img_tn_music_jan2010Visited four restaurants in Jakarta, which provides live music. Visitors not only can order food, but also your favorite songs. Once, in the 1920s at the Sunda Kelapa never stood a shop that became a favorite of international sailors. His name Sunda Kelapa Warong Shanghai, was founded by Siti Djaenab and Chan Mo Sang. Inspired by this story, Setjadibrata Anhar family, owners of Tugu Group, founded the Shanghai Blue 1920 Restaurant at the end of Jalan Kebon Sirih.

As a collector of antiques, Anhar no trouble to liven the 1920s at his restaurant. The interior is designed with a classic style red and blue wooden ornaments chime read kanji. Typical semi Shanghai is presented through a red lantern decorations are perched on the ceiling. While lay underneath tables art deco style that wed Betawi and Chinese. Attention to detail is the excellence of this place. Old things decorate the corners of the room. There used trumpet jazz musicians of the past, the poster “old age”, to chair the regular haircut we see in the movies black and white.

Shanghai Blue glance more like a museum than a restaurant. Exact name of the restaurant, the food was entitled Shanghai Food. Seafood dishes with a distinctive touch of Betawi and Chinese became the main dish. Some of its flagship is the chrysanthemum fish, fried carp dishes are tasty, shrimp and crab chopsticks. Musical performances in Shanghai Blue can we see every night. The group hummed Aartsen Quatro- classic jazz music  your imagination take flight to old Batavia.

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