Special Foods of 33 Provinces in Indonesia (Java part)

BANTEN

Bandeng Satai is from Banten. Bandeng satai is tender and doesn't have any bones, typically different from usual Bandeng fish and because of that, Bandeng satai becomes souvenir.

JAKARTA

Kerak telor is original food from Jakarta (Betawi). The ingredients are white glutinous rice, egg, ebi (salty dried shrimp) which is roasted and added by fried onion, and then seasoned by roasted coconut, red chilli, kencur, ginger, grain pepper, salt, and sugar.

JAWA BARAT (BANDUNG)

Serabi sometimes called Srabi or Surabi, is one of snacks from Indonesia and most found in Bandung, Solo, Pekalongan, Jakarta, and Purwokerto. Serabi is almost the same like pancake but made of rice flour and poured by watery sweet sauce from coconut sugar.

JAWA TENGAH (SEMARANG)

Lumpia Semarang is a food like rollade filling with bamboo sprout, egg, and chicken or shrimp. The taste is the mix of Tionghoa and Indonesia because firstly made by a chinese who marry an indonesian and live in Semarang, Middle Java. This food begins to be sold and known in Semarang at GANEFO sport party which is held in Soekarno era.

D.I. YOGYAKARTA

Gudeg is typical food from Yogyakarta and Middle Java which is made by young jackfruit cooked with coconut milk in hours. Brown colour is usually produced by cooking jati leaves alltogether. Gudeg is eaten with rice and served with thick coconut milk (areh), country chicken, egg, tofu, and krecek fried chilli sauce.

JAWA TIMUR (SURABAYA)

Rujak Cingur is one of traditional food from Surabaya (cingur means 'mouth' in java) which is boiled and mixed in dishes. Rujak cingur contains slices of fruit like cucumber, krai (typical cucumber from East Java), kedondong, yam, young mango, pineapple, rice cake, tofu, soybean cake, bendoyo, cingur, and vegetables such as spout, long bean, and kale. All of them mix with sauce that made of processed shrimp paste, boiled water to make it a bit watery, sugar/brown sugar, chilli, roasted nut, fried onion, salt, and thin slices of young green seed banana (pisang klutuk).


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