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The trend started approximately 4 years ago when they opened 'vintage' restaurants serving dishes made from grandma's recipes. They used names like "mom's kitchen", "grandma X' house", etc. They went all out on the decor, recreating old colonial houses; peranakan style, javanese & balinese houses... In Jakarta they have 'Kedai Tiga Nyonya', 'Dapur Babah', 'Loro Djonggrang', and the famous 'Kembang Goela'. About a week ago a restaurant opened in Parijs Van Java mall in Bandung called 'Katjapiring', serving peranakan meals. I personally think the decor is quite nice; and the most important thing is the food was great. I had 'Soto Betawi'. The meat was soft & digestible, soup was yummy, altho they need to put a bit more potatoes in it. And they have four pages of peranakan food!