Ayam Goreng Mbok Berek

Ayam Goreng Mbok Berek is a traditional fried chicken that cooked with wooden stove. 

They always use organic chicken, its mean all of the chicken never had feeding with any supplement food to make them grow/fat faster. 

Even when cooking they never use seasoning, always with traditional spices but everytime you licking even until the bones you still taste how delicious this fried chicken. 

Ayam Goreng Mbok Berek was opened many branch not only in Yogyakarta City but in all Yogyakarta Special Teritory Province. Bantul, Wates, Sleman and i heard that they had opened their branc at Jakarta. 

You can take away or eats there, just need to pay 70.000 IDR for one whole chicken or 35.000 IDR for half chicken.

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Brem (Traditional Meal/Drinks)

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stay in jogja -- Brem is a special food from East Java and Bali. Brem has existed since 110 years ago. There are three kinds of brem:

1. Madiun brem --> It tastes mix between sweet and sour. And has white-yellowish colors.
2. Wonogiri brem --> This brem has white color with sweet flavor and it is easy to dissolve in water.
3. Bali brem --> It is in the form of liquid/ a kind of drink. It will be better if you consume it after having a meal.

All of those brem are made of fermented-sticky rice-water which also has gone through fermentation process.


Brem in solid form usually sold in market are Madiun brem and Wonogiri brem. These brem are very popular because of its delicious taste and its practicability. Brem’s sensation will appear when it comes in your mouth, then it melts and disappeared and leaving a unique taste in your tongue like a little mint flavor.

The result of experiment done by Winarno et al (1982) shows that the most chemical substance contained in solid brem are sugar, extract starch, and lactate acid. Solid brem is a good sugar supplier. In every 100 gram of brem contains 65.18 gram of sugar, so that it gives sweet taste and also as good power-supply for the body. The chemical composition of brem could be seen in the table.

Ingredients	Weight (gr)
Sugar	65.17
Starch	4.56
Water	18.87
Total Acid	1.58
Fat	0.11
Protein	0.42
Solid Solution	1.34

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Shaved Ice Seller

What is he doing ?

this is how major indonesian street vendor made shavings ice. Use some wood with a modification knife in middle of the wood and then shave your ice bar. After shave for a while you would get a bowl of shavings ice.

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<br>We call that Es Campur (Mixed Ice), because he mix slices of coconut,chocolate, milk, fruit, dawet, slices of pinneapple, etc. Beside Es Campur, they sell softdrink (Fanta, Sprite, Coca Cola, Teh Botol) .

A Bowl of Shavings Ice

I suggest, don’t buy some ice from them because many of them didn’t care about hygiene. But that’s just suggestion, everything is depend on you. Picture above take at Pasar Pathuk, Jogja.

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Nasi Kucing - Cat's Rice

stayinjogja--Sometimes, when you feel hungry and unfortunately just have a cents (less then IDR 10,000) in your wallet and still need to go somewhere with public bus, what will you do?

I have a suggestion, you can go to some place call angkringan (you can find what place is that in http://jogjakakilimafoods.blogspot.com) and take some pack rice known as nasi kucing (cat's rice). Is that really rice for cat? No, of course.

We call nasi kucing because it contain one grab of rice-you can measure with your hand grab- and with fried tiny sea fish.

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Nasi Kucing & Quail Egg Satay Toping


Beside nasi kucing, angkringan sell many additional toping for nasi kucing like fried tempe, fried tofu, quail satay,etc and they have ice tea, oranges ice,warm ginger,warm milk as drinks.

For 1 pack nasi kucing (without additional toping and drinks), you will charge Rp 750 - Rp 1000 (less then $1-When this information published $ 1=Rp 12,000). You can fill out your stomach with Rp 5,000, so you still go to your destination in jogja.

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Dawet Sambel

A few days ago i had found new meal in jogja. They call Dawet Sambel.

Dawet (food with green color in image) originally made from fluor and served with coconut milk, red sugar and have a green color.

Dawet

But, dawet which i found is different. They have same ingredients (for dawet) but have a different served style.

Dawet Sambel served with slice of tofu, red sugar and....PECEL SAUCE (made from grilled peanut). You can feel sweet, mild, and salty. It's amazing.

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Dawet Sambel
You will hard to finding this kind of food. Beside rarely, they don't sell this in jogja but just in suburban area, Kulonprogo, 36 km from jogja to the west.

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Nice landscape half hour before destination

We start from jogja at 04.30 am, we face increasing road, many land slide path (rain still drop from last night). After 1 hour we arrive to traditional market, after ask many people we had met with Mbok Ponirah (1 from 4 Dawet Sambel Seller which still exist).

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Mbok Ponirah and her customers

She told that Dawet Sambel originally from Kokap Kulonprogo, Kokap is little beach in west jogja and today dawet sambel found in the hill (So far don't you??)

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Pecel

stayinjogja--What is this? we call this pecel. It's like javanese salad which contain spinach, kale (kangkung-bahasa),soya sproud,kecipir(i don't know what you call in english),bean and they put peanut sauces above that. They have another topping too, like snack cracker, chicken satay, indonesian omelete(we call TELuR DADAR), otak-otak (made from fish), etc.

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PECEL WITH SNACK CRACKER AND TEMPE

Usually you will find rice with pecel, indonesian eat pecel as side-dishes. If You want to know which pecel warung is delicious open my blog about food in jogja

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Soto

stayinjogja--What Is Soto ? We call this Soto, Soto is traditional food in java island. There is more than 5 kind of soto in java. This soto represent as Jogja Soto. It contain slice of chicken, lenthok (fried grind casava), kind of noodle known as SOUN (so-un) and with broth.

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YOGYAKARTA SOTO

The face of soto will very different if you buy in other city like purwokerto, padang or madura. They have other additional topping, for example they provide chicken innards (heart of chicken, etc)

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CHICKEN INNARDS

Soto always served with chili sauce (we call SAMBAL - some bal -)

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SAMBAL

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