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Semarang Eats: Coconut Ice at Cama Ikan Bakar & Seafood

When you visit Semarang for a short few days, you will wish that you have four stomaches just like what the cow has. This is because the city has so much to offer for your tummy. We visited Cama after a few rounds of meal. I could barely eat but my cousin want to eat seafood. God bless her tummy. XD

Since I was already quite full, I just ordered dessert. After all, there's always room for dessert. A hot day called for a bowl of iced coconut.

The iced coconut here is served with syrup so it taste kinda too sweet. Oh well, at least the coconut taste good.

If you are wondering what did I eat before I came to Cama, well, the list is kinda long:

- Soto Ayam Mbak Lin (chicken soup)

- Es Dawet Kampung Kali (something like es cendol)

- Soto Ayam Pak Man (another chicken soup, omg)

Okay, I definitely need to take a break for the benefit of my tummy after this.

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Semarang Eats: Bakmi Djowo Pak Doel, Traditional Javanese Noodle

Bakmi Djowo (re: Javanese noodle) is Semarang's local food. There are basically a ton of Bakmi Djowo restaurants in Semarang so we just randomly entered into one restaurant belongs to Pak (Mr.) Doel Noemani which is located opposite Crowne Plaza Semarang.

At most restaurants in Semarang, you will find a plate full of satays. These satays are somewhat different (and can be a bit daunting) because the meat used is the intestine part. I am not a big fan of intestine so I gave this plate a miss and decided to focus on the noodle instead.

A plate of intestines satay at Bakmi Djowo Pak Doel Semarang

Bakmi Djowo is sold in 3 different version. One is fried. Another is soup. The last one is the most interesting version because it is half fried, half soup. The half-half version is called "Mie Nyemek". I prefer my noodle to be fried though. So this is the fried version.

The restaurant can be pretty crowded at dinner time so you need to have a certain degree of patience to wait for your order. After all, Semarang people love to eat.

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Semarang Eats: A Warm Night with Wedang Jahe at Istana Wedang

Whenever I am thinking of comfort food, I am always reminded of the warmth feeling in my stomach after consuming a famous local dessert in Semarang called Wedang Jahe. There is this one particular restaurant named Istana Wedang located just opposite our hotel, Crowne Plaza in Semarang.

What is Wedang Jahe? Well it is basically Javanese style of ginger tea. The tea is devoid of caffeine and it is made from ginger juices which coming out from the fresh ginger slices. Palm sugar or granulated cane sugar were added to the tea. Pandan leaves are also added for fragrance.

The best thing about wedang jahe is that it is served together with steamed onde (i.e. the round looking thing). The onde is made from glutinous rice cake. The onde is filled with green bean. They are so yummy!

Also read my other yummy stories eating Es Dawet Kampung Kali and Soto Ayam Pak Man which are also located in the culinary city of Semarang.

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Indonesia Eats: A second breakfast at Soto Ayam Khas Kudus Mbak Lin, Semarang

I can't believe I am already in a car ride to another restaurant straight after finishing my hotel breakfast. Oh well, it's Semarang and you are supposed to be well fed here.

One of the speciality food in Semarang is called "Soto Ayam" which is translated to chicken soup. I did post my last visit to Soto Ayam Pak Man. But since "Pak Man" is translated into Mr Man, now it's the time to visit another soto ayam restaurant which is named for a lady, Soto Ayam Kudus Mbak Lin.

This is what I was talking about. A clear chicken soup which is served with rice. Yup the rice is inside the bowl underneath the chicken pieces. Slurpp~~very tasty!

It tastes even better if you eat it together with oyster satay. Yeap, a complete awesome-ness.

My cousin who is studying in Semarang told me that there are so many places selling soto in Semarang up to the point that each people will have their own favorite stalls. I suppose that means most of these places are selling awesome soto? I'm so gonna be fat if I stay here for too long. XD

The restaurant is located at Jalan Ki Mangunsarkoso (re: Ki Mangunsarkoso Road) but high chances that the taxi driver will know it immediately once you mention the restaurant's name. Hehehe.

