Pukis Time

My wife prepared some pukis or coconut milk cakes for potluck party at our apartment.

With cheese...cheddar....and blueband....and Coconut milk....directly brought from Indonesia, she prepared the cakes.

Even...the "loyang" or cake stove was imported from Jogjakarta ^^

...and with pandan leaf seasoning...the greenish texture came to life^^.

♡♡♡pukis♡♡♡

Morning Snack @ Home Sweet Home in Kediri

It's January 30th. Meaning..it's 10 days before I got to leave for Seoul again. So ..that being said..I always made the best of each day to enjoy everything during my stay being back home...and how could I do that? Well, every morning..Mom always prepared some traditional snacks I used to have when I was still in Kediri. 

Those colorful snacks are made of cassava with coconut milk. And the brown donuts-shaped snacks were made out of nangka (jack fruit).  

Onde-onde or sesame balls, banana-leaf covered glutenous rice, yellow rice, fermented cassava, and other...well...I can't remember the names..but mostly that's what I remembered though.  

This is the dining table or at this hour..it's breakfast table. Eyra just woke up and she greeted me sulkily ....wondering what I was doing with the camera at work. Well..dear..your Daddy has been capturing every moment we spent during our 3-week vacation back home. Oh...those three pictures of us..hanging on the wall. 

me, my younger brother, and younger sister....our memorable high-school pictures. Were they taken for school album before graduation? I guess so. But...gee....I forgot that I used to have hair...ㅋㅋㅋㅋ At times I can't believe it myself....

where have all of those hair gone:-) 

Srabi Notokusuman

One thing I learned about my hometown, Kediri, after leaving it for more than 3 years....is how varied the food stalls had become. I mean...even I never realized that Srabi Notokusuman (Solo's traditional pancake) that I used to find (ONLY) in Solo or in Jogja...is now available in my hometown.  

And the best part is that...they use the same traditional method of cooking the srabi (pancakes). Hmmm...I loved it. 

Yup, it's written that it dated back in 1923 in Solo and since then..they never changed the way the pancakes are made. 

But..one thing for sure...to suit the taste of the so-called 'young generation' ㅋㅋㅋ they do now have cheese & chocolate flavor....to add up the established original flavor--which is nothing more than coconut-milk flavor. 

and what about this one? well, we had mi ayam or chicken fried noodles for our late-afternoon snack. SNACK?  

well, yes. Not me...definitely. Mostly..the girls loved it. 

Oh...I can't stand the name of the restaurant .Amazy...oh please...shouldn't it be 'amazed' or' amazing' ..but Amazy...

well...what's in a name. 

Penganan jaman dulu

wah...asyik dan pas banget. ketika lagi istirahat nunggu makan siang yang nggak kunjung datang..tiba-tiba ada salah seorang mahasiswa yang menyodorkan makanan tradisional ini. Ada empat jenis...yang satu pun lidahku nggak bisa nyebutin namanya.

Duuuh duulu pernah makan dan beberapa kali lihat...tapi nggak tahu namanya... 

oh..hanya satu yang nggak / belum pernah kumakan..yang lonjong.

itu sumpah..namanya apa ya...duuuh penasaran nih jadinya.

gimana coba...sudah terlanjur kemakan..tapi nggak tahu namanya.

rasanya sesek di dada...karena penasaran dan gemez...

ada yang tahu nama penganan ini?

ke-4-4-nya?

* Yang puasti: uenaak buangettt.

Oh...akhirnya saya dapat jawaban beberapa makanan itu. SEmua berkat dari salah satu pembaca setia blog ini...Lydia Sari.

Dia ngirim fb ke saya dan bilang: ada enting-enting kacang, ada wajit, terus..yang lain..ㅋㅋㅋㅋ masih dalam otak...belum keluar apa namanya.

tapi walao gitu..komawoyo, Lydia Sari.

Qtela Tempe!!!

Qtela snack. one of my favorite snacks. The problem is that I cannot find it here in Seoul. (Guess...I could find it in Ansan???). ANyway, the thing is that..I bumped into this snack when I was 'browsing' and scanning through the alleys of Superindo at the basement of BCA Building in Sudirman St. in Jogjakarta a few weeks ago. Guess..it was a coincidence. I happen to be the tempe-maniac^^ and it never occurred to me that Qtela (which is usually made of cassava) released the new 'edition' of Qtela Tempe.

*What a lousy entry it is, indeed.^^

Japanese & Indonesian snack in One Day

I did not know what got into me...no, I mean..ok, let's put it this way. In one day, I got two different snack from two different countries. One was a snack that I did know what, but I liked it. the plastic pack said something like that shown on the picture above. It tasted sweet and it was fully covered with snowy sugar-like powder.

This is the ingredient or at least an information of what that was. I just knew that it was edible. More than that...I did not. Ok, I got this from ibu-ibu dharma wanita from UGM who visited Seoul after visiting Japan. So, on their en-route to Jakarta, they stopped over in Seoul for a 2-day visit. 

Thanks for the snack, Bu.

Another snack that I wanted to share is EMPING!!! Yest, it was emping. I've been craving for emping in Korea. And I never managed to get one anywhere.

So, when my friend, Seonhee, bought one in Uijeongbu and gave some to me, it was like a present.^^

Well, too much of it would not be healthy--so they said. But, still...a craving would only be satisfied when we got what we were craving for.......

the only solution was...to eat them all up^^