Wedding Dish

Last Monday, my mom madeup the bride. Yup!!! My mom is a make up artist, and I helped her to makeup a little girl. After the bride dressed up beautifully and did some traditional ceremony called temu manten... It was time to eat the wedding dish!!! FYI, the good for helping my mom in every wedding is I can taste foods I want, moreover if the foods are set on the buffet layout hehe :p

Well, you know, people have their own typical foods to fete the invitee in a wedding. In my dad's hometown (Kraksaan - Probolinggo) and several region of Java, people will set Rawon and Podeng on their table. Rawon is traditional Indonesian black beef soup with the strong rich taste. What makes this piquant soup becoming black is kluwek, a picung's fruit that made this dish become so Indonesia. You will find this dish with a plate of rice with the tasty crunchy Kerupuk Udang. And always not forget with the spicy Sambal Bajak and small sprouts.

Here's the picture of rawon, taken from Irene's, with no more kerupuk udang :p

But I didn't forget to capture a plate of podeng. Yeah, as you see, it consisted of green kolang-kaling, pineapple, pudding, syrup with a little bit splash of milk on the crumble ice. What's that? I call it puuurrrfeto!

You might be known that all of the ingredients of podeng except kolang-kaling. Kolang-kaling is actually an oval white fruit of aren's tree. Yeah, you know, people like to embellish its color to enchat everyone (I think). At podeng dish, I often to know kolang-kaling in green or red. It's elastic enough and always being a complement of some fresh beverage in Indonesia, like podeng and es campur. Well, I think I have owed to you to write a posting about es campur then hehe :p