Tukang Ngamen (Singing Beggar Man)

If you open a food stall on the street here in Jakarta (or maybe in other cities in Indonesia)...

You don't need a CD player...
You don't need CD's plates...
You don't need a sound system...
You don't need sound speakers....

Why?

Because there are people with their guitars who will sing from one food stall to another food stall and ask for money. So, while you are enjoying your food, you also can enjoy listening to your live music ;)

A man with his guitar, trying to find a food stall.

What a sweet smile on the lady's face :)

Tape Ketan & Uli

This man is selling Tape Ketan and Uli.

Tape Ketan is sweet fermented black glutinous rice and the Uli is the white glutinous rice cooked with coconut milk and salt then wrapped into banana leaves.

According to the seller man, the tape ketan will turn into alcohol after 2 days. Hence, it need to be eaten directly.

Rujak Potong - cut fruit (2)

Still remember my post of the original Rujak - Indonesian fruit salad? This is another version of rujak. If the original rujak has many fruit assortments with mixed peanut brown sugar sauce for dressing, then this rujak has limited fruits assortment and instead eating it with sauce, there's salt mixed with chopped hot red chili to substitute the sauce.


The limited assortment of the fruits are Mango (mangga), Water Apple (jambu air), Ambarella (kedondong) and Jicama (bangkuang).


But then, as you can see in the behind glass box, the vendor also sells Water Apple, Mango and Pineapple seperately in plastic bags.

Salt mixed with chopped red hot chili for the dipping.

Chef in Black

Yesterday, Sid from Big Boys Oven told me that he's invited that afternoon for a cooking demo and new Brazilian tapas menu by Emmanuel Stoorbant - the Belgian celebrity "Chef in Black" who has his own show on the AFC (Asian Food Channel).

I wish I could join that cooking demo but too bad, it's held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Thus, since I'm a fan of Chef in Black, I asked Sid to get an autograph for me.

Sid and also Ken from Food Point of Interest made an effort to get an autograph for me! Today, Ken sent me the scanned autograph and he told me that mine was the first one being signed. Yay!

I'm so happy right now, although I couldn't meet Emmanuel Stoorbant in person but I got a personal autograph from him.

Thank you so much, Sid and Ken! :D

Close-up

Review Links:
A Day With Celebrity Chef Emmanuel Stoorbant by Big Boys Oven

Chef In Black, Celebrity Chef Emmanuel Stroobant Launches Exciting New Menu at 7ATENINE by Food For Interest

Rujak Juhi (Cuttlefish Salad)

After a little break from my street food posts, now I'm back again with the Rujak (Indonesian fruit salad) post :)

Rujak Juhi is another kind of rujak but although the name is rujak, it doesn't contain of any fruits except if cucumber is consider as a fruit.

Juhi means salted cuttlefish in Indonesian language.

The ingredients:

From left to right: Lettuce, cucumber, fried boiled potatoes, cabbages,noodles, fried tofu,


From left to right: peanut sauce (made from ground fried peanut, garlic, hot chili, shallot, sugar, salt, vinegar, water, sweet soybean sauce), fried shreddered cuttlefish, and kaffir lime.

You can ask Rujak Juhi for a "take-out".

Sweet soysauce and kaffir lime juice.

Final touch, kerupuk (shrimp crakers/chips) on the top plus hot red chili sauce on the side. Yummy! :)

A plate of Rujak Juhi costs Rp. 9.000
Currency:
1 USD = Rp. 10.800
1 MYR = Rp. 3.000