we're in Jogjakarta on the island of Java in Indonesia
this place is food paradise and we're going to be making a ton of videos here
let's get food hunting for this one
Yogyakarta the cultural heart of Java is
a street food paradise this is the sixth video in our nine part video series from
Indonesia in this video we're exploring a local market to bring you some local
favourites think beef fat sate, fried intestines and loads more
you don't want to miss this video, get ready for some mouth-watering food
I'm Thomas and I'm
Sheena and we're Chasing a Plate, we hope you're hungry, let's eat!
Yogyakarta or Jogja as it's known by the locals has a really rich food culture and one of the
best places to eat local food is at markets and so this video is just going to be set
at Pasar Beringharjo which is a main market here in Jogja and it's
right in the heart of Malioboro Street which is a really famous street here so
the place that we're gonna eat at first is right behind me so let's go and get
some food
thank you very much
we're starting our day with nasi pecel and pecel is like a cooked
vegetable salad served with a peanut sauce drizzled all over the top so we
got ours with rice and it just looks so delicious so we've got a whole bunch of
cooked vegetables so over the top we've got some sprouts, there's some grated
carrot, the really dark leaf down here is papaya leaves, there's some
winged bean on the top there and then some beans as well there's just all
sorts and then it's just doused in this thick peanut sauce and then served over
white rice, I'm just gonna get really a big mouthful with all of those
vegetables and let's just see what it tastes like, all right
whoa that peanut sauce, it's got so much flavour
it's very nutty obviously and then its got a really strong hit of chilli so it's quite
spicy and what I love love love about the vegetables is that they are very crunchy
still, so you can see by the colour of them- they're still very vibrant and they
haven't been cooked right down so that they're all sort of gluggy and
soft, they still have a lot of crunch this is really good
all right I'm gonna go for another spoonful I think there's some spinach
ohhhh some spinach in that mouthful and then a whole lot of beans
so so delicious, that peanut sauce is so fragrant and it just those vegetables are
really really crisp and crunchy but still just soft enough like they're not
raw- definitely cooked, it's a really cool setup because all of these um
stalls are set up right on the street right outside the market in fact and
there's just a ton of stuff, so not just the nasi pecel there are all
sorts of skewers and deep fried snacks and everyone's just sitting on stools and
just tucking into their food, it's really awesome
we're now heading right inside the market, it's packed with people and selling
a lot of incredible clothing but there's more food up the back of the market up
the top we hear so we're heading in that direction
to find more snacks
this pasar or market is such a rabbit warren we've been walking around for
about 45 minutes trying to find our next stop and we finally found it, it's the
place behind me and it's selling fried intestines and fried beef, let's go
and get some
thank you very much
our food has just come and it looks unreal so we've ordered two different
things here we've got some fried beef and look at it it's just falling apart
and the thing that I'm really, really excited about is this, the intestine so
fried intestine so iso goreng so that looks incredible it looks super
juicy and that comes with some nasi or some white rice, some basil and a slice
of cucumber there are some sauces on the table but I'm just gonna dive in first
and just try these as is, so I want to try the intestines I think let's
just get a couple of pieces of intestine some of that rice actually let's get
some of this basil and just break those leaves in there so I can get some, some
freshness with the mouthful as well so we'll get a basil leaf, some intestines,
some rice oh yeah
whoa
Oh my god that basil is insane, that is so flavoursome, oh but now here comes the
intestine flavour, oh my god, oh that is so good it's because it's
been fried, I think it might have been braised both of these meats and then
fried, so she just popped them into the oil just as we ordered them, so cut them up
and then chucked them in the oil so they're nice and warm, the outside of the
intestine is quite chewy actually and then the inside's quite a creaminess
but a thick creaminess and it has an incredible flavour, quite salty but also
in a really nice way just that perfect amount of saltiness, saltiness that
really brings out the flavour of the meat, oh my god they are delicious, let's break some beef up
get the beef off that just fell apart, now this, the portions are quite small
which I love it's often the way here in Indonesia you don't get these huge
portions so I don't want to go for too big a mouthful cause I'll eat the whole thing
in one go
hmm a lot of texture again, actually quite chewy, quite salty again
but the the saltiness brings out the flavour of the meat you can really taste
the meat so pretty sure it has been braised but it's not been braised in
something like strong in flavour because it tastes like meat it's like beautiful
beef flavour, quite lean actually there are a few fatty bits there but the pieces I
had were quite lean, a little bit chewy and just really nice, that saltiness is
really good I'm gonna add some of these sauces though so this one is definitely chilli
