My great-grandmother was born in Batavia (now Jakarta) in 1884. When the family returned to The Netherlands, her father worked as a civil servant for the Dutch colonial government, they asked their Dutch-Indonesian cook (mixed background) to accompany them. She stayed with the family until she died in the 1930's. Her (handwritten) cook-book eventually ended up with my grandmother and the first rule of the cookbook was 'a proper rijsttafel exists of at least 100 small dishes'. Once a year my grandmother prepared such a rijsttafel for the entire family and that was always a feast.
@@maksumzaifudin5859 No, the entire family returned to the Netherlands once my great-greatgrandfather got another job for the Dutch government. They returned to The Netherlands just before 1900.
The spekkoek is baked layer by layer and is very time consuming. Also it's sliced into thin 'plakjes' before eating. I cringed when you took a big bite out of it🤣 personally I like the pandan version better, it's the green one. My mother is Indonesian and last year we had a great rijsttafel at our wedding🥰 At the mall of the Netherlands there is a little shop that also sells all kinds of warm snacks. Gotta try some pastries there! My favorites are kip pastei and lemper.
Two basics you'll have to try : - Seroendeng ; a mix of coconut, peanut and spices, use as a condiment for over your rice. - Kroepoek ; a deepfried snack made out of shrimp and/or cassave
The chips/crackers that you get at Chinese and Indonesian restaurants is most of the time Kroepoek, not emping. Kroepoek is made out of shrimp and/or casave.
Yeah, I always ask for emping instead of Krupuk if they have it, or otherwise casava. Can imagine how people would not be fans of the bitter part of the taste of emping, by the way. I love it for that, but it is kind of particular 🙂
Please buy kroepoek. Emping is nothing in comparison. Kroepoek is the quintessential Indonesian snack. I like rempejek most, but it's dangerously addictive, so I rarely buy it. Eating nasi goreng cold out of a can is something I could only imagine doing in some zombie apocalypse-type scenario.
For crying out loud guys, what are you doing? Eating Nasi goreng cold out of a can? If you don’t want to make it yourself (is very simple), then you have to put that in a skillet and add maybe more spices and a fried egg on top. With that you can take emping or kroepoek. ❤️Hil (still haven’t heard an answer to my question in the vlog before this one….😩)
You live in Dordrecht now, don't you? You can then plan this day for everything that concerns Indonesia From 6 to 9 August, the Pasar Malam Outdoor will be held in the center of Dordrecht!
Emping: they crack melinjo nuts, fry them in oil, preferrably sun dry them, and that's it. The subtle notes of the nuts are enhanced. Truly an acquired taste. I love it now, but not when I was young. Kroepoek (krupuk) is fried shrimp paste (which expands in the frying pan with frightening speed and volume!) and a main stay in Holland. even for those who don't regularly eat Indo food.... And yes, I am jealous of the lady down here whose family cooked 100-dish meals. THAT'S FOR REAL. Wow... Reminds me of the Puntjak in The Hague. These people owned the restaurant and cooked since the war till into the 2000's! That was an oasis into another time. I had the three table full Indo Rice Table there. I will never forget.
Spekkoek is a layered cake, very fat dough with lot of eggs and very laborious to make by hand: layer for layer with different heat settings, so it was a rather expensive cake: served in thin slices with the tea or coffee, but then I think this youngster must be hungry, and why not.
I love emping. My mother used to make Spekkoek. Apply a thin layer of dough, then in the oven and bake. Repeat until you have enough layers. My mother also used to make Lemper (maybe for your next Indonesian vlog). She also made bitterballen herself, but that is -as you know- not Indonesian.
I grew up with my best friends grandparents who were from Indonesia, and they taught me that "kroepoek" or prawn crackers, chips and most other stuff u find in our supermarkets, are more like side dishes or add ons to a dish rather than snacks (so if u want a real indonesian snack then yes you need to go to a "toko" there are alot more options and most of them do have snacks, like spek koek🤤🤤 ). They never ate them as snacks like we do chips, so whenever i make an Indonesian dish i use those items as such. Tbh i have never had them as a snack without a dish, just seems weird to me 😂😂.
fyi the coffesweet, hopjes (and the indonesian copy) were accidently invented by a coffeaddicted baron who left a strong sugary coffee on the stove so it boiled down and then his cook or a baker turned them into candies and they were named for the baron who was called hendrik hop who lived in the hague on het lange voorhout 92, lovely lane especially in spring right in the center
Don't forget Basso (steamed veggies with a meatball in the center and peanut sauce), Ikan Pepesan ( Sambal covered makreel from the oven) and offcourse Soto Soup
I think it's time for you guys to have a indomie/sedaap noodles tier list, kind a thing. personaly I like sedaap over indomie. (with a 0.1/0.5 difference) they both are very good! that said,. Indonesian noodles are the best in the world! (both brands)
Don't eat spekkoek like the way you do... cut small slides. That piece ypu have is enough for a whole family.... Emping you can eat wtith or before your Indonesian meal. Kroepoek you normally eat together with your meal, but is a great snack too! The rempaja is ment to eat in small pieces. Canned Nasi goreng always makes me think of camping in the forest, heating up the can in boiling water. To be honest, we Dutch don't eat that stuff at home... and not unheated out of the can....
