Seia’s interior provides the best art of all: artworks, gong with Javanese-motif carving, and wooden walls. The outside is adorned with stony planting pots that matches the color pallet of the restaurant: dark colors like brown and dark greys.
Contrary to its small exterior, Seia is surprisingly spacious. Plenty of decorations and the dark color scheme don’t makes Seia cramped or over-furnished. Perhaps the causes of it are several plants that are placed in every corner. And also, Seia effectively uses natural light using multiple window panes on outer corner of the restaurant.
Bold Moves
As a restaurant serves Indonesian food, this brings an assumption that Seia serves comfort foods only. It’s mostly true. And considering the fact that Seia main consumers are employees, who have limited time to have lunch or dinner, Seia is pretty brave. Or should I say, risky.
That’s thankfully not the case here. The foods come between 10-20 minutes. Lumpia Semarang (fried spring roll) is smooth but not greasy. Every spring roll in Seia complements with one type of sambal, but I ordered two: mango sambal and torch ginger sambal.
