The Food

Fried Chicken (ayam goreng)

Definition of Ayam Goreng: Breaded, Spiced Chicken fried to a golden crisp and eaten with crisp selections of choice winged beans, cucumber or lettuce to cut through the sodium high. The Chicken found in Solo are free-range so they're skinny as hell. Yes, it's possible for one diner to finish an entire chicken by himself.

Serabi
Honestly, if you haven't eaten Serabi Solo, you haven't been to Solo. This region is famous for the glutinous rice pancake that is soft, sweet and crisp at the edges.

Solonese Specialty - Nasi Liwet

Definition of Nasi Liwet: A traditional rice dish swimming with coconut gravy and topped with healthy servings of green papaya, fried kerupuk udang (prawn cracker), tempe (fermented soybean cake) and soft tofu.

Recipe: Nasi Liwet simply means boiled rice. The rice is cooked with coconut milk, salt and aromatic leaves ( lemon leaves, Indonesian bay leaves) until it bubbled over. After it is cooked, it is topped with Tofu, Tempe and Green Papaya which is simmered separately in a rich coconut stew and crispy prawn cracker ( kerupuk udang). Rice Recipe 1 stalk of lemon leaves (bashed) sereh, a dash of salt for Indonesian bay leaves 400 gram of rice 800 ml of coconut milk.

Buffalo Skin (Krecek)

Definition of Krecek: Processed Buffalo Skin, available in the form of a cracker before cooking. It is usually served drenched in curry with Gudeg ( a Yogya Specialty ) or as a crisp cracker with Nasi Liwet ( A Solonese Specialty). The texture is gelatinous and a tad tasteless when it's drenched with curry but it has a faint whiff of beef when it's fried to a crisp.

Solo Desserts

Like all the colorful desserts in Asia, the ones in the Solo, Java are no different. They're made of some starchy material, florid like a psychedelic dream and shot with enough sugar to propel you to the moon. Apparently, there is no one over here on the Atkins diet. That artistically-arranged set-up that you see over there was shot in the market and yes, every dessert that you see there is made of rice/tapioca flour and coated with coconut.

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