I live in Balikpapan City, Balikpapan is a seaport city on the east coast of the island of Borneo, my city has a population of 701,066, making it the second-largest city in East Kalimantan, Balikpapan still has primary rainforest habitat and is the location of a number of different animal conservation charities, like honey bear and hornbill.
Yesterday, me with my friend do jogging in afternoon, we do that twice in a week, for healty life, although sometimes we are not really jogging, but we just walk with a relaxed and enjoy the scenery, LOL, in my town, Balikpapan, there is a place, where the citizens of the city often exercise, jogging there, that place name is "Lapangan Merdeka". in English mean "Merdeka Field"
Beside for sports venues, this place is also a concert stage during major events, or other events, in there, are food vendors, selling a variety of street foods, at reasonable prices, with delicious flavours, and the interesting thing is, there is housing in around Lapangan Merdeka.
After jogging, I started walking around to buy some street food, along the way, lots of people selling food, drinks, traditional snacks, also modern, very varied, of course with the very cheap price, for those of you who like snacking, maybe this place is heaven because with a cheap price you can get a lot of food, good drinks, and this is street food & drink, which I bought.
STREET FOOD
1. Salome
Salome is the name for traditional snacks such as meatballs but the meat content is lower than meatballs, sometimes the Salome is only made of starch kanji, Salome, people in Balikpapan really love Salome, all society of all ages and all circles because the price is relatively cheap and tastes is really good. salome mostly sold by street vendors as it is rarely sold at wharves or other eating places, the traders of Salome are found in schools, markets, factories, universities and crowded places. Salome varies the kinds, ranging from kanji to starch, Salome content of quail eggs, tofu Salome, and fried Salome.
Ingredients for make Salome as i know is wheat flour, tapioca flour, rice flour, hot water, fine salt, pepper powder, cooking oil, meat and eggs, for salome prices, ranging from 0.2 $ - 1 $, as you wish, the more expensive the more you can get.
2. Roasted Corn
Roasted corn in here, just like in any other country, maybe the difference is how to we served the corn, we eat roasted corn with spicy chilli sauce, and salt, very tasty, salty and spicy mixture, then sweet corn flavour, and warm the corn, perfect, for the price of is 0.3$ / corn, very cheap, right?
There is an old grandpa, who sells sachets drink in motorcycles, I don't buy that, i just take the photo for showing this to reader, , if we buy the drink, usually drinks will be served in disposable plastic cup, for the price, 0.5$ / sachet and it depends on the drink what you buy, there is a choice of hot and cold drinks.
3. Ice Doger
My friend bought a drink called "Ice Doger", Ice Doger is cold coconut milk, with ingredient, tapai, black rice pudding, avocado, coconut, milk, etc. ice doger also tasty to drink in hot places, fyi, indonesia is tropis country, the weather in here is 25° C - 30° C, The origin of the name Es Doger is an abbreviation of two words that is the word "dorong gerobak" in english is "thrust cart" which shortened to "Doger.".
4. Coconut Ice With Brown Sugar
After thirst, because jogging, I bought coconut ice, the reason I bought coconut ice is that coconut is very good to increase the body ions, replacing lost body fluids, with 0.5$ I bought one glass of coconut ice, I order coconut ice, coconut ice here is usually added brown sugar, to add to taste, there are two choices of flavors that you can choose, such as brown sugar and syrup.
For the snacks, my friend and I decide to buy snacks that are very popular by the people here, this snack has been around since the 80s, no wonder why people love to buy it, they nostalgic past by eating this, the name of his snack is. fried egg roll.
5. Fried Egg Roll
The taste of this snack is very tasty, like any other Indonesian, I eat it with peanut sauce, if you do not like spicy, you can eat it without sauce, but there are some choices, namely spicy sauce, peanut sauce, tomato sauce, or ketchup, if you ask how to make it? and the ingredients?, i will share it.
The Ingredients is chicken eggs,salt, pepper,water, sweet spicy sauce,skewers,cooking oil.
Step
Break the eggs into the bowl, add salt and pepper, shake until foamy, Add approximately 50 ml of water to the egg mixture, shake again until blended, Heat the cooking oil in the frying pan to a bit high, to fry this egg roll requires a lot of oil. wait for the oil to heat approximately 3-5 minutes. then reduce the heat to medium (not too small), Pour the egg into the center of the oil. then quickly grab a skewer and roll the egg with skewer, Repeat the step until the skewer and eggs run out.Serve with a sweet spicy sauce.
After eating snacks and drinks, me and my friend we talk until the sky was dark, showing the night, we wanted to eat again, but this time we did not want snacks, so we decided to eat some noodles, not far from here, 300meter walk, we find the noodle seller, this noodle has a very unique name, its name is "grenade noodle", because its taste is spicy, so the seller gives the name of grenade noodle.
I ordered "meat grenade noodles", served on a box, this noodle looked delicious with cuts of meat, sausage and chicken crackers, when the first bite, I was impressed, the noodle was very tasty, the spicy flavor mixed with the meat, and the crackers make this noodle has a characteristic taste, it does not feel spicy for me, because of its pleasure, I choose spicy level 4 of 5, its portion is not too much, but fit in the stomach, plus its drink, thai tea, by the way , thai tea is one of my favorite drinks, I don't really know how to make this noodle, next time i wll share how to make this noodle, and for the price very cheap, for one grenade noodles you just have to pay 1,2$, and thai tea only 1$, Is this cheap price for you? tell me in the comment section.
After I count the expenditure for the snack, drink, and food, I only spend 4.2 $, for egg rolls fried, one coconut ice, a meat grenade noodle, and one that tea, you can be satisfied and happy right? do you want to eat one of the snacks/food that I share?, just tell me in the comment section.
Actually, there are many other Street Food that is unique and delicious, which you may never know before, if you are happy with this post, give your comments, and upvote me!