Sweet Teeth

Finally this is the end of semester again! But no I  won't grumbling about how last semester wrecked me or guessing how next semester will be. But this post coming from an assignment, actually.

So last week my lecture gave us an assignment to make a photo story. Sure thing that suddenly came up to my mind is "It has to be food!" and looking like a magazine article. The topic I chose was culinary and to be more specific I chose sweet dishes that originally coming from Solo.

Then I remember that there's a dish that my grandpa usually brought every time he visits us; Jenang Lenjongan, the colorful jenang (jenang is Javanesse for porridge). At first, I thought lenjongan is the name of mixed sweet snack consist of klepon, gethuk, tiwul, and any sweeties made from cassava. But my mom said that lenjongan is the substitution word for mixed-variant of the dish.

I used an assignment pic so pardon that huge caption hahaha

Basically, jenang lenjongan is a mixed of various jenang in a plate. Consist of jenang mutiara (the red one made from pearl sago), jenang grendul (the caramel one made from rice flour), jenang sumsum (the white one made from rice flour), jenang ketan hitam (the black one made from glutinous rice). Those jenang then doused with coconut milk and palm sugar dressing. What I love the most from this dish is the sweet taste won't make you feel sick. And since it's all made from traditional ingredients, the price is not increasing at all since I was just a kid, only IDR 5000,-. I know the portion must be decreasing but they kept the taste just as good as always. This dish is kinda time machine for me to go back to 90's lol.

Yelled : I want more!

I didn't much jenang lenjongan stall in the city but this one is my family's favorite, placed near Pasar Nusukan (an alley before Bakso Kadipolo) Solo. But if it;s hard for you to find this place or you might want to try every jenang in this city for free, do come to Festival Jenang, an annual festival in Solo held every February to celebrate Solo's anniversary. You might found any kind of jenang there, not only the sweet one. But for you Solonian and #jajansolo tribe, this jenang place is very worth to try!

Will add more sweets soon.

xx,

Avi

Strolling Around : Semarang

Hello again, people!

Holiday is finally here yeay. I have been spending free time since few last days of December but I still got to work on this and that so it's not literally freed me. I was spending time with my highschool friends last week and some of them got to back to their (college) town for now. And so I decided to go for a short trip few days ago to Semarang. I rarely stop by this city so I think it would be fun to wander around it. My friend Asti have been knowing Semarang since school so yes she was my tour guide for 2 days.

My morning trip to Semarang (departed from Solo at 05.30 AM) was actually my first time spending 2 hours and a half on a train alone. All I'm doing was fell asleep in quarter of the way, looking outside of the window and getting over excited seeing all corn field along the way.

Me and Asti actually have planned to visit some place in a day but suddenly it was raining heavily so we've got to cut off some places out of the list. Here's some place I've visited on my first day in Semarang;

1) Tanjung Emas Port

First place  we've visited was this port. We're both were really craving for taking pictures around colorful containers but unfortunately not everyone can go inside the container ports. If you really wants to go inside, the guards and people from TPKS (Terminal Peti Kemas Semarang) office told us that we have to bring official letter that explain what we're going to do inside the port under the license of our agency / institute. And that wouldn't be a one day process because we have to wait for TPKS office confirmation first. Since we already got there, we walk around the container ports area and took some pictures.

Eatery Review : The Escape Lesson

Hi.

This is the first time of me reviewing an eatery...

Couple weeks ago, one of my friend suddenly have an idea, how if we escape life a little while; quick trip to Jogja. Since we're facing final exam, we said yes. Our brain needs refresh click. And after spent 2 hours of doing girls-knotty-thingy and 1 hour on the road, we finally step our feet in the capital city of Daerah Istimewa Yogyakarta. It's about 2pm when we got there and we're all starving to death. After those "up-to-you" battle, finally we decided to stop by Kongkalikong. Here's a quick review.

Kongkalikong (Dine & Coffee House)

Located at Jl Taman Siswa No 17, Yogyakarta, DIY

Exterior hint: Old-fashioned house

Interior theme: Vintage (♥♥♥)

Cosiness Rate: ✔✔✔

Serving Rate: ✔✔✔

Price Range: I lost my notes but I think it's IDR 3K - 56K

This is our table view.
Number 5's food haven't arrived yet, and I had to choose between starving-as-hell-yet-capture-complete-dishes or take-pictures-now-eat-asap-not-caring-about-our-friend-tummy.
Yea we are mean girls -only when we're starving.