Each region must have food, or a traditional cake, sometimes a typical meal iftar. Typical food breaking the fast, can only be found at certain times only. This is a typical Banten food that just came out at the time of Ramadan.
Apem Cimanuk Bohay from Pandeglang Banten
In Pandeglang Banten regency, there are special foods Banten, which only in jajakan on Ramadan only. This cake made from rice flour and tape, commonly called with white apem, or more in the know with Apem Cimanuk.
Cake is usually used as a special food Banten in breaking the fast, is very easy to get during Ramadan, but very difficult to meet, outside the month of Ramadan.
One of the well-known white apem, Cimanuk bohay apem, is located at Kadu Bumbang Village, Cimanuk Sub-district, Pandeglang Banten. To keep the quality and flavor of the white apem, apoh bohay rice milled itself to be used as flour, which is the raw material of the cake.
In addition to rice flour, white apem, or more familiar with this Cimanuk Apem, mixed with tape. after being put together, the dough, let stand for one night, in order for the dough to expand.
The process of cooking was not difficult, after being put into a mold made of banana leaves, the dough is then steamed, for half an hour.
In this month of Ramadhan, Mahfud, the apoh bohay maker, claimed to have produced a white apem for more than thirty years ago, could spend about forty kilograms of rice, and twenty-five kilograms of tape, every day.
To market his apem, Mahfudyang got the expertise to make apem from his parents this, no need to inconvenience, because every day, apem production always run out by the buyer who came to this place. To fulfill the order, Mahmud is assisted by seven employees, all of whom are his family.
One of the buyers confess, apem bohay produced by Mahmud is different from the others. In addition to the good taste, the size of the apem was quite large.But the size of my hell depends on the buyer, can be small can be large.Preferers can also ask for a soft or a chewy.Because the name bohar, perhaps because that makes bohay-bohay, Mahfud joked.
Eating a typical white apem Pandeglang this, different from the apem in other areas. Apem dicocol with sugar liquor from palm sugar. If you want, when fruiting red sugar syrup is added a little coconut milk and pandan leaves.
For people Pandeglang, incomplete breaking without the presence of this Cimanuk apem.
If you happen to be passing on Jalan Raya Cimanuk, precisely in front of Cimanuk Market, Pandeglang Banten, in the month of Ramadhan, surely you will see a number of new stalls sold there kinds of Apem Cimanuk Khas Pandeglang, because this apem cake that can only be found in Ramadan only. But now Cimanuk apem as a typical Banten food is also sold in Traditional Markets in Pandeglang, Serang