The House of Raminten, a House of Traditional Javanese Foods

What kind of house is this??… This is special house guys… the place where you can find traditional Javanese foods in Yogyakarta-Indonesia. So, do you like traditional foods, or are you very interesting with traditional foods?? Don’t take any longer guys… If you are visiting Yogyakarta for your holiday, come and visit this house, and you’ll get crazed in there ‘Cause they serve many kind of traditional Javanese foods, and… they looks great and tasty. Honestly, I miss this place every year

When we spent our holiday in Yogyakarta last year, we visited this place. Yeah… many times we have visited Yogyakarta-Indonesia, but only that time we went to the House of Raminten. The first time we went for dinner, and the second time we went for lunch. But…I recommend you, I think it’ll be a good time to go in there for dinner. ‘Cause on night, this place looks romantic and looks cosy It’s just what I feel….

We went to Malioboro at the evening before dinner time. Took a little time to walk around. Malioboro is one of the famous places for tourists in Yogyakarta-Indonesia. Yeah…but I’m not gonna talk about Malioboro in this article (sorry…in another time maybe). We took a taxi to go there. Actually, there are many transportations in Yogyakarta city, like a bus, trishaw, andhong (traditional transportation). We just knew The House of Raminten’s address, and we’d like to take a taxi. Yeah House of Raminten that we visited in Jalan Fardinan Muridan Noto No. 7 Gondo Kusumanan, Kota Baru, Yogyakarta. I was forgot how much we paid for taxi, but it was little cheaper when you are going with another friends

When we arrived, there are two of dragons in gate. Wow!! We were shocked! Why?? it’s very crowded, many peoples! We came in to the receptionist, register our name, and got a queue number. After registering, we wait until they call our name to go inside. One tips for you guys…if you are visiting this place, don’t come in a big group, plan max 4 person. Why?? Because when you come with a big group, you’ll be “sand man”. At that time, we registered for three persons, and we were queuing for 30 minutes for our table, and 1 hour to wait our foods 

I hate waiting time! So what can we do??.. Yeah…we walked around, bought some box of Bakpias and ate it. Do you know Bakpia Raminten Jogja is?? Bakpia is one of traditional grilled cake, filled with green bean. Or…you can buy some Raminten merchandises, like T-shirts, mugs, caps. Or…you can leave some comment about this place But…I’d love to take some Raminten cards! I think it’s unique and nice cards. You can take these cards freely!! Yeah…it’s free guys… When you see these cards, you will see who is the person behind The House of Raminten, the place where you can find traditional Javanese foods. Every single time, when I look at these cards now, I miss this place sooo much, I miss traditional Javanese foods. It looks like a male person on these cards, but why he dress up like a Javanese women in old time??…  He is a actor on stage guys… And Raminten is his name and character on stages. You can see his show in the Mirota Batik 3rd floors by free Mirota Batik’s adrress is Jalan Jenderal Ahmad Yani No. 9 Gondomanan, Yogyakarta-Indonesia (you can find it in Malioboro).

Finally, a receptionist called one of our name! The waitress took us to our table, and our table was on second floors. The design House of Raminten is unique guys…. It looks like a traditional Javanese house, everywhere is wood and wood. I like that!! And so is their waitresses, they were wearing traditional Javanese clothes. Wow!! I were very amused. And yeah…we sit on the floor (with carpet), looks like Japanese people at the moment Yeah…this is the real Javanese people guys… But one things that I hate so much, when we ate, many people smoked around us I think it would be good if  there is any room or area for smoking, or if you come here and really want to smoke, just get outside.

Many menus in The House of Raminten guys… I can’t tell you one by one. Wow…that really…really completely traditional Javanese menus. We ordered some menus that is our favourite foods. There were nasi kucing (I don’t know what you call is in English I think it spelled like “cat rice”), clam satay, golden snail satay, penyet, fried rice, es tape ketan ijo (fermented glutinous rice), cendhol, and many others….!! But for me, something special is nasi kucing. Why?? What is that kind of foods??… Don’t tell me you have visited Yogyakarta if you never had tried this menu. This is just a tiny portion, just a handful of food, consist of small portion of rice, omelette, anchovies sambal,  and sambal (tranditional Indonesia sauce). If you are stiil hungy, don’t worry, there many kind traditional Javanese foods waiting for you And so sorry we didn’t taken a food  picture while we ate, ‘cause we were exausted and tooo hungy! But sure..when you search on Google “The House of Raminten”, the menu will show up!

How about the price?? Don’t worry, it’s cheaper more than you’ve ever thought (trust me!). You just see menu, look the price, which one you want just choose it and the waitress will write your order and they will give you the bill on your table, pay on your table, before your foods comes. When your foods comes, enjoy your time. Even if there are cheaper price, but they give us delicious food. And we miss it so much! Believe it, we will come again, and again when we are visiting Yogyakarta-Indonesia in another time.

This is my story when we were visiting The House of Raminten in Yogyakarta-Indonesia. Yogyakarta is one of my favourite city to spent my holiday. And one of my favourite place to find delicious food is The House of Raminten

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