I've never expected that i will living and working in this town before, but here..... after more than a half year, i falling in love with the life of Cirebon.
Cirebon, the 2nd biggest town in Jawa Barat, is not only high population because of its location on coastal areas. It aksi because Cirebon has rich and unique culture, different from Sundanese or Javanese. Maybe assimilation from both or has own character but it made this place offers pleasure in tourism and culinary adventures!
Well, I love batik since came here, that's true! Somehow, after came to Trusmi, the center of coast batik craft industry. The patterns were so amazing. Rich of color, design and the price is cheap enough. I almost can't control myself to shop some cirebon batik... Love it so much!
I saw a canthing process which is part of drawing, coloring textiles with malam, kind of candles. This is the most important part of creating pattern design of batik. Most of them, is been done by women because this processes need high patience and accuracy in detail. Well, women can do that better, can't they?
So, here some of my favourite Cirebon batik pattern:
The culinary also tempting to be tried. Cirebon has more than five famous culinary menu. Today, I will share the simple dish made from tofu called Tahu Gejrot.
Tahu Gejrot using Tahu Sumedang, kind of brownish Tofu with hollow spaces inside and a little bit salty. Most Sundanese love this tofu and meal it as snack anytime. Tahu Gejrot offer combination of saltiness, sweetnes and spicy-ness in a bowl. So, here the recipe:
Ingredients:
Tahu Sumedang
Mineral water
Brown sugar
Uleg seasoning:
green chillies
onion, garlic
salt, brown sugar
Direction:
Heat the tahu sumedang
Ripped into plate
Boiling water, add brown sugar until it melted
Mixed the sugar water and uleg seasoning
pour it into tahu sumedang
So simple!
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