Indonesia Eats: Brunch Time at Soto Ayam Pak Man, Semarang

Soto Ayam is a unique local food of Semarang, a city in Java Island, Indonesia. Okay if I directly translate the words "soto ayam", it means clear-based chicken soup in English. If you have plan to visit Semarang, you can include this restaurant in your culinary itinerary.

At every soto ayam restaurants in Semarang, you will find the side dishes offered on the table. These, for your information, is not free and you'll be charged by how many items you consume. I know, I also wish this food is provided free of charge like Korean side dish. Hahaha. Oh right, if you don't know the name of this side dish, this is called fried "Tempeh", it's made from fermented soy bean. Once tempeh is fried, it taste crunchy and salty. Yum!

Fried Tempeh at Soto Ayam Pak Man, Semarang

Another side dish which always appear at soto ayam restaurant is the satay. As you can see, there is all kind of satays (re: skewers) from the cockles satay to the intestine satay. I'm not really a fan of the intestine satay but I quite like the cockles.

Intestine and Cockles Satay at Soto Ayam Pak Man Semarang

Finally, the main star of the restaurant has arrived, the Soto Ayam. As you can see, the soup is made from the chicken stock and it's served on top of beehoon (re: white noodle) or rice. A lot of spices were added to make the flavor kicks in. Generally, a good soto ayam should have the savoury taste with an added zest (usually from the addition of lemon/ lime).

If you have not tried this local Semarang dish before, you should try it because so far, I can say that Semarang really has the best Soto Ayam in Java Island. Not sure about other islands because I haven't been to all islands in Indonesia yet. Hehe.

Old Family Restaurant in Semarang, Toko Oen

How's everyone's NY celebration going on? Did you have fun? Did you just spend the whole day sleeping? No worries, we all deserve to spend NY day however we like it.

Prior to new year, I went to Semarang with my family for a culinary trip. And my mum suggested to go to a old family restaurant called Toko Oen. It's located at Jalan Pemuda no 52.

In the beginning of the business, the restaurant was merely a cookies store. Later on, an ice cream parlour and now, a restaurant. The taste of the food was based on the Dutch, Indonesian and Chinese tastes and cuisines. The restaurant is still operated by the direct descendants of the founders. Awesome, eh?

Since the restaurant is famous for the cakes, cookies and ice cream, we immediately ordered the heart-shaped pancake. Taste yummy.

If you don't know which flavor of the ice cream you want to try, you can opt for the 5-ice-cream-sundae. I'm such a glutton, I know. But this taste awesome!

My mum ordered tutti frutti ice cream because apparently it reminded her of her dating life with my dad in the past.

The cookies display looks very tempting.

And yes, you can try the cookies before buying. Awww, I love this kind of store.

Decided to buy this cookies because of its unique taste, cinnamon-ish.

I heard the place serves an awesome Chicken Cordon Bleu too. Oh well, maybe next time. We need more than one stomach whenever we visit Semarang. Hahaha.

Culinary Trip at Semarang

Christmas is time to be merry and I suppose the happiest part in our body is..our belly. This year, my family decided to spend few days out of town (cuz Jakarta is always filled with traffic jam). We are going to Semarang to fill in our belly. Ho-Ho-Ho.

Fyi, Semarang is a town in the East Java. A flight from Jakarta to Semarang will take approximately 1 hour. When we arrived in Semarang, we could not check into our hotel yet so we straight away go for eating trip.

First stop, Bakmi Djowo Pak Doel.

As what the name says, this restaurant sells noodle (fyi, bakmi is noodle in Bahasa Indonesia). It sells other food besides noodle likes this..eerr..intestines satay? I did not touch this one. Too scared. Hahaha.

We came to this restaurant to eat this yummy fried noodle. Super delicious. ^^

A few stalls away from Bakmi Djowo, there is a stall selling Nasi Ayam (re: Chicken Rice). My brother was hungry waiting for the noodle, so he went to the stall and buy the rice. It looks ordinary but it tastes great.

Like usual we went for dessert after our meal. We proceeded to our next stop, Istana Wedang for its wedang ronde. Curious about this traditional dessert?

Ta-dahh. It looks kinda similar to Tangyuan (汤圆) right? This food is nice to be eaten on rainy days.

We were already so full even before we checked into our hotel. Oh gosh, I really don't have the guts to weigh myself after this trip. Really. >.<!

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