Betawi Traditional Food and Drink

Betawi people is a group of jakarta dwelling community and its sorrounding. Betawi people is creative and imaginative in using materials found in their sorroundings such as durian flower, jengkol (dogfruit) and melinjo. Betawi dishes are usually stir fried to release the fragrance. Betawi cooking techniques are diverse with cultural acculturation of culture such as Chinese, India, Arabic and European.

The following are Famous Betawi Culinary :

1. Ketupat Sayur

Ketupat sayur is a delicious dish, we usually have it for breakfast. Everyone in our house love it. Ketupat sayur is a rice cake dish or lontong served with lodeh soup. Lodeh itself is a dish made from long bean, pumpkin or young papaya sliced thin with coconut oil cooked in seasoning of hazelnut,turmeric, onion, garlic and pieces of ebi (dried shrimp). All the ingredient is affordable and easy to find in the market. 

You can find the ketupat sayur sold by street vendor in the morning or during lebaran festive (idul fitri and idul adha). In the house of betawi family, people usually eat ketupat sayur together with boiled egg and fried tofu covered by fried onion on top. 

The ketupat sayur dish is light, hot  and spicy. the smell indulge your sense and increase your appetite. 

2. Kerak Telor

Kerak telor is one of betawi people’s favorite snack and it is widely popular. This snack is an authentic Batavian food made from omelet of chicken or duck egg with sticky rice and seasoned with shredded fried coconut, ebi and fried shallots.

The use of shredded fried coconut is a main signature of kerak telor. The kerak telor taste delicious and has distinguish burn smell and flavor of ebi (dried shrimp).

Today, less and less vendor sell kerak telor, they do sell it at Jakarta Fair event and certain spot around the tourist area like fatahillah museum and monas (nasional museum).

3. Bir Pletok

Bir pletok is traditional betawi people’s drink. It made from mixes of herbs like ginger, pandan leaves, and lemongrass.bir pletok is suit for drinking in rainy season where it’s cold. The drink help your body to stay warm. Furthermore, the drink has other advantage like it can smoothing your blood circulation.

4. Sayur Babanci

Sayur babanci is one of iconic betawi dish that started to disappear nowadays. This is due to the difficulty to gather the ingredients. The dish required 21 ingredients.  The meat used in the dish comes from the cow’s head especially the cheek. To make the dish, special skill and extra patience is needed. 

The name “Babanci” come from the difficulty to clearly identify this dish. The dish can not event classified as vegetable soup as there is no vegetable used in the dish.

Nowadays, betawi people serve the dish only at religious festivals as family menu such as breaking the fast, eid al-fitr and eid al-adha.   

5. Gabus Pucung

Gabus pucung is a dish of snakehead fish, doused with thick dark soup from pucung fruit. Pucung is a betawi language for kluwek/keluak (football fruit), an ingredient commonly used as rawon seasoning. But despite the similarity of using kluwak, gabus pucung is thicker than rawon dish. Pucung presents a mixture of salty, sour, sweet and savory tastes.

6. Sate Lembut

For a moment, sate lembut look like sate lilit from bali. Actually sate lembut is a rare satay recipe of betawi people. The satay is made from ground beef mixed with grated coconut and spices, wrapped around flat shaped skewers. The satay taste sweet and savory, then mixed with peanut sauces makes it more delicious. This satay usually served with laksa betawi.

Source : Betawi Culture, Jakarta City – Government Tourism and Culture Office.

Indonesian Style Rujak

Rujak in general is a traditional dish made of mix fruits and vegetables and then served cover by special seasoning. In Indonesia, you can find rujak almost everywhere from restaurants to street food vendors. In another country like malaysia and singapore they call it “rojak”. There are many version of rujak here in Indonesia, such as :

1. Rujak cingur

Rujak cingur is a traditional dish from surabaya, east java. The word “cingur” means mouth, it refer to a cow mouth. That is they mix part of a cook cow mouth into rujak cingur. They mix “cingur” with slices of fresh fruits, vegetable and rice cake then served it covered by special condiment made of chilli, peanut and brown sugar. The taste is fresh and meaty.

2. Fuit Rujak

Fruit rujak made of various sweet and sour fruit like young papaya, kedondong, young mango, rose apple, bengkuang, pineapple mix with hotsweet seasoning made of chilli, peanut and brown sugar. The fruit rujak is so fresh (sometimes they served it cold) you can enjoyed it best in hot weather.

3. Rujal bebeg

The name of rujak bebeg refer to the making process of the rujak. That is you mix all the fruit, slice it tin, and then process it by mashing all the fruit until they all mix and soften. They mix and mash the fruit using lesung (deep bowl) made of wood. The rujak bebeg usually served using banana leaf that made the flavour even better. But today more and more food vendor use plastic as it is more practical and durable compare to banana leaf.

4. Rujak serut

Rujak serut is made of tin shaved fruit and then served it covered by peanut hot and sour sauce. The selection of fruits are vary according to the season or fruit availability.