As a Dutchie with Indonesian roots and basically grew up on Indonesian cuisine. Emping to me is an acquired taste that you either love or hate. I'm most definitely not in the love camp. Also a hard pass on the canned Nasi Goreng. brrr... ps. Some people may have suggested this already but you may want to check out a local "Toko", which are Asian specialty grocery stores. I just love hopping into one at times for the smell alone. 🤣
Since you live in Dordrecht (my home town) I suggest you may want to find a Toko (Indonesian shop). There are a few in the city. These shops have many genuine Indonesian (and sometimes Chinese or Japanese) products. Also, the Pasar Malam is the Indonesian food festival, also held in Dordrecht (and other cities too)
Try Kue lapis, Risolles, Martabak and two drinks Tjendol, es Shanghai! And for a real experience visit the Tong Tong fair in the Hague in september or a Pasar Malam. Great channel!😊
As you are on an Indonesian food trip. In August there is an outdoor Indonesian culture festival in the center of Dordrecht. It is called Pasar Malam. It on 6-7-8-9th of august at the Statenplein.
@frankeisenga867 there is a pasar malam there in Netherlands? Man I really miss the atmosphere, it's kinda ironic too because here in Indonesia it's been banned to have them in the city so you can only find them in like really rural area
@@tedjoslavianus1817 It is actually more like a yearly festival. The Pasar malam in Dordrecht is the biggest one you can attend for free. There are also edition in other cities which require a small entrance fee. The one in Den Hague for instance is the biggest one and is held in a convention center. You will not see any ad-hoc night markets in the Netherlands it will always be a controlled event.
most big cities have an Amazing Oriental supermarket now and they have everything a lot of snacks and great fresh meats (like buikspek from the pig, fried duck and cha siu) and fish you can get, also they sell a lot of great warm snacks the chicken curry on bread is great
You should try the Surinamese Indonesian/Javanese version. Another bigger Toko in the Netherlands is called Amazing Oriental, with 24 of them in the Netherlands. Just Google Amazing Oriental 😇. Ow my favorite Indonesian snack are the Surinamese version of Indonesian Saoto Soup and Surinamese Javanese Bami with chicken or pork.
Nasi Goreng in can is a very old conserve. The first edible (just) brand I remember was Koen Visser. You have to pep it up a bit with sambal, fried egg, kroepoek and maybe ketjap, but if you really want the Dutch flavour: MAGGI. I am curious, have you discovered this Dutch secret already? A lot of bland food like soups or stampots are better with a squirt of Maggi. In restaurants it used to stand on a tray on the table with the salt and the pepper, in chinees-indische restaurants with a pot of sambal. Such a tray was called a ménage in the horeca.
@@bunchartedMaggi people put on things when they want to elevate the flavor rapidly. This usually is used when something needs a little more salt/bouillon like flavor because it's kind of a mix of the two. I recommend buying it though, I even use it on worstenbroodjes sometimes 😂
My fave is cassave krupuk, it's vegetarian instead of made with shrimp and a bit more spicy than ordinary krupuk. I saw that someone else mentioned Amazing Oriental, some branches sell canned pumpkin if you want to make pumpkin pie in Autumn 😉
@@buncharted Not sure if you like spicy or not, but the Netherlands also has a huge selection of sambals to choose from (mostly Surinamese and Indonesian). Different kinds of sambals go better with different kinds of dishes (depending on preference). Supermarket selection of sambal is often fairly limited though and mostly just offers Oelek and Badjak. But those Asian Supermarkets/Toko's do often have a much bigger selection. One of my favourites is the Surinamise sambal with madame jeanette peppers in it. It's a bit on the spicy side (but also seems to vary per jar since not all peppers are the same level of spice), but it does add quite a bit of flavor. These sort of hot-sauces (but also not exactly that) go very well with Asian dishes and... soup. Especially hearty soups. Add a little bit to a soup, stir a bit and a nice flavor spreads throughout the whole thing. Best to add at the end. Love it with brown bean soup and pumpkin soup. Can also be nice with erwten soup.
Oh man I love your channel! Im an Indo (dutch Indonesian) have a membership on the Efteling and am from Dordrecht. 😅 There are some tokos in the centre like The Rijsttafel on the Voorstraat (we Dordtenaren say on the Voorstraat since it is a dike originally.) I would recommend toko Y-von at Admiraals plein.
