Yogyakarta's Delicacy

    Talk about travelling it feels incomplete if we do not try local foods, in here I also post some recommended local foods. Some travellers may avoid local food, maybe they are concern about the taste or it hygiene. But lucky me, I am always curious about the taste that is foreign to my tongue, I also never feel awkward with the appearance of any food. So here, some food we tried while we're visit Yogyakarta yesterday mostly I found in Beringharjo Market.

Gudeng Yu Djum

    Well known and famous Gudeg Yu Djum, who is scattered throughout the city of Yogyakarta. Gudeg is a traditional Javanese cuisine from Yogyakarta and Central Java, Indonesia. Gudeg is made from young unripe jack fruit, stewed for several hours with palm sugar, and coconut milk. Additional spices include garlic, shallot, candlenut, coriander seed, galangal, bay leaves, and teak leaves, the latter giving a reddish-brown color to the dish.

Es Dawet

    Es Dawet is an iced sweet dessert that contains droplets of green rice flour jelly, coconut milk, grass jelly and palm sugar syrup. Many Es Dawet seller in Beringharjo market Yogyakarta, but Es Dawet Mbah Hari is the most famous among others, but honestly all Es Dawet here tastes almost the same because they made with the same ingredient. Most of them sell Es Dawet at a price of Rp. 5.000 per glass.price

Soto in Beringharjo Market

 

    After shopping and exploring in this Beringharjo market, take the time to pamper your tongue at Warung Soto Bu Pujo. The location is located on the 2nd floor of the east los of Beringharjo Market, if you have trouble finding the location, the sellers at the market will kindly explain when you ask. This soto stall is nicknamed after the name of the seller, namely Bu Pujo. Only by spending Rp. 9.000, you will get a serving of beef soup served in a small bowl. The bowl containing white rice, white rice, cabbage pieces, bean sprouts, and beef slices is smothered in a clear colour broth with a light taste. You can also add perkedel, rempeyek, or krupuk which served in glass jars that seem old-fashioned. The visitors favorite is eating soto with the addition of large emping crackers as a side dish.

    Still in Beringharjo Market, precisely on the ground floor east side of the biggest traditional market in Yogyakarta. Just like Soto Bu Pujo, Soto Pites itself is beef soup and chicken soup with clear colour broth. What distinguishes this Soto from other Sotos is the use of chili which is crushed (squeezed) using the thumb. This crushed chili produces a spicy taste instead use of chili sauces. Because of this, the soto was later named soto pites (Pites mean squeezed in Javanese). As for the name Mbah Galak, it was told the seller, Mbah Sutri was a little grumphy, so customers called her Mbah Galak (Galak mean grumphy in Javanese).

Sate Kere

 

    Sate kere is a term for snacks made from beef fat, a puff of smoke and the distinctive aroma of satay being burned by the traders around Beringharjo Market always tempt tourists to taste it. The term kere or beggar is said to be due to the cheap price and the location of the sale on the overhang of the market. The price of kere satay per skewer is usually only Rp. 3.000.