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Destinasi: Tanjung Puting
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Floating
Eatery
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Kubu Beach Seafood
Kubu Beach, Kumai subdistrict, Pang
kalan Bun, often become the coastal tour
and culinary target to people of Pangkalan
Bun and its surrounding areas. The beach
is equipped with grottos and row of street
vendors that open 24 hours.
Seafood is their main dish. Grilled fish,
crab, squid, shells are cooked with variet
ies of seasoning. Since the location is
near the sea, everything is fresh and alive.
From all the eatery available in Kubu
Beach, there is one interesting place,
Lintang Eatery. You can order varieties of
grilled, fried seafood with different kinds
of sauce such as oyster sauce, padang
sauce and many more.
Lintang the cook is always ready to
bring out the best cuisine. The food
ranges from Rp40 thousand to Rp100
thousand per portion.
Enjoying the food while feasting your
eyes with the sunset and feeling the wind
blows can help you release your burden
and weary. Unfortunately, waste has pol
luted the beach.
Kubu Beach
Seafood
Sarang Walet Soup
Besides seafood, Lintang Eatery also serves Sarang
Walet Soup for Rp 100 thousand per portion.
Pangkalan Bun and its surroundings are
the producers of Sarang burung Walet.
This menu adds more variety to the menu.
A lot of people come for the soup.
Sarang Walet, made of the bird’s saliva, is believed
to make you healthy.
If consume regularly can keep you body healthy,
raise vitality, healthy skin, to prevent from cancer
(contain antioxidant) and many more.
Destinasi: Tanjung Puting
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How do you feel eating at a floating eatery
in the middle of the river?
You must try.
E
xtraordinary! That’s
the best word to de
scribe Alam Ria, a float
ing eatery that floats under a
bridge in the middle of Arut
River. The bridge runs through
Pangkalan Bun towards Old
Kotawaringin, West Kotawar
ingin, Central Kalimantan. It is
interesting to see the eatery
sway whenever a boat passes
by. The green rice that was on
the menu is mouth watering.
The smooth and savory rice
really blends in your mouth.
The aroma of pandanus leaf
makes the rice more tempt
ing. Mas Pandikono, the
eatery owner, and his wife
Salimah open up their green
rice’s secret recipe. “The
green color comes from the
blended spinach, the aroma is
from the pandanus leaf, the
taste of savory comes from
coconut milk, lemon grass and
salt, explained Salimah.
”
The green rice that has been
the eatery’s main dish is only
served on Sunday. On the week
days Alam Ria Floating Eatery
serves plain rice. You can have a
choice of fried or grilled chicken
and fish, hot tomato sambal and
raw vegetables to go with the
rice.
If you want to try the sway
of the boat and menu of the
eatery, it is best to come in the
afternoon. Sunset around River
Arut Bridge is worth seeing,
beautiful and romantic.
Eating at Alam Ria Green Eat
ery can be a special experience
for tourist. The sensation felt
since you lay foot on the eatery.
The view of the boat pass by,
sunset and the taste of green
rice an experience cannot be
found anywhere else.