Emping is a snack what you "learn" to eat. For me as Indo (half Indonesian half Dutch), Im grown up with it. But it is mentioned by the rice table. The same as Rempejek Spekkoek took time to make, layer upon layer. But normally you take a thin slide of it. Not a big "hump". And the Kung Fu nasi.. it is so gross. Try to make it self it is so easy. Thnxz for uploading the video, it was fun to watch: BTW 1 question how is it possible that you both are so slim? 😂 Keep up the good work
Not snacks but I love nasi goreng, bami goreng, babi pangang & babi kecap/ketjap. You can buy packets at AH/Jumbo/Plus etc to cook babi ketjap/pangang or nasi or bami at home 😊
I love the Indonesian kitchen, but my experience with prepared Indonesian food is that's often very salty, like the canned bami or nasi or the rempejek. You should check the salt ingredient volume. It should met less then 2%.
The javantjes or potato sticks with sambal sauce and peanut in indonesia is called "Kentang Kering" (dried potato) or "Kentang Mustopa", why is called kentang mustopa, because Mustopa is the inventor of the dish, he is a head chef of indonesian presidential palace circa 1959-1960s
I did watch the Surinamese video, but Roti needs to be originally eaten differently as 1 person explained to eat separately then a Role. Plus the Saoto Soup misses a black spicy soy sauce that needs to be mixed with the soup. They did not give that with it?
So funny everything you've showed I have never heard of or seen in my store. We do have kroepoek. And I know the coffee candy but never realized it was indonesian.
Welcome in the Netherlands and enjoy all the food weer have here perhaps you could try the Surinaamse kitchen or perhaps the Turkish kitchen. Eet smakelijk Greetings from Enschede naar the German border
In my military time everybody did want the nasi and bami cans (mostly made by struik) if we had those emergency cans. In the navy there is a large tradition of Indonesian food. Every Wednesday and Sunday there is served a rijsttafel and if there is a special event rijsttafel is the menu. Did you know there is something called a Zeeuwse rijsttafel, that’s rice bacon and everything else you could prepare with the ingredients in your fridge. The ideal meal for a last dinner on a trip, cruise or holiday
@@buncharted no it’s a fancy way of saying a made a meal with every thing a have in store. Because rice is the base it is rijsttafel, and Zeeland is known for being careful with Money , ons bin zunig (wij zijn zuinig) is a saying there, the trademark Zeeuws Meisje (margarine factory) used it in his commercials with the text “not a penny to much” so if you have an more stay for dinner guests you can convert your dinner in to a zeeuwserijsttafel by making a buffet with al kind of food you had on the self starting with the rice ( almost everybody has rice on the self😀)
Damn! I just returned from shopping. - Never heard or seen 'Javaantjes'. Being from Toko Lien they must be good. So on the look out for next time shopping. - Emping is da bomb. It is not kroepoek or casave chips but something in between. Very nice. 'Bitter flavour but you keep eating it'. Combine them with katjang pedis and a beer. - Kopiko is not readily available, alas. It is on various websites of supermarkets but rarely avaiilable in reality. I Have been eating these for over 30 years and they are absolutely the best. It really is a cup of coffee in a sweet. The 'Haagse Hopje' is pathetic compared. - Rempejeh is delicious. Period. - Spekkoek. I hate it. My parents loved it. - Bami Goreng in a can. You aren't supposed to eat it cold. Duh! There also is Nasi Goreng. Not really authentic but close. I always have one or two cans in my pantry. Best is to heat it slowly in a non-stick pan, add a little water, and cover with lid. When hot add 4 eggs on top, spread over the surface and let stir. Then mix the stirred eggs into the nasis or bami. Meanwhile bake 1 egg per person. Serve on plate, add the fried egg on top, add some atjar. Optionally add some sateh. Makes for a very cheap, but satifying, mini-rijsttafel within half an hour.
In Indonesia emping is used to scoop up little mouthfuls of tapai, fermented rice, which is slightly alcoholic, and slightly sweet. It becomes less sweet and more alcoholic the longer it ferments. I have never found tapai in the Netherlands, apart from an unpleasantly sweet, non-alcoholic version in a small glass jar in a Chinese supermarket, not recommended. I don't know if there are Vietnamese shops in the Netherlands, but in Brussels they sell tapai, albeit not under that name. Another snack you might want to seek out is tapai singkong, which is fermented cassava. It is also slightly sweet, with an interesting winey taste. I have not seen it recently, but you used to find it in Indonesian shops, frozen in a plastic bag packaged in a woven basket.
