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Fave Hotel 

 21 Nov 2011 at 10:53 pm

We were planning for a short weekend trip to Jakarta and came across Fave Hotel as one of the many value-for-money boutique hotels that have sprung up in recent years. This relatively new hotel has earned good reviews from tourists that had patronized it before.

Although it took us ( and the taxi driver ) some time to find it, we were compensated by the friendliness of the staff who greeted us humbly with big smiles.

The reception is a simplified counter manned by two staff and facing directly opposite is a small café serving local food like nasi goreng (fried rice), ayam bakar (grilled chicken), etc.

We tried their promotional item – nasi ayam bakar which means rendang chicken and rice wrapped in banana leaf and then grilled using slow charcoal. We were quite skeptical when the dish was brought to our table but upon tearing the burnt leaf, the aromatic smell of the rendang curry was good enough for us to confirm that we have made the right choice.

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