Culinary

Hi! Oh, I'm so excited for this title so today I'm going to tell you about culinary, basically my favorite food.

For beginning, Bandung its well-known for nice scenery, Factory Outlet, its traditional Sundanese food etc. I always like to eat the traditional food when i go to some sundanese restaurant in Bandung. One of my favorite sundanese food is Nasi Timbel.

Nasi timbel is the famous sundanese dish. It consists steames foodrice wrapped in banana leaf which make the rice more aromatic, raw vegetables (lalapan), sambal terasi (hard shrimp paste), tempe (soybean fermented), tahu (fried tofu), ayam (roasted chicken), and a sliced of salted fish.

Nasi Timbel taste more delicious because it's served with sayur asam (a vegetable soup given a sour flavour).

Many of sundanese restaurant serve nasi timbel as one of their a must menu, such as Nasi Timbel istiqomah and Bandung Rasa.

Nasi timbel istoqomah located in around of istiqomah mosque. Previously this restaurant is on jl Citarum but then moved to jl Ciliwung. I think its cheap enough but not to cheaper too.

But i think Bandung Rasa is better than the other.

I'd like to choose this resaurant as my favorite one. For addition, their serving is tempe bacem and sambal which is one of the best taste.

You must try local taste delicaly at least by visit and eat to this restaurant.

Here's some step by step to make Nasi Timbel:

Ingredients:

• 300 grs of hot rice

• 2 pieces of banana leaves

How to make:

Put the hot rice in stacked banana leaves with averaging then fold the long both sides to the middle, and rolling.

Lalapan:

Contain of raw lalapan are eggplant, cabbage, string beans, basil, tomatoes and cucumber.

Sambal Terasi (the most important one)

Ingredients:

• 5 pieces of red curls chili

• 2 pieces of cayenne

• 1 teaspoon of baked/fried "terasi" (blachen/hard shrimp paste)

• 1 teaspoon of brown sugar

• 1 piece of small tomato

• Salt as adequate

How to make:

Refine red curls chili, cayenne, shrimp paste, brown sugar, salt and tomato. But do not be too smooth, then add lime essence.

Put all materials in one plate. Serve Nasi Timbel with fried chicken, tahu and tempe. 

Nasi timbel's ready for serve completed with side dish!