style, they're all yours. Thank you for reading guys :). Feel free to comment and add up your own tips on the comment box. We can help one another ^^.

Cheers!
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Hello my lovely readers, welcome to another post on eatandtreats :).

This time I'm going to blog about the brunch and food blogger gathering held by BonChon Indonesia last Wednesday As you all know (and those who don't), BonChon is a korean themed restaurant and their main product is chicken, they're so famous for their chicken bites and fried chickens, but let me tell you upfront, their fried chickens are not your average fried chickens or probably close to what you have in mind...right now.

The purpose of this brunch is for BonChon to pre-promote their new menu which will be available on March. They're going to come up with their new invention, what's that? Here it is!

YES! It's the MYUN, they're going to release the MYUN series on March and we got the exclusive chance to pre-tasting the food. Thank you, BonChon.

I love this kind of gathering, and this is actually my very first time attending a food blogger gathering, I got some invitations to attend food blogger gathering but sadly and unfortunately I have to turn them down because it's just not on a good timing, the last time I think because I was in the middle of my final exam :(, so yeah...I need to choose.

BonChon emailed me and actually asked me to fill out a form attached, it was the menu for the brunch and obviously I'm going to show you guys what I had in a moment. That day I got accompanied by my lovely sister Vania, because later that afternoon I'm going to have a reunion with my high school fellas, and that meeting actually allows me to have posts for you guys :), just be patient and wait for the reviews :).

Let's start off with a glass of fresh iced lemon tea.
Well, I'm pretty sure you know what iced lemon tea tastes like, but let's just be fair, I'm still going to talk about it, I think their lemon tea has a decent taste, I prefer lemon teas which is a little more sour and don't taste cheap.


Kim Chi Soup.
The advantage of bringing your sister with you is you're not stuck on your choices, most of the choices are two optionals, so we just tick the boxes and choose everything, so this is the Kim Chi Soup, it's obviously sour and spicy because Kim Chi tastes that way, I actually kinda like this soup, it's unique and it does bring and adapt the sense of korea based on the concept of the restaurant.


Chicken Soup
Chicken soup is more general, general as in a lot of restaurant have adapted this food on their menus, but how's with BonChon's? Well, I personally think that the soup is a little salty, but my sister said it was ok, yeah we have different tounges and sometimes we do argue on the taste. I love the blocks of the chicken, it's tasty. If you ask me whether to choose the kimchi or the chicken soup, I think I would more recommend you guys to pick the chicken soup, I just think that it's more how I like it, when it comes to the main course, as in the myuns, I would say this starter fits the main course.

MAIN COURSE
Classic Myun
We're finally getting to the main course, this is the menus that they're going to serve you guys on March. Excited? Here's my review about the food.




I personally like the taste of the classic myun, I feel like eating bolognaise pasta only with different noodle, different meat and spicier, but somehow to be honest I and some bloggers wonder why the boneless cutlet tasted a bit bland, I actually thought it would be a lot crunchier, but maybe they're just making a little mistake while cooking the chicken because mine's not that crunchy, tasted a bit bland and I kinda wish the sauce will be thicker, this is just a feedback from us.

For the myun itself, I absolutely like how it tastes and the texture, good point for that.

Spicy Myun


Okay, I really recommend this to you whom loving the spicy taste for your dish, and I actually go with this one as if you wonder what I'm choosing and recommending you guys, this dish is not spicy spicy, but it's spicy, yeah hopefully you'll understand how I describe the spicy level with one word of 'spicy'..lol. The minced meat at this dish is smaller and almost mixed in with the sauce, you can definitely see the texture of the meat from the classic one from here it looks mixed and more sauce like, and this is the comparison of what I've been talking about.

Left: Spicy Myun, Right: Classic Myun
Can you see how the boneless cutlet cooked differently? The left one also tasted yummier and more well seasoned.

DESSERTS
Mixed Mochi (Vanilla, Mocha, Strawberry)

I'm not giving long comments about these mochis... THEY ARE CRAZY! I just fell in love with them, it's so yummy, tasty and I just love them so so much. You need to try out yourself, when I'm lost for words, that just means so goooood.

Strawberry Snowflakes
Is it a sin to fall in love with the desserts more than the main course? This is totally something that I would recommend you guys having when you pass by and eat at BonChon. OMG how the flakes, the red beans and the ice blends and create this amazing taste in your mouth is just priceless.




Special thanks to BonChon for inviting me to try their new menu, I'm just hoping the best of luck and I think it definitely will be a hit because the new main course is just tasty, you need to try both of it guys :).

and special thanks for this!

It's nice to meet you guys :).

Photography and editing done by me :).

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