Wednesday, January 2, 2008

Jakarta, Indonesia - Soto Gebraaak!!!

Date: 7th November 2007
Location: Soto Gebraaak at Jl Setia Budi near SMAN 3


Soto Gebraaak!! "Senyum Boleh Marah Jangan" means "You can smile but you cant be angry". The extraordinary way of serving the food is by banging the kitchen table with a glass bottle after the meal is prepared. The louder the better. I must warn you first that the banging is pretty deafening.




Another banner "wow belum tau .. jangan marah dong" which means "Wow, you havent tried - so don't be angry".
Fact: Soto, Sroto or Coto is an Indonesian cuisine mainly comprised of broth and vegetables. The meats that most commonly used are beef and chicken, but there are also sotos with mutton and pork. The soup is usually accompanied by rice or compressed rice. Sotos are differentiated by the ingredients in them, such as soto ayam (chicken) and soto kambing (mutton).
There are also specific kinds of regional sotos. There are many varieties of sotos in Indonesia, which vary by regions, class, and ethnicity. Some well known variations are soto Madura (from East Java), soto Betawi (from Jakarta), soto Padang (from West Sumatra), soto Bandung (from West Java), soto Banjar (from South Kalimantan), and coto Makassar (from South Sulawesi). All of these sotos have distinctive flavor.

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