Special Food Served on The Special Day of Eid

The moment of Eid al-Fitr or Lebaran is often filled with meals with family and relatives. During Eid, a variety of food and beverage dishes are served at the dining table. Several types of Eid specialties include chicken opor, beef stew, ketupat, rendang, liver-fried chili sauce, and nastar cake. Eid specialties are usually only served during Eid. Therefore, Eid specialties are always eagerly awaited at the moment. Each region or family tradition has different Eid specialties. In Indonesia, the most common Lebaran food is ketupat or lontong. Ketupat or rice…

Learn to Cook Papeda at Weriagar District, West Papua

Weriagar is a district located in Teluk Bintuni Regency, West Papua Province, Indonesia. The staple food of the local Weriagar community is Papeda. Papeda is made from sago cooked in boiling water on a stove until the dough looks like glue. Papeda is delicious eaten with fish in soup. Sayur bunga pepaya (papaya flower bud vegetables) and tumis kangkung (stir-fried water spinach) are often served as side-dish vegetables to accompany papeda. On some coasts and lowlands on Papua, sago is the main ingredient to all the foods. Sagu bakar, sagu…

With Different Ingredients, This Culinary Is Popular in Indonesia

Indonesian culinary has a variety of flavors and ways of serving. Although some of them use the same mixture of ingredients, the presentation is different. Mixed vegetables with the peanut sauceGado-gado is a food menu that uses a variety of vegetables with peanut sauce. This food is identical and typical to Betawi, which is served with peanut sauce – pounded with salt and brown sugar. Various vegetables are then mixed with peanut sauce in a pestle. But in Surabaya there is also gado-gado. Although the mixture of vegetables used is…

Lontong Balap – Surabaya

Lontong Balap: Special and Original’s Food From Surabaya City. Typical original Surabaya’s food which is cooked from the rice cake, sprouts, fried tofu, Lento (made of soybean), soy sauce, fried onion and chili sauce. Lento is made from rice peanuts/Tholo with flour, afterwards it is added with galingale, the spring onion, rough-skinned citrus fruit and adequate salt. It is formed round resembled the croquette. Lontong Balap is full of sprouts. Lontong Balap is not served well without Kerang Satay. Shellfish satay, ismade from the shellfish that is boiled and then…