Category: Sawahlunto
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Went There Ate That: A Foodie in West Sumatra (The Foodie Magazine, Jan 2015)
Never once I feel such intensity with my longing when it comes to West Sumatra. It is a country full of natural colors and flavors, and everything that came from long history of the people. After several trips there, it is high time for me to share a bit of my foodie adventure in Sumatra Barat.
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Dish That I Crave: The Real Dendeng Batokok!
Pada resep dendeng batokok bakar ala Chef Adzan Tri Budiman di artikel terdahulu, kita bisa melihat pengolahan resep yang cukup ringkas namun tetap menghasilkan rasa lezat.Tetapi bila satu waktu berkunjung ke RM Dendeng Batokok di desa Muaro Kalaban, tepat di luar kota Sawahlunto; niscaya Anda akan terkagum-kagum dengan cara mereka memasak hidangan istimewa yang satu ini.
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Quikskoop™: RM Dendeng Batokok – Masakan Hj. Ermis (Muaro Kalaban – West Sumatra, Indonesia)
Here comes the sequel after the Soto Padang episode! With a half-full belly, we headed just a few hundred meters away from Soto Urang Awak closer to Sawahlunto. There you can see on your left, the restaurant famed for its specialty of dendeng batokok!
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Quikskoop™: Soto Urang Awak (Muaro Kalaban – West Sumatra, Indonesia)
Tour de Singkarak 2013 – Fourth Stage. It was a really long way to Pulau Punjung of Dharmasraya regency, one of the richest regencies of West Sumatera and also the hottest as it reached up to 40 degrees of Centigrade during the stage finish celebration. Even before that, we started back at Sijunjung, took a road less traveled and enjoyed the beauty of Silokek precipices and rivers, did a bit of jungle trekking to find the secret waterfall, and then finally head south to Dharmasraya on a journey as far as almost 190 km. This exhausting trip indeed requires a treat at the end of the day and I kept on nagging to our good driver Mr Eddy to take us for the mythical Dendeng Batokok specialty restaurant out of Sawahlunto, the city we stayed in for a couple of nights. One of the car’s passengers, Mr Kholili from TVRI, first advised us to enjoy a bowl of good Soto Padang first before that. It had turned out that the Soto Urang Awak restaurant was just nearby where we originally headed. Of course, I’d be more than happy to experience new things first!
RIAN FARISA 