5. Rujak juhi

Rujak juhi is a traditional culanary of betawi tribe. They call it “juhi” because they made rujak by using fermented and dried squid then mixed with noodle, cucumber and other vegetable. Rujak juhi is almost look like gado – gado. 

6. Rujak petis

Rujak petis is a traditional culinary from east java. Rujak petis is made of slice of cucumber, bengkoang, young mango, kedondong, tofu, beansprout and kale. We mix them together then served it with seasoning made of shrimp “petis”, chilli, fried peanuts, salt, sugar, young banana and water.

7. Rujak soto

Rujak soto is a traditional dish from banyuwangi, east java. This rujak is a unique combination of rujak cingur and soto babat. Rujak prepared as usual with pieces of fruit and vegetable and then served  it covered by peanut butter dressing and sauce from soto babat. This combination enchance flavour and create unique culinary experience. Rujak soto is a must try for a visitor coming for vacation or seeking culinary adventure in banyuwangi.

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Trip to Taman Mini Indonesia Indah (TMII)

Taman Mini Indonesia Indah (TMII – the beautiful miniatur of Indonesia park) is a place to visit for our family. The main reason is the TMII is near from our home (east Jakarta) aproximately just 2 km away , the other reason is that you can do so much activities in TMII. During the weekend (Saturday and Sunday), people go there early in the morning for jogging, exercise or just feel the fresh morning air inside TMII complex.  The TMII give special price (half the price of regular entrance fee) for entering the TMII complex early in the morning before regular opening hour. (before 7 am in the morning). 

The following is the regular ticket price for TMII area

The entry ticket price is Rp 10,000 (ten thousand rupiah) per person age 3 years and above. Car entering the TMII pays Rp 10,000 (ten thousand rupiah), bus pays Rp 30,000 (thirty thousand rupiah), motorcycle pay Rp 6,000 (six thousand rupiah), and bicycle pays Rp 1.000 (one thousand rupiah).

Every Sunday inside TMII there is  Sunday market called pasar minggu ceria or cheerfull Sunday in english. The location of this event is near the bird park and the museum of electricity. The seller sell their good and service on the road side around the area. After finishing exercise, you can sight seeing there to look for goods like vegetables, fruit, clothes, watch, shoes etc. Or you can just browsing and eating food like roasted chicken, fish, fried chicken, satay, tradisional dishes, snack, donat, soup, etc. Our favourite dish are es durian cendol, satay and zoupa soup.

Taman Mini Indonesia Indah (TMII) created based on the idea to introduce the diversity of indonesian culture to Indonesian and foreign visitors in the single integrated complex. As you know, Indonesia is a great nation consisted from thousand islands connected by seas so it is important to have a place to get to know many different culture all together in one place.

The TMII complex is huge, its area about 150 hectars. In this complex you can find anything about Indonesia. At the TMII you can find a lake with artificial islands wich forming miniatur of Indonesia archipelago when you look at it from above. In TMII you can also go to pavilion of provinces. The pavilion exhibit amazing architecture and landscape of the province. Inside of each province pavilion you can also find the display of its traditional costume, painting, scapture, etc.

Each province has his own pavilion in TMII so it is easy for visitor to get to know the diverse culture across Indonesia. Furthermore, if you are lucky you can see the people performing tradisional dance or exhibit art event there. You can also take your children or yourself to learn the traditional dance and art on each province pavilion. Example in Aceh pavilion you can learn famous saman dance and in DKI Jakarta pavilion you can learn tari topeng betawi.

The next must see at TMII is museum. The list of museums here in TMII are Indonesia museum (showcast traditional dress, art, painting of all province in Indonesia), stamp museum, oil and gas museum, museum of electricity, museum transportation, batik museum, museum keprajuritan (military museum) etc.

At the TMII there are also entertainment places for grown up and kid to play such as snow bay (waterpark adventure), keong mas imax theatre (3D theatre), teater tanah airku (for live performing stage), istana anak – anak (children palace and playground), skyworld (aerospace education center) and the latest is taman legenda (legend park - showing animated 3D dinosaurs figure around the park).

Furthermore, there are many other interesting places to see such as orchid park, bird park, reptile park, sport museum, Alqur’an museum, tionghoa cultural park, taman akuarium air tawar (fresh water aquarium park), amazing worship places of religion and belief in Indonesia. So much to see right, well if you like to explore the TMII entirely you might need to spend more than one day. but do not worry they have decent place for visitor who like to stay longer in TMII. There are affordable hostelry inside or hotel santika right infront of TMII entrance gate.

while the complex is so big, you can explore it by car or just park your car and use transportation provided here like train, shuttle bus, bicycle or cable car where you can use to see around the TMII from above.

One other thing, the TMII is popular venue for large event and gathering. Because the complex can accomodate alot of people and alot parking lots. And they have many huge buildings to be a place for multiple meetings and events at the same time.

So that is my story about TMII, if you are happen to be in jakarta or planning to be, I recommend this place because you can practically get everything (education, entertainment, sport) in one place at reasonable price.