East Java cuisine

There is two original food type of Surabaya which so famous, and become the individuality of this heroic city, that is Rujak (Spicy Salad) and Semanggi (Clover leafes). Equation among those traditional food is using petis (Prawn Sauce) as its flavour, and most is scrumptious dined with crisply crackers. This traditional food own the unique taste that difficult to found in other area.

Semanggi Semanggi (Clover leafes), consist of two kinds of vegetable, that is clover leaf, and stewed sprout, presented with mixture petis which its flavour is typical representing of sweet potatoes, peanut, and brown sugar, and also equiped by the crisply puli crackers. Semanggi vended usually by a woman which circling around some area, its seller generally ages woman which still impose the jarit (kind of saroong) at the same time carry on the basket contain the clover substance on the back and one plastic big contain the crisply puli crackers. For You which curious with this unique food, can stop by to Surabaya Plaza Hotel which is performing a menu containing Surabaya Traditional food, like Semanggi Suroboyo, Rujak Uleg, Rujak Tolet, Rujak Sayur, and the freshy sinom in café Taman. Every day start at 13.00 – 17.00 wib. Rujak Cingur Arrive in Surabaya, there will be some less otherwise taste the Rujak Cingur (Spicy Salad). This food, have become the unique taste of Surabaya. Its mixed Flavour is really unique, because combine the young banana slice, roasted peanut, demerara, onion fry, and typical petis (Prawn Sauce). Feel the sweet, briny, fresh and a few casquette uniting by various slice of fruit type. There is, cucumber, bengkoang, young mango, pineapple and kedondong added with lontong, tofu, tempe, bendoyo or krai, and also vegetables like sprout, kangkung, and string bean. According to its name, not left behind cingur (unique cows beef). At some places, rujak presented on the banana leaf (pincuk).

~ by hajaru on January 29, 2009.