You eat emping plain (with some salt). No dip. It is just a snack. I adore the bitter flavour. They are my absolute favourite! You can buy them raw and then fry them at home too. The shrimp flavoured crisps are kroepoek. They are actually made with /from shrimp.
Most of the snacks are not snacks. They're are supposed to be served along side the dish. Krupuk is the most common, at least here in NL. So you can fry up the nasi goreng and have these things by the side.
Emping is a side dish that can be eaten with other dishes like nasi or bami or soup. Emping is made from almost ripe melindjoe nuts. These are squashend and then dried in the sun. Before you eat them they are (gebakken in zonnebloemolie) fried in sunflower oil.
Rule of thumb when you are going to measure a knob of butter. Measure about 12 to 25 grams of butter which is around one to two tablespoons of butter. You need to judge whether you need a tiny knob or a large knob of butter to put in your dish.
Kopiko coffee candies are great but they are nothing compared to the pure excellence that are the Trefin coffee bonbons from Lokeren, Belgium. They sell 'em at certain Jamin candy shops.
For the better Indonesian snacks I usually go to the local “Toko” or Indonesian food place. They often have homemade snacks. I just enjoy dipping kroepoek/stokbrood into pindasaus.
I would eat the peanut/minifries not as a snack but with a rice dish or even with soup. But i’m weird. I think you got emping mixed up with kroepoek. This one was emping, but most of those crisps are kroepoek, made from tapioca and/or shrimp i think. About emping: try the sticky-spicy kind from the toko: when the bag is open, it’s really hard to not finish it right away…spekkoek is amazing but soo expensive. I know it’s a lot of work to make at home (not hard, but timeconsuming) but for a factory it would be easy, and ingredients are cheap, so i don’t get why it has to be expensive. No pumpkin pie is not a thing here. And if you’re looking for the spices i would go for speculaaskruiden.
I like kroepoek, pisang goreng = fried banana as a side dish with nasi goreng. And def spekkoek or Haagse hopjes as a treat with coffee afterwards. Spekkoek with all the layers is too time consuming to bake at home. So I am glad for the toko.
I'm first generation aussie with Indonesian parents. Emping in english is a Bitternut cracker. It does have a slight bitter taste. My favourite kind is a sweet/spicy flavouring and highly addictive.
In Indonesia, we eat: 1. The potato and nut chip (sambal goreng kentang) with yellow rice (Nasi Kuning). 2. Emping with Soto, Indonesian chicken porridge (bubur ayam), Indonesian goat curry (gulai kambing), oxtail soup (sop buntut), and coconut-milk-braised chicken (opor ayam) Oh btw, I never know that there is Nasi Goreng in a can! It's BIG NO from me as an Indonesian!!! 🧐 *We always eat fresh Nasi Goreng! There is no correlation between Nasi Goreng and Kung Fu🙄
There's a lot of Indonesian dishes that combine very well with certain kinds of chips. Emping is one of them. It's pretty delicous when combined with Indonesian nasi goreng. Just take a chip, put some on it and then eat it. Kroepoek can also be combined with food that way along with some others like cassave chips. I'm also not a fan of premade Indonesian food from the supermarket. Canned is edible I guess, but not nearly as good as homemade. But the ones in plastic packages you just have to warm up in the microwave... those are disgusting.
You should actually go to a toko for the real Asian snacks. Amazing Oriental is a big Asian grocery store, but simply googling 'toko' would be fine aswel. Most Asian items in ah and jumbo are westernized and not like the original food at all.
How did I miss this? Anyway, yes, _emping_ is eaten "plain" as you say, although there are variants that have a … shall we say coating? It's not eaten like chips, by itself or with a dip. It's like _kerupuk_, more like a side dish. Dutch friends treat it like chips, though.
