South east Asia is a popular destination spot from Western and Asian alike, because their exotic place, unique diverse culture and amazing street food. Indonesia as a country in South east Asia will offer you, travelers, with its diverse selection of food in incredible cheap price! Influences with a lot of culture and nation, you can find a lot of "trendy" food and fusion food, as well as the authentic food originally rooted from Indonesia that you should try when you visit this country.
1. Kue Cubit / Laba-laba (Spider web cake)
Price range: IDR 5000-15000 / packed
Where To Find: Nearby market and school / college
This soft sponge like cake contains flour and eggs. It tastes sweet and prepared with a lot of topping as your choice: chocolate meises, cheddar cheese and condensed milk. My special favorite is to eat this cake when it's still half-raw / half-baked. You can ask the seller to give you the half baked one, instead the fully baked one. It will taste different and you can feel it more creamy and melted in your mouth. There are two types, the first one is like on the above picture, shaped in circular/half cup, while the other one looks like a spider with more crispy outer layer.
2. Cilor (Fried Tapioca flour with scrambled eggs on a stick)
2. Cilor (Fried Tapioca flour with scrambled eggs on a stick)
Price range: (@1000 - 2000 IDR / pcs)
Where To Find: Nearby market and school / college
You can find this street food are a local favorite, especially among elementary students. It's very oily and a little bit spicy if you use a lot of sambal sauce. The tapioca flour are shaped into a small ball, tucked in a stick of wood and then layered with eggs before frying it on a pan. It might not be healthy, yet it's quiet fulfilling. What makes this food is addictive is the texture that you got when chewing this food inside your mouth. There is a similar version as this one called "Telur Gulung" (scrambled fried egg on a stick).
3. Sekoteng
3. Sekoteng
Price range: (@8000 - 20000 IDR / bowl)
Where To Find: Eat and Eat (Mall), puncak, house complex
It's kinda like a desert, but served hot/warm. The ginger-based hot drink which includes peanuts, diced bread, sugar palm fruit and pacar cina. Many Indonesian believe it can relieve you sickness and nausea when you eat this, because of the ginger based soup. It feels relaxing and incredibly good to eat in a cold area (the mountain). There is similar version as this one called "Wedang Ronde" with the same similar base soup (ginger), yet the difference lies on the filling. On wedang Ronde you can find colorful glutenous rice balls inside the soup (often filled with peanuts). The balls taste like a mochi and kinda sweet when it soaks the soup.
4. Kue Pancong
This is a cake based on "santan dough" (coconut milk), that topped with palm sugar. The cake itself doesn't taste sweet and you can only taste the coconut as well as the texture of the fruits that feels quiet creamy. There is similar version as this one called "Kue Rangi", with more dried texture, yet I prefer Kue pancong anytime.
5. Bubur Sumsum
You need to try this sweet dessert, created with coconut milk and rice flour base dough. The texture is creamy and light, you might also taste it a bit salty and sweet from the salt on the dough & browned sugar sauce. It often served accompanied with other "candil"/toppings like sweet potato balls, pacar cina, and black sticky rice soup.
4. Kue Pancong
Price range: (@5000 - 10000 IDR / pack)
Where To Find: nearby marketThis is a cake based on "santan dough" (coconut milk), that topped with palm sugar. The cake itself doesn't taste sweet and you can only taste the coconut as well as the texture of the fruits that feels quiet creamy. There is similar version as this one called "Kue Rangi", with more dried texture, yet I prefer Kue pancong anytime.
5. Bubur Sumsum
Price range: (@5000 - 10000 IDR / cup)
Where To Find: nearby marketYou need to try this sweet dessert, created with coconut milk and rice flour base dough. The texture is creamy and light, you might also taste it a bit salty and sweet from the salt on the dough & browned sugar sauce. It often served accompanied with other "candil"/toppings like sweet potato balls, pacar cina, and black sticky rice soup.
