There’s nothing like a hot bowl of noodles for breakfast…and that is one of the reasons why I cannot live anywhere else in the world (unless, of course, they have hot noodles for breakfast).

So when our friends offered to take us to breakfast at a noodle joint on our last morning in Jakarta (before heading to the airport), I was all up for it!

Apparently, Bakmi Ayam Alok is another chain…but like the previous post, I was very pleasantly surprised.

Our friends ordered one bowl each, and each serving came with a generous helping of free-range “kampung” chicken (and spring onions, just the way I like it). Lean, but yet not dry or hard…and very tasty! Seems like exercise also does wonders for chickens.

The noodles were also done the way I like it…with a bit of bite. Also, the soup that came with it was very fragrant and full of flavour. I am assuming that they boil the chicken bones down for a long time, till they get a really rich broth or stock…and that broth/stock is the base for everything else. Even the wanton soup.

They also ordered this fried, flour-ball looking thing…some kind of dumpling, I would presume. Don’t know what it is called, but it was good nonetheless.
 

Unidentified flour ball

 
 
As with everything else we have eaten so far during our trip, the chilli made the difference. There was a container of chilli on every table, and you could add as much as you wanted.

Anyway, this meal rounded off the trip to Jakarta. It was a good end to a good trip.

*burp*

Update: Just found out that the unidentified flour balls are called bakso goreng.
 
Bakmi Ayam Alok is at:

Jalan Mangga II
Blok B No. 38
Greenville, Jakarta Barat
Jakarta,
Indonesia
Tel: +62 21 5687417