Whoehahaha....nasi goreng straight from the can ???? I have my doubts about this sort of food from a can to be honest but anyway.......at least, heat it up next time, it will be much better :-) :-)> And if you throw in a fried egg, some peanut (sate) sauce and add some sambal and seroendeng (coconut, sugar and peanut, best bought at the toko but also available at Jumbo and AH), it'll be quite nice, I promise !! Ohw and the kroepoek (or krupuk) is delicious...I could really chew away on a couple of bags on an evening easily but....I won't......for obvious reasons ;-)
Cute cat you got there! ❤ 3:56 I’m impressed that you know that _emping_ is made from a nut! The plant is called _Gnetum gnemon_ and we also consume the leaves here in Indonesia. While we do have many flavored _emping_ we definitely love the plain ones as well. In Indonesia, we have _krupuk_ cracker pairings with almost every dish, in which case we always go for the plain ones. 8:14 those look way too thick to be _rempeyek_ whoa! 😳 That definitely looks more like peanut brittles than _rempeyek_ LOL. In Indonesia _rempeyek_ are considered a type of _krupuk_ so they are really thin. You can have it as a snack, or paired with an entree. 10:42 I don’t think _lapis legit_ (what we call _spekkoek_ in Indonesia) has any pumpkin in it, but I think the spice mix is very similar with what you would have in pumpkin spice, and that’s why you made that connection with it. 10:54 I can practically hear many Indonesians clutching their pearls over the thought of _nasi goreng_ in a can 😂 But personally, I don’t mind it if they can do it the right way. That being said, what you had didn’t look like Indonesian fried rice at all 😁 BTW don’t believe the Dutch commenting about _krupuk_ being prawn crackers, they don’t know what they’re talking about 😝 In Indonesia _krupuk_ comes in many forms and flavors 😁
Ik ben gek op nasi uit blik! Het is echt camping-eten, goede herinneringen met pittige sambal. Mijn vrouw vindt het vreselijk, het is echt een Nederlandse "acquired taste". Leuk dat jullie het reviewen ;-)
Hi, i just found this video and I am Indonesian (Chinese-Indonesian to be exact), from all the snack you have in this video none of the brands i have ever seen in Indonesia (personally) except KOPIKO. At a time KOPIKO is super popular in Indonesia it was everywhere and the ads was everywhere, now not so much but its still exist though maybe because. About Emping, it is made from Melinjo fruit (scientific : Gnetum gnemon) which has a soft skin layer and somewhat hard layer after it then the white meat inside is crush into flat form and made into emping, yes it has a little kind of bitter taste. Usually Melinjo is one of the ingredient for Sayur Asem (Sour Vegetable soup) About Spekkoek in Indonesia its called Lapis Legit, real Lapis Legit is made from mixture of lots of yellow eggs, butter, salt and sugar and flour. It is made layer per layer in slow steam cook, it is very delicious, buttery and sweet. Some Spekkoek taste not as good as real Lapis Legit, because they made it using lesser yellow eggs to cut down the price. Real Lapis legit usually cost more then normal cake. I suggest you should travel to Indonesia directly to try other foods here. Many foreigners who come to Indonesia found Indonesian foods are much much more flavourful then their own country. Also indonesia is a very diverse country that made it has very diverse foods, each region has each different speciality foods it is heaven on earth for foodie. Other that that Indonesia also a very safe country and its people are super friendly, crime to foreigners almost never happen, i never heard it happened. Ask me anything about Indonesia if you want.
had that kungfu nasi once....made me cry. also everything from conimex makes me cry. 😂 things you missed as it is not available at the grocery store: bapao pasteitjes risolles indische kroket lapis pandancake tjendol roti kukus pisang goreng lapis Surabaya and last but certainly not least, if you got guts and want to test your resilience ..... try a doerian. i suggest eating that one outside though ! can get some at that big "oriental" grocery store franchise in rotterdam, it is in the frozen section ;) would love to see you try to conquer that fruit ! when i lived in indonesia for a year, as a kid, back in the 80ties, my grandpa always took one back, had to keep it outside or my grandmother would get pissed. so i am used to it, but for most it takes some heroics to even put a piece in their mouths hehehe
You are funny eaters, cold nasi goring from a tin 🤔. You should bake it and try again. Then full bites spekkoek? I always take a very thin slice of it next to my coffee. The spekkoek takes a long time to prepare, layer by layer under the grill. The first two items you tried are actually not snacks, but are eaten as an add on to a hot meal, like part of Nasi Rames or an ingredient of a rijst tafel. My favorite? Dadar Isi. Sort of filled omelette
Try also sate from, pork or vegan. To make the peanut saus more spicy you can try Surinamese ‘pinda sambal’peanut sauce. You buy it in a packet and heat a part of it with milk or water to make a sauce. The remaining can can stored in a fridge.
there are many types of Emping, but the most popular is Emping Mlinjo "Gnetum gnemon" probably that was the one you tried. we boiled it first, and then smashed it to flatten it, "not" grounded into flour then shaped it. In Indonesia Emping is eaten plain, and to pair it with gado-gado or other food is a recent trend. yes, it has that bitter taste that we.. I personally love.
Maybe read up on the Dutch history ;) I am of Dutch kolonial decent. I love that you tried emping! Most foreigners don’t like it. Next time go to a pasar malam and try the food there.
Most of these items are not snacks, but are intended as a side dish for an Indonesian meal. The Sambal Goreng Kentang and others like "Kroepoek" are used to add crispness to the meal. The sweets are, as it were, the same as the "Haagse Hopjes". The canned nasi goreng is just gross and I think made for the less picky consumer...haha. The "spekkoek" is one of my addictions, but from the toko or if I make it myself. It is a lot of work because it is baked layer by layer under the grill. As you said, for real snacks you have to go to the TOKO, which you should definitely do. Nice vid again.
i think we’d go to the toko for anything (we cook a lot of japanese food at home and we buy all of those ingredients from a toko), but it was fun to make the video anyway 😂
My mom used to slap me whenever I tried to eat the Spekkoek like you guys did. The way to eat it is to cut thin slices, take a slice and try to eat it layer by layer (as you peel off a layer).
