At its peak, Indonesian Restaurant 1968 had five outlets in Hong Kong, and only one remains. Located on the 5th floor of The L. Place in Central, the restaurant has been refurbished to inject a youthful twist into the restaurant, and the restaurant is a relatively authentic and long-established Indonesian restaurant in the city.
The restaurant offers a wide variety of Indonesian dishes, all printed on a paper menu, with English, Chinese and Japanese in a concise and straightforward manner. Pre-dinner snacks include shrimp and corn kernels, potato beef patties, fried spring rolls, Gillette shrimp cakes, soft shell crab paper rice rolls and fried chicken wings with chutney, priced at HK$80 each. Salads include peanut butter salad, prawn papaya salad, black hair roast pork grapefruit salad, etc., with an average price of HK$100 each. The vegetables in the garlic stir-fried cabbage are not seasoned enough, and the vegetables are older, and the entrance is green and chewy, compared with the fried eggplant with bay leaves and the fried cabbage seedlings with garlic are more stable. The special dishes include Indonesian free-range chicken satay, Australian Angus beef satay, Indonesian sauce roasted fish, Indonesian sauce roasted chicken, etc., with a high order rate. Among the pasta, the coconut milk and seafood noodle soup is recommended, the coconut milk soup base is fragrant, with handmade noodles with a moderate soft and hard taste, and the prawns soaked in the soup absorb the fragrance of coconut water, and the meat is full with the fragrance of coconut water, and the sense of hierarchy is rich.
The restaurant's décor is a reflection of Indonesia's warmth and liveliness, with blue and white as the main color palette, murals and furnishings such as beaches, flamingos, coconut palms, and plenty of greenery throughout the restaurant, giving you the ambience of being in the middle of a tropical rainforest. Most of the service staff in the restaurant are Indonesian ladies who can speak simple Cantonese, and mainly need to communicate in English. It is worth pointing out that the restaurant is slow to serve food, even if it is an ordinary stir-fry in leisure, it takes about 15 to 20 minutes, which is related to the lack of staff in the back kitchen.
