Tuesday, May 13, 2008

GIft Preserved Fruits from Cianjur




Located at about 120 km from Jakarta, Cianjur is one of the finest city of West Java,

This city has at about 100,000,of population. Cianjur is famous for its rice, the first class rice from Indonesia which named Pandan Wangi. Beside famous for its beautiful places and first class rice, It is also famous for its preserved fruits called manisan, which is popular as snack. The preservation method is either dry or wet, using white sugar in both cases and vinegar and water in the latter case. The most popular manisan is made from mango, with plums and other fruits also available. Most of gifts seller along Cianjur main boulevard sell this food.

Other than rice & 'manisan', Cianjur also got a nick name 'tauco city', tauco is made from soya bean & internationally known as main ingredient for miso soup (Japanese soup).

Cianjur popular place is Puncak, most of the people knew about this place and did not aware that Puncak is part of Cianjur location. Everybody who will travel from Jakarta to Bandung via Puncak will go through Cianjur before reach Bandung.

Below list is popular food from Cianjur (other than traditional food as mentioned above): - Ayam Goreng Jakarta (Fried Chicken 'Kampung') - Ikan Bakar Cianjur (Fried Fish), Pancake & Bitterballen (Puncak Pass hotel and resort).

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