Traditional Food in Jakarta

There are a lots of traditional foods in Jakarta, and they are really delicious.
This is some foods you can find in Jakarta :

1. Kerak Telor

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Kerak Telor is a Betawi traditional spicy omelette dish in Indonesian cuisine. It is made from glutinous rice cooked with egg and served with serundeng (fried shredded coconut), fried shallots and dried shrimp as topping. It is considered as a snack and not as a main dish.

2. Nasi Uduk 

“Nasi Uduk”, literally means “Mixed Rice”, because often served with different side dishes such as fried chicken, omelette, sambal goreng/kering tempe, fried tofu, fried tempe, fried dried anchovies, fresh cucumber and then serve with peanut sauce, sambal terasi and emping crackers.  It’s easy to find it in the roadside of Jakarta. People usually eat it for breakfast. It can be found throughout the day, some roadside stalls

3. Gado - Gado

Gado Gado is an Indonesian salad of slightly boiled, blanched or steamed vegetables and hard-boiled eggs, fried tofu and tempeh, and lontong (rice wrapped in a banana leaf), served with a peanut sauce dressing. It can be find in some stalls in the streets.

4. Ketoprak

Ketoprak is a kind of 'heavy meal' food that consists of : 'Lontong or Ketupat', rice vermicelli, bean-sprout, and fried tofu; mixed well with peanut-sauce and sweet-soya-sauce, and garnished with fried onion (shallot) and 'kerupuk'. Ketoprak is considered cousins with 'Gado-gado' or 'Karedok', since they use tipical peanut-paste. The differences among them are quite minor. While Ketoprak uses no vegetable at all, Gado-gado uses boiled vegetables, Karedok uses raw vegetables.

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