Don’t buy Indonesian snacks at a grocery store!😢 For the real thing you have to go to an Indonesian toko. And we Indo’s never eat nasi goreng from a can…🤮
It's not bad to eat nasi out of a can cold, it would just be better heated. But nasi in a can is more something to go too when you can't really cook it is not the best quality.
wait! where is the katjang pedis? and the kroepoek... the cassave crackers? Btw nasi in a can is just gross... its in every supermarkt so i guess some people actually buy it.
Back in the days people had no money for snacks. So most things you showed where adeted to the dinner for people in Indonesië and the netherlands to make it a Indonesiëan rijsttafel
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My great-grandmother was born in Batavia (now Jakarta) in 1884. When the family returned to The Netherlands, her father worked as a civil servant for the Dutch colonial government, they asked their Dutch-Indonesian cook (mixed background) to accompany them. She stayed with the family until she died in the 1930's. Her (handwritten) cook-book eventually ended up with my grandmother and the first rule of the cookbook was 'a proper rijsttafel exists of at least 100 small dishes'.
Once a year my grandmother prepared such a rijsttafel for the entire family and that was always a feast.
Is there still a family in Jakarta.
@@maksumzaifudin5859 No, the entire family returned to the Netherlands once my great-greatgrandfather got another job for the Dutch government. They returned to The Netherlands just before 1900.
@@annedenhaag3511 very interesting
@@annedenhaag3511the cook book. Is a piece of important history 😭😭😭😭😭 I want to read it.
The spekkoek is baked layer by layer and is very time consuming. Also it's sliced into thin 'plakjes' before eating. I cringed when you took a big bite out of it🤣 personally I like the pandan version better, it's the green one. My mother is Indonesian and last year we had a great rijsttafel at our wedding🥰
At the mall of the Netherlands there is a little shop that also sells all kinds of warm snacks. Gotta try some pastries there! My favorites are kip pastei and lemper.
Two basics you'll have to try :
- Seroendeng ; a mix of coconut, peanut and spices, use as a condiment for over your rice.
- Kroepoek ; a deepfried snack made out of shrimp and/or cassave
The chips/crackers that you get at Chinese and Indonesian restaurants is most of the time Kroepoek, not emping. Kroepoek is made out of shrimp and/or casave.
Currently Krupuk is not only made from cassava or shrimp, but there are also Krupuk made of rice, fish and many more.
Yeah, I always ask for emping instead of Krupuk if they have it, or otherwise casava. Can imagine how people would not be fans of the bitter part of the taste of emping, by the way. I love it for that, but it is kind of particular 🙂
Please buy kroepoek. Emping is nothing in comparison. Kroepoek is the quintessential Indonesian snack. I like rempejek most, but it's dangerously addictive, so I rarely buy it. Eating nasi goreng cold out of a can is something I could only imagine doing in some zombie apocalypse-type scenario.
They actually eat more emping in Indonesia than Kroepoek.
@@Whistler4uit's a great feature though 😂. No matter how you eat it.
Hello, Indonesian here often eat emping as snack and krupuk is often eaten with heavy dish
For crying out loud guys, what are you doing? Eating Nasi goreng cold out of a can? If you don’t want to make it yourself (is very simple), then you have to put that in a skillet and add maybe more spices and a fried egg on top. With that you can take emping or kroepoek. ❤️Hil (still haven’t heard an answer to my question in the vlog before this one….😩)
it's all in good fun for a youtube video :)
@@buncharted You're insulting yourself a bit by saying this.......❤️Hil
By the way, I always liked “gebakken banaan”!!!! Erg lekker! ❤️Hil
I also like "Pisang Goreng" ✌️
You live in Dordrecht now, don't you? You can then plan this day for everything that concerns Indonesia From 6 to 9 August, the Pasar Malam Outdoor will be held in the center of Dordrecht!
Emping: they crack melinjo nuts, fry them in oil, preferrably sun dry them, and that's it. The subtle notes of the nuts are enhanced. Truly an acquired taste. I love it now, but not when I was young. Kroepoek (krupuk) is fried shrimp paste (which expands in the frying pan with frightening speed and volume!) and a main stay in Holland. even for those who don't regularly eat Indo food....
And yes, I am jealous of the lady down here whose family cooked 100-dish meals. THAT'S FOR REAL. Wow... Reminds me of the Puntjak in The Hague. These people owned the restaurant and cooked since the war till into the 2000's! That was an oasis into another time. I had the three table full Indo Rice Table there. I will never forget.
