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indonesia is a huge country and with
over 18 000 islands it's no wonder its
capital jakarta is often overlooked
most people fly into the city to make a
connecting flight towards the promise of
white sand and cocktails at sunset
that's where they miss out
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since it's often bypassed by tourists
this daunting puzzling concrete jungle
remains one of the most authentic
mega cities in the world giving
travelers a taste of all the diverse
cultures that the country harbors
a conflation of dutch heritage island
ethnicities
and modern infrastructure that will
undoubtedly leave you confused and
hungry for more
jakarta is a big crazy boisterous city
that's exactly what i mean and if you
find yourself in the city
only for a couple hours and you're
wondering exactly where to eat and where
to get the best food
this video is for you we're about to
explore some of the best street food
you can find in jakarta in a very short
amount of time
and i'm already really salivating
thinking about it
now that you've arrived in the city one
of the problems you're going to have is
actually
getting into jakarta most people will be
staying in the central area
you can take a taxi that is probably one
of the most trustworthy companies
and it just prevents you from using some
of the more sketchy companies
you can also book a grab or book a gojek
you know they're very very present here
you can get that
if you do take the card do know that it
can take you anywhere from 45 minutes up
to three hours
first time i came into the city took me
about two hours and a half which can be
quite problematic there are other ways
obviously you can get into the city and
we're gonna run them down for you
right now asides from taxis you can also
take the train to the city it'll take
you about 50 minutes to get to the
suderman baru station
which isn't too far from central jakarta
and will only cost you about five us
dollars
knowing this i wouldn't recommend taking
a bus and would stick to either the
train or a car
depending on where you decide to stay in
the city jakarta
is a massive city so if you only have a
few hours to spend here
then where you stay is super important
depending on what you want to do
what you want to experience or what you
want to eat here's a quick rundown
of the different places you can actually
stay in the city can be divided into
five areas
south west central north and east
if you're looking to just have a good
time party eat good food
and enjoy the more modern side of the
capital i would suggest booking a hotel
around the kamung area
once you're in the city you'll need some
money and here it's called the
indonesian rupiah and in a matter of
seconds my friend
you will be a millionaire but
unfortunately a roopy a millionaire
but this is how much you'll need to get
around to give you a sense of the prices
an expensive meal will start around
three dollars and will climb to ten
dollars for a mid-range restaurant and
can go higher in the more upscale places
a beer will set you back about three
dollars while cocktail will go for ten
dollars
grabs and taxis are fairly cheap
starting at less than a dollar and
climbing 50 cents per kilometer
now that we've got our bases covered we
headed off to meet kivendra to go
explore some local dishes in sabang
street
this street comes to life at around 5 pm
starting as a busy through fair vendors
begin setting up
igniting fires and billowing smoke a
sign that good eats from every corner of
the country are about to be served
hungry office workers converge dodging
motorcycles ondo ondles and buskers
all with one purpose street food
marinated pieces of meat grilled over
hot coals and lots of smoke
doused in sauces ranging from spices to
a thick peanut sauce to catch up minis
there are lots of different meats used
and styles in which it's made
their small size make it so that you can
try them all
some goat perhaps or some beef or even
some eggs
this is this this is from madurai
from east jaffar smokes crazy
but you like look at the caramelization
of the ketchup and this is beautiful
this is come big and then if you see
that l1
yeah that's the embryo the egg the
embryo of the egg yes
can we try one of those also yeah
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so try first the chicken feet the
chicken feet is exactly as you can feed
this and also the
the membrane skin and the skin of the
chicken the skin of the chicken
okay and then i put that in here put
that in and if you want quite
spicy you have this sambal i want spice
spicy food a little bit and if you like
ketchup monies you can get can we put
them on on top of it
yeah just tiny bit drivers because each
and every satay finder they have their
own spiciness level
we don't know until we taste it you have
no you have no faith in me
let's
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this looks strange but yeah the texture
is not like
like egg yolk it looks like an egg yolk
yeah and that's the chicken the
chicken satay chicken satay
it's so cumbersome i mean i can eat it
every day this is the only reason i came
here
that's what's that thing oh music stuff
amazing stuff let's move into other
people it's like they're
not they're gonna tip us okay
you don't visit indonesia without trying
nasi goreng
fried rice that's not just a side dish
but a meal you'll often find a hot wok
oil splattering in all directions
housing everything from tamarind to
dried shrimp paste
tossed in with a bunch of vegetables and
varying proteins
all right so here we have nasa
okay and how many types of nasi goreng
are there wow actually nasi goreng
mostly have in the island of java but
each and every house they have their own
recipe of massivore
with rice give me the rice i like that
way i like the way that you just see
like a spoon yes right it cannot be
as it's spicy right
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walking down the street you'll quickly
realize that you'll find the name of the
dishes followed by words these basically
are the main ingredients found in that
particular dish
people love the availability of options
and customization with their food
from all the condiments you'll find on a
table to the types of protein and
vegetables found in a dish
here's a quick glossary to help you out
ayam is chicken
sendawan mushrooms daging sapi
beef udang shrimp ketam
crab kambing goat masin
salted fish curry curry
mera red chilies and petai stinky bean
now if you're looking for something
deliciously greasy we've got just the
thing
the sweet version of martabak is not for
the faint of heart
the amount of oil butter and sugar on
this dish will send your mind
spinning okay so here we have
okay yes so we have the savory one going
