Review of Mupu Jeram Bandung Restaurant - Just Menong

When walking around, surely Menong's friends must fill their stomachs to prepare energy when enjoying tourist destinations. This time, Zauji and I will do a review of Mupu Jeruk Resto, one of the unique restaurants in the north of the city of Bandung.

Location

The area of Bandung Raya has long been one of the favorite destinations of domestic or foreign tourists. Bandung Raya offers a variety of tourist destinations, from natural, cultural, historical, or culinary tours that seem to be attached to the earth, Priangan.

Previously we chose the South Bandung area, such as Rengganis Crater in Ciwidey, but this time we just wanted to take a walk to enjoy the cold of Mount Tangkuban Perahu, so we folded towards the north. The North Bandung area is famous for the Lembang area, which has many natural and artificial tourist areas such as Maribaya Falls, Floating Market, Lembang Park & Zoo, and Astro Highland.

To reach the North Bandung area, we passed the Setiabudhi Road, which is known as the connecting road between Bandung City and Lembang, or Subang. Since the road was jammed (as usual), we drove at a low speed. Unsurprisingly, we saw a large Dredge statue on our right that made us curious.

We just watched when we returned from Lembang. Oh, it turns out that the orange statue is a unique marker of the Chewy Restaurant.

This restaurant is located on Jl. Setiabudhi No. 380B, in the city of Bandung, not far from Polsek Cidaadap. The location is indeed hidden, so people are often not observant of the existence of this restaurant. When I arrived at the parking lot, I fell in love with a place that looked beautiful and comfortable.

Mupu Jeruk is open every Tuesday–Sunday (Monday close) at 08.00-17.00 WIB.

This restaurant has a concept of nature. The path is made of stone with a green grass terrace that looks airy.

Restaurant guests are welcome to eat at a regular table or choose a wooden serving with a unique design. This semi-outdoor space looks spacious with a precarious roof without a ceiling, and only wooden frames are visible.

There is no partition between rooms. Guest chairs are also made of wood with old-school designs that make the impression of vintage stronger. Some lesehan-themed saung that a friend of Menong can choose while enjoying the blowing breeze.

Menu

Mupu Jeruk Resto serves a more Sundanese-style menu, so we choose Mupu-typical rice liwet (rice liwet with lemongrass seasoning and bay leaves). It doesn’t taste right if the rice liwet is not accompanied by karedok and vegetable asem. As a side dish, we chose 500 grams of grilled gurame with honje seasoning.

Honje, or kecombrang, is a type of ginger-jahean spice known for its distinctive color and smell. Honje is rarely found in various Sundanese cuisines that I know. So far, I only know honje as an addition to pecel or rujak seasoning.

When I was a kid, I didn’t like honje because of the pungent smell. Growing up, my nose began to enjoy the distinctive smell and taste of honje. Especially when the mother specifically planted a honje at home.

In addition to grilled gurame, I also chose salted fish and sambals as a complement. Actually, Menong friends can order a complete package that already contains rice, side dishes, vegetables, sambal, fruit, and drinks, such as tilapia fish packages, lead packages, or chicken packages.

Menong friends can order additional menus such as cireng, ulen, tempeh mendoan, fried bananas, or bandros. For drinks, friends can order a variety of teas, bandrek, cendol, coffee, or current drinks such as macha.

In terms of price, Mupu Jeruk presents an affordable price with a pretty good taste. The pain is savory and tasty. Likewise, the burnt gurame that we choose feels fresh and does not smell of soil like fresh fish in general.

I gave a rating of 4.5/5 for the taste in the Chewy Leaf restaurant.

Other Facilities

Although invisible from the highway, Mupu Jeruk restaurant has a relatively wide parking lot. The parking lot is separated from the restaurant courtyard with stone staircases framed with a unique gate of wood and stone fence times.

As the name implies, ‘Mupu Jeruk,’ ‘mupu’ in Sundanese means ‘metetik.’ In this restaurant, Menong’s friend can pick the oranges available in the garden behind the saung-saung restaurant. There are no tickets to enter the garden area. Menong friends only must pay if you check oranges for Rp. 70,000/kg (expensive, yes, but comparable to the sensation).

This 3-hectare orange garden is planted with 1000 Dekopon orange trees, Citrus reticulata, oranges from Japan that began to enter Indonesia in the 2010s. This orange has a unique shape that is oval-shaped and has a protrusion at the top like a pear. This seedless orange has a fresh sweetness, so it is much preferred.

After lunch, we folded our way to the garden to pick the oranges on the tree. Like playing in the garden, we also 'twin' with the scorching sun and wet the ground. Oranges can be picked directly without the help of stairs because the branches are low enough to reach.

We split up which oranges to pick up while occasionally posing sweetly. Once done, Menong’s friend will weigh and pay for the orange that has been picked.

Overall, Mupu Jeruk Resto is very worthy to be used as a place to gather to enjoy dishes at a fairly affordable price, healing by picking your own oranges and taking pictures in various very Instagrammable spots.

Bathrooms and mosques are also available in sufficient quantities. And I just found out that now Mupu Jeruk restaurant provides wedding venue facilities that seem to be able to choose Menong friends