Spekkoek is a layered cake, very fat dough with lot of eggs and very laborious to make by hand: layer for layer with different heat settings, so it was a rather expensive cake: served in thin slices with the tea or coffee, but then I think this youngster must be hungry, and why not.
Canned nasi goreng is (desperate) student food 😛
I love emping.
My mother used to make Spekkoek. Apply a thin layer of dough, then in the oven and bake. Repeat until you have enough layers. My mother also used to make Lemper (maybe for your next Indonesian vlog).
She also made bitterballen herself, but that is -as you know- not Indonesian.
I grew up with my best friends grandparents who were from Indonesia, and they taught me that "kroepoek" or prawn crackers, chips and most other stuff u find in our supermarkets, are more like side dishes or add ons to a dish rather than snacks (so if u want a real indonesian snack then yes you need to go to a "toko" there are alot more options and most of them do have snacks, like spek koek🤤🤤 ). They never ate them as snacks like we do chips, so whenever i make an Indonesian dish i use those items as such. Tbh i have never had them as a snack without a dish, just seems weird to me 😂😂.
fyi the coffesweet, hopjes (and the indonesian copy) were accidently invented by a coffeaddicted baron who left a strong sugary coffee on the stove so it boiled down and then his cook or a baker turned them into candies and they were named for the baron who was called hendrik hop who lived in the hague on het lange voorhout 92, lovely lane especially in spring right in the center
Some other Indonesian food you could try: Pangsit goreng, Bapao, Tempeh goreng, Dadar gulung, Pisang goreng. FYI goreng = fried
Don't forget Basso (steamed veggies with a meatball in the center and peanut sauce), Ikan Pepesan ( Sambal covered makreel from the oven) and offcourse Soto Soup
I think it's time for you guys to have a indomie/sedaap noodles tier list, kind a thing.
personaly I like sedaap over indomie. (with a 0.1/0.5 difference)
they both are very good!
that said,. Indonesian noodles are the best in the world! (both brands)
Don't eat spekkoek like the way you do... cut small slides. That piece ypu have is enough for a whole family....
Emping you can eat wtith or before your Indonesian meal.
Kroepoek you normally eat together with your meal, but is a great snack too!
The rempaja is ment to eat in small pieces.
Canned Nasi goreng always makes me think of camping in the forest, heating up the can in boiling water. To be honest, we Dutch don't eat that stuff at home... and not unheated out of the can....
As a Dutchie with Indonesian roots and basically grew up on Indonesian cuisine. Emping to me is an acquired taste that you either love or hate. I'm most definitely not in the love camp. Also a hard pass on the canned Nasi Goreng. brrr...
ps. Some people may have suggested this already but you may want to check out a local "Toko", which are Asian specialty grocery stores. I just love hopping into one at times for the smell alone. 🤣
Since you live in Dordrecht (my home town) I suggest you may want to find a Toko (Indonesian shop). There are a few in the city. These shops have many genuine Indonesian (and sometimes Chinese or Japanese) products. Also, the Pasar Malam is the Indonesian food festival, also held in Dordrecht (and other cities too)
Try Kue lapis, Risolles, Martabak and two drinks Tjendol, es Shanghai! And for a real experience visit the Tong Tong fair in the Hague in september or a Pasar Malam. Great channel!😊
I like pandan cake, there is also pandan spekkoek (with the green layers).
As you are on an Indonesian food trip. In August there is an outdoor Indonesian culture festival in the center of Dordrecht. It is called Pasar Malam. It on 6-7-8-9th of august at the Statenplein.
can’t wait!
@frankeisenga867 there is a pasar malam there in Netherlands? Man I really miss the atmosphere, it's kinda ironic too because here in Indonesia it's been banned to have them in the city so you can only find them in like really rural area
@@tedjoslavianus1817 It is actually more like a yearly festival. The Pasar malam in Dordrecht is the biggest one you can attend for free. There are also edition in other cities which require a small entrance fee. The one in Den Hague for instance is the biggest one and is held in a convention center. You will not see any ad-hoc night markets in the Netherlands it will always be a controlled event.
just about any big city has a pasar malam every year@@tedjoslavianus1817
most big cities have an Amazing Oriental supermarket now and they have everything a lot of snacks and great fresh meats (like buikspek from the pig, fried duck and cha siu) and fish you can get, also they sell a lot of great warm snacks the chicken curry on bread is great
Yes, emping has slightly bitter aftertaste. Made from gnetum gnemon (sp) seed.
