SEASIDE SUKI - ANCOL (all you can eat)

A friend of mine suddenly wants to eat shabu. She called me furiously and said, “Let’s go eat shabu! I’m craving for it!”. Two weeks after those furious starve call from her, we agreed to eat shabu at one of my favorite eating place in Jakarta, which is Seaside Suki. Since the resto is nearby my office, me and my coworkers often get together there, that’s why I’m familiar with the surrounding.

Located in Ancol, right beside Bandar Djakarta seafood restaurant, Seaside Suki, a restaurant a la Thai is a restaurant provide us menu with relatively cheaper price, and the highlight of this restaurant is the ALL YOU CAN EAT. Here’s some information that you may or have to know :

Operational hours :

Monday – Thursday : 11.00 – 22.00 WIB

Friday – Sunday : 10.00 – 23.00 WIB

How to get there?

Except using your own car or taxi, one of the easiest alternative way is Bus Transjakarta, my favorite public transportation because you just pay once (Rp 3.500) for one way, wherever you go around Jakarta, as long as you don’t get off from the shelter. Because I now live at Grogol (West Jakarta), I rode the bus from Grogol shelter using the Pulo Gadung route and off at Senen shelter. At Senen shelter, I use another bus route directly to Ancol.

I got off inside Ancol bus shelter, and right after the shelter, we paid for Ancol pass tickets : Rp 25.000 /person (2 years old above). FYI, if you already reserved tables at Seaside Suki Ancol, you can also paid for the Ancol pass tickets for Rp 9.000 /person (farrrrr wayyy cheaper than if you pay regularly). But the minus is, you have to get the tickets at the resto, which means... (if you don’t have the Ancol yearly pass card) you have to pay normal price. But it could still be plus for some, because when you order for more than 10 people pass tickets, you still at advantage.

We rode the Wara Wiri bus (free bus you can ride inside Ancol, since Ancol area is very big, they provide this bus) to get to the Seaside Suki, and we get off at Monumen shelter, walk for 2 minutes and we arrived at Seaside Suki restaurant. Don’t worry, if you still confuse about how to get there, you can ask the officer which usually scattered almost everywhere.

Here are some photos that I collected :

For some of you who bring your own transportation, no need to worry because they provide parking lot for cars and motorcycles.

When you order the all you can eat shabu, they will give you numerous choices of menu from this rack with 2 sides. They wrote each menu's name in front of the stacks so you can choose and pick easily. From meat, fish, prawns, tofu, many kind of tofu, until vegetables is provided here.

There's a warning sign above the rack which mention about how much you can take the food. No limitation on how many you can take the food, but still remember to get the food amount that you think you can finish it. If there's still lots of food left after you ate, they will charge you another fee.

You can also choose some menu that can be fried by the waitress, they will generously fry it for you. Here's some :

While waiting for the broth and the fire, we have a chance to mixed our own seasonings, like picture below. I have no composition whatsoever in mixing the seasoning, I just put all the items and taste until it fit in my tongue. Hehe ^^

Here the broth come in 2 sides. My all time favorite is the tomyam soup, it's a bit spicy but for my tastebud, I have no troubles with the spiciness. While my friend who can't stand the spiciness, she prefer the original broth one.

They have a renovation around the resto, so it's quite difficult to see the view well. But we still enjoyed it :)

Overall, the food taste good and fresh. They served it well and I like the broth, the restaurant ambiance is also very nice, but since we cook in the middle of the table, the hot weather could felt hotter. They have their 2nd floor which is full air conditioning room, but they usually say it's full booked. Haha ^^ 

RATING :

4 / 5

Most restaurant limit the time to eat the "all you can eat" menu, but not in Seaside Suki (THANKS GOD!). So we eat at 16.00 and finish at 19.00, we eat while chatting and stop until our stomach going to burst. We ate gracefully.

After that, we walk around and sit at the seashore looking at the view while playing the swing. We talk about what will we do once we reach our old age, our friendship shouldn't be changing, right? We promised to keep visiting each other even we got married and we will provide time for our own, just to talk and catch up with our friendship moments. No regrets, we've been together for 7 years now and still counting. Friends for life!

Until next time,
Regina.