culinary of mud city🍛

Sidoarjo, the city of Lapindo Mud. The area is identical to shrimp and milkfish. There are many things more than just mud in this Sidoarjo city, one of which is its special food. Each region must have special foods that can be tasted or brought as souvenirs. Sidoarjo also has some tasty, delicious and quite unique foods that are always sought after by tourists who go to Sidoarjo.


1. Kupang Lontong.

Kupang lontong sidoarjo

The most typical food in Sidoarjo. The composition of these foods is rice cake, kupang, lentho and a splash of kupang sauce. Kupang is a kind of sea shell that is small and white, while lentho is an oval-shaped processed nut that looks like a cake, then fried.
Served by putting slices of rice cake and lento into a plate, then poured with broth from kupang with added spice paste and garlic (before serving, crushed garlic and chili pepper then added with petis, usually given the juice of lime juice).
More delicious when using spicy paste mixed with crushed cayenne pepper. The most delicious friends of rice cake kupang are ice degan and clam satay. Guaranteed great and delicious taste.


2. Milkfish Smoke

Bandeng asap

Sidoarjo special food is most often used as a souvenir. This smoked milkfish is made by maturing through the fogging process. After being smoked and sorted, this smoked milkfish is sold in a packaging box and is usually added to the sauce as an addition.
3. Milkfish Presto
Presto is a way to cook using high pressure steam. Bandeng Presto Sidoarjo has a distinctive taste that makes it popular with many people. Besides the aromas and tastes that are appetizing, you don't need to bother removing the many thorns because they are cooked with presto

4. Petis

peris khas sidoarjo

Petis is a dish made from the remaining liquid boiling fish. Then the liquid is heated until the liquid becomes thick like a denser sauce. Then the paste is added with brown sugar or shell sugar which causes the color to turn dark brown tends to be black and sweet. Most petis in the city of Sidoarjo are produced in the village of Balongdowo. The best paste for extra rice cake and various fried foods.

5. Salted Eggs🍳

Telur Asin

This salted egg is made from duck eggs which are processed by marinating (preserved by giving a lot of salt to deactivate the enzyme remodel). Sidoarjo City is also one of the producers of salted eggs, precisely in the Kebonsari area. This area is indeed famous as a village of ducks and salted eggs.

6. Shrimp Crackers🍤

kerupuk udang

Shrimp crackers are foods made from tapioca flour dough and shrimp that have been finely ground and then given herbs and flavor enhancers. Then the mixture is steamed until cooked and thinly sliced. Thin slices are then dried in the sun to dry in the sun for approximately 2 to 3 days. Sliced ​​crackers that are already dry are ready to be fried at any time.