Come join us in Solo (Surakarta), Indonesian as we sample a host of different Indonesian desserts and Indonesian street food snacks in the form of a taste test challenge for the first time. Most of the Indonesian street food desserts had a coconut base and we ended up trying Serabi Notosuman coconut milk pancakes, karak solo, Gethuk, Onde-onde, Arem-arem, Lapis and Kunir Asem just to name a few.\r
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Indonesian street food taste test challenge: Eating Indonesian desserts & snacks in Solo, Indonesia travel food video transcript:\r
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So for todays video we are going to be trying Indonesian street food and Indonesian snacks. So it is lunchtime. Were not having a proper meal. Were just going to be sampling a little bit of everything.\r
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So were starting off with coconut milk pancakes which are called Serabi. Yeah, so lets take a look at it down here. So you can see the outside fringe it looks like something quite crispy. Yeah. And I think this is going to be like the middle part is the coconut milk. So Im not entirely sure how to eat this. Im just going to take a big bite. That looks delicious.\r
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I love coconut and so what youve got here, if you look down here. Yeah. This part it sort of tastes like, I dont know like maybe like a coconut type of pudding. Yeah. It is really um it has got a bit of milky consistency. It is it tastes a little bit wet once you have it in your mouth and then this part over here is crispy so youve got those two. Youve got the contrast between the crispiness and the pudding like texture. Woah. Oh man, I love that. Instant hit. Dessert for lunch.\r
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So up next Karak. Karak Solo. So from what I was told these are made with rice. And I think theyre kind of like rice crackers. So lets try those.\r
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Mmmm. Sounds crispy.\r
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Very crunchy. Surprinsingly it has quite a bit of flavor and it is a lot more savory than it is sweet. It kind of reminds me of the crackers you get when youre having Gado-Gado. Oh.\r
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So next up we have. I think we have something called Onde-onde. Yeah. And Ive tried this in Malaysia and also Hong Kong. It is one of my favorite kind of dessert types of dim sum. I dont know if they eat it as a dim sum here in Indonesia but I love this. If it is the same thing I am assuming that.\r
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So the exterior is that like glutinous rice with sesame seeds.\r
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It is really chewy on the outside and in the inside you have like the mystery ingredient.\r
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So this one I believe is called Arem-arem and it comes wrapped in a leaf. So lets open this up and see what we have in here.\r
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It looks like a pancake. That looks fascinating.\r
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Oh, okay. So it looks like a pancake tube and inside you have rice. Lets get a close up shot of that. Look at that. Oh wow. With some kind of sauce inside.\r
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Okay so new snack. Yeah, weve got another mystery one it is called Lapis. So lets take a look down here. You can see all of the different. It is very stripy. It has different color lines\r
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Okay. Similar to the other one. It has kind of like a gelatin like taste. If I had to guess again this isnt that sweet but it hints of like coconut and chocolate flavor.\r
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I think more or less everything weve tried has some kind of coconut which is awesome. I think they specialize in coconut here. We love anything with coconut. So look at that. You know what? Ive enjoyed everything weve tried here.\r
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So next up were trying a drink that the store owner recommended. It is called Kunir Asem Freso. It looks orange.\r
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It is kind of sweet but it has some weird herbal aftertaste I would say.\r
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You know what? An acquired taste? An acquired taste. I think this is the one thing that Im like hmmm.\r
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Well we had no problem polishing off everything. Yeah. What we didnt show you is that we went back for two more of the pancakes. We had a chocolate one and a coconut one. So we had four in total plus all of those snacks. It came to less that five US dollars which is four something so man that was like a feast of feasts like we are stuffed. Huge lunch and now it is time to maybe walk it off a bit. Yeah. So if youre in Solo (Surakarta), Indonesia definitely check this place out. It is amazing.\r
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This is part of our Travel in Indonesia videoshowcasing Indonesian food, Indonesian culture and Indonesian cuisine. \r
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Music in this video courtesy of Audio Network