You should try the Surinamese Indonesian/Javanese version. Another bigger Toko in the Netherlands is called Amazing Oriental, with 24 of them in the Netherlands. Just Google Amazing Oriental 😇. Ow my favorite Indonesian snack are the Surinamese version of Indonesian Saoto Soup and Surinamese Javanese Bami with chicken or pork.
check out our surinamese food video! 😋
Nasi Goreng in can is a very old conserve. The first edible (just) brand I remember was Koen Visser. You have to pep it up a bit with sambal, fried egg, kroepoek and maybe ketjap, but if you really want the Dutch flavour: MAGGI. I am curious, have you discovered this Dutch secret already? A lot of bland food like soups or stampots are better with a squirt of Maggi. In restaurants it used to stand on a tray on the table with the salt and the pepper, in chinees-indische restaurants with a pot of sambal. Such a tray was called a ménage in the horeca.
we are dying to try maggi, we've been waiting for an excuse. i guess we should have done that with the canned nasi goreng!
@@bunchartedMaggi people put on things when they want to elevate the flavor rapidly. This usually is used when something needs a little more salt/bouillon like flavor because it's kind of a mix of the two. I recommend buying it though, I even use it on worstenbroodjes sometimes 😂
My fave is cassave krupuk, it's vegetarian instead of made with shrimp and a bit more spicy than ordinary krupuk.
I saw that someone else mentioned Amazing Oriental, some branches sell canned pumpkin if you want to make pumpkin pie in Autumn 😉
ooh thank you for the tip!
@@buncharted Not sure if you like spicy or not, but the Netherlands also has a huge selection of sambals to choose from (mostly Surinamese and Indonesian). Different kinds of sambals go better with different kinds of dishes (depending on preference). Supermarket selection of sambal is often fairly limited though and mostly just offers Oelek and Badjak. But those Asian Supermarkets/Toko's do often have a much bigger selection. One of my favourites is the Surinamise sambal with madame jeanette peppers in it. It's a bit on the spicy side (but also seems to vary per jar since not all peppers are the same level of spice), but it does add quite a bit of flavor.
These sort of hot-sauces (but also not exactly that) go very well with Asian dishes and... soup. Especially hearty soups. Add a little bit to a soup, stir a bit and a nice flavor spreads throughout the whole thing. Best to add at the end. Love it with brown bean soup and pumpkin soup. Can also be nice with erwten soup.
Oh man I love your channel!
Im an Indo (dutch Indonesian) have a membership on the Efteling and am from Dordrecht. 😅
There are some tokos in the centre like The Rijsttafel on the Voorstraat (we Dordtenaren say on the Voorstraat since it is a dike originally.)
I would recommend toko Y-von at Admiraals plein.
I suggest you guys go cycling in de merwelandene / Biesbosch or in the aria of oud-Alblas.
Emping is a snack what you "learn" to eat. For me as Indo (half Indonesian half Dutch), Im grown up with it. But it is mentioned by the rice table. The same as Rempejek
Spekkoek took time to make, layer upon layer. But normally you take a thin slide of it. Not a big "hump".
And the Kung Fu nasi.. it is so gross. Try to make it self it is so easy.
Thnxz for uploading the video, it was fun to watch:
BTW 1 question how is it possible that you both are so slim? 😂
Keep up the good work
we only eat like this for videos 😅
Not snacks but I love nasi goreng, bami goreng, babi pangang & babi kecap/ketjap. You can buy packets at AH/Jumbo/Plus etc to cook babi ketjap/pangang or nasi or bami at home 😊
I love the Indonesian kitchen, but my experience with prepared Indonesian food is that's often very salty, like the canned bami or nasi or the rempejek. You should check the salt ingredient volume. It should met less then 2%.
The javantjes or potato sticks with sambal sauce and peanut in indonesia is called "Kentang Kering" (dried potato) or "Kentang Mustopa", why is called kentang mustopa, because Mustopa is the inventor of the dish, he is a head chef of indonesian presidential palace circa 1959-1960s
Katjang pedis?
I did watch the Surinamese video, but Roti needs to be originally eaten differently as 1 person explained to eat separately then a Role. Plus the Saoto Soup misses a black spicy soy sauce that needs to be mixed with the soup. They did not give that with it?
"Do not eat cold" Takes two more bites straight from the can.. 😂
"koeken" is "cookies";). And yes, cookie comr from koekje. The Dutch brought them in 1648: to New Amsterdam:).
So funny everything you've showed I have never heard of or seen in my store. We do have kroepoek. And I know the coffee candy but never realized it was indonesian.
Cold nasi from a tin... No thanks 😂😂 You're brave for trying!
Nasi goreng in a can? As Indonesian idk what to say 😮😮,.they ruin the texture of rice in that nasi goreng..😢😢
The tinned nasi needs to be fried up first!!! Then ad a fried egg on top.
Add sambal and ketjap manis on the fried nasