Garuda Indonesia Colours Magazine July 2019 | Page 62

Lifestyle / Flavours
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1. Tasty lempok is best
enjoyed with warm tea.
2. Jambi's popular silver
catfish curry with tempoyak.
chilli sauce (sambal terasi) and mango.
The cuisine is called seruit and served
with steamed rice. The hint of hot chilli,
sourness and sweetness will really
tempt your palate. While in Jambi,
tempoyak is normally added to silver
catfish to make gulai ikan patin (silver
catfish curry). The gulai is ubiquitous
in Jambi’s restaurants.
In addition to tempoyak, lempok durian
is popular in the cities of Sumatra and
Kalimantan. Lempok is a sweet,
toffee-like durian-based confection.
Preparing it is quite tedious since it
needs around four hours of stirring.
The fruit is placed in a large pan over
firewood, sugar and salt are added,
and then it is stirred repeatedly to reach
a sticky texture. Sweet and a bit chewy,
lempok is best enjoyed with warm tea
without sugar. At room temperature,
lempok can keep for up to a month.
When you go to Bandung, West Java,
you will find the Indonesian version of
pancake, surabi, gets a little twist by
topping it with durian sauce. However,
if you prefer a cold dessert, Bogor,
West Java, will indulge you with rich
variants of a durian ice cream dessert,
called sop duren. Combined with
a variety of ingredients ranging from
cendol (a rice flour jelly with green
food colouring from pandanus leaves),
slices of wheat bread, Oreo cookies
and grated cheese, durian ice cream
will take you to another level of food
adventure. So…are you ready to take
a bite?
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 e spiky fruit has been known to Indonesians
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since around the 9th century, as shown on the relief
panels on the walls of Borobudur Temple.