Night at Jogja, Jogja’s night life is
very beautiful
and just like never end. You will always find friendly people here, they always
have story to be told to everybody anywhere. Don’t ask why if sometime, people
make a chat with you somewhere no matter you know them or not. People are very
friendly here, moreover in the night
life, it will give a diffrent atmosphere here.
Some
nights
we were very bored with our daily activities, then we decide to enjoy the
night. We went out with no destination, just let where your feeling bring you
to. When we passed Gembira Loka zoo, we were attracted with a little stand in
the street and it was written “martabak Malabar Abah Pi’i” (Abah have same
meaning with daddy, father, or mister). We decided to take a rest there.
Martabak is a food originally from indian, but now, it’s popular also in
Indonesia-Malaysia-Singapore. In Malaysia, they serve it with teh tarik.
Martabak is food which contain egg, garlic, minced mutton and onion. People who
sell martabak ussually sell also martabak manis (sweet martabak)/ terang bulan
(java)/apam balik (malay). Martabak manis is a food like pancake with a big
fold, usually, it is filled with chocolate, nut, cheese, or banana. We chose to
order martabak manis with choconut.We also watched how the chef made the
martabak manis. It was very unique, they chef always make the pan move like a
circle. He also moved the pan up and down. Only took 15minutes to serve it.
First
of all we looked nothing interesting except the shape that more wide and
slighter. When we took it, we felt that it was very puffy and so soft, when we
ate it, we felt the diffrent, it was very smooth martabak manis that I have ever tasted. It is creamy and the mixture was
very excellent. The chocolate melted in your mouth and so did the martabak
manis, with the touch of crispy nut. It was unforgetable taste in my mouth. It
didn’t stop here, the owner, Abah Pi’i was very friendly. We never chat or talk
to him before, but he came and made a chat with us. Just love what we talked, it gave us diffrent
atmosphere. It made the martabak manis more tasty for us. He told us that he
use the family recipe, his grand parents
were indian. They came to Indonesia and they started to sell martabak, and now,
Abah Pi’i is the third generation. He still use also the steps to cook from their grand
parents.
We
spent about two hours here just to enjoy the martabak manis and chat with Abah Pi’i. We cut the chat and
went home. We really recomend you to taste the martabak and martabak manis
here, it’s 20 meters east of GembiraLoka Zoo. It is also cheap we spend only IDR 11.000 for a choconut martabak manis.
Don’t forget also to take away for your family.