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5 Traditional Local Food You Need to Try in Indonesia

Rabu, 17 Juni 2020 - 07:11 | 33.66k
Selendang Mayang, an exotic taste of desert you need to try.  (FOTO: Instagram.com)
Selendang Mayang, an exotic taste of desert you need to try. (FOTO: Instagram.com)
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TIMESINDONESIA, JAKARTAIndonesia has various kind of traditional food with different taste that will bring you over the moon for the joy. Some of the snack is perfect o be served for your dessert, some of them could fit so well as your appetizer.

Well, we are not going to discuss whether it’s your dessert or appetizer, its all about the taste. Check them out.    

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1. Es Selendang Mayang

This wonderful dessert is a typical dessert of Betawi, West Java. It has sweet and savoury taste of the brown sugar and coconut milk. It also has a beautiful color of white, green and red that will tempt you to taste it.

If you happened to go to Kota Tua Jakarta, you could find this wonderful dessert at one of the street food vendors there.  

2. Kicak

Kicak is some kind of mashed sticky rice, with shredded coconut on top of it added with coconut milk as the soup and a little bit of palm sugar to give a sweet flavour, and diced jackfruit.

This dessert is typical snack in Yogyakarta and now has become one rare and hard food to find. May be its because it needs a long process in the making, and little bit complicated here and there and you need extra power to smash it.

3. Endhog Gludug

I would say endhog gludug as Indonesian Japanese sticky rice cake. It’s made of tapioca flour and shredded coconut mix into one and filled with ground green beans. The shape, the color and also the filling makes it called as endhog (egg) with dark filling.

4. Untir-Untir

Untir-untir came from a local language means twisted. Yes, this snack has a twisting look like when they braid their kid’s hair in 80’s. This snack has sweet and savoury taste of the butter and sugar in it. This snack is perfect to be served during your tea time

5. Ketan Bintul

Ketan bintul is a typical of local traditional food of Serang, Banten, West Java. It’s made of sticky rice served with shredded fried coconut and thick sweet and savoury of rendang gravy. You could find all this traditional food at the local market once you visit Indonesia. (*)

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