ANGKRINGAN, Relax While Enjoying The Meals
Category : Local Culinary

Angkringan very well known in various society of Jogja. Angkringan derived from the Javanese language Angkring, which means sit down to relax. And it is in fact angkringan ussualy used by people of Jogja as a place to relax and spend their nights in angkringan and take a chit chat with their friends or family.

Angkringan usually shaped with push cart, that sells a variety of foods, beverages and can be found in almost every city streets of Jogja. In this place they only used senthir as lighting. Senthir is traditional lighting from Java that can be ignited with kerosene.devices. They use  before they know the electricity. In a angkringan can carry about eight people. If not get a seat, usually the seller will provide the mats and we can sit on the sidewalk around  the angkringan.

The most famous food and highly identical with angkringan is a nasi kucing. Cat is a pack of rice with toppings nasi teri, oseng-oseng or sambal tempe. We can choose one of them. Usually, the seller had wrapped rice with the side dish, so that we can directly choose and take the rice that we want. If you do not want to either take the rice and choice the dish we can ask to the seller because it's look the same pack of rice for all. For the first time eat  this nasi kucing, do not be surprised because a serving of rice is indeed just a little. This portion is relatively the same with the  price of a pack of nasi kucing is ranging from Rp 1,000 - Rp 1,500.

For a sense of not being asked. if you who do not like spicy food you better to choose a nasi kucing with dishes tempeh  While the nasi kucing with anchovy side dish or sauce is more spicy taste.

Besides nasi kucing, usually angkringan also provides a variety of fried foods such as mendoan tempeh, tofu, and fried bananas. Fried food that is wrapped with flour and then it is fries. In addition there are also deep fried intestines satay, skewers of quail eggs, chips and others. For these foods, you can ask the seller to burn. Before burning the seller will  be given a soy sauce first so it will become sweeter. At angkringan they offer variety of beverages too such as tea, citrus, coffee, tape,  ginger and milk. All were sold at a very affordable, ranging between Rp 500 -  Rp 1500.

Angkringan will open from afternoon until night. No need to fear running out of food if you want to come at night, because usually angkringan will be more crowded at night.

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