Rice Cat

Rice cat (or in a language known as Java "sega kucing") is not a menu but rather a presentation on how to wrap a lot of rice found in the stalls Angkringan. Called "rice cat" as presented in the portion of the (very) few, like the menu to feed a cat. Rice Cat is of the same shape, with a diverse menu: tempe dry, small fish fry, sambal fry, tripe, milk, gut, head or Paw sate chicken and egg quill, the more favors if you burned briefly before first presented.

Rice that can be presented in the form of rice and ordinary rice tasty (rice Uduk) and in the portion of the little side dish is given a pirate sambal (chilli fried first), and a small piece pindang milkfish fry. If accompanied eat drink warm ginger-based (brown ginger, ginger coffee, tea and ginger) all the headaches - a cold will disappear by itself.

Rice cat known in various places in Central Java (including Yogyakarta) and is very popular among students because of the rather cheap price size bag for children kost, besides it also fit the tongue in India.

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GINGER RONDE DRINK

GINGER RONDE DRINK is a traditional Javanese drink served in a bowl, which is very helpful when the weather is cold. From the words, drink is a Javanese language means a drink, ginger ronde is the name for the main part of the drink. This kind of drink uses ginger as its ingredient. To get the merit, ginger is boiled in the water, along with other substances. As it has ginger, it will warm anybody who drinks it. The taste is sweet but rather hot.

Ingredients:
Skin:
• 150 grams glutinous rice flour
• 2 teasoons sago flour
• salt, according to taste
• 25 cc betel lime liquid
• 50 cc warm water
• food dye, according to preference


Filling:
• 50 grams peanuts, dry-fried, peeled and pounded coarsely with 2 tablespoons granulated sugar

Ginger Sauce:
• 1 litre water
• 2 ½ tablespoons ginger, minced
• 3 stalks lemon grass, cut into 3 pieces each and bruised
• 2 screw pine leaves, shredded an tied into knots
• 200 grams granulated sugar

Preparations:
• Skin: mix glutinous rice flour, sago flour and salt. Add betel lime liquid and warm water a little at a time, kneading until the dough can be shaped. Divide into 2-3 parts, each dyed a different colour.
• Make balls as big as quail’s eggs, flatten and place filling in the centre. Close up the dough and reshape into balls.
• Cook balls in the boiling water until they float and are done. Drain.
• Put ginger ronde balls in ginger sauce and serve
• Ginger Sauce: boil water and ingredients in covered saucepan on low heat for 30 minutes until the aroma is quite strong. Sieve.

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UDUK RICE

Uduk Rice is one of the many varieties of spice infused rices, very common in Indonesia. The basic is rice, coconut milk, lemongrass, greet leaf, and a little salt. On top of the rice I put onion fry and slivered fried eggs. And then, I wrapped the rice with banana leaves. This is made of rice boiled in coconut milk spiced with corriander, salt and greet leaf (similar to bay leave) and then steamed. Usually uduk rice is served with fried chicken, empal or bacem and garnished with sliced cucumber and leaf kemangi (a kind of parsley with certain aromatic smell).

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Jelly parts for sweethearts

Jelly parts for sweethearts literally means ‘mixed ice' and although you may expect an ice cream cone or a sorbet, the ice in this sweet little dish stands for ice cubes. The ice cubes float in a bowl filled with milk, coconut shavings, avocado, jackfruit and several kinds of jelly.

Indonesians seem to have a thing for jelly. With Jelly parts for sweethearts, you have the chance to taste three kinds of jelly at the same time. First of, there are little cubes of cing-cau jelly made from the cing-cau leaf. Next there’s sekotang which are little pink balls made of tapioca. Finally there is the cengakeleng which is made of coconut.
They all differ in taste and texture but share the ever present sweetness factor. Jelly parts for sweethearts is a very colourful dessert with the green of the avocado and the pink and black of the jelly. As far as taste is concerned, it is probably a tad on the sweet side for the average Westerner. Still, the Sundanese prove to be masters in combining different tastes turn out to fit together. Jelly parts for sweethearts can be found in most food courts located in malls or in traditional Sundanese booths. Make sure the milk that is used is fresh and the ice cubes are made of purified water which in this day and age is almost always the case. Expect to pay about Rp. 5000 for a large bowl of jelly filled sweetness.

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Putu cake

Putu cake (from the Java language, 'puthu') is a kind of Indonesian food such as cakes that contain palm sugar and grated coconut is wrapped by a steamed rice flour. This cake is usually placed with steamed in bamboo tubes and sold on the night. Sound typical of steam out of the tool steam this is the campaign tool for traders who peddle.

Most of the color of this cake Putu is white and green.

Some traders now replace the bamboo with a PVC pipe with practicality reasons, although in terms of the use of PVC endanger health.

Putu cake itself is reaching to other countries such as Singapore, even if the name and form for this cake a little different, but it's own with the traditional cake Putu Indonesia itself.

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