Surabi
is one of the traditional foods from my hometown, Bandung. Surabi is a traditional food made of the mixture of pulverizes rice, milk squeezed from coconut, and salt. The tool to make a surabi usually is a parabolic-shape made from clay. This tool is heated traditionally using a fireplace and coke. The way to make a surabi is very simple. Pulverizes rice, milk squeezed from coconut, and salt, which already well-mixed, heated on the fireplace until it’s cooked. Plain traditional surabi is usually enjoyed with kinca, a liquid made of red sugar and milk squeezed from coconut. Surabi also can be add with a topping named oncom, made of peanut, red pepper, and onion, to get the spicy taste.Today, people make new variation with surabi, especially on the topping. The topping are now vary from cheese, strawberry jam, chocolate, egg, and chicken. This new variation of surabi is very popular, especially among adolescence. Making new variation of surabi is one of the ways to conserve surabi. With making new variation, surabi, as a traditional food, won’t be put at edge by modern food.
