5 Street Food of Indonesia

Indonesia is famous for its diversity. From Sabang in Aceh until Merauke in Papua Indonesia has many cultures, including foods. You will find many food differ by place of origins, and also the taste. For example, we in Central Java prefer to eat sweet food when we in the West Sumatra prefer its spicy. The result is Indonesian has many different food, including street food.

Street Food is a food ready to serve sold by vendor or merchant. Sometimes street food is considered a symbol of culture, hence people eat it to experience the ethnic cuisine Below is the list you can find street food of Indonesia. Lets check 5 street food of Indonesia.

1. Klepon

Klepon is one of traditional food of Indonesia. It is based from glutinous rice flour, stuffed with brown sugar, and boiled in hot water. Usually it has green color from the Pandan Leaf but sometimes you will find it white colored. Klepon is sweet in taste and served with grated coconut meat. You can find it around traditional market in Indonesia, and it is very cheap. It is priced for about Rp 7000.

Sometimes in Sumatra it is called Onde -Onde but in Java Onde - Onde is different snack, so do not forget to check if you are traveling to Sumatra or Java

2. Kerak Telor

Kerak telor is a snack from Jakarta. It is based from Egg and Glutinous Rice. It is commonly sold in public places and it is tasty. The way to make Kerak Telor is quiet unique: you mixed scrambled duck or chicken egg and mix it with glutinous rice and spread it around the pan on top of charcoal stove. The heat will make egg like a 'Kerak' and you served it with fried shallot, grated coconut and dried ebi. Usually served hot, be sure to not get burned.

3. Bubur Ayam

Bubur ayam or chicken porridge usually served as breakfast in Indonesia, but nowadays you can find Bubur Ayam merchant around public places. It is made by cooking rice with water until it get smooth and some chicken meat. After that you can add fried shallot, green onion, boiled egg or chicken broth as garnish. It taste delicious and always served hot. It is best paired with a cup of hot tea or coffee as drink.

Bubur ayam has many variation. Like in Sukabumi people add raw chicken egg inside the porridge to make the egg half cooked, in Tegal they use special chicken broth (yellow colored). But in spite of that there are things in common among those people, that Bubur Ayam is delicious and become one of favorite breakfast.

4. Rangin

Rangin is a cake made from coconut and rice flour, and dusted with sugar. It is sold mainly in traditional market but you can also find it in the public places. The way you make it is actually simple. You mix butter, rice flour, egg, coconut meat and coconut milk into one dough and baked it on top of stove. After it hardened you dusted it with sugar. The taste is sweet with a mix of savory.

The vendor of Rangin usually sold their stuff by shoulder, and walk around the places. It is shaped like Pukis but the taste is very different.

5. Onde - Onde

In Sumatra onde - onde is the same as klepon, but in Java it is different. Onde - Onde is a cake made from glutinous rice flour stuffed with mung bean paste or red bean paste, coated with sesame seeds on the outside and fried in oil. The most famous Onde - Onde come from Mojokerto, from vendor who sold it since 100 years ago. Originally from China, Onde - Onde was brought into Indonesia by Chinese People since Tang Dynasty.

In modern recipe you can find Onde Onde stuffed with chocolate or strawberry jam. Also you can find sometimes it is made from black glutinous rice. The one from black glutinous rice is more delicious among people.

When you visit Indonesia i recommend you to try these street food. Happy eating and traveling folks. You may also want to check 5 street food in East Java.