Selasa, 13 Juli 2010


Ketupat Pisgor, snacks from Nias Island
Introduce to your typical hawker is Ketupat Pisgor(pisang goreng or banana fried) Nias Island.
To know the taste of Ketupat Pisgor closer, we invite you to the island of Nias, North Sumatra province. Nias Island is an island located at the western tip of Sumatra island and was included into the territory of North Sumatra province. To reach the island of Nias, you can get on a plane flying from Polonia Airport, Medan and arrived at the airport Binaka, Gunungsitoli approximately 50 minutes flight. From the Airport to downtown Mount Binaka Sitoli, you can ride motor rickshaw about 10 minutes away. When located in downtown Mount Sitoli, you can find Ketupat Pisgor menu at some food stalls or restaurants as it is located at Kelapa street.

. The main attraction Ketupat menu Pisgor namely pleasure and taste the Ketupat Pisgor. Diamond is made from glutinous rice cooked in coconut palm wrap. While the acronym taken from words Pisgor Fried Banana. To make Pisgor, selected types of banana sour. After the skin peeled banana wrapped with rice flour that has been given a little sugar and salt. After all the surface of banana wrapped in batter, then fry until half cooked bananas. So crisp when eaten, half-cooked fried banana was just fried until cooked right after you start ordering.

Presentation Ketupat Pisgor quite simple. Fast Ketupat which split into two parts and then flattened on the surface of fried bananas. In order for diamond stuck in the bananas, fried bananas must be presented in a state still hot. Bananas wrapped in diamond and then doused with young coconut juice or coconut milk that has been cooked until thick.

Enjoyment taste Pisgor Ketupat menu can be found starting from the first cicipan. Sticky rice and coconut milk wrapped banana was tasty. Increasingly felt pleasure when you enjoy the sticky rice and coconut milk sauce with a piece of banana that has been fried kepok banana(pisang kepok).


Ketupat Sandwich from Nias

In the wedding party on the island of Nias after the submission of a dowry, even disajikan.hidangan symbolic dishes in a big event like this is simbi, which is part of the fat pig jaws. Meat and lard boiled together and released a local liquor called brandy, and eaten as an appetizer.
Besides presented as simbi, there are again three pork dishes that are served. The first is a pork stew, with pieces of bone, skin, with carrots and potatoes. Another dish is the pork that is cooked like a stew sauce thickens. The third dish is chopped. Judging from his appearance, chopped very similar to saksang in Tapanuli, namely meat and minced pork fat, then cooked with the blood and various seasonings.

After the meal was over, the event famortu began. The groom convey his greetings to the mothers of the bride. These mothers then gave various advice to the groom.
Last event is renewed fame hada, namely granting indigenous pigs slaughtered the next day for a wedding which will be attended by more people. After the show is over, the bride out of the house, juxtaposed with the groom, and then carried by stretcher into the house of the groom. The next day, a big party was held.

If you are allowed to eat pork

Indeed the majority of the people of Nias are Christians and Catholics. Therefore, the safe choice for Muslim friends are houses in Padang, who luckily enough to eat a lot of presence in Nias, especially in Gunungsitoli. Besides pigs widely available, many shops selling food from the meat B1 (dog). Nias people call it a tooth, together with the animal name in the Java language.

Some people also have called Manado, namely erwe or RW, which stands for rintek wu'uk means short hair - as an antonym of pig bristles are longer. In B1-shops are usually also available crude palm wine (legend), wine (once distilled), as well as local alcoholic beverage called brandy.

If you are allowed to eat pork, one of the recommended places to eat in Mount Sitoli is Noodle Store in Lagundri.

How to cook fried noodles are unique. First, the pork chops sauteed with spices, then added sliced cabbage and added water. After boiling, put the egg noodles that cross section was slightly larger than spaghetti. Continue cooking until it is cooking noodles.





Minggu, 11 Juli 2010

Cork heron Vegetables, Food Bekasi-Betawi



Cork is a vegetable vegetable heron fishing, jet black colored cork from heron (kluwak). Kluwak heron or commonly known as a seasoning rawon. If rawon using meat, vegetables, fish, cork cork heron uses.

The main ingredients are fish heron cork cork. Channa striata are expressed in the pieces of fish in general, like the head, body, or tail. Cork that has been fried fish, then into the sauce dicemplungkan a result of the heron black (Pangium edule Reinw) mothers
kitchen expert familiar with the name kluwek seasoning. Cork heron Additionally, seasoningthe sauce is walnut, onion, garlic, red pepper, ginger, turmeric and bay leaves. All seasoning and sauteed pulverized and then inserted into the water. Fish is cooked until tender. Overview rawon view similar to the liquid.

