Here is my super-long guide
based on my last trip just for you guys.
Quite useful and comprehensive guide about the city
here: http://wikitravel.org/en/Bandung
Famous restaurants:
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Kampung Daun - means Leaf Village. Best time to go is Friday night. Service can be slow, but ask for Pondokan that is. Very taste bbq fish, and local food. The weather is cool and nice.
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Rumah Strawberry - pick your own straberry, but the highlight is the local nasi liwet package. Very fragrant with friend or bbq chicken, etc.
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The Valley, is a restaurant in a hotel that is the top of the cliff. At lunch, you can see the cliff overseeing the Bandung city. At night should be pretty romantic :) the price is steep though, means like Singapore level pricing. The way there is also very scary and steep, an interesting experience, as you follow narrow road among the villas. #2 The Valley
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And then Warung Bu Tris, Braga Permai, Rm Ampera, are a couple of wellknown quality and name.
For Shopping Cihampelas, I feel by staying there at
night you’ll be able to find some interesting things. Other than Cihampelas:-
there are some unique factory outlets along
Jalan Riau with better quality clothing and shirts. Heritage is the most famous
one, it's housed within an historical building. And there is a couple others
side by side along the walking distance. Conveniently, there are snacks pop-up
stores just outside to do some local snack shopping. Check out the “branded
bags” section and let me know what you think hoo hoo
Snacks try Batagor Kingsley - a sort of fried
dumpling/siew mai with peanut sauce. #9 Batagor
Kingsley
Also Sekoteng Gardu. The food court at Braga Citywalk, a
local "mall" has the sekoteng, the batagor, soto, sate, and so on.
Sightseeing:
Along Braga street, which is tempoe doeloe, Dutch
colonial time. Good restaurant, like Warung Bu Tris with fried ayam and local
karaoke entertaintment. You can sing too :) There are a couple of night
streestall, but maybe the cleanliness not guaranteed. Also there is a large
restaurant Braga Permai near 7-eleven that is serving all kinds of food, it was
super crowded on weekend dinner when I was there so I didn't try. According to
tour website, it has famous ice-cream parlour in bandung.
Floating Market around Bandung. I went there in Saturday
morning, it was good to stroll around, has very bustling snack/food stalls that
they sold on the boat. Or you can grab one of the pondok and relax and do people
watching or selfies.
Take home snacks:
Popular ones are Kartika Sari or Primarasa. People
normally by Bagelen (crispy, sweet, yummy baked bread), Banana choco roll,
Pisang Keju Molen (banana and cheese pastry) - the fresh ones from oven is so
yummy and soft. We visit the stores around 10-11am when the new ones are just
in.
My family we did very relaxing and mainly eating and
relaxing in the car while waiting for traffic. If you are up to it, you can
visit the waterfalls, or the Mountain Gunung Tangkuban Perahu, or Lembang, or
chill out at many nice and chic café all around Bandung and its
surrounding.
Other ideas also to go to tea plantation and do some
tour, something unique.
This website has some weird or unique café in Bandung.
http://sebandung.com/2014/05/tempat-makan-enak-dan-unik-di-bandung/
