Take the time to go on a culinary tour with family and friends while on vacation in West Kalimantan. While there, check out the recommendations for West Kalimantan specialties that can be included in the menu. See this!
List of typical West Kalimantan foods
Sungkui
Sungkui is exactly the typical food of West Kalimantan from Sanggau. Songkui is a kind of rice cake vegetable dish. The common difference between Songkui and Lontong vegetables is the packaging material.
Songkoi is processed with a rice base wrapped in a special leaf called songkoi leaf. Wrap the rice that has been boiled for 5 to 8 hours thinly and vertically with sonkwe leaves.
Songkui is suitable to be eaten with chicken and pineapple sauce. Delicious Sangaumaray dishes are usually served during parties.
Padas Porridge
Padas porridge is the main dish of sambas. West Kalimantan is a kind of porridge cooked with red chili.
The color of this porridge is darker than other porridges because it uses brown rice. This porridge uses vegetables sprinkled with beans on anchovies.
The word “badas” has nothing to do with spicy taste, since porridge is cooked with various ingredients and is rich in spices.
This West Kalimantan specialty food offers a delicious and filling taste and aroma of porridge.
The dish, whose real name is baba bada, consists of finely ground rice and grilled rice.
This porridge also provides a variety of vegetables such as fern leaves, kale, turmeric leaves, cassava leaves, and peeled corn.
The broth itself uses selected herbs and spices cooked with bones and ground beef.
The delicious sensation of spicy porridge is even more special with a sprinkling of anchovies and fried peanuts .
To enjoy this delicious spicy porridge, come to Pa’Ngah Spicy Porridge on Jalan P. Natakusuma No. 74, Bancon River, Pontianak City, Pontianak City, West Kalimantan.
Another recommendation is Mentali Spicy Porridge on WR Street. Supratman, Kauman, Benoa Kayong, Ketapang, West Kalimantan.
wet crackers
This West Kalimantan specialty food is called wet crushing or temet. Like palembang’s signature pempek, wet biscuits are made from fish batter and wheat flour.
Wet biscuits can be steamed or fried. The texture is fragrant and chewy, spicy and sweet, sprinkled with peanut sauce.
This typical Capuasful snack in West Kalimantan offers a different taste.
If you enjoy most of the biscuits after crisp frying, they are served wet.
Made from a mixture of sago flour and fish, this food is definitely similar to Empekempek in Palembang because it is served with peanut seasonings such as satay and dumplings.
This preferential treatment is available in Wet Crackers on M Street. Yamin Gg. PGA No. 27, Bancon River, Pontianak City, Pontianak City, West Kalimantan.
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Ale ale or crustaceans are one of the typical foods of West Kalimantan and come from Ketapan. Ale Ale is a term for processed seafood such as oysters, and can be processed into a variety of cooking methods such as fried beer, chili beer, salted beer, and broth beer viscous.
Beer is usually salted and boiled. Ale ale contains not only delicious protein, but also healthy protein.
This menu is perfect for seafood lovers, especially oysters. This dish from Ketapan West Kalimantan uses white beer shells which are found in many coastal areas of Ketapan.
Even though it is processed in a fairly simple way, Yale Yale still has a special taste.
No wonder this list is one of the most popular foods for tourists.
Most of the beer can be found at Pondok Alley in Pontianak City in West Kalimantan, South Pontianak, Barrett Tukaya, and Stoyo Lt. Jalan.
Another recommendation is the Ale-ale Hut on Candramidi Princess Street in Gg. Podmorodaram, Bancon River, Pontianak City, Pontianak City, West Kalimantan.
Pencan
Pencan is a typical West Kalimantan food and can be eaten as a snack or heavy food. Pencan is a “Lember” in West Kalimantan. This is a delicious dish made by grilling dried shrimp on glutinous rice and rolling them into cones.
For a relaxing dessert, enjoy tea or coffee. Rich food can be eaten with chili sauce and shellfish. The combination of glutinous rice and spicy chili paste will make you addicted!
Those are some of the popular West Kalimantan specialties that must be eaten while in West Kalimantan.
sago noodles
Cured sago noodles are one of the very popular West Kalimantan specialty rolls, so take your time to taste the deliciousness.
Add the fragrant spicy broth, bean sprouts, leeks and cutlets of meat to make the chewy texture of the noodles even more delicious. The delicious menu is very suitable for eating warmth.
Come to Syabila Paris on Jalan Paris Gg to enjoy delicious sago noodles. Muslim1 no. 26, Pontianak, West Kalimantan.
In addition to sago noodles, this place also offers a menu of spicy porridge, salty noodles, tiao noodles, and techno.
fish porridge
This dish is a typical Pontianak menu with a Chinese feel. Fish porridge consists mainly of rice and is cooked with soup or pieces of fish.
Commonly used fish are Red Sea freshwater fish , pestle fish, or napoleon fish. Fish is presented in the form of fillets, so you can choose to taste.
This delicious porridge menu is available at Ahian Fish Bubur on WR Street. Supratman No. A3/27, Benua Melayu Darat, South Pontianak, Pontianak City, West Kalimantan.
Other orders are fish porridge at Jaranjajamada No. 90 in Pontianak, West Kalimantan, South Pontianak and the Malayy Continent.
bonai bird
This typical West Kalimantan food is very interesting because it consists mainly of bonai birds.
Processed birds are usually served by frying or grilling with the addition of rice, chili sauce, and vegetables.
Delicious food is served in mempawah and Pontianak areas.
One of them is at Pondok Pengkang Resto on Jalan Raya Peniti, Piniti Luar, Siantan, Pontianak, West Kalimantan.
pulp scissors
This processed porridge with a distinctive taste is a combination of fragrant chocolate and sweet bean porridge soup.
This porridge menu is perfect for breakfast in the morning to start.
The original portion of scissor pulp can be found in the Pulp of Scissors Asun on Jalan P. Antasari No. 56, Pasiran, West Singkawang, Singkawang City, West Kalimantan.
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This dessert is also called pinky cake. This traditional cake offers an appetizing taste and is also perfectly fine.
The ingredients to make it are very simple: wheat flour, coconut milk, eggs, granulated sugar and a pinch of salt.
Then use clover leaves or a round sheet of paper to form a dough and bake until cooked.
This snack is one of the typical foods of West Kalimantan for tourists.
Bunka cakes are easy to find in traditional markets and pastry shops. One of them is at FajarAlFajarBingkaCake on Jalan Adisucipto No. 155b, Bangka Belitung Laut, Southeast Pontianak, Pontianak City, West Kalimantan.
Sago Ice Scissors
This pontianak sweet dish is very suitable to be enjoyed when relaxing. This cold drink is made by slicing sago and boiling it until smooth and chewy.
These ingredients are served with red beans, black glutinous rice, pearls, and ponko, so they have a rather full flavor.
You can enjoy scissor and chehuntiaw ice sago at JalanWR. Subratman, Land Malay Continent, South Pontianak, Pontianak City, West Kalimantan.
Chaikoy
This wet cake is one of the fun snacks to taste in Pontianak.
Its unique shape turned out to be made from a mixture of steamed rice flour and sago flour. The contents consist of bengkuang, leeks, shrimp, taro and bamboo shoots.
Sprinkle with fried onions and chili sauce to make it more appetizing.
To enjoy this uniquely flavored cake, you can come to Ahinchaik Wepanas Siam in Pontianak City, West Kalimantan, South Pontianak, Jalan Siam on the Malay land continent.