we're in Solo on the island of Java
in Indonesia this place has an incredible
food culture and we're here to eat let's
get food hunting for this one
we're hunting down Solo's most local spots for
some incredible food, in this video we're
taking you to the oldest traditional
market for some unique snacks, lining
up for goat bone stew and joining the
locals to experience Solo's nighttime
eating, 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!
Solo is located in central
Java and it's widely regarded as one of
the capitals of Javanese culture and
we're starting our day in Pasar Gede
which is the oldest traditional
market in Solo and we've been told
there's some amazing traditional food
here so let's go eat
we're just waiting in line to order some
lenjongan and lenjongan is like the
collective name for a bunch of sweet
snacks made from things like tapioca and
cassava it looks so interesting
I've got a party mix of lenjongan here
so as I was explaining before lenjongan
is the collective term for all of these
different sweet snacks and I asked for
campur which means a mix and she had
all the different snacks in her window
and it seemed like she just grabbed sort
of a mouthful of each one and then
popped it into this little packet so
what can I see? We've got some sticky
rice so that's the white sticky rice
there and then this looks like some sort
of glutinous rice dumpling this here I
think is made out of tapioca starch and
then we've got some sort of mixture here
I'm not sure whether that's got some
black sticky rice or some bean in there
and then just ohhh and round here some
black sticky rice underneath there and
then what she did was she covered the
whole mixture with some dessicated coconut
and then poured some palm sugar some palm
sugar syrup over the top of it so I
think I've just got to get in and try
all of this so I might just get a bunch
of different things in one mouthful and
see what it all tastes like alright
mmm it's really good I got one of these
things in that mouthful and it's like
a jelly texture so really sticky and
chewy and then I got a whole bunch of
that desiccated coconut which had
such a beautiful coconut flavour and it's
been drenched in that palm sugar syrup
so it's really sweet, almost smoky in
flavour all right so I'm gonna try some
of this sticky rice and then this
glutinous rice dumpling and it's
got some coconut on there as well
oh my god
that sticky rice dumpling just exploded in my
mouth and inside it was palm sugar like
a liquid palm sugar so it just burst in my
mouth with a real sweetness and then that
sticky rice has got a great texture
our next stop for food is here in the
market so we're just making our way
through the market and it is amazing
there's so much for sale we've got coconuts
a lot of vegetables, meat all through here look
at all these chillies there's a tonne of
chillies so we've got shallots and garlic I
love walking through these types of
places really getting a feel for a city
and sort of what sort of produce is on
offer, what people are buying, this is a really
good market
we've sat down for our next snack and
we're at a stall which is really famous
in Pasar Gede and it serves es
dawet so es dawet is made up of a
bunch of different ingredients you've got
things like coconut milk and cendol
which are pandan flavoured rice
noodles, gula jawa which is palm
sugar syrup and then this stall is
super special because it has extra
things in their es dawet so we've got
things like basil seeds and tape which
is fermented sticky rice and what else did I see
I think I saw bubur sum sum which
is like a rice porridge so it is a
bowl of goodness so you can see here
you've got coconut milk and then you've
got basil seeds which are those
black and sort of jelly like dots
there, cendol which are the green rice
noodles and that other green substance
is the tape which is fermented sticky
rice there's also some black sticky rice in
there and then that wobbly white thing
is the silky rice porridge and then
there's a bunch of ice in there to cool
it down and this is perfect for today
because it is super hot in Solo
let's just taste this thing
ohhh that is so good it's really cooling
and it's actually not that sweet like the
coconut milk has almost a salty
savouriness to it, let's go again
I got some of that rice porridge in there and it's really
creamy and silky it's just so good
this is really good, I love how there wasn't
too much ice so it hasn't got watered down
from the ice and it's not as sweet as I
imagined it's actually got a little bit
of saltiness that coconut milk and the
little basil seeds are really good
they've got a great little texture so
they almost pop in your mouth as you
bite into them they're not crunchy but
they get that little burst sort of pop
in your teeth this is really good and I
love the little stall so everyone's just
crowded around the stall they're being
made right here in front of us and we're
just sitting on this little bench wolfing
these back, everyone's grabbing one and
just knocking it back really quickly
these are good
we've come to our next stop to eat
tengkleng which is a traditional food of
Solo and it is a goat stew and the place
is packed with people, let's go and get
some
we've got our tengkleng and this place is
very very popular so it took about an
hour, hour and a half for this dish to
come because it is packed with locals
this place it's been around since the
70s so it's got to be a good sign when
something's this busy and look at this
dish I mean wow what a collection so
it's um it's goat meat that's been
stewed in a, in a liquid so you can see
how thin the gravy is that they've
dumped all over it and it really is it's
nose to tail so you've got every piece
of the goat and we've ended up with a
whole lot of bones look at all those
bones that have been tied into a little
bunch we've got a couple of things of
ribs, we've got a little skewer here with
some tripe on it, down there it looks
like some intestines and then there
could be any number of things hiding
under that as well and all of its been
put onto some rice and then absolutely
doused in the liquid that all of that
goat was stewed in and the pots there
that they've stewed it all in are incredible the
amount of different bits when you're
taking the entire goat and butchering it
down and just using all of it in the
dish, there's so much going on I don't
particularly know where to start maybe
some ribs let's just, ohhhh look they just
peeled off so there's not much meat on
these and none of the bones have much
meat and this dish is all about just
sucking on all the bones just really
gnawing on the bones
whoa that just fell
apart oh the meat's amazing so I didn't
get much meat but I got a lot of flavour
it's got a little bit of spice from
chilli
oh it's so good it's got a really rich flavour
which I guess let's try actually some of
this sauce because you can see like how
thin it is but with all of that meat
being cooked in it for so long it should
be really flavoursome
ohhh that is packed flavour
there's a lot of herbs and spices
particularly spices in there, there must be
a lot whole lot of turmeric
it's very very yellow, let's rip apart all of
these bones look at them, like there's an
absolute tonne of bones there so I want to
just pull one out whoa come here so all
the meats fallen off but that is gonna
be full of bone marrow so I'm gonna suck
that out
Ohhh creamy ohhh rich and creamy the entire
thing was filled with marrow end to end so
I just got a huge mouthful of that marrow
it's so creamy that is beautiful
I want to get it now and
try some of this offal so these intest...
