List of Indonesian Lunches to Make Your Day Brighter, Home for Beef Lovers?

Work, work, and work until the stomach is snoozing. Study, study, and study until the school's bell is ringing. Some of us are also do our own habits until the sun shines gently, when most people are running and competing each other to recharge their energy. Some of them are doing quality time with their fun activities, but some, or even most of them also recharge energy with food. They are thinking about a tasty lunch they want to eat since they had done their activities. Perhaps, some of them were thinking, like "Should we lunch at street food or restaurant?" or "Which one I want to eat the most? Fried rice or spaghetti carbonara?". Am I right?

Due to the deadlines or another reason, some of them are tending to not have lunch. Lunch is very important, because it able to supply our remaining energy until our productive hour comes to an end. That's why we need to fill our stomach with carbohydrate when we have lunch. For the medical reason, lunch is more important to make your stomach is not getting hurt. So, lunch will not distract you from your activities but protect you so you can keep doing your activities.

Each country has different type of lunch. Most of the Europeans are consuming potato or bread as their main carbohydrate. Several parts of Africans are consuming tubers like sweet potato, cassava, and taro. And most of Asian, include Indonesians are consuming rice. Even as an Indonesian, I can say that if we have not eaten rice in the afternoon, I will considered still didn't have lunch by surroundings. So, in this time, I am going to tell you guys 5 best lunch menus in Indonesia. I will guarantee you are always looking for this food if you have lunch in Indonesia.

Pekalongan Beef Garang Asem

Pekalomgan-style beef Garang Asem

This is the first lunch I will recommend you especially when you guys visit in Pekalongan City, beef Garang Asem. For your information, Pekalongan is a city that located in Central Java and takes around 2-3 hous from Semarang City. We have known in my first blog, I have explained about chicken Garang Asem in my first blog. You can check my fascinating topic about chicken Garang Asem by click the link below:

Exploring The Indonesian "Tom Yum" Chicken Soup?

Link above explained about chicken Garang Asem, which is Semarang-style Garang Asem. Basically, Garang Asem is a soup that have combination between sour and savory. Pekalongan-style Garang Asem's taste is quite different from Semarang-style Garang Asem. This beef Garang Asem sourer and more savory because has quite strong beef stock's flavor. It is very recommended to eat with warm steamed rice, then pour a little soup into a rice. The soup includes meat and a boiled egg. If you like to eat Tom Yum, I guarantee that you will like this soup so much. I will rate this food 7 out of 10.

Iga Bakar Madu

Iga bakar madu

Indonesians love to eat beef and eat the several part of beef. Iga bakar madu is an Indonesian words that refer to grill ribs with honey sauce. This kind of dish is quite popular in Indonesia, especially Bandung. Based on my experience there, I can find many restaurants sell this kind of ribs. So, if you are beef lovers, and also have planned to travel in Bandung, I will highly recommend this food so bad to you guys. It tastes so wonderful. You can bite the juicy smoky savory ribs with sweet honey and a little spicy make the combination is incredible, especially when you eat by your bare hand and using rice. Oh man, it is a heaven in earth. It makes me want to refill my rice and keep eating the ribs until the ribs are no one left. I will rate Iga Bakar Madu 8 out of 10.

Sop Iga

Sop Iga

Yes, this is another cooking variation of beef that you also have to try, the ribs soup or usually called "Sop Iga" in Indonesian. Compared to Iga Bakar Madu, this kind of dish is more popular because I think the cooking process relatively simple. You can find this food easily in Indonesia, especially in Java Island. This kind of dish serve in the soup include boiled carrot, potatoes, tomatoes, and cut spring onion inside, and ready to comfort you if you have a bad day. The comforting beef stock flavor when slurping the soup make our hectic world is stunned for a while. When the raining day comes, or if your body is not fit enough, this soup is highly recommended and comforting. I will rate Sop Iga 9 out of 10. 

Nasi Campur

Nasi campur

Actually, this kind of dish is not a specific food like I have mentioned previously, because here you able to customize the food what you ate freely. If you are the type of person to try all the foods in a plate, this option will be a great solution for you. Similar as buffet, when you can pick which kind of dish or protein you want to eat, as long as you have much money to pay. 

You can find many buffets in Indonesia. I will seriously recommend you try the local restaurant that usually called "Warung Tegal (Warteg)". In Jakarta, start from 7000 rupiah, you can pick 1 kind of vegetables and get a fried egg. You can see what I picked for my lunch above, I picked fried egg with tempe orek, vegetables, fried tofu, fried sempol, chicken, and many more. More food you want to eat, the price is getting higher. But I think it should be not a huge problem because the taste is so amazing even it's just a simple dish with "simple" price too. Will rate this food 9 out of 10.

Nasi Kebuli

Nasi Kebuli

Nasi Kebuli is an Indonesian food that have amount influence from the Middle East. Basically, Nasi kebuli (kabuli rice) is well seasoned rice with lots of spices, raisin, and served with grilled mutton or beef but it is not rare to find nasi kebuli served with chicken too. If you guys love the strong flavor food, this is absolutely wonderful, especially when you eat with their "sambal" or kind of chili sauce.

I have tried several Nasi Kebuli outlets in Jakarta. For the standard price, one portion can be start from 40k rupiah. If you want to try the affordable one, I recommend you try Almaz Fried Chicken's Nasi Kebuli. It will serve you medium portion of nasi kebuli and a crispy Arabian fried chicken which taste great, and it's also just around 30k rupiah. I will rate this food 8 out of 10.

So, these are my recommendation to have lunch in Jakarta. Did you guys know about 5 foods above? Let me know your impression in the comment section below. Have a great lunch!