Wednesday 18 September 2013

Pekalongan Regency

Pekalongan Regency

Pekalongan Regency
Pekalongan Regency
Pekalongan is a regency on the north coast of Central Java province in Indonesia. its capital city is Kajen. Pekalongan residents are well known for their pursuit of perfection regarding the Indonesian traditional clothing called Batik.
The word Pekalongan is believed to be derived from the Javanese word, Topo Ngalong, which means "bat-like meditation".
In the southern part of regency there is a mountainous tourist area named Linggo Asri, which includes bathing area, relics of lingga and yoni, playground and pine forest. There are also Pekalongan Hindu communities here.
Sego Megono is rice with sliced â€&lsqauo;â€&lsqauo;young jackfruit and grated coconut. It is savory and spicy, it's usually served while still hot with an additional menu of fresh vegetables and fried fish. Sego megono is usually wrapped in teak leaves or banana leaves. Some people allso call it "Sego Gori".
Soto tauto is a kind of
made with tauto, buffalo
meat soup with thick sauce
meat and bowel.
A kind of soup, where the
with ripe pucung fruit.
seasoning sauce are processed
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This food is made of fish that is processed by smoking the fish, the fish will change its color, flavor and aroma. This food can be found in Pekalongan traditional markets.
Wajik Kletik is some kind of cake with diamond shape made from glutinous rice plus brown sugar and grated coconut mixed together.
Kopi tahlil is made from a blend of pure coffee with spices like ginger, cardamom, cloves, cinnamon, pandanus leafs, lemongrass, and nutmeg.
Apem kesesi is made from rice flour and palm/red sugar, the food was pretty famous in pekalongan surrounding areas particularly in the western part up to the Comal, because it also markets to Comal traditional markets, many people also recognize this food as Apem Comal.
Pekalongan people have their own dialect, the dialects usually ending an order sentence with the word "ra". For example: "ojo koyo kui ra". On the southern regency the dialect differs a little, where most possibility sentence is followed by the word "ndean", other typical southern pekalongan dialect is the use of word Cok-e which means "maybe". Some example are: "wis mangan, ndean!? wis mangan, cok-e!?" ("have he eat? maybe he has?"). There are other typical dialect like the use of the word "pak ora si" which means "It doesn't matter".

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