[Kristin]

ast Java is rich with various types of specialties culinary, call Rojak Cingur or Lontong Race which can be directly eaten at the point of sale place. But if you visit to Sidoarjo and want to bring souvenirs, smoked milkfish could be an option. Sidoarjo, the area where only one hour drive from Surabaya city center, is famous for various kinds of processed foods from fish, such as milkfish brains, grilled milkfish with various spices, and smoked milkfish. Smoked milkfish is a typical food of Sidoarjo, East Java, which is already quite well known for a long time. Smoked milkfish is processed from fresh fish selection (no smell of soil) that matured by evaporation, producing smoked milkfish with a distinctive taste, very tasteful and delicious. Smoked milkfish is suitable to serve as a souvenir when you are visiting in Sidoarjo because these snacks are very distinctive and unique that it becomes extremely inappropriate to take home as souvenirs to their respective areas. You will be very easy to find smoked milkfish smoke upfront souvenir shops in all corners of the area of Sidoarjo especially in its main street. Smoked milkfish flavor is very tasteful and much different from the milkfish presto which the texture is very soft and chewy. This smoked milkfish can be directly eaten by “cocolan” sweet soy sauce or spicy chili paste and more comfortable if used in microwave warmed. Or it could also be made of vegetables with coconut milk, depending on the own taste.

Usually the fish to be smoked is medium size which the length about 30-40 centimeters and weighs about 1-2 kilograms. Before performing the process of curing, scales and fish entrails is cleaned first, let me not smell fishy. When the fish are already clean, then it is soaked in salt water for approximately two hours, until the salt seep into the flesh of the fish. Once the fish is cleaned again to reduce the salt content, and then smoked until cooked. If the fish is already brownish yellow, a sign that the fish is cooked. Smoked milkfish is cooked by way of smoked or baked using only the smoke that comes out of coconut shells and fibers, so that the milkfish does not burn as well when grilled over coconut shells. Smoked milkfish that sold here have actually been in a state of mature, if you want to enjoy can be eaten with hot sauce or steamed little while to warm up. Beside on that, there is also a presto milkfish and fried milkfish with egg.

If you want to buy milkfish smoke as souvenirs, choose smoked milkfish that has long the texture of the meat is noticeably louder and saltier. Smoked milkfish typical of Sidoarjo has been famous long enough. In home town, there are many sellers of smoked milkfish which these foods can be easily found in cities around Sidoarjo. On average, one pack of smoked milkfish is sold at Rp 35,000, depending on the size of milkfish. Now, there is a new variant of smoked milkfish, namely smoked milkfish without thorns. The production is the same as usual smoked milkfish, but when be cleaned, not just scales and fish entrails are removed, but also thorns. And specifically for smoked milkfish without thorns are still limited in the town of Sidoarjo alone.

SMOKED MILKFISH
Mrs. Djalil
Phone: +62 31 896 4185


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