After such a long time of wanting to visit, I finally made it here to beautiful Indonesia
I just landed in Jakarta and I will be spending the next month exploring the beautiful islands and the beautiful mainland of Jawa
Welcome to Indonesia. Good morning everybody and welcome to beautiful Jakarta, Indonesia
It's been a long time of me wanting to come here and I'm so happy I'm finally here
I arrived late last night after 24 hours of traveling. The first thing I did this morning was get a SIM card which is just around the corner from Telkom Cell
It wasn't very expensive. It's around 150,000 rupees which is about $10 for 20 gigabytes of data which is amazing
I just ordered a Gojak which is the local transport system here
It's basically like Uber but they don't have Uber here. So I just ordered a go-jack bike to head to the first spot on my journey here in Jakarta
first stop on this journey across jakarta is istaklan mosque this mosque is actually the largest
here in southeast asia so it's a pleasure to be here walking the ground it's so stunning they
actually just told me it was closed inside so i can't head inside just today but hopefully inshallah
in the next few days while i'm here in the city i can head in and check it out it's so beautiful
in these grounds honestly the weather is going to take a little bit of me getting used to because
i'm so used to the dry middle eastern heat here it's very very humid i'm sweating so much
but it's an honor to be here walking around so inside the mosque complex there are huge amounts of street food so i just picked up some
chicken and beef dumplings they look amazing the people there are so nice i just had about a 10
minute conversation with the friendly locals very much a language barrier but it's amazing
for me i speak through body language and speak through happiness and smiling rather than the
language itself so it's just a pleasure to meet such incredible friendly local people
and i can't wait to eat this so bismillah okay let's try this very very good wow
Wow, the meat is amazing, the outside of the dumplings is super buttery and fluffy
and there's a good amount of chili on there which is amazing. I love spice so much
Okay Yes good Nice to meet you Yeah thank you What your name Tophig Tophig
Tophig, good I'm Jay Jay Yes, from London London London, yes So Jakarta is a huge, densely populated city
with around 11 million people living here making it the largest city here in Southeast Asia
In the whole of Indonesia, there are around 270 plus million people
and 230 million of those are Muslim, making it the largest population of Muslims in any country across the world
Here in the city, you can find a huge mix of cultures including Javanese, Malay, Indian, Arab and European
which has all influenced both its languages, the architecture and the food
And if you can't already tell, I'm so excited to be here to taste especially the food there are a huge variety of foods here and I can't wait to spend the next few
days exploring beautiful Jakarta I'm loving the city so far the first impressions are amazing
very very busy city but the people are all so friendly I'm loving it
Okay, so I just jumped on a Gojak to the older parts of town
This is Kototui. Hi. And yeah, I'm heading towards the old parts of town
It was around 7,000 rupees to get here, which I'm not quite sure the conversion rate
I'll put it on the screen, but very, very cheap to get a Gojak scooter across to the other side of town
I'm excited to be exploring this part. This is what formerly it would have been before it spread out to a huge mega city of over 11 million people
I'm not really sure where I'm going But I'm heading down a very popular street with a lot of street food vendors
So hopefully I can find some good local food to check out a lot of people warned me about food poisoning here for me
I've never had it anywhere in the world So hopefully inshallah it will not happen here, but I'm excited to try all of the good Indonesian food
That they have on offer here so i'm just walking in and out of the tiny streets and local markets hi
amazing locals everywhere so kind and friendly there's a lot of street food stores across the
other side of the river which i'm probably gonna check out but i'm loving it so far this heat is
gonna take a lot for me to get used to i think i'm sweating so much hi how are you
see what i mean so friendly oh no what is this? this
yes one? yes one? yes one! yes one! yes one! yes one
okay so i just found an amazing local street food vendor i'm not sure what i'm gonna eat but i'll let you know what it tastes like
it looks amazing freshly fried here in oil Thanks
Okay, so I guess this is the deep fried tofu. It's very good
And I have the chili too. Even better with chili. Wow, it's amazing
I've had the best time. Just a few hours later, the sun has just set
and I've just arrived inside a popular street food market here and a night market here, just north of the museum
here in the north of Jakarta and it looks amazing. It was highly recommended by you guys to come and check it out
They have a huge amount of food, t-shirts, clothing, everything you can imagine is here So let try some Indonesian street food
so the first thing i definitely have to try here in jakarta is nasi goreng which is basically a
fried rice here in indonesia can't wait to try it i've ordered medium spice and also for some
extra chilies just in case it's not quite spicy enough because i love spice so much
i was quite literally walking down the street earlier with chili chewing chili all day and it
It was amazing, I love it, I love spice. So now it's time to try the nasi grang
This is Indonesian fried rice. I'm just gonna get it with my hands
It's really hot. It's really hot. I'm gonna take this. I need more spice though
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. So I've arrived here in Indonesia just at the end of rainy season
Luckily today, usually in the afternoon it rains, but today thankfully it didn't
But it's just started raining and there's a huge thunderstorm coming so we have time just for one more snack before we head home
Let's try chicken satay. Is it sugar? That's good. Wow, nice. wow it's great huh film this is the sauce they cook it in wow it's really good and it's got a good amount of chili that hit is amazing really good
UK nice to meet you Thank you
Thank you