Some Food 4

1. Siomay Bandung


Among the other kinds of siomay, siomay Bandung is the most popular in Indonesia. Siomay is the steamed fish dumpling with some vegetables in it. Actually siomay is adapted from Chinese food called shumai. The complements of siomay Bandung are the steamed cabbage, bitter gourd, potato, tofu, and boiled egg.
Siomay will be cut into small size pieces. It will be topped by spicy peanut sauce, soybean sauce, and lime to make it more delicious. If you visit Bandung, you could find siomay along the street side in Bandung.
And Siomay is also one of famous food in Sheraton Bandung Hotel and Towers.


2. Oncom

Oncom is West Javanese food that is product of fungi fermentation. The process is similar with tempeh, but oncom is resulted after the spora is formed, while the process of tempeh fermentation is stopped before the spora is forming. The red oncom is made out of soybean oilcake, while the black one is from peanut oilcake. Usually oncom is consumed as fritter, chips, combro, or pepes (steamed oncom in banana leaf). Combro is abbreviation of Oncom Di Jero (oncom inside), of which the oncom and chili is filled into a cassava batter and then fried as snack.

3. Lalapan and Leunca

It is commonly-known that Sundanese people like eating their steamed rice with raw vegetables, called lalab or lalapan. It usually contains of raw cucumber, cabbage, tomato, leunca, and green leaves such as basil and cassava leaves. Leunca is the name of a cherry-like bitter vegetable-fruit. Leunca can be eaten raw or cooked with oncom and seasoning to make Ulukutek Leunca (ulukutek literally means stay at home because the recipe was incidentally made at home).