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Jakarta Street Food: Kue Basah (‘wet’ cakes)

By aboutindo | Published: June 28, 2010
Plenty of traditional sweeties here.  First we have the green dadar guling, which is a pancake wrapped into rolls containing young coconut and gula merah.  Traditionally, the green colouring comes from suji leaves, but in this case it’s so cheap they must use a commercial food colouring.  Even so, it’s still delicious. The next is the little balls.  They’re [...]
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Jakarta Street Food: Cubit Cakes

By aboutindo | Published: May 16, 2010
Here’s another commonly seen snack food.  I have to say I haven’t seen the ‘nests’ before, well, not that I can remember.  The nests would be better if he cooked them until they were crisp, but I would buy them anyway. Notice the container the vendor keeps his chocolate sprinkles in?  An old face cream jar.  [...]
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Jakarta Street Food – Pancong cake

By aboutindo | Published: May 5, 2010
Not much to see here.  Quite a simple thing – pour batter into mould, wait until cooked then sell.  You see this type of cake being sold everywhere.  Even so, I never bothered to try it myself.  They say its like a doughnut.  Doughnut with coconut, perhaps.  From the clip it doesn’t look like it’s [...]
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