ohhhhh the intestines but look at these ribs
I just found another big thing of ribs
hiding, wow
Oh heaps of ribs hiding under there but
let's get in and have some rice and a
whole lot of this intestines break break
a little bit off some rice, it's soaked in
that liquid
mmmm, mmmm
ohhh the intestines have really
taken on all that sort of herb flavour and
they're so soft they're not chewy at all no
offal-ly taste to them at all, totally just that
beautiful spicy, herby flavours and spicy
from chilli too, it's not hot from chilli but
it's just got a beautiful spice hit from
chilli, a nice little tingle on the tongue
wow those are really really good
intestines, let's grab this rack of ribs
that I found hiding underneath look at
all the meat on these ones these are
pretty juicy looking
it just peels right off that meat, a beautiful
beautiful flavor really rich this dish
really tasty I can see why it's so
popular, it's unbelievably popular you can
tell they've really perfected this dish
been doing it for so many years and you
can see why the locals love it so much
so after that delicious goat dish we
went back to our hotel and had a bit of
a rest but now we've come back out
because it's dinner time and in the
evening all these great tents are set
up, out on the footpath and you can find
all this amazing local food to eat
so we have come to eat one of Solo's
most famous dishes and it's called nasi
liwet so let me just talk you
through what it's made up of so you've
got this coconut rice so the rice has
been cooked in coconut milk and then
together with lemongrass and also
Indonesian bay leaf and then you've got
some vegetables here so this is a gourd
so chayote which is a type of gourd and
then we've got a little bit of shredded
poached chicken and then on top of that
the white stuff is a coconut milk
mixture and then to go with it we've got
a soy I think, braised egg, this looks
really good and the rice looks so moist
that's delicious
the rice has got so much flavour so it's
very light even though it's been
cooked in coconut milk you can
really taste that coconut flavour but
it's got like a sauce on top I think
it's the sauce from the vegetable that's
been cooked in with it so that
gourd
and it's really sort of loose and light and
delicious, I'm gonna go again, let's get a bite with
some of this egg, so I've got basically
everything on that spoon now alright
so tasty, the egg is really creamy
the gourd has just
cooked right down, it's very soft and it's
got just like a hint of spice a tiny bit
of spice and then the rice is just
so flavoursome, such a simple
dish but it's just very comforting
packs a lot of flavour, it's very creamy
we're going to visit another tent now so right
next door to the one we were just in
there's a place that's a real local
favourite and something that a lot of people
do here at nighttime and this looks like
a pretty cool pastime
this tent really interests me so this is
a nighttime activity and you come for a
milk either hot or cold and they have a
massive array of different flavoured
milks, they also have a bunch of food on
the table so you can see all the orange
bowls filled with food if you want anything
to eat
you just grab it eat it and you pay for
what you've eaten at the end but we're here just
the milk and I've ordered a hot fresh
milk with honey in it so madu, susu
madu so it's got honey in here it's
boiling hot in the glass and Sheena has a
chocolate one that's also hot let's try
this honey one first and it is really
really hot we'll give it a mix up I'm
sure there's some sugar in the bottom of
there, give it a bit of a mix
whoa that is good, oh the honey flavour's
not very strong
that tastes like a
rice pudding like a milk pudding so it
tastes like the skin that you get on any
sort of milk based pudding that is great
ohhhhh that feels like you should be sitting
in bed, with a book on a cold winter's
night drinking that, that's really good
and the milk's sort of creamy not not
crazy creamy but there's a beautiful fresh
creaminess to it and that's just got a
great sweetness it's not too sweet
that's really good I like this tent
I got a classic hot chocolate so let's
give this a taste
so good, it's really sweet and just really
creamy that is delicious and I really
love the atmosphere of these tents so we're
sitting at communal tables, everyone's just
tucking into the food and their hot
milks or cold milks and the traffic is
roaring past it's such a great
atmosphere
that was really fun and I
love how that's a thing like sitting with
your friends drinking a milk, it
was so busy, it was really cool, so busy and Thomas's was the best actually out of
the two
hands down, Sheena's was too sweet, yeah and you could really
taste that milk flavour ohh so good remember
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