When you go toNorth Molucca, and drop inTernateIsland, don’t forget to taste aer guraka. It’s a warm drinking, make your body hot and sweat after a long diving and snorkeling aroundMaitaraIsland.
Aer guraka was made from sugar palm and ginger water, mixed together into the almost black and strong of ginger taste. It was served in a glass with a grass grain of canary on top of it. It taste ‘ginger emulsion sensation’ with crispy grease canary on your tongue.
There is another name of aer guraka, for example bandrek or wedang jahe in centre of Java, but still it does not have canary on it.
It’s a common to serve aer guraka after heavy lunch or dinner, especially after eat papeda – a sago porridge- wit many kinds of fish dishes. People belief that aer guraka could decrease fat on food process in the body. Believe or not is up to you. But still, I like aer guraka very much.
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If you went to the traditional villages around northBaliIsland, you could find ‘tepeng’, a traditional food for villagers, especially for breakfast.
Tepeng is white rice porridge, served by bamboo shoot vegetables, soy fried sowing, and coconut scraped frying. There’s also fried spices, as a complement. It tastes delicious; especially it served by green banana’s leaves.
You can buy ‘tepeng’ in traditional market, in food stall around there. The price is very cheap, only two thousands and five hundreds rupiahs.
In Munduk village, I can find ‘tepeng’ in its morning traditional market. The seller is a seventy something beautiful woman with kind eyes and trembling hands. Her name is Dadong Sandri. She has been selling tepeng for almost fifty years. How old and tremendous she is!
I must wake up early and soon go to the market, because before seven in the morning, there is no more tepeng left. People love it, like it, and feel it as much as I taste it. Tepeng, how I miss it now in my morning breakfast.
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