Bali Kitchen Indonesian Cafe – New York City (BuleStory.com)
TL; DR – Just OK, I won’t go back again, staff is NOT Indonesian (take a minute to take a look my little story
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My Hubby and I went to New York City again and visited a lot of places that we love. However we wanted to try some new restaurants or cafe and found Bali Kitchen in the lower east side of Manhattan.
Basic Information
Website: https://balikitchennyc.com
Phone: +1-646-678-4784
Address: 128 East 4th Street, New York, NY 10003
Price: About $30 for two people
Would We Go Back: No
The Experience
Bali Kitchen is not a restaurant, it’s too small for a restaurant so i guess it’s a cafe or grab an go food shop that sells Indonesian food in New York City. There were only seats for about 9 people total. I thought they should consider to put some more tables for customers convenience. And when we’re there it’s not a busy time because it’s weekend, i can’t imagine if it’s lunch time on weekdays, anyway …. that’s just my opinion. The service wasn’t too fast or too slow. The staff was friendly, but they WERE NOT INDONESIAN
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The restaurant was completely full when we arrived. We waiting for about 10 minutes and then some people left, so we could sit at the window bar area. That was nice because we could do some people watching while we ate. Actually there were some American customers who were speaking Indonesian behind us so that was cool!
The Food
The food just okay. We got siomay and perkedel as appetizers, for main course we got nasi kuning and nasi campur and i got juice durian also which is not good at all. It taste like coconut milk and durian essence
Here’s the food that we got …
It’s called Perkedel ![]()
This is the Siomay ![]()
This called Nasi Kuning ![]()
This one is Nasi Campur
Here’s my juice durian ![]()
Here’s the menu ![]()
Little Story
So when me and my hubby went here, we’re pretty surprised when we saw the place it’s much smaller than we thought it’s gonna be. And when we placed order and start talking in Indonesian language (Bahasa) and the staff who taking the order did not understand anything that we said which meant that the staff were not Indonesian. It seemed unusual, because we went to a bunch of Indonesian restaurants and cafes in the United States and all the staff who working there were always Indonesian. Oh and we met some Indonesian people there and we talk about the food for a minute and they said “it’s ok”
and there are some American sat behind us were talking about how great Indonesian food when they were in Indonesia and all about their trip to some islands in Indonesia and it sounds very interesting, even i am truly an Indonesian i have never gone to some of the islands they had, NOT YET though
Overall
The total cost for everything was about $30 for two people. Unfortunately we wouldn’t go back again. But they had a cute design interior though ![]()
Here’s the ambience of the cafe ![]()
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Indonesian Language/Bahasa Indonesia
Kafe Indonesia Bali Kitchen – New York
TL; DR – OK aja, saya tidak akan kembali lagi, staf nya BUKAN orang Indonesia (luangkan waktu sebentar untuk melihat cerita kecil saya
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Suami saya dan saya pergi ke New York City lagi dan mengunjungi banyak tempat yang kami sukai. Namun kami ingin mencoba beberapa restoran atau kafe baru dan menemukan Bali Kitchen di sisi timur bawah Manhattan.
Informasi Dasar
Situs Web : https://balikitchennyc.com
Telepon : +1-646-678-4784
Alamat : 128 East 4th Street, New York, NY 10003
Harga : Sekitar $30(Rp.390.000) untuk dua orang
Pengalaman
Bali Kitchen bukan sebuah restoran, terlalu kecil untuk sebuah restoran jadi saya rasa itu adalah sebuah kafe atau toko makanan ambil dan pergi yang menjual makanan Indonesia di New York City. Hanya ada kursi untuk total sekitar 9 orang. Saya pikir mereka harus mempertimbangkan untuk menambahkan beberapa meja lagi untuk kenyamanan pelanggan. Dan ketika kami berada di sana, itu bukan waktu yang sibuk karena itu akhir pekan, saya tidak bisa membayangkan jika itu adalah waktu makan siang pada hari kerja, yasudahlah ya … itu hanya pendapat saya. Pelayanannya tidak terlalu cepat atau terlalu lambat. Staf nya ramah, tetapi mereka bukan orang Indonesia
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Restoran itu benar-benar penuh ketika kami tiba. Kami menunggu sekitar 10 menit dan kemudian beberapa orang pergi, sehingga kami bisa duduk di area jendela bar. Itu bagus karena kami bisa membuat beberapa orang menonton sambil makan. Sebenarnya ada beberapa pelanggan Amerika yang berbicara bahasa Indonesia di belakang kami jadi itu keren!
Makanannya oke saja. Kami memesan siomay dan perkedel sebagai makanan pembuka, untuk hidangan utama kami memesan nasi kuning dan nasi campur dan saya juga memesan jus durian yang rasanya tidak enak sama sekali. Rasanya seperti santan dan sari durian
Inilah suasana kafe nya
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Hahahahh, funny story. Great pictures, keep up the good work