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It's Trevor James.
We're in Jakarta, Indonesia,
and we're going deep for street food today.
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Jakarta is a food heaven.
Everywhere you turn,
there's new street food around every corner.
We came here specifically to eat
as much delicious street food as possible.
And in this Jakarta street food tour part two,
you can discover along with us a ton of unique
and mouthwatering Indonesian street foods.
Make sure to watch until the end because these five
Indonesian street foods are incredibly good.
Let's eat.
Right up here, I think there's a little warteg stall,
rice with mixed dishes.
Enter your typical Indonesian street food warteg.
Here, these little hole in the walls
have the best mixed dishes with rice.
You can find a ton of addictive specialties
ranging from classics like fried coconut chicken,
fried ikan bilis anchovies with peanuts,
spicy stinky jengkol beans, and spicy stinky petai beans.
It's all here with different stews, soups, vegetable dishes,
and spicy curries that you could spend months trying.
This is truly heaven, and you won't wanna stop eating.
Whoa.
Wow!
- Good morning.
Wow, you have a lot here.
- Want to eat?
- [Trevor] Yes, please.
- Rice?
- [Trevor] Yes, please.
Wow, look at all these dishes.
There's so much here.
- Please come here often.
Jengkol?
- [Trevor] Jengkol, okay, jengkol.
Jengkol bean?
- Beef, jengkol.
- [Trevor] Some jengkol bean.
- [Man] A little.
- [Trevor] A little, yeah, a little jengkol bean.
So much food here.
Okay, just a little.
I'm gonna get a few things.
Awesome sauce.
Maybe petai, petai, petai.
Oh, yeah, petai for breakfast.
Stink beans.
This is what's beautiful.
There's just so much here.
Oh, eggplant, eggplant.
- [Man] Eggplant, okay.
- Thank you.
There's just so much here, different spiced dishes
like spiced curry eggplant, all this chicken and beef, veg.
Ikan, ikan.
Oh, yes, please.
Oh, wow.
That looks amazing.
Oh, yeah, that looks so good.
And then some chicken, chicken.
- [Man] Chicken, chicken coconut?
- Oh, chicken coconut, really?
Oh, yeah.
Look at that.
Okay, good.
- [Man] Here, please.
- Okay, thank you.
Whoa, this looks awesome.
Look at this, guys.
We are in a warteg in Jakarta, and I just chose a few
of the many different dishes that they serve here.
- [Man] Chili, sir?
- [Trevor] Chili, sambal?
- [Man] Yes, sambal.
- Oh, wow.
This is gonna be a great way to start the day.
We got fresh, spicy sambal.
We've got anchovies with peanut.
We got stink beans.
We got jengkol beans.
And we got eggplant and chili.
Oh, this just looks amazing.
Oh, yeah.
I'm gonna start out with a bite of those anchovies
and petai stink beans with all of that chili curry sauce
that he's put on there.
It's all mixed together.
Mmm, oh.
Wow!
That is incredibly delicious.
Oh!
Oh, wow!
All of those sauces mix together perfectly.
They're spicy and sweet.
Oh, with the stink bean, it's a definite stinky odor.
Oh, and the anchovies and peanut,
that is such a strong flavor concoction there.
And it'll fill you right up.
I'm gonna go asking for some more sauce,
some more curry sauce, because that is just magic.
Oh, yeah.
Beef rendang?
- [Man] Yes, rendang.
- Rendang sauce on top.
Thank you.
He just put a ton of that beef rendang sauce on there.
Indonesia is just blowing me away.
These flavors, these spices, these chili sambals,
this curry, this paste, oh, and the boldness of it all mixed
over rice, you're gonna fall in love on your first bite.
So I don't really wanna bother them too much in here,
but they invited me in quickly to take a quick look,
and it is just full on infiltrating the senses here.
We're gonna get out of their busy workstation,
but this is something you have to see to believe.
Next up, just down the street,
we found a huge cart selling the famous Jakarta ketoprak.
As soon as you walk up and you see
all the action of the dish being made, you get curious,
and you know that you just gotta eat it.
