Jamblang Rice - Cirebon

Jamblang Rice, echoes reverberate enough, it smells very inviting, does it feel? Very kick.

Mang Dul is the name of this place to eat in Cirebon. Occupying one corner shop on Jl. Dr. Cipto, is already well-known restaurant where - where. For the city of Cirebon own name is a guarantee of quality Mang Dul aka's recommended by most inhabitants of this city.

Warung Nasi jamblang Mang Dul start selling it early in the 70's and now passed on by generations of both. Having moved location several times, is now located at Jl. Dr. Cipto. Places to eat are very busy at the time of my visit there a few days ago. Even visitors who come in groups seen come and go with a happy face after enjoying this jamblang rice dish.

So, what's jamblang rice?

Fistful of white rice wrapped in teak leaves and we want to be asked how much rice? For side dishes we could choose their own row of side dishes - dishes that are provided at the long table. Want to know the living scooping own vegetables, fried tempeh ya want to live take. No less than 20's kind of side dish provided including Pepes and shellfish sauce.

Well if you like the fried lungs, do not miss the side dishes tasted this one here. Pulmonary fries taste delicious and fit well dilidah salty. Also if you include a fan shells, take a look at kerangnya sauce. 2 pieces of mussels that have been packed in the leaves surrounded with a sauce pincuk wow ... add event to add for sure. Unfortunately forgetting to take her picture was so much fun to eat.

Unique from Mang Dul jamblang rice stall is, in every corner of the room used as a means of promotion, either by product or product lokalan cirebon renowned as the workshop. Feeling not want to miss the opportunity to advertise on this stall, some companies advertise through shirts that are used by the staff of this shop.

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Spectacular Panoramic view of Mount Gede National Park-Pangrango

WANT to a place that has a spectacular panorama? national park of Mount Gede-Pangrango is the place. This park is a favorite place for visitors. Located in West Java Province.

This park includes the summit of Mount Gede and Mount Pangrango. Around the summit there are tea plantations, recreation parks, waterfalls, hot springs, lakes, and accommodation facilities within the park.

This area is designated as a nature conservation area in 1889, although previous Cibodas Botanical Garden was founded here in 1830, where quinine and coffee was first cultivated and become the most prominent export materials in the 19th century.

The most prominent of Gede-Pangrango Park are three very different ecosystems, among others: the sub-montane ecosystems (1,000 m-1,500 m), mountain ecosystems (1,500 m - 2900 m) is characterized by tall trees and large, and ecosystems sub-alpine (2,400 m and higher), characterized by meadows where Javanese edelweiss flowers grow in abundance. This park also has a savanna and marsh ecosystems.

In 1977 UNESCO declared a national park of Mount Gede-Pangrango as a Biosphere reserve.

Currently Mount Gede National Park covering an area of ​​15,196 hectares-Pangrango covering Cibodas, Cimungkat, Nature Reserve of Mount Gede-Pangrango, Situgunung recreation areas, and forests on the slopes of Mount Gede (2958 m) and Pangrango (3019 m). Both are connected with the saddle at an altitude of 2,500 m above sea level.

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Variety of cuisine a la Tanah Parahyangan / Jawa Barat

Tanah Parahyangan well-known fresh healthy cuisine. A variety of foods, including snack of this region, worth a try. Anything?

Basically Sundanese people hold to the principle of dining in ngariung, which means gathering together to eat. With the principle of this togetherness, of course the meal becomes more exciting though dishes are available only simple dish.

Sundanese cuisine stands out with a spicy taste character. Nearly every vegetable dishes as well as processed meat, the parents of old always used pepper as a spice. If he did not wear spicy seasoning, there must be a chili sauce served with fresh vegetables.
 
In a culinary treasure Parahyangan, sambal can reach tens of species. Sambal impromptu example. Type any combrang sauce, chili paste, sambal cibiuk, sambal pirates, peanut sauce, and sambal hejo. 

Not a bit too old Sundanese cuisine using pepper as seasoning. As sambal goreng ati potatoes, fried potato sauce Mustafa, ase chili hejo, rendang jengkol, oblo-oblo tempeh chili peuteuy hejo, kadedemes or oseng sampeu skin. Another hallmark of this cuisine is creative Pasundan land use basic ingredients for most people is not considered useful.

