Friday, March 2, 2012

Gudeg, traditional food from Yogyakarta

Yogyakarta is not only famous with culture, tourism and history of Yogyakarta palace, there are one of the traditional food that be characterized for Jogja, that is Gudeg. This food is made from young jackfruit cooked with a long process. The young jackfruit and small sliced boiled with spices typical. In order to become red, the young jackfruit boiled with teak leaves that will provide a natural red color.

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The real taste from this food is sweet; people can add sauce or pieces of chili if want more spicy. Usually Gudeg will be served with rice, boiled egg, tofu, Tempe, chicken, scribble, etc, according to the taste of visitors.

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Gudeg is easy to find in Jogja, almost throughout the city of Jogja we can find it. But there is one place that has been The Central of Gudeg in Jogja, its Wijilan Street. This place is near with Keraton Yogyakarta. In Wijilan Street we can see more than 10 Gudeg shop that line up along the way. In 1942 there is only one shop that sell Gudeg, as times goes by the number of shop is continues to grows. Every shop is offers different package of Gudeg, from the taste and a away to present is different. 

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