The main flavor comes from a hand-mixed paste
of ground peanuts, palm sugar, garlic,
chili, salt, and sweet soy sauce.
Nice, and then he's mixing it up.
So it's a sweet dish, very sweet.
- [Man] Peanuts, peanuts.
- Peanuts.
Whoa!
Then fried tofu, steamed rice cake, rice noodle,
bean sprouts, fried shallots,
and fried crackers are all added on top.
It's a super sweet and enjoyable backstreet snack
that you have to try.
So we got the ketoprak here.
Look at that.
What a concoction.
All those peanuts were chopped up finely.
He's put this sweet manis sauce on top.
There's bean sprouts.
There's fried shallots, cucumbers,
and the garlic and the chili were mixed right in there.
- [Woman] Everything.
- Wow, everything.
It looks amazing.
It just looks so fresh and flavorful.
All right, let's try that out.
Mmm.
Wow!
That is like a super, super sweet, slightly spicy
peanut sauce over top of rice noodles and tofu.
And there's a definite fried shallot flavor
in there as well.
Wow.
And we were just walking down the street, and we saw this.
And everyone was eating it,
and we thought we would try it, and it's so nice.
- [Woman] Yeah.
- Yeah.
- [Woman] You have to try it.
- Yeah.
Jakarta's specialty.
- [Woman] Jakarta is amazing.
- Yeah.
Mmm.
Next up, we went for some pre-lunch beef ribs delight.
We found a spot that serves amazingly fresh
grilled beef ribs covered in a peanut sauce
and beef ribs in a rich beef soup.
When you walk up and you see these huge stacks of beef ribs
waiting to be served with the peanut sauce
and the grill beside, and then these huge pots
of rich beef broth, and all the families and friends
around enjoying these succulent caveman-style ribs,
you know you're in the right place.
These are good.
That really looks intense.
And they're just covering it in a peanut sauce.
Wow!
Oh, wow, that looks unbelievably tender.
Oh, I can't believe this.
That looks like caveman delight right there.
Wow!
Look at that monster beef rib he just pulled out.
That is totally thick and juicy.
Wow.
You can smell that peanut aroma on all of these beef ribs.
Oh, it's such a smooth, smooth peanuty goodness.
Wow!
Unbelievable.
Wow, they've got one that's just grilled,
and then they've got one
that's in a light soup with fried shallots on top.
And I am getting the grilled one.
Thank you.
Look at that thick peanut sauce they put on top.
Oh, that meat is just falling, falling off the bone.
Wow!
That is so, so tender looking.
And then they give you that soup that they cook it in
with lots of fried shallots.
I got some rice.
And here, these are steamed rice flour packets, I believe.
And you can dip that into this soup here.
But you know, come on, we're gonna go right in for these
caveman beef ribs here in that peanut satay sauce.
Mmm, oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
It just melts in your mouth.
It just melts in your mouth with that peanut,
that sweet satay peanut sauce.
There's definitely some slight spices put in there as well.
That is caveman delight right there.
Next up, we went for a meal of a lifetime
seafood feast that was worth the trip to Indonesia.
You won't believe the beauty you're about to see.
So we just found the most amazing seafood joint here
grilling all different types of fish and prawns
over these burning hot coals.
Just standing here is burning,
but you can smell the curry sauce, the curry paste
that he's putting over top of these fish.
They're blackened.
They're charred, and I'm really hungry looking at this.
Let's go inside and try it out.
If there's a seafood heaven, this is where it is.
You get not only grilled fresh fish and prawns
but the most amazing selection of mud crab as well.
There's so many flavors to choose from.
And walking into the back kitchen
gives you a great look at how it's done.
Flavors like black pepper crab, chili crab, salted egg crab,
and the ultimate smoked crab, which is first fried in a wok
with red onion, ginger, garlic, bay leaves, a salted egg,
herbs and spices, and a special Padang hot and sweet sauce,
is truly to die for.
After it's fried, it's wrapped in a banana leaf
and put on the grill while the smoky banana flavor
infuses into the flesh.
This here is gonna make you wanna move to Jakarta.
