Plaza Blok M

About this audio guide

This guide to Blok M Plaza in Jakarta follows the appetite of the neighbourhood around it, from the luxury mall of the early nineteen-nineties to the Japanese izakayas a few streets away on Jalan Melawai. It centres on Kira Kira Ginza, a family kitchen with roots in nineteen eighty-six, and the son who arrived from Japan to take over his mother's recipes. You'll also hear what the Asian financial crisis did to the district. Best heard standing by the metro link inside the mall.