Remembered Kesambi Soto

Eating soto practically become a habit people in Salatiga, Central Java. Especially as the breakfast menu. Not surprisingly, come to this city, we will find that many sellers of chicken soup are scattered in several places. One is the famous dining restaurant in Jalan Bladakan kesambi Soto.

These restaurants include a lively customer visited. The restaurant was not only visited by residents of Salatiga, but also from Semarang, Magelang, Yogyakarta, Solo and Jakarta. On holidays and school holidays, the restaurant was crowded with the travelers. Rows of cars line up at the plate B street front restaurant is narrow.

The food menu is quite simple: white rice and soup that contains shredded chicken, bean sprouts, a sprinkling of celery, and green onions with a sauce nodes. But, this soup can be eaten with a few choice dishes such as fried chicken, offal, fried tempeh, meatball.

Besides plus side dishes, soup eaten with rice crackers or in Salatiga generally more popular with crackers name character - a big boxy brown. Way of eating is a character in the hands crushed and sprinkled on soup.

There is one more special dishes that can be eaten with soup, its name rongkong. Side dishes that form part of a female chicken breast that is still intact by going to the egg. Egg yolk was still in the form without the shell. If we choose this side dish, can be presented in the form of suwir-shredded as well. In addition to chicken, of course there are hard-boiled egg. Brown eggs because cooked using red onions.

Kesambi soto restaurant was formerly located in Jalan kesambi - first location opened in the 1970s - so named after the street name of its existence. Sri Indarini, a loyal customer, had a nostalgic important with this kesambi soto. When I was going out with her husband - now deceased - they like going there after school.
The owner of this place is Handy. "What have (stall) this soup my school, you know," said Sri, who lives in Jakarta. Hand is the second generation who operates a place to eat this. He is still keeping the tradition of his parents in selling soto, among others, while counting the money. He calculates with chalk on the wooden table that he made as a cashier.

Places to eat soto kesambi is still modest, a small house a living room and terrace filled several dining table. Ornament his house is still original, especially seen from the jamb-frame painted green and the walls of the separator, which limits the dining room and kitchen. In the middle there are ornaments shaped sealing ring.

In addition, the tool is still the same meal since it first opened, which uses small white bowl as wide as the palm of the hand. Another typical eating tool is still used is the spoon duck durable aluminum, although not always used, because some scoop was replaced with a regular tablespoon.

Handy said there is nothing special from the menu sotonya. According to him, many customers who like to sotonya because it fits their taste. "Soto me just the same as any other kind of soup in Salatiga, (but I) do not know why the like," Hand said, modestly.
Many customers reminisce at home eating that have survived for about 30 years. "Many who came with their children and grandchildren," Handy added.

This restaurant is open from six am to three pm or until sotonya out of it. Sometimes if you're busy, at 11 any kind of soup was sold out. In order to miss out, usually visitors come early, before starting work or activities. (AQIDA SWAMURTI - tempo interactive)


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