Fish vegetable cork heron as Betawi cuisine is relatively hard to find. Some parts of Bekasi a lot of the Betawi people have influence (for example, some up to Tambun Bekasi and Cibitung) familiar with this dish as a dish for the bosses. Besides being a restaurant which provide rare, cork is also difficult bred fish. Most of the fish cork is obtained from the natural catchment.

Funny, fish, cork has several names according to their size. Cork is still a small fish named Ciritan. That adolescents and adults has been somewhat called Boncelan. Large and was then bred fish named Cork. This is similar to the naming of the community jackfruit Bekasi. The still small given the name of Gori. A rather large given the name-check a check (or cecek) and new large Jackfruit named.
For those interested cork heron fish with vegetables, there are several locations that could be achieved for it, among others:

1. Warung Batavia Local Cuisine, Vegetables in Cork in the Beautiful Hope
2. Tents Warung Batavia Local Cuisine, beside Masjid Al Muwahiddin (Jalan Bunga Karang) Bekasi. Only open in the afternoon-evening.
3. Warung Cork & Soup Beef, Port of Entry City Legend (Side Kali Malang) Tambun
4. Warung Ibu Danah cork-Simon, in Sumber Jaya Tambun
5. Cork stall Twins - Ciketing Tambun

Sabtu, 10 Juli 2010

Padang Cuisine



















Determining the location of places of business for the restaurant is a culinary desert can determine the main steps for this effort is successful or not [2]. In general management of Padang restaurants are managed by family or kin compatriot [3]. Manager of the restaurant in Padang Minang many embrace a democratic philosophy, such as severe as assumed, the same light dijinjing, as seen from the distributed sharing of the benefits of every hundred working days, with profit-sharing system based on the achievement index. In this way, will encourage employees to excel, they will try their best to serve the guests so that guests want to come back. Sharing system [4] This makes employees feel like to own the company. To understand the management of restaurants, each employee must pass a full cadre process typical diner. Usually they start from a career dishwasher, then increased as penyiap food, maid room, cashier, to become managers.

Padang restaurant waitress mostly male. Padang restaurant waitress has unique way of presenting the meal. They will bring a number of dishes at once with more some dish with both or one hand only. This is quite an interesting attraction for the visitors
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Jumat, 09 Juli 2010

Gong Gong Food Batam Island



Marine snails is a typical food community in the Riau Islands.
Locals call it the sound of barking. This sea animal is widely available in Lobam Village, Tanjung Uban, Bintan Island, Riau Islands.

To reach Tanjung Uban area during the trip takes 30 minutes by speed boat from Batam, Riau Islands Capital. The trip then continued through the land as far as 30 kilometers to the south island of Bintan.
On the edge of the beach area of 10 hectares is Lobam bark can easily be found when sea water was receding. Every day there are at least 50 local residents who are looking for barking at the seaside.

One of them 60-year-old grandmother named Karmelia. He began looking for barking since dawn, accompanied by two grandchildren who have dropped out of school.
Not only that he can bark with her grandson, but also to other marine biota, such as tripang, crabs and shrimp.

But lately, a large barking increasingly difficult to obtain. Most who found a small bark. Not to mention, the search has now been more and more barking.

So Karmelia who pursue this occupation for more than 20 years every day can only get one to two kilograms of bark. Catch sold to collectors for seven thousand rupiah over kg.
In the mediator fresh gong gong kept for two days at the warehouse. This was done so that the loose dirt and sand from the shells of bark.

After the clean bark shelters sold to agents in the city of Batam with price ranging from ten thousand to fifteen thousand rupiah per kg. Agent bark shelter then sell it to the restaurant for sixteen to twenty thousand rupiah over kg.

Barking can actually be an alternative Riau Islands residents to make a living. But unfortunately, this marine mollusk species can not be cultivated. Been limited to animals breed naturally.
Because every day is taken, bark can become extinct. Moreover, this marine life requires long time, about five years to harden their shells.

Budi Institute for Marine Resources and Fisheries Department Marine Batam, has made efforts in preservation of barking by undertaking conservation in their natural habitat on the seashore. Bark seeds released in the area of two hectares to determine movement patterns and reproduction.

Bark may be more difficult to obtain. But public interest remained high eating bark.
Almost every restaurant seafood in Batam to provide this unique food menu as appetizers. Starting from a special restaurant, so food outlets in shopping malls.

They cost between twenty-five thousand to thirty thousand dollars a portion. The buyer is not limited to citizens of the city of Batam, but also visitors from Jakarta. One of the fans are barking Andiyono food.

Stated another field grasshopper, the other other bottom fish. So also a matter of taste of food. For society and especially Batam in Riau Islands, barking is their typical food. So for those who visit to Batam, it's not complete until they've been eating bark.