I 100% certainly sure that you never heard of it. When you want visiting Gresik and ask google what recomended cuisine in the area, they only suggest sego krawu, yeah typical. Now, I want to introduce you to gresik indigenous cuisine. Only available in gresik, in a village named roomo, and starting to disepear, Sego Roomo or Lontong Roomo or Bumbu Roomo.
Only available in gresik, in a village named roomo, and local people know it as Sego Roomo or Lontong Roomo
Its actual name is Bumbu Roomo, but people often add the main carbohydrate in the name as well, like lontong roomo, which is bumbu roomo serve with lontong and sego roomo which is bumbu roomo serve with sego (javanese) or steam rice. Bumbu roomo made from rice flour cook with coconut milk, ebi (dried shrimp), spices like shallot, garlic, cabe merah besar, kemiri or candlenut, lengkuas or galangal, and ofcourse salt, sugar and pepper. Cooked until become a very thick gravy.
So you decide to have a taste of this cuisine, here how the chef prepare it for you. First, they gonna take pincuk made from banana leave, clean it, and start to stack lontong or steam rice (as your request), then layer with chopped blanch cassava leaves, next layer would be crash crackers, and the final layer is the star of this dish, bumbu roomo, garnish with koya and sambal. Taraaaaa bon apetite.
It is savory, spicy, with a hint of seafood flavour, delicious.
If i’m not mistaken there are 3 food cart that made this menu, one in the gresik traditional market, one in PPS market and my favourite one in Roomo gang 1. Home restaurant in Roomo gang 1 is the oldest bumbu roomo seller, she’s getting older every year and right know she only open her food cart at weekend, at 7 or 8 in the morning, and even before the cart is open, her loyal customer allready made a long line in front of her home. Her VIP customer like me sometimes don’t want to joint with the line, we just go directly to her kitchen, i know it’s not fair play but who cares i know her since i’m just a baby.
Please give it a shot, try it, taste it, before you judge.
If you find it hard to locate the one who sell bumbu roomo and you realy want to taste it, please just shout to me and i’m try my best to help you.
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