Bintan What to Eat
When in Bintan, a must-do is to try all the local food. Rice is a staple and is served with almost every meal. Gaplek (dried cassava) is sometimes mixed into the rice or replaces the rice.
Timlo Solo: Beef and veg soup
Jenang Kudus: Sweetmeat made from rice flour, palm sugar and coconut milk.
Gado-gado: a mixture of different vegetables, boiled egg slices and garnished with fish/shrimp crackers, topped with peanut sauce
Tahu campur: Beef meat and offal soup, mixed with fresh vegetables, potatoes, rice cake, and tofu.
Ayam penyet: fried chicken lightly smashed smashed and served with chilli sauce
Sayur asem: Vegetables in tamarind-flavored soup.
Sayur lodeh: Curried vegetable stew.
Rawon: Beef soup, served with mung bean sprouts and chilli sauce.
Nasi kuning : rice is cooked in coconut milk and turmeric.
Gule kambin: mutton cooked in a curry-like coconut milk soup
Gudeg Yogya: Young jackfruit and hardboiled egg stew, usually served with beef skin stew.
Lumpia Semarang: Fried or steamed spring rolls. The filling varies, but commonly used are meat and bamboo shoots.
Soto Madura: A turmeric-based beef and offal soup, served with boiled egg, and chillli sauce.
Ronde: dessert containing glutinous rice balls stuffed with peanut paste, floating in a hot ginger and sugar soup.
Cwie mie: Seasoned noodles topped with minced meat and boiled wonton.