Typical food of Surabaya

Semanggi
Typical Surabaya food that is served on the plate made from bananas leaves (pincuk), consisted of several various vegetables such as Semanggi leaves,sprouts, leafy vegetable and is poured with the spice that is made from yams and chili sauce accordance with the consument's taste. It usually could be eaten with Uli chips (made from the rice). The seller is generally an old woman, carried to their back and peddled to whole of Surabaya . This typical food can be found in Pujasera nowadays.

Rujak Cingur
Rujak Cingur is snack food that becomes a typical Surabaya's food, that consisted of several kinds fruits slices like cucumber, bengkoang, young mangoes, pineapples and kedondong, it is added with rice cake, tofu, fermented soybean cake, bendoyo or krai (a kind of cucumber boiled) and cingur as well as vegetables (sprout, leafy vegetable& long peanuts) and was mixed with sauce or the spice that is made from the prawns fermented, chili, fried peanuts, fried onion & salt. It has called as rujak cingur because the whim spice that being used were prawns fermented and the slice of cingur, whereas rujak generally without using these ingredients. It can be served with pincuk from bananas leaves (the bananas leaves) or plate which was usually accompanied with chips.

Kupang Lontong
Kupang Lontong is a typical coast food that consisted of the rice cake and mixed with the kupang broth (a kind of oyster/the small shellfish), and it is served with the chili whim in accordance with the customer taste. This food is peddled by being borne to whole of Surabaya city and it can also be found in Pujasera.

Lontong Balap
Typical original Surabaya's food which is cooked from the rice cake, sprouts, fried tofu, Lento (made of soybean), soy sauce, fried onion and chili sauce.
Lento is made from rice peanuts/Tholo with flour, afterwards it is added with galingale, the spring onion, rough-skinned citrus fruit and adequate salt. It is formed round resembled the croquette.

Lontong Balap is full of sprouts. Lontong Balap is not served well without Kerang Satay.
Shellfish satay, ismade from the shellfish that is boiled and then it is served like satay, but without being roasted. Lontong Balap will be more delicious to eat if being added with hot soy sauce and chili sauce.

Quoted from : http://www.surabaya.go.id/eng/culture.php?page=#typical%20food

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