Nasi Padang Attack 1

Nasi Padang Attack!!! Nasi means rice and Padang is a place in Indonesia. So literally it's Padang-nese style of rice. Since there are a lot of varieties of nasi padang, the postings of nasi padang will be numbered as "Nasi Padang Attack (number)" and will be tagged with "nasi padang" on every post.
Now the first and probably the most famous nasi padang around Indonesia is Nasi Padang "Garuda". That's not a type of nasi padang, instead, it's just a brand of something like fast food chain. But Garuda is by far, the most famous brand in Indonesia. You can find its franchise at level B1 vivo city which cost like 10 times more.
The most common thing about Nasi Padang is that it's a dish of rice, with some curry gravy on top and some meat and veggie to accompany the rice.
For this Garuda, we can either choose a range of meat: curry chicken, fried chicken, grilled chicken, grilled fish, sambal fish, etc. etc. And somehow, this garuda always have the sweet potato leaves with a bit of "belacan" chili sauce". Picture below:

















Appearance ♥♥♥◦◦ Simple traditional look with banana leaves as wrapping, after that another wrap with low quality paper. This is the dabao-ed (packed) appearance.
Tastiness ♥♥♥◦◦ Probably they should have given chicken in big sizes. This one is definitely too small to go with the rice.
Sinfulness ♥♥◦◦◦ well for this one, the rice is kinda filling and that's it. Not so much of gluttony left after that. The situation will be different if you'd asked for more gravy.

Lapis Legit

Now, a great food souvenir to take if you had paid a visit to Indonesia:
Lapis Legit, also known as: Spekkoek (thanks to wiki)
Although, it might look a bit different from Wiki's picture file, but the description is roughly the same. What's so special about this is that, the making process of this cake is done layer by layer.
As you can see from the picture below, each line should represent the border of one layer to another. So what I understand is the first layer will be baked first, then the liquid dough is poured again and baked again until the top. Which might explains about the dark colored thin lines.





Ooops taking in the bite!

And yeah, according to wiki, this cake, is actually Dutch-Indonesian!
Probably was developed during the colonization period, and is said to be using Dutch cake recipe with Indonesian ingredients.
Okay, and now, more importantly, whether it's worth buying or trying:

Appearance ♥♥♥♥◦ Lines are adorable aren't they.. Simple look yet it's rather appealing
Tastiness ♥♥♥♥◦ - ♥♥♥♥♥ Generally, it's just unique, the taste of this cake.. Unique and yummy
Sinfulness ♥♥♥♥◦ Uhm, since the baking is layer by layer, each layer is buttered after the baking which is why this cake is oily. Despite the oiliness, it still tastes great!

Thanks to Hans for sharing this cake with us! Forgot to buy this from Indo

Chicken Rice

Not the usual plain chicken rice in Singapore, but the special, always being waited for (every time for breakfast) and the never-ever-dull to be eaten, Local Medan, typical wet market chicken rice da-bao (wrapped) in a paper and banana leaf (it's banana tree leaf right?)

Up close but not too clear of what's on there... forgot to activate my macro when I took the picture... zzzz

But this is just the right focuz for the picture.. well:
The chicken rice consist of: Chicken and rice!
Well of course, that's why it's called chicken rice!! goddamit!! Are you playing a joke, what's so special? ok ok cool down!! we've got some sweet and spicy cracker on top of the rice, some one eighth piece of dark sauce cooked egg, and in fact there are some char siew (roasted red colored pork) as well! Also there's this pickled onion and the rice is semi-glutonious rice (probably with some pulut added)
Not so much of a plain S'pore local chicken rice.. And also it's different from hainanese chicken rice, but it's another fave of mine

Appearance ♥♥♥♥◦ It actually looks rather artistic in real life, I wouldn't wait to finish it once I see the dish
Tastiness ♥♥♥♥◦ simple sweet and lovely tastiness
Sinfulness ♥♥♥◦◦ the fried skin of the chicken rice is nice, but actually it's rather a normal dish.. normal yet appealing

Es campur

Es campur... If in Singapore es kacang is spelled ice kachang.. maybe I should pronounce this as ice champur muhaahaha.. Anyways yea, literally, es = ice and campur means mixed. So what you expect from an Es campur is a mixed stuffs covered in ice just like ice kachang..
But there are indeed few differences between es campur and es kacang..
Anyways, here's the picture

Yeah, as u can see here are what an ice champur (es campur) consists of: ice, coconut milk?, melted dark sugar?, jellies?, cendol (a.k.a. chendol, see the "H" again hahaha), tapai(some alcoholic fermented food) and red beans..
Yeah, I don't know how to describe those ingredients but those are roughly what I meant




So yeah, that's how it looks like before we consume it...
Now, the scoring:
Appearance ♥♥♥◦◦ messy look, looks like standard blended ice desserts
Tastiness ♥♥♥♥◦ one of the not to be missed traditional desserts
Sinfulness ♥♥♥♥◦ a bit alcoholic, and very sweet and tempting. Can easily finish two bowls after a meal, gives you a refreshing, thirst quenching feeling, but it's really really filling actually..

Pek Cha

`Well, in hokkian, "Pek" means white or plain and "Cha" means stir fry. So the term "Pek cha" means "plainly stir-fried". In medan, this is one of the variations of cooking kwe tiaw, or as we mentioned in the other post: the chinese thick noodle. I haven't found any of this in Singapore so I decided that I'd just post this up first.
In Singapore, it would be similarly stir fried but added with more meats and/or seafood, and dark soy sauce which produces the dark stir fried kwetiaw a.k.a. "cha kwetiaw".
This "pek cha" not only it is white ("pek") but also it is plain ("pek") i.e. without any meat, normally just a bit of egg. Here's the picture:

Appearance ♥♥◦◦◦ Standard look isn't it? not so much of an appealing look
Tastiness ♥♥♥◦◦ - ♥♥♥♥♥ Like fried rice, this is one of the dishes that shows how pro a cook is. It can get from standard taste to a very very awesome taste
Sinfulness ♥♥♥♥◦ Sometimes it gets so oily yet so appealing, that's what sinfulness is hahaha

Hokkian Mee

Something probably more common to Indonesian Medan citizens and Malaysian Penang Citizens:
Hokkian Mee Soup Version
In Singapore, the hokkian mee is stir-fried version and the dish doesn't have as much as variety of seafood if compared to this hokkian mee soup version.
At least this soup contains: prawn, prawn balls, some crab meat (real), oyster, fishball and sliced fishcake.
expect the soup to be sweet and fragrant.. One of my best favorites!

The one I ordered was noodle (mian) mixed with thick noodle (kwetiaw)



Just look at those generously put seafood!!
Appearance ♥♥♥♥◦ Can't wait to eat just by looking
Tastiness ♥♥♥♥♥ Told'ya it's one of my best fave
Sinfulness ♥♥◦◦◦ proteins can't be bad for you.. the craving is not that much after finishing it.

Nice? One of the dishes that you should probably try if you go to Medan