RE: Recipe for Tempe Kemul Wonosobo (fermented soya beans coated with batter and deep fried)
But probably you have once heard "Tempe Mendoan", that is more widely spread than Tempe kemul in Indonesia. They are very similar. The difference is on the coating. Tempe kemul normally stays crispy quite long, even if it's already cold. That's because we add up rice flour and tapioca flour in the mixture, and no egg.
It tastes richer too as we add up Kemiri nuts, kencur and sometimes also uses coconut milk instead of water.
On the other hand, Tempe Mendoan only use coriander, garlic and salt to give the flavor, and sometimes one add an egg into the mixture, but egg makes the snack moist and no longer crispy, especially when it's cold. But it doesn't matter too much, both tastes really good and we Indonesians normally eat them warm anyway. :)
Thanks @kobold-djawa for your explanation. Finally, I found someone here in Sanur who knows "Tempe Mendoan" and she cooks this in her Warung almost daily. But since it is never on the menu card, I didn't knew this. Yesterday I tried the dish for the first time and it tastes delicious, especially with coconut milk :-). Greetings from Sanur, Prisca
Nice that you like it. ^^
I can imagine that most foreigner would miss a lot of traditional snacks when they eat in a "Warung" instead of a restaurant. Because normally, Warung would only list the main course but not the "Beilage" (oh God, I just forgot the english word for this LOL).
For Indonesian, main course would mean rice or perhaps lontong with some options of "Sayur", such as: sayur lodeh, sayur asam, sayur bening, sayur sop, soto, rawon etc.
The unique thing is, sayur literally means: "vegetables", although they don't always contain much vegetables in it hahaha. Only sayur asam, bening or sop would still have "some green things" to see. :-D
Protein varieties and snacks would normally served on the plates and put on the table for the customers to choose. One normally just take whatever they want from the plates while enjoying the main course there, and later when they need to pay...they just have to say what they have taken and how many of them...then the price will be added up to the price of the main dishes.
If the customer wants to take the food home, one can also say which snacks or protein source one wish to have to accompany the main dish and how many from each of them should be wrapped up.
But I think... now you must have learned about this further details by now, neverthless I write it here, who knows another readers are interested to know it too. ^^
Have a nice weekend (Ana)
Hello Ana, nice to know your name now :-). At the beginning we had some problems with the Warungs because sometimes the quality was not so good and afterwards we had stomach problems. Of course, now we have some small preferences and are very satisfied. Sure, the vegetables are sometimes everything green and what it exactly is, you don't know. But we always try new things - sometimes it tastes and sometimes not ;-). Do you also speak a little German? My husband comes from France and always says that German is extremely difficult to learn, especially the grammar ... Greetings from Bali, Prisca
Yes, I speak German... I've been here for ca. 9 year, so it would have been embarassing not to speak the language LOL.
I wrote my blog in 2 languages in the past and made it in 2 columns, but since my baby is getting bigger and more active... writing in 2 languages is rather time consuming, that's why I didn't do it again lately.
And writing in English is simply the better option because we have international audience here. :-D
I would certainly write in German again later when the topic of my article is somehow particularly relevant for Germans. ;-)
By the way regarding stomach problem, after leaving Indonesia rather long... most Indonesians would normally also get the same problem with street food or food from warung, at least for the first week.
So I would consider it rather normal ^_^
At least when one doesn't have any particular medical condition which requires a special caution toward food.