On saturday night, 28 April 2018, Jakarta Local Guides held first Food Crawl Meet Up. We choose Sabang Street for food crawl area.
Sabang Street is one of golden triangle culinary in Jakarta especially in Centre of Jakarta. It’s about 1 km street full of culinary from street food until restaurant level. There are so many traditional menu from various regions in Indonesia that we can choose and try. We no need to feeling worry about prices, it’s depend our your choices. We can have cheap price if we choose street food with delicious taste
We began ou
r food crawl from Nasi Gandul Khas Pati. Nasi Gandul or Gandul Rice is a traditional food from Pati, Central Java. Nasi Gandul is coconut milk sauced white rice combined with beef that became his side dish. The texture of the food also feels unique because it is served on a banana leaf. Gandul name was taken from the rice sellers who used to sell by carrying. Rice brought by hanging or gondal-gandul in Javanese language. But over the times, sellers of Nasi Gandul by the carrying should be rarely found. Now sellers generally settle in a shop.
N____ext session of food crawl is Exploration Time!
Every attendee have free time to explore another culinary of Sabang Street in a small group. We have 3 target of exploration: trying culinary a lot of menus, taking photos, and map editing. We arranged to meet for debriefing at a soto stall at 8 o’clock dan spread in small group.
And here we are our menus!
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Pempek Cawan Putih
Pempek is a traditional food from Palembang made by Tenggiri fish. Pempek serve in coku sauce, slice of cucumber and noodle. -
Kopi Oey
Sabang Street offer many coffee shop. One of unique coffee shop is Kopi Oey. They serve several kind of coffee and side dish.
- Bola Ubi Kopong
This is a street food snack made by fried yam
4. Ice Hill
Thirsty feeling make us try a drink from this beverage shop.
5. Durian
King of fruits completing our cheating night!
6. Sekoteng
Traditional drink made by ginger water with toppings like nut and mochi. Mochi is Sundanese rice cake made of glutinous rice. Mochi look like from Japan too.
7. Soto Ceker dan Ranjau Pak Gendut
Soto is a traditional Indonesian soup mainly composed of broth, meat, and vegetables. Chicken claws make this soto different with others.
- Sakura Anpan Bakery
One of old pastry shop in Sabang Street
At 8 pm we meet again. In this debriefing, all of us tell what the feelings after food crawl.
- Every attendee enjoying culinary that they choose and interaction each others too.
- Several shop have miss info and not exist on google maps. So everyone can give contribution map editing.
- Some unexpected moment happens such as we met a CNN reporter, or we have a guest for other city local guide: Suparno from Bogor Local Guide.
We ends our food crawl meet up with each full tummy and happiness
Thank you for summarizing the activity and great pictures, Mba Septi 