whoa that is gonna be insanely
spicy I reckon, this one is super thick and I'm not actually quite sure what this is so let's
sprinkle some of this over, it's definitely gonna have a whole lot of sugar in it
because look at it, it's super sticky it's almost like almost like molasses
the texture of that, so just dump a whole lot of that on the beef and let's get some of
this chilli as well, this chilli looks crazy, crazy good, look at the big chunks
of chilli in there, quite a lot of oil just put a big dollop of that on alright
I want to rip off more of this basil because that really added an
incredible flavour to the dish it really gave it
another element, that freshness and that different taste profile let's go with
this sticky sauce and some more beef
hmmmmm whoa that is sticky
oh that sauce is incredible
it sort of tastes like really really really good barbecue sauce but thicker
so it's quite sweet, got a great spice to it, oh and the spice is building that's got a
lot of flavours in there, I think that's some sort of concoction they've made here
that is really really good, okay time to try this chilli now it's, this looks
super spicy this is gonna be good I'm gonna get a whole lot actually I'll get
pretty much that whole spoon that I had before with some intestine
ohhhh that is good
yeah that is really spicy and I think the chillies have been cooked down a lot so
they've actually got a bit of sweetness coming through as well but the spice is
really there as I'm chewing through those chillies from the sauce that's
building a lot, this is good this is really good, this is a super local spot
like Sheena said at the start it took a lot of time to find this, it was definitely worth it
this is super tasty
it's really hot today in Jogja so we're gonna get something cold to cool
us down
we've sat down for a bowl of es dawet and this is one of my favourite things to
eat in Indonesia when it's hot to cool me down and it is made up of a bunch of
delicious different ingredients so everything is wallowing in this coconut
milk concoction, it's also got a bit of palm sugar inside and then it's got
tons of different jellies so that green wobbly one is cincau so it's a grass
jelly and it's really soft and wobbly and then we've got a mix of different
rice flour jellies and also some tapioca flour jellies, let's just give this
thing a taste
oh it just slips right down your throat, it's really sweet and refreshing and Mbah Hari's
stall is really famous here in the pasar so you have to come here
it's so good and we're just sitting in front of her little stand on these tiny
plastic stools, she's got that big, big pot filled to the brim of all those
different jellies and then these sort of earthen pots filled with her coconut
milk and then the palm sugar, this is such a treat
that es dawet was so good, that coconut milk leaves such a beautiful
flavour in your mouth and Mbah Hari the lady who runs the stall was so, so lovely
and now we're just walking through the market there's a ton of things to buy
here, there's lots of batik which is the traditional fabric and then produce,
fresh produce and dried goods all sorts of things but we're here to eat so let's
go find our next snack
often when you see smoke pouring through the air it means sate and that is what
we have stopped for next so you can see the little stall right beside me this is
right on the road so we're literally on the side of the road, tiny little plastic
stools or in my case I'm just crouched here on the footpath and the sate
smells incredible but the sate we've got is something pretty unusual and
looks incredibly good this is sate kere so this is beef fat
and nothing but the fat, look at it, these glistening pieces so it's been marinated and then
cooked on the charcoals so sate is just skewers of meat cooked over the
charcoal but it can be any sort of meat and in this case it's just this beef fat so
let's just grab some off
oh my god
Oh wow
it's like jelly, beautiful, hot, fatty jelly, it's not as oily as I was expecting mmmm
and it's just all so soft and then has that little bit of harder fat just
running, running through the middle of it that is amazing, really juicy and it's been
marinated in quite a sweet sauce sauce so it's it's got quite a sweet taste to it
and the fattiness isn't too overwhelming it's not sort of coating my mouth
looking at the skewers here I was expecting it to be just whooooa dropped them almost
I was expecting it to be sort of quite cloying and too rich but it's just not
at all, let's go for another one I want to peel off some more of this, this fat
ohhh it's just glistening and it's almost almost transparent the fat
ohhh, sweet, a little bit rich, really smoky
from sitting on those charcoals right there, it's almost in contact with the
charcoals so it gets some really little crunchy bits on the end and some
caramelised bits there's actually some little burnt bits which are just nice and
crunchy and some caramelised bits and then that soft, soft fat and this is just
great sitting on the footpath like this or on the road, traffic's buzzing by grab
your sate, it's the perfect snack smells incredible, tastes amazing
this is good
that beef sate was delicious, it's not something you want to be eating
every day but it was pretty decadent and it was tasty, super decadent, I loved
that dish, such a great day or great morning of eating here at Pasar Beringharjo,
Jogja's food scene is awesome and there is so much to explore and we're
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