Banyumasan Traditional Food

Banyumasan Traditional Food

As many Indonesian region, Banyumas has its own delicious and exotic food. The famous and vastly available in the region is soto ayam (chicken soup) with its famous location in Sokaraja, 5 km in the outskirt of Purwokerto township. Especially in the festive season of Iedul Fitri, when many Banyumas people around Indonesia going to their hometown, they queue all the way just to taste the famous soto ayam. The most famous soto ayam restaurant is Soto Kecik Asli, this one is really special and with only around Rp 6000 or 0.7 dollar you can taste the potfull of delicious chicken soup. If you visit Purwokerto, and you want to try these special food, do not even try to taste big restaurant because sometimes they taste awful and very highly priced. It is suggested to try the small restaurant (warung) or even street trader, since they are average Indonesian small people with low income and you can help them a lot and even you can still taste the remarkably wonderful food. Gudeg Purwokerto Gudeg commonly referred to original food from Yogyakarta, but Purwokerto also has special derivative of gudeg. The most tasteful gudeg Purwokerto sold in traditional market Pasar Manis (Jalan Gatot Subroto) from around 7am and will be sold out around 10am. This gudeg Purwokerto, consists of several mixture: chicken, eggs, tahu and krecek depend on your selection, can be conveniently brown-bagged to be eat at home. Bakso Bakso is a variant of the noodle soup with meat ball, and good for an afternoon snack time. The humble famous bakso restaurant located on Jalan A. Yani IV known as Bakso Ahmad Yani, always taste yummy. Other location are : Jalan Pereng, Bakso Pak Slamet Jalan Bank and warung bakso inside Pasar Cerme. Soto (Chicken Soup) In the Purwokerto townhip itself, many famous soto ayam restaurant vastly available. The famous string of warung soto are in Jalan Bank (currently called Jalan R.A. Wiriaatmaja) called Soto Jalan Bank and Soto Sungeb. Both warung soto promise the delightful taste of original soto of Purwokerto. If you want to taste the really exotic taste, you should try Soto Kebondalem, a small restaurant (warung soto) just near the old Terminal (behind Rita supermarket). Many local favorite street trader of soto ayam in Jalan Masjid and Alun-alun also waiting at night time for crowd to enjoy. When you finished half of your soto, be prepared to order another bowl of soto, so you can continuously enjoy without waiting. Sate Kambing The second famous food is sate kambing (small dice-lamb barbecue). Their great restaurant location is in Banaran locally known as special sate banaran (in the western of Purwokerto township). The classic and hip sate kambing still conveniently located in Jalan Masjid. For people who likes fatty sate and gule kambing, the warung sate east of old Srimaya theatre is a must. Mendoan and Keripik The original food of Purwokerto is mendoan, a half-fried tempe and tasted wonderful with hot mexican chilli. If mendoan is fully fried called keripik. Sometimes, Purwokerto also known as kota keripik or city of keripik. Because it is virtually difficult to find original keripik anywhere outside Purwokerto. Currently, the tasteful mendoan and keripik sold by Chinese shop in Jalan Letjen Suprapto. Achmad Kuswanda is the leading national businessman in Purwokerto who sell keripik and mendoan seriously. Dage Dage is special Banyumas food as a variant of tempe with mixture of coconut materials. Dage usually eaten as snack or breakfast accompanied by small hot chilli (cabe rawit). This food commonly sold as fried dage along with fried banana (gedhang goreng), and fried sweet potatoes (munthul goreng). Those food are taste exotic. Ranjem Ranjem is traditional food that currently losing its customer. It is very difficult to find ranjem in Purwokerto, and mostly sold in its suburb only during early morning market. Tempe Bongkrek Banyumas commonly infamously known as the land of tempe bongkrek, since many Banyumas people fond to consume tempe bongkrek. Tempe bongkrek commonly consumed by low-income people because of lower price compared to original tempe. Tempe is produced from fermented soybean while bongkrek from coconut's residue. The bongkrek, if not treated carefully, can be harmful and deadly poisonous. Many Banyumas people killed because of tempe bongkrek, therefore tempe bongkrek currently not allowed to be sold. Cimplung Cimplung is very special food from boiled cassava and dipped to sauce of melted brown sugar. The cassava (budin or boled) is cut into 2x2 cm pieces first then boiled. Serabi In the early morning (subuh), it is worth to search an old woman (mbok-mbok) who sold serabi in Jalan Bank. The taste of her serabi is unforgettable and famous too. Sometimes, the queue formed just to taste the serabi in the morning. Her serabi will be sold out just around 7 to 8am. Another serabi seller at front of traditional market Pasar Manis also available from 6 to 12am. Gethuk Goreng Sokaraja Gethuk is the specialty snack food that looks like small balls with very sweet taste, sold mainly in Sokaraja village southeast of Purwokerto. Because most of the shops in Sokaraja sell gethuk, Sokaraja known as the city of gethuk (kota gethuk). Gethuk sold as raw mixture food that can readily to be eaten or commonly sold as fried gethuk. Badeg / Legen Badeg /Legen is sweet drink that obtained from the extract of coconut's flower. The farmer usually climb the coconut tree and get extract of coconut's flower by cutting the coconut's flower and put a long bamboo container to collect it. Legen taste very sweet and can be processed further to make brown sugar. Legen commonly only available on the sprawling village around Banyumas region directly sold by the coconut's farmers. source : www.serayunet.com