what i eat today

I eat this while attending a halal bihalal reunion party with my high school classmates at "Saung Talaga" restaurant, this dish is actually just one of many foods are served. This carp fried in lots of cooking oil or also called deep fried, the fish halved and sliced ​​crosswise before being fried, eaten with warm rice, raw vegetables (lalapan) and chili paste (sambal), for refresher I drink coconut ice that served in the whole form of coconut fruit. Saung Talaga restaurant is located at Jalan Raya Sawangan near Depok, West Java, this restaurant is a stilt houses over the lake where there are lots of fish, besides eating you can also ride a boat around the lake. From Jakarta this restaurant located on the left the road, looking for "Saung Talaga" signs where there are rowing boat ornament, there are two entrances to the restaurant, the first entrance is located separately by the shops leading to the parking lot beside the restaurant, and a second entrance leadi

This dish is called Gado-gado in my country, a mix of steamed vegetables flavored with peanut sauce. This is actually a Javanese version of Gado-gado where the peanut sauce is made separately and will be poured right before serving. How to make it is very easy, you can use any kind of vegetables that you like in this dish, in the image is used bean sprouts, carrots, potatoes, tomatoes and tofu, all except tomatoes and tofu boiled until cooked, tofu fried in vegetable oil, and raw ​​tomatoes sliced. the peanut sauce can be made from ready-made peanut seasoning block which is diluted with water, or you can make it yourself from peanuts that crushed in a blender or pestle and mortar then diluted it with water after crushed well. Served with hot rice and you can added with boiled eggs if you like.

This chicken satay purchased at Pak Udin satay stalls on the edge of the highway near my house, satay is burned on charcoal flavored with nuts paste. I ate it with boiled spinach and a few extra sprouts.

To break the fast I eat Nasi Uduk with salad, unlike usual Nasi Uduk that served with Lalapan and Sambal (Chili paste), this Nasi Uduk served with salad and mayonnaise and fried potatos, with peanut sauce and sliced omelet as addition. Salad which I mean here is a western-style salad, although Lalapan also can be categorized as salad, more precisely Indonesian-style salad. Nasi Uduk is steamed rice cooked with coconut milk and other seasoning, and Lalapan is raw vegetable salad served with Sambal (chili paste).

Today is the first day of fasting, so I ate just before dawn, called "Sahur." Today's menu is a Bakso and Unskewered Satay, Bakso is meatballs with broth, and the satay is slices of chicken meat that roasted with skillet, different from usual skewered satay that grilled over the coals, served with soy sauce mixed with chili and red onions. Happy fasting for those who do it

This snack is glut food, a kind of pancake that folded in half and usually filled with chocolate, cheese or sweet black sticky rice. The Sweet Martabak that I eat contains meises (sprinkled chocolate), the cake was thick and soft, with sweet chocolate inside, makes me want to eat more and more. This food is called sweet because there are other types of Martabak that not sweet, which is called Martabak Telur (Egg Martabak or Salty Martabak), I will show if I eat it later.