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.