there with some chocolates and peanuts
yes
and this one's going to be you see it's
the savory one
and it's the sweet one look professional
right they separate the
place too very clean i like it yeah so
actually the the savory one is inspired
by the
egyptian indian spices okay they have
the curry you see like
they're using the ghee also all right
inside of the oil just
gay all right so now it's being folded
yeah it's being folded
and it's just it's taking a shower and
oil yes
and in the in the sweet one it was um
flour flour sugar
the sugar and sometimes they use also
the ankles of course
sometimes they're using vanilla extract
to get just a little bit of kind of like
a pancake
right it's actually like a pancake
batter you just play with the
consistency and then the proportion of
each ingredients and you get mata
so when i say that is a total indulgence
i'm not lying i'm gonna hit the gym
so hard tomorrow like i'm not even
kidding because it's dating yesterday
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oh is that sweet that was that was yeah
it was heavy
it's like a donut almost like you just
have one bite i mean one whole piece and
you're good yeah okay now we try the
savory one
this is a peanut garbage sauce like
grease all over my hands too
two different flavor combinations
completely different exactly right
but they're called the same thing they
call it the same thing they should
change the name to this
cardiac arrest in jakarta
if you need a break from all the street
food or if your stomach just can't
handle it you can have some great nasi
padang where you can taste a little bit
of everything at nattrabu
or garuda on the same street if you
can't make it to jogjakarta but want to
try one of their famous dishes make it a
point to stop by a nasi gudeg's stall
the star here is the gudegar unripe
jackfruit which is stewed overnight in a
sweet liquid
if you have a sweet tooth that
translates well into savory preparations
this
is the dish for you
and just because we haven't had enough
food we're now
having we are having good at gudak is a
dish from central java
you know it's consists of many
components this is a brace jackson
raised jack yes braced egg embrace uh
tofu yeah this looks crazy it's like
crazy and it's literally just
fat yeah it's a stock skin what does
good egg actually mean
this agundeck is a jacket this is
actually cooking technique that you call
mudak and then
so all of this would be served with this
jacket so that's essential
exactly you have to crush the chili with
the back of the spoon
because it's already braised also this
thing i'm funnily enough
so hungry it's sweet
it's sweet so it's a typical of japanese
dish sweet
it reminds me of a local dish we have
been told because it's called pumbaa
it's like a sweeter pork soy sauce stew
this egg is like hard it's a hard boiled
egg
wow but the seasoning penetrates under
the inside
but what i love is that all the food we
tried so far
all very different in terms of texture
flavor
yes and you know indonesia is such a
huge country yes
but it's cool that you guys can find all
the different regional specialties yes
in one area yes exactly that's what i
love to say about jakarta jakarta is
like a melting pot of
all different cultures of indonesia i
want to marry this
i'm already married but i kind of want
to marry this so i'm going to figure out
how to put a ring on it and then
we'll make it a thing
we all have those soups we gravitate
towards when we need a hug or for when
we are sick
that is exactly what soto is a
traditional bowl filled to the brim with
broth meat and vegetables that will make
you feel at home
in no time this is the grand finale
right and it's like a tiny little boy i
feel like it's
it's a soup made for small people yes
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it is called soto arowan soto is
actually when it comes to waters of soto
in indonesia
we have so many soto there is one exact
recipe for soto
it needs to be full like a soupy i'm so
happy doesn't finally have vegetables
oh yeah i just feel like yeah we don't
have any vegetables this is the
vegetable okay
so the bean sprouts replace the noodles
where you would have it usually
exactly and you have tons and tons of
you know
spring onions glorious because they may
get using this
stock from the chicken but a clear stock
not intensify stuff so that what i love
in true indonesian fashion the condiment
is three times the size of the bowl
i'm pretty sure this is the meal this is
so it is actually a little chicken
there's the liver of the chicken
it's a quailed egg braised also with
several
ingredients especially in japanese
different tempeh salted
as simple as that and this is actually
the most favorite condiments for
soto the fricative and this is made out
of
potatoes and you put it inside and then
you just eat it oh if you finish this
and this then obviously this is a whole
meal then definitely i would not be able
to finish things
at least wow right that's like a
complete departure from anything we've
had
all of a sudden you're eating something
very asian yeah and you put this in it's
like you're having a
bald mashed potato in there that's what
that's what's interesting about
indonesia that we actually
absorb so many cultures we absorb so
many things
especially when it comes to food the
assimilation the cultural assimilation
that you can actually sever
on your table daily if you still have
time and are looking for a night cap you
can check out these bars
basque leon lucy in the sky loewy
union safe house or lola
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as you can see this is an absolutely
crazy place
i believe it's one of the most
underrated food cities
in asia it's absolutely beautiful so
it's worth a second look
definitely if you're coming in the area
coming to region if you
go to bali for example i really do
recommend stopping by jakarta and trying
all the food and just experiencing the
city for a couple of days
um it's been a lot of fun um and we're
gonna delve deeper into it so we're
doing two more episodes
one is all about kind of like family
style home cooking and learning how to
make
um indonesian food and the other one
will focus
purely on other good eats you can have
during the day
in this great city so i'll see you guys
there we're literally in the middle of
the road
peace out wow guys that was
nice it just made me hungry so many
different
food items they had some nasty gorang
and sante which just made me
hungry in charlotte would be nice to
actually travel to indonesia and get to
try
all these delicious and beautiful food
items so
really really mouth-watering delicious
looks uh really nice and uh can't wait
for the channel inshallah to hit
1 million subs so we can take a trip out
to
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