Sunday, June 22, 2014
Thursday, June 28, 2007
serabi
Banyumas Food
Bakso
Bakso is a variant of the noodle soup with meat ball, and good for an afternoon snack time. The humble famous bakso restaurant located on Jalan A. Yani IV known as Bakso Ahmad Yani, always taste yummy. Other location are : Jalan Pereng, Bakso Pak Slamet Jalan Bank and warung bakso inside Pasar Cerme.
As many Indonesian region, Banyumas has its own delicious and exotic food. The famous and vastly available in the region is soto ayam (chicken soup) with its famous location in Sokaraja, 5 km in the outskirt of Purwokerto township. Especially in the festive season of Iedul Fitri, when many Banyumas people around Indonesia going to their hometown, they queue all the way just to taste the famous soto ayam. The most famous soto ayam restaurant is Soto Kecik Asli, this one is really special and with only around Rp 1000 or 20 cent you can taste the potfull of delicious chicken soup.
Gudeg Purwokerto 
Gudeg commonly referred to original food from Yogyakarta, but Purwokerto also has special derivative of gudeg. The most tasteful gudeg Purwokerto sold in traditional market Pasar Manis (Jalan Gatot Subroto) from around 7am and will be sold out around 10am. This gudeg Purwokerto, consists of several mixture: chicken, eggs, tahu and krecek depend on your selection, can be conveniently brown-bagged to be eat at home.
Gudeg commonly referred to original food from Yogyakarta, but Purwokerto also has special derivative of gudeg. The most tasteful gudeg Purwokerto sold in traditional market Pasar Manis (Jalan Gatot Subroto) from around 7am and will be sold out around 10am. This gudeg Purwokerto, consists of several mixture: chicken, eggs, tahu and krecek depend on your selection, can be conveniently brown-bagged to be eat at home.
Bakso
Bakso is a variant of the noodle soup with meat ball, and good for an afternoon snack time. The humble famous bakso restaurant located on Jalan A. Yani IV known as Bakso Ahmad Yani, always taste yummy. Other location are : Jalan Pereng, Bakso Pak Slamet Jalan Bank and warung bakso inside Pasar Cerme.
In the Purwokerto townhip itself, many famous soto ayam restaurant vastly available. The famous string of warung soto are in Jalan Bank (currently called Jalan R.A. Wiriaatmaja) called Soto Jalan Bank and Soto Sungeb. Both warung soto promise the delightful taste of original soto of Purwokerto.Many local favorite street trader of soto ayam in Jalan Masjid and Alun-alun also waiting at night time for crowd to enjoy. When you finished half of your soto, be prepared to order another bowl of soto, so you can continuously enjoy without waiting.
Sate Kambing 
The second famous food is sate kambing (small dice-lamb barbecue). Their great restaurant location is in Banaran locally known as special sate banaran (in the western of Purwokerto township). The classic and hip sate kambing still conveniently located in Jalan Masjid. For people who likes fatty sate and gule kambing, the warung sate east of old Srimaya theatre is a must.
Mendoan and Keripik
The original food of Purwokerto is mendoan, a half-fried tempe and tasted wonderful with hot mexican chilli. If mendoan is fully fried called keripik. Sometimes, Purwokerto also known as kota keripik or city of keripik. Because it is virtually difficult to find original keripik anywhere outside Purwokerto. Currently, the tasteful mendoan and keripik sold by Chinese shop in Jalan Letjen Suprapto.
Serabi
In the early morning (subuh), it is worth to search an old woman (mbok-mbok) who sold serabi in Jalan Bank. The taste of her serabi is unforgettable and famous too. Sometimes, the queue formed just to taste the serabi in the morning.