Hello guys, come back again with me. Now in this post we gonna talk about foodie. On the earlier post, I already told you about eating as my hobby. Now I want to share my experience in exploring the taste of many foods in Surabaya, my lovely hometown. There are so many recommended culinary spots here. Therefore I dare to try every single food, especially traditional food which can be found only in Surabaya.
Actually, I don't have any favorite food so I can try every food that I want but I prefer to choose the food with umami flavor or some food which has broth on it, such as Soto, Bakso, Rawon, etc. I still have to avoid some food that bad for my health. Like the food with high cholesterol content or food which can affect my body glucose level.
I really want to post an article with a short story and review of the food based on its flavor, price, spot nuance and the service. I can’t be sure that I can post each single moment of my culinary experience. Because I'm gonna be so busy with my new job. So I will keep this post up to date only with photos and the review from me, I feel so sorry for that. However, I will keep trying to resume the post when I have a time. If you want to know more about any specific food I’d post or maybe if you want me to try some kind of food, just let me know by send me the email at adzimhilman@gmail.com. I will take my time to read your email and reply it as fast as I can.
Before I start the review section, this is the explanation of my rating system :
Sate Kambing Sedayu
(K.H Mas Mansyur Street 90)
Sate or Satay is a grilled goat meat (chevon) stabbed with thin stick. Added with beans and soy sauce then roasted for a while. The taste is overally good, but they miss the meat maturation so it tastes like raw meat. One stick consist of 4 cuts: shoulder cuts, forequarter cut, liver and lard. The price is more expensive compared with the other grilled chevon (it's cost IDR 50.000, the normal price is around IDR 30.000 - IDR 35.000). The food stall open from 18.00 PM until 01.00 AM.
My personal review for this food is gonna be like this : 6.5
Taste : ✮✮✮✮✮✮✮✮ (good: delicious, still the best Sate i've found so far)
Taste : ✮✮✮✮✮✮✮✮ (good: delicious, still the best Sate i've found so far)
Price : ✮✮✮✮ (below average: more expensive than the other chevon Satay)
Nuance : ✮✮✮✮✮✮ (above average: small traditional stall, but it brings middle-east nuance)
Service : ✮✮✮✮✮✮✮✮ (good:fast, polite, and good looking staff)
Martabak Sekar Sari(Kusuma Bangsa street, right in front of Hi-tech Mall)
Martabak is one of my favorite food. There are two kinds of Martabak, Egg Martabak and Sweet Martabak. For the Egg Martabak, it's made of chicken egg, small cut beef, wheat flour, onion, garlic, scallion, pepper and salt for the seasoning. While the sweet one is made of wheat flour, salt, milk, chocolate powder, sugar, chicken egg, margarine, and baking soda (Sodium bicarbonate). The difference of these things is in the ingredients and how it's cooked.
Basically, Egg Martabak need three steps :
1. Prepare the Martabak skin from the wheat flour and oil.
2. Make the mixture : put the seasoning, beef, onion, garlic, scallion, and pepper in the egg batter.
3. Fry the skin in fully boiled oil, put the mixture on the skin, fold the skin until covering the mixture.
Sweet Martabak also has three steps :
1. Make the batter by adding the milk, egg, sugar, salt, and wheat flour.
2. Cook the cake on frying pan with margarine and spread it around frying pan.
3. Prepare the chocolate, bean, and cheese powder. Then pour it over the cake while it cooked.
The reason why I explain the process is to make sure that you 'll understand what i said in my review.
Mekar Sari Egg Martabak
It has ordinary size but it's thinner than the others. There are two possibilities : first, maybe the beef cube cut is too small, it will affect the size. Second, it could be that the egg is too small or maybe they lack of egg because normally it needs three until four eggs for medium size Martabak. The skin also too thin, they surely need to add more flour and egg to make thicker skin instead of making the wider thin skin. It's not well cooked, showed by scorched skin on its surface. The taste is good overall, but maybe it will be better if it gets saltier. I suggest to add a teaspoon of salt in the batter or the most extreme way is change the chicken egg with duck egg which has saltier taste.
It has ordinary size but it's thinner than the others. There are two possibilities : first, maybe the beef cube cut is too small, it will affect the size. Second, it could be that the egg is too small or maybe they lack of egg because normally it needs three until four eggs for medium size Martabak. The skin also too thin, they surely need to add more flour and egg to make thicker skin instead of making the wider thin skin. It's not well cooked, showed by scorched skin on its surface. The taste is good overall, but maybe it will be better if it gets saltier. I suggest to add a teaspoon of salt in the batter or the most extreme way is change the chicken egg with duck egg which has saltier taste.
Mekar Sari Sweet Martabak
The cake is thick, soft, and well baked, almost perfect. It's full of sweet chocolate and bean sauce but lacks of cheese. The milk taste is not over there, they should add more milk in the batter. The full texture is good but after they cut it, the texture is not the same. There are shorter, longer, smaller and bigger pieces.
My personal review for this food is... 6.3
Taste : ✮✮✮✮✮✮ (Not good enough, but it's still above the average)
Taste : ✮✮✮✮✮✮ (Not good enough, but it's still above the average)
Price : ✮✮✮✮✮✮✮ (Very cheap : The price is IDR 20, normal price IDR 25-35)
Nuance : N/A (Sorry but I can't give any rating for this because I bring it to my home)
Service : ✮✮✮✮✮✮ (Fast enough)
Bakso Buto
(Kalasan st. 34)
The name of Bakso Buto refers to giant bakso (buto is giant monster in javanese myth). This food is one of many product which served in Kalasan st because there are so many food stalls along this road. Just like the other local bakso, it consist of beef meatballs, bihun, siomay, tofu, fried wonton, fermented soybean and its soup. The different of this bakso is its name and the meatball size which is bigger than the ordinary meatball. They also cut the meatball from the top to the middle to create flower-like shape, looks good. The fried wonton, siomay and tofu is a little bit tasteless while the big meatball has better taste but the texture is not compact enough. The price is still too expensive for 1 bowl (it's cost IDR 20.000. Normally, it's only cost around IDR 10.000-15.000). I think they need to add toasted onion over the soup for an extra smell and taste.
My personal review for this food is... 5.25
Taste : ✮✮✮✮✮ (Average)
Taste : ✮✮✮✮✮ (Average)
Price : ✮✮✮✮ (The price is IDR 20, normal price is IDR 10-15)
Nuance : ✮✮✮✮✮ (wide space is good for consument but too many street performers here)
Service : ✮✮✮✮✮✮✮ (Fast service and polite staff)