For example, velvetleaf saute the basic ingredients taken from plants weeds in between the rice plants, vegetables or cassava peel kadedemes often considered toxic, fried crisp impun made ​​from small fish that live wild in the river, or tutut, pest snail living in rice fields.

For the opening presentation, you can try soto bandung. This soup contains beef cut with boxes that have been thinly sliced ​​radishes. Meanwhile, for the main meal companion, there hideung squid, sambal goreng ati potatoes, ulukutek Leunca, kasreng heji hejo beans, or oblo-oblo tempeh. The main dish is a mainstay of this region is rice lead complete. Imagine, hot rice wrapped in banana leaves so that when the leaves opened, the smell was the aroma of fragrant rice.

Typically, one portion of rice contains lead completely fried chicken or fried carp fish, tofu and fried tempeh, Empal, sambal paste, and vegetables. It was not until the rice is said to be complete lead. In addition to complement the menu before, rice can also be presented with lead serundeng, jambal fish, vegetables and tamarind. Lead Rice has unique taste because served in banana leaf parcels that were previously burned first.

Chicken dishes from this region is famous chicken bakakak. Chicken was burned on the torch, after cleaned and given a special flavor. Usually cooks use a bamboo splinter to clamp the chicken body so easily be inverted during the combustion process. This dish usually served at weddings.

Other Sundanese traditional foods that taste sweet, usually classified as a dessert. Among other things, kelepon, cocorot, gurandil, awug, katimus, misro, and daughter no'ong. Princess no'ong made ​​from grated cassava dough is flattened, filled with bananas, then rolled. The mixture is steamed and served with a sprinkling of grated coconut.

There is also colenak. It is a given tapai brown sugar and coconut. This area also has a snack mainstay, the pancake. "Originally this pancake there are only two choices, plain or with oncom," said Ghozali.

For dishes that are fresh, there is ice grass jelly and ice goyobod. Unique as the name implies, ice goyobod characterized using hunkue dough or cut up the kanji. Bahanbahan used, such as sugar syrup, chinese girlfriend, avocado, young coconut, and coconut milk. It was a chewy tasty when combined with avocado and coconut, making it more exciting to eat ice until demolished.

One group of Sundanese food more commonly termed as hahampangan or snack. Among other things, keremes, opaque, kolontong, borondong, kalua oranges, crackers impoverished and destitute semprong.Kerupuk shaft is made from flour (tapioca) which is then cooked using only the hot sand. 

  

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Surabaya Spicy Fruit Salad

WEATHER heat that blanketed the city of Surabaya, apparently to open business opportunities for sellers sweet salad. Along the Road Doctor Soetomo, Surabaya, lined up a number of vendors who provide the salad.

Fruit salad is a mixture of various kinds of fruit, like, young mango, bengkoang, kedondong, papaya, watermelon, cucumbers, melons, apples, and pineapple with sliced ​​manner. Not only fruit, sliced ​​mixed salad also know to add flavour which is then packaged in plastic mica.

Rojak is not complete without a splash or a thick sauce of brown sugar that make the fruit fresh. Sambal made ​​with a mixture of brown sugar, beans, and fried garlic. All materials are mashed up to become thick.
  
"Spicy or not, it tastes. Fruit that there could also be selected according to buyer's tastes," said Bejo, one of the seller salad sweet when found in Street Legal Doctor Soetomo, Surabaya recently.

The men from Lamongan was admitted, earnings during trading at the region's big enough. Provided the weather does not rain, the traders sweet salad is always flooded with fortune. Bejo is already trading at this place for 15 years. Selling began at 10.00 am-15.00 pm, Bejo said could sell 200 servings of fruit salad.  

Once flashed word salad sweet, people would immediately think of Surabaya Doctor Soetomo Road area. No wonder when this place used jujugan sweet salad lovers.

Yusvia, the resident Street Kedungdoro, Surabaya admitted always come to the region to buy a sweet salad.

"This sweet Rojak is a menu mainstay for those cravings during pregnancy," he said.

You spend enough Rp7 thousands to enjoy a serving of salad sweet. Freshness certainly going to heal your body heat.  

 

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