BABI PANGGANG KARO (BPK)

Pork Roast Karo

       Roast Pork Karo or more popularly known as BPK (Babi Panggang Karo) is a food made of roasted pork with spicy taste. This food comes from the karo tribe, so many are found in various cities that many inhabited by the Karo tribe, like in Berastagi,  Kabanjahe, Medan, and even in Pekanbaru, Jakarta, and Bandung.

Babi Panggang Karo (BPK)

 

      The difference between Roast Pork Karo with the other is the roasting is done way more unique with slight slices and the selection of the meat. When served, Roast Pork Karo will also be added with a dish like cooked rice, soup and cassava leaves that has been mashed and cooked with traditional.

     Then, also presented a sauce made from pig's blood, where the blood sauce has cooked with a little added water and flavored with herbs such as acid, chili, garlic, red onion and the other traditional seasoning. Once cooked, the blood sauce would change be brown.

Roast Pork Karo served and ready to eat

Roast Pork Karo with Soup and Blood Sauce

BIKA AMBON

BIKA AMBON

Bika Ambon is a dessert from Indonesia. Made from ingredients such as tapioca flour, eggs, sugar, yeast and coconut milk, Bika Ambon generally sold in pandan flavour, although now available also other flavors likebanana, durian, cheese, chocolate.

The yeast creates bubbles, which gives it a unique spongy texture when it is baked.

Although the name contains the word "Ambon", the name of an island and its largest city, Bika Ambon is widely known as the specialty cake of Medan in North Sumatra and often brought as a gift by those whom visited the city. The origins of Bika Ambon are not known; however, there is some speculation that they came to Medan through Ambonese traders, where the locals took a liking to it. Mojopahit Street, Medan Petisah is a most famous sales region of Bika Ambon in Medan, North Sumatra. There are at least 40 stores that sell this kind of cake.

Bika Ambon is also made popular recently around the central Java.