Bintang Bali: A New Café in front of Okubo Station

New Indonesian & Bali Cafe in Okubo!!

Written by Nurul Burhan san

The scene around Shin-Okubo through Okubo station is enlived by foreigners. Beside this place known as Korean-town in Tokyo, several Muslim communities also can be found in this area, like from Indonesia, Malaysia, Bangladesh, Pakistan, etc. Apart that some Muslim halal stores and Supermarket (Gyomu) which sell halal product stand in this area, a mushola, named shin-Okubo mushola, is also located here. Both Muslim store and mushola invite workers, students, and tourist Muslim to come here, especially during praying jumu’ah.

Bintang-Bali is a new café just for several weeks. Located in front of Okubo station and around Muslim communities, this café provide Indonesian dishes and off course halal like: curry, fried rice, nasi ayam, and mie tomyan. It is suitable for Indonesian who miss for Indonesian food or foreigners who want to taste it. After praying jumu’ah, I visited to this café just for 5 minutes’ walk from mushola Shin-Okubo.

I ate Nasi Ayam with salad and teh manis, only for 700 Yen. The chicken meat portion quite big, soft, not in deep fried. The rice were cooked with pandan leaves that looked greenish, plus fried onions as topping, typical Indonesian dishes. Salad and teh manis were quite small but overall Nasi Ayam was delicious.

According to its employee, this café which is also owned by the owner of Toko Indonesia (Indonesian Store), not far from café’s location, began to operate from 11 AM to 22 PM from Tuesday to Sunday. Because of this café were quite new, currently only several menus that were regularly reserved. In the future, more menu will be served from this café.

For those who visit Muslim communities in Shin-Okubo and or after jumuah praying, do not hesitated to taste Indonesian dishes from this café.

Bintang Bali

*This restaurant is not Halal certified.
*Alcoholic drinks are served.