Wow, look at this, guys.
The smoked crab has arrived.
You gotta stand up to open this.
Everything is on the table now.
Oh, it's in a big banana leaf.
Crazy!
Oh, the smoked crab is here, guys.
Whoa, look at this!
Oh, that banana flavor, that banana fragrance.
Oh, wow! (laughs)
Doesn't that look insane?
Look at these big, fat crab legs.
It's all here, guys.
It's all here.
We got these smoked crab legs wrapped in a banana leaf.
We have the crab with salted egg yolks, salted egg,
fresh chilies, and a nice, creamy, light curry sauce.
We have the grilled grouper right here.
That's what's making all the smoke outside.
And then we also have the grilled prawns.
We're just gonna go right in for that.
Oh, it's hot.
Mmm, oh!
That flavor!
That flavor has the distinct banana leaf flavor
infused into there, and it's quite spicy.
Mmm, it's quite smoky, quite peppery.
The next flavor to try here,
the salted egg light curry crab.
And I'm just gonna suck on that
to get that first flavor impression.
Oh!
That is the most creamy, spicy, oh, melt in your mouth,
light curry aroma of joy, salty, salty egg yolks there.
Mmm, oh, yeah.
This is honestly some of the best seafood you'll ever eat.
It's like bite after bite of joy.
After a quick rest from eating,
we made our way to finish off the day with a classic
street food meal, the nasi uduk, aka coconut rice.
There's lots of people here.
Okay, here we go.
We walked into a classic night street food tent
offering seafood, and chicken,
and classic Indonesian stir fried dishes.
This is normal everyday life food in Jakarta,
and I was so excited to try it out.
What I didn't know is I was about to try
one of the spiciest things I've ever eaten.
Oh!
Jengkol?
Jengkol, nasi uduk, petai.
Awesome.
Oh.
wow, wow.
Hot.
All the food just got here.
We have the nasi uduk, coconut rice,
look at this, covered in those fried shallots.
Fried shallots are everywhere here.
And we've got fried chicken, a little lettuce.
Oh, I ordered some stir fried jengkol beans
covered in a ton of chili paste.
And then I've got fried stink beans.
Oh, wow.
Look at them just bursting out.
Let's try that to start.
Oh, yeah.
- [Man] That's good.
- Very good.
Oh, it's stinky.
Oh, yeah.
Guys, stink bean stench, mmm.
But we came here to try the nasi uduk here.
So they cook it with coconut milk.
It gives it a lot of flavor.
And I'm just gonna try that rice as is, see what it's like.
Mmm, that is a rich coconut flavor.
And they gave me some fried chicken.
As I tried the delicious fried chicken,
enjoying that nice, fragrant coconut rice,
and moved my way on to taste the sambal sauce.
I didn't know what was about to hit me.
Wow!
Spicy.
- Spicy crazy.
- Spicy crazy?
- Of course.
- (laughs) Oh, man.
I am burning right now.
Oh, spicy crazy.
- Read the label, king spicy crazy.
- [Trevor] Oh, spicy crazy.
- Yes.
- Okay, we came to the spicy crazy place.
I did not know that's what it said.
Oh, I don't know why I'm going more for this.
It's just so burning.
Despite the burn, this was somehow really enjoyable.
From the fried stinky petai beans that taste like
stinky mushrooms, to the coconut packed rice,
and the stinky jengkol beans covered in sambal,
these are filling and strong flavors that leave you
with a lasting impression, one that makes you happy
to have taste buds because you really feel alive.
Man, people are so friendly here in Indonesia.
This whole time in Jakarta has been amazing,
witnessing all of this delicious street food everywhere,
tasting all these flavors.
It's been the time of my life.
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Thank you so much for watching these food and travel videos.
And I wanna give a huge thank you to everybody in Indonesia
that help me create this big food map
that I'm putting in the description below.
Thank you for your recommendations.
I've put pins for a lot of different places in Indonesia.
So if you're coming to Indonesia
and you're looking for some awesome street food locations,
you can check that out.
Thank you so much, guys.
It has been amazing in Jakarta.