Indonesian Culinary Experience : Rujak Cingur Semarang, Central Java, Indonesia

Food Description

Rujak Cingur is snack food that becomes a typical Surabaya's food, that consisted of several kinds fruits slices like cucumber, bengkoang, young mangoes, pineapples and kedondong, it is added with rice cake, tofu, fermented soybean cake, bendoyo or krai (a kind of cucumber boiled) and cingur as well as vegetables (sprout, leafy vegetable& long peanuts) and was mixed with sauce or the spice that is made from the prawns fermented, chili, fried peanuts, fried onion & salt. It has called as rujak cingur because the whim spice that being used were prawns fermented and the slice of cingur, whereas rujak generally without using these ingredients. It can be served with pincuk from bananas leaves (the bananas leaves) or plate which was usually accompanied with chips.

My Tasty Culinary Experience

During my hometown visit with family in Semarang, Central Java Indonesia, my wife want to eat her favorite menu named Rujak Cingur. It makes me little bit confused because this menu is hard to find in this city. After having asked a few friends, finally I found Rujak Cingur stall Bu Sri “Mrs Sri” located at Pekunden Timur Street No. 2, Semarang, Central Java, Indonesia.

Pekunden Timur road is located in a small alley next to the school Ksatrian and across from the Hotel Ibis Semarang when we walked from the Simpang Lima (one of the famous landmarks in Semarang).

The main menu of this restaurant Rujak Cingur, Pecel Madiun, Rujak Surabaya, Pecel kangkung, Mixed ice-Cao. Cingur is a well done boiled slice of lips beef meat. Mixed ice Cao is shaved ice mixed with fruit, young coconut, jelly, pour sweetened liquid milk and red syrup.

Most visitors order a Rujak Cingur dan Rujak Surabaya together with mixed ice cao which is a special menu at this restaurant. Rujak Cingur and Rujak Surabaya is nearly similar menu, just additional Cingur that make them different.

Eating Rujak Cingur not be complete without enjoying a refreshing Mixed ice-cao, to reduce the spicy taste after eating a Rujak, so cool and freshness.

Price per serving of each menu is not more than Rp. 20.000, - (USD 2)

Opening hours of restaurants : daily 10.00 AM – 17.00 PM

Do not forget when you come to Semarang, Central Java, Indonesia to try this tempting menu .... and share your comments to my blog ...