Once Upon A Night with Martabak

        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.