Friday, January 9, 2009

Bubur Biji Salak & Sum Sum

If you are craving for sweet porridges, you can find it easily on the streets in Jakarta.

The man is selling it on his motorcycle.

Although the direct translation from Bubur Biji Salak is Snake Fruit's Seed Porridge but this porridge isn't made from the real seed of Snake Fruit ;)

snake fruit


The Biji Salak is actually made from sweet potato and tapioca/sago flour.

Biji salak

Bubur Sum Sum is known as the Indonesian Rice Pudding; made from rice flour, coconut milk, salt and pandan leaves.

It's Rp. 3.000 per cup

People usually will eat the Bubur Biji Salak together with Bubur Sum Sum.

27 comments:

  1. What a beautiful combination! I can imagine the rich texture from the various flour mixed with santan and the gula jawa. Kind of like the Malaysian version of soya bean milk mix with cincau.

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  2. worldwindows: Wow.. I've never seen the soya bean mix with cincau, it must be unique. Is the cincau black or green? Here in Indonesia, we have 2 kind of cincau, the black cincau is the grass jelly (like the chinese one) and the green cincau is made from leaves.

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  3. interesting, Selba!
    thanks alot for sharing Indon desserts with us. if i ever make my way to Jakarta, or Bandung, I know where to search ffor good food! :)

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  4. Looks good!!

    Fyi, the cincau worldwindows meant is black in colour. The used to call this drink Michael Jackson (Black and White)

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  5. j2kfm: Glad that I can share our Indo desserts. Just wait, will post more of it ;)

    precious pea: Hahaha.. so funny, a drink called Michael Jackson coz' of the colors.

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  6. Interesting desserts! Snake fruit is something new to me.

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  7. pigpigscorner: hello... welcome to my blog :)

    Salak or Snake Fruit is a native fruit to Indonesia and Malaysia. It tasted kinda crunchy like apple but not really juicy. The famous salak are from Yogyakarta and Bali. If you have a chance to visit Indonesia, you gotta try it ;)

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  8. biji salak can eat too.....
    **looking in big eyes**

    amazing........
    at here we throw away salak seeds....

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  9. errr.... selba

    cincau we at Malaysia also called
    grass jelly and its black in colour

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  10. Yum. LOoks rich and delicious.

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  11. pisang goreng: Hahaha.. it's not the real seed of salak!

    Do you also have the green cincau like we have here in Indonesia?

    pam: It is rich indeed ;)It's because of the brown sugar sauce and coconut milk.

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  12. Mmmmm I would try both. I like sago especially, more than tapioca.

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  13. olivia: If you like sago, then you probably will like the sago pearls, just wait... I will post it soon ;)

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  14. here, sum sum is bone marrow. so, you can imagine my surprise when i read buah salak and sum sum together!

    a very interesting dessert, this! ;)

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  15. Sum sum is the "tau foo fa" in Malaysia? Looks delicious!

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  16. Selba, shall we exchange link? I jsut added you as my blog list. :)

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  17. nic: LOL
    Bone marrow is also sumsum in bahasa indonesia :D

    bits of life n taste: No.. it's not "tau fu fa" (you meant the tofu flower eaten with brown sugar and ginger sauce, right?)

    Bubur sum sum is made from flour rice, coconut milk and salt.

    little inbox: Sure! I already added yours in my blog list :D

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  18. It is so confused that they called it bubur biji salak but used other ingredients to make the bubur. Any particular reason? I am new to this dish. Sounds fusion to me. Hehehe!

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  19. food for tots: For sure, we can not eat any biji salak, even if you boiled it, still to hard for your teeth, hehehe...

    I think the reason why they called it as Bubur Biji Salak because of the balls and color looked like biji salak :)

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  20. selba
    we called it tou fu fa

    you called it bunga kembang

    similair to soy pudding eat with syrup.

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  21. pisang goreng: The bubur sum sum is completely different than tau fu fa/kembang tahu.

    I'd posted about tau fu fa/kembang tahu, you can check it out here:

    http://selbyfood.blogspot.com/2006/10/kembang-tahu.html

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  22. Yes, I do like sago pearls. When you post about it, I will tell you how my mother used to prepare it for me.

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  23. olivia: Okiedokie.. the posting of sagu pearl is coming soon ;)

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  24. I usually buy my Bubur Sum Sum from the Le Gourmet Bread Shop. :-)

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  25. nomadicmom: Whooaaaa... you bought bubur sum-sum from Le gourmet bread shop? that must be really expensive!

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  26. ur blog darn educational dear.. all i know of Indo desserts was Risoli and Es campur! till now that's it..

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  27. thenomadgourmand: Hahaha... don't worry... you are still good, guess what? even the young Indonesian generation these days, are not aware about their Indonesian food.

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