Train-Spoor-Sepur

Many train traffic at central java use unique word : SEPUR.
This word came from Ducth which mean is SPOOR (eng : TRAIN).
Javanese people absorbed that word and changed to the word that they can spell it easily,
then that word transform to SEPUR.

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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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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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Where Is Java When You Said That In Jakarta

stayinjogja--A few years ago, when stayed in jakarta i had some friends which come from bandung (still in java island). When i want to went home to jogja i asked him,'Do you want some souvenir from jogja?'. He asked me,'Do you want to go to Jawa?'.

It's amazing for me, because jakarta still in java island, bandung still in java island but many people who stayed and lived there said if they want to go to Jogja, Semarang, Surabaya, and other place in Central Java and East Java territory they will said, "Go home to Java".

So, i hope you not suprised if some people in jakarta or bandung said going home to Java (Jawa : Bahasa)

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Warung Makan (Place To Eat-Street Vendor)

Beside have large restaurant, jogja have more than hundreds place to eat known as warung. There is many kind of warung, if they sell fried/grill chicken we call "WARUNG AYAM BAKAR/GORENG" (fried chicken warung), if they sell fried rice we call "WARUNG NASI GORENG" (Fried Rice Warung).

For some food and drink that you order you will charge from Rp 5.000,- until Rp 15.000,-. This was very cheap for students in jogja. Yes---their price are cheap but many of them didn't provide for clean dish,fork,spoon or place.
They just put dish,fork,spoon to the water without soap.

I have a rumor that if some place like warung have some "mystique guard" to call the customer back again.

You can one jogjakakilimafoods for information about the warung-warung in jogja

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ONE OF MANY WARUNG IN JOGJA

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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.

From Food Information

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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Bread Cart a.k.a Gerobak Roti

stayinjogja--Sometimes in your home stay at jogja you will find a man who operated the paddle with the cart in front of him, like in this picture.

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Bread Cart

They are work to the bakery to sell many bread to the customer at jogja. They can reach more than 10 km from the bakery to cycle that bread cart. But sometimes they will stop for long time at front of Hospital or doctor, why? Because (in my opinion) if patient wait for the doctor call some of their company will bored and they will came out and do something like buy some bread.

Bakery have more than 10 armadas.
You will find them from 5 am until 6 pm surrounding jogja, even in every city in Indonesia which have a bakery

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Andong

stayinjogja--What Is That? We calls this Andong (in other teritory they have same cart with 2 wheels called as dokar).
This traditional transportation has been exist from long long time ago.

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In my opinion their price is to expensive, for 1 kilometers they will charge Rp 10.000,- or $1 (14/11/2008 dollars rate).
But you will regret if you don't ride this transportation.

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BPR Billboard

stayinjogja--BPR is Bank Perkreditan Rakyat or Peoples Loan Bank. This is the kind of small bank that provide some loan which interest is smaller then the common bank.
Some of BPR can provide more than 80 Million Rupiahs.
You can find many of BPR in every corner of the city. They can have a large building or event just rent some room.

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Doctor Billboard

stayinjogja--This billboard tell us about the doctors pratice hour.
First line and second line tells about the name of the doctor. Third line tells about the doctor speciality, sometimes they use english to explain their speciality.
Fourth line tells about Days of practice.
Fifth line tells about Hours of practice on each days
Six line tells when they close their practice

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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.

From Food Information

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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Car Rental

stayinjogja--What is this? You can rent this car to deliver your stuff if you want to move from your home stay to other home stay. They charge for IDR 100.000,- for one trip. You can find them every where in Jogja. They have many kind of cars to bring your stuff, this car just for sample.

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