"Lakoca Cuanki" Delicious Instant Snack from Bandung city

In last post i wrote about how the instant food trend being so popular nowdays. This food item, so easy to prepare and store, that's why instant food are perfectly suits the hectic pace of modern life nowdays.  In Indonesia, this trend are also increasingly playing an important role in  day  life. Many large to small food company try to find an inovative idea to make instant food. 

I live in Bandung city for almost 9 years. The people of Bandung are never lack in creativity. Each day, there will be a brand new things invented in this city, including food. Bandung is well known as the source of creative and unique food in Indonesia. You can find a lot of cheap restaurants in Bandung. In Indonesia there is famous snack a meatball culinary, Bandung city also have its own meatball cuisine, which is cuanki. From the name of it, you may guess that it is a Chinese cuisine, but it is not. Cuanki is actually an acronym from Bahasa Indonesia, ‘Cari Uang jalan kaki’, which means ‘makes some money by foot/walking’. That is because these foods are generally sell with a cart or pole carried by the merchant. Cuanki’s concept is similar to meatballs, with beef meatballs and refined processed flour is sprinkled with savory sauce, then sprinkled with chopped celery leaves and the most important is fried dumplings, sometimes it's add by tofu and meatballs too.

Cuanki

Original Cuanki

Cuanki man

As i said earlier,Bandung people are never lack in creativity, yes they are! because now, you don't have wait too long for mamang cuangki ( merchant of cuanki) come to your neighbourhood to enjoy cuanki, because now there is an instant cuanki. 

Cuanki Lakoca is the first Cuanki instant cup in Bandung city, Indonesia and the whole world :D .  Cuanki Lakoca based in Cimahi, Bandung owned by young enterpreneur named Ocha. It's really easy to prepare, just add hot water, yes! it's the same way like you always do when you make an instant noodle.  Just add hot water, wait 3-5 minutes , add the ingredients and the instant cuanki is ready to eat! You have to taste this snack! It's really delicious and tastefull. And when the rain falls down, i think it's the best way to enjoy Cuanki Lakoca. It'll warm your body up! If oneday you visit Bandung city Don't forget to bring lakoca home and let's enjoy the cuanki lakoca with someone you love.  

Cuanki Lakoca

Bandung is the place for culinary lovers as it homes to a lot of traditional yet unique food in Indonesia. You can find cheap restaurants in Bandung easily, each with its own unique dishes. If you want to try a traditional yet delicious food of Bandung, try Cuanki Lakoca. A portion of cuanki Lakoca  will make you want to eat more and more. If you're not live in Bandung city, don't worry you still can order via online too.

For more info about cuanki Lakoca you can contact via :

sms/whatsapp: +62 81321034343
Twitter : @infolakoca

Facebook : infolakoca

Instant Food Trends

Contemporary urban lifestyle, fast-paced and frenetic, have led to the evolution of the concept of convenience foods. With time being invaluable to all, "Instant Foods" are increasingly playing an important role in our day-to-day life. Instant Noodle have become one of the world's most popular food items owing to the versatility and convenience. This Product is one of the first ready-to-eat food launched widely in the global food industry and now it has successfully become an important part of modern food consumption.  This food item, so easy to prepare and store, perfectly suits the hectic pace of modern life. It was back in 1958 that the founder of Nissin Food Products, Andō Momofuku, came up with the idea for instant ramen. Since then, the noodles have become a favorite of people around the globe, with production spreading overseas. As of 2011, the annual consumption of instant ramen had reached 98 billion packages (according to the World Instant Noodles Association). South Korea has the highest per-capita consumption (at around 74.1 packages a year), while China and Indonesia consume the greatest amount overall. 

In a little shed behind his home in the town of Ikeda, Osaka Prefecture, Momofuku started work on a invention for quickly making  ramen at home by just adding hot water. He worked alone, sleeping only four hours a night and without a day off for an entire year. Chicken Ramen, the product of many trial and error experiments, was dubbed "magic ramen" and became an instant popular sensation.

On a fact finding trip to America, Momofuku observes supermarket managers breaking up Chicken Ramen noodles, putting them in a cup, pouring in hot water, and then eating them with a fork. It was then that Momofuku realized that moving past conceptions about how we eat was the key to making instant ramen a global food. By bringing together all sorts of wisdom and innovative ideas, CUPNOODLES transformed "made in Japan" instant ramen into a global food.

Cups noodle were the second instant noodle innovation that really took the food trend in the world. Nissin founder Momofuku Ando of Japan decided that a cup would be a really handy way to have instant noodles on the go. His creation came to the market in 1971. Forty-two years later, the instant noodle landscape is filled with many different cup designs and contents – some all inclusive only needing hot water,m and some requiring a little more with packets – and some even with forks! FEW THINGS could seem more mundane than a packet of instant noodles. Dinner of last resort, bought in bulk, ready in minutes, instant noodles are cheap, unremarkable food. As culinary trends come and go, the cup noodle trend endures, : not good for you, but inexpensive and tasty enough.

Pursuing his long held dream to invent a ramen that can be eaten in space, Momofuku started work on Space Ramen. Along with applying various techniques for eating in weightless environments, Space Ramen is based on the hot oil instant drying method that Momofuku invented in 1958. With Space Ramen, Momofuku's creative thinking transcended the bounds of earth to contribute to creating food that people can eat even in space.

Nowdays, The current trend of instant food is getting more popular. The trend of life nowadays is very hectic and  harsh, people are all in a hurry. They have no time to cook their food so the making of instant foods was raised in order to compensate hunger even when we are on the run to meeting our requirements, appointments and other matters. Now, not just noodle, even you can enjoy a lot of variety of instant food mixes offered  without much effort. There are many various instant food that you can enjoy. Easy to cook! Easy to eat! and I think there's nothing wrong with instant foods, but  it really depends on how often you eat that stuff. If you have it once in a while, that's perfectly fine. However, if you live off of it, that's a completely different story. So, be wise to choose what food that  you want to eat,guys! and stay healthy!  

Educational Toys for Toddler

I was graduated in Product Design Department. In the final project, i made educational toys for toddler. Toys, and play in general, are important when it comes to growing up and learning about the world around us. The young use toys and play to discover their identity, help their bodies grow strong, learn cause and effect, explore relationships, and practice skills they will need as adults. Adults use toys and play to form and strengthen social bonds, teach, remember and reinforce lessons from their youth, discover their identity, exercise their minds and bodies, explore relationships, practice skills, and decorate their living spaces.

I named my final project toys "FUDDLER" means Fun, Educative for Toddler (2-5 years). Why Toddler? Because in that age, 2-5 years is the "golden age". The Golden Age is a time period when some activity or skill was at its peak. So  it is so important to stimulate the toddler skills in this period.  The concept of my final project is an educational toys that can stimulate 3 development of basics skills ( motoric, cognitive, and psychological) of  toddler. Fuddler is a builder toys that have many different parts.  All the parts shape is  used basic shape : circle, square, triangle, and trapezoidal).  The  3 diffrent parts are :

1. Basic parts, consist  wheel, container, handle, and pole.
2. wodden cube and ball
3. Wooden screws

Fuddler also used basic colors: Red, Blue, Yellow and Green. And it can build in  5 different toys : Chart, Cycle, Scooter, Rocker, and stacking toys table.

The Goals of this project is to design an educational toys that can be form or build with that toddler's desire and imagine and also can stimulate their 3 development of basics skills, such as :

1. Motoric Skills : to practice their motoric skills : to build, to walk, to propel, to climb, and to ascend .
2. Cognitive Skills : to develop their power of imagination (bulid something) , to know basic colors and shape, and to practice how to build something that they want ( help to 

   stabilized beetwen their brain and hand).

3. Psychological : to learn how to be patient and make efforts.

Prototype

Users Test

A Great Package and A Great Product ?

In the last post i wrote about Product Packaging. I think a product packaging is the art of selling a product. Packaging not only to protect the product inside but also an identity of product itself. The way any product is packaged and looks on the store shelf plays a big part in whether or not buyer will be interested in buying it. If the packaging looks drab and boring, buyer will overlook the product on the shelf and pick up something else. So, a good product packaging is an important factor in selling a products. ( you can check my late post here ). 

The packaging often convince the buyer that the product inside will be a quality product with great care by skilled people. In general, so it is, because only serious and powerful producers invest in the exceptional design of their packages. What do you like more ? A great package with a great product but more expensive or an ordinary package with also a great product but not so expensive ? the choice is yours!

"Product Packaging" The Art of Selling a Product

Since i work in the Packaging Company, so i will share  a lilttle about Product Packaging with you . Product packaging plays an important role in the marketing mix Packaging plays an important role as a medium in the marketing mix, in promotion campaigns, as a pricing criterion, in defining the character of new products, as a setter of trends and as an instrument to create brand identity and shelf impact in all product groups. So What is Product Packaging anyway? Packaging is the process of enclosing, or containing the product in bottles, plastic bags, wrappers, lubes, paper cartoons and boxes etc. For the purpose of displaying useful information regarding the product, its contents, weight, size, price, constituents, usage necessary instruction about the usage and storing the product must be recorded on the package. Package reduces the risk of wastage, spoilage, leakage, metage and evaporation etc. in the process of transportation and storage.

Packaging is more than just your product's pretty face. Your package design may affect everything from breakage rates in shipment to whether stores will be willing to stock it. For example, "displayability" is an important concern. The original slanted-roof metal container used for Log Cabin Syrup was changed to a design that was easier to stack after grocers became reluctant to devote the necessary amounts of shelf space to the awkward packages.

FUNCTIONS OF PACKAGING

Protection

The fundamental functions of packaging is to protect it from sun, rain, moisture, insects and atmospheric contracts etc. packaging maintain the product fresh and enhances its life. So, we use air-tight containers for certain products.

Easy identification

Every producer has its own distinct packaging, different from other with respect to design, size, color and other specification packaging helps-us in the easy identification and immediate picking up of the product.

Convenience

Packaging provides convenience in the transportation and storage of the product. It is convenient for the consumers to use these products. Packaging of Tropicana Real and Frooti Juices facilitates their consumption. Packaging, no doubt helps us in the safe and convenient handling and storing of the product.

Sales promotion

It is rightly said that packaging works as silent, salesman. It catches the attention of customers, who pick up the product, go through its description and are induced to purchase the product. Self service is becoming more and more common in the field of shopping, where the customer picks up the product himself and makes its payment on the counter. Packaging in these circumstances promotes the sales.

Innovative ideas

The producers sometime develop innovative ideas about packaging which promotes their sales. For examples, shampoo, tomato ketchup, surf, sugar, milk, oil etc., are sold in small pouches. In addition to the above functions packaging facilities branding of the product. Empty packages have their resale value for customers. Packaging builds image of the product and its producers. The effective packaging is the source of prestige to its producers. Packaging continues to be more important in the modern growing completion, open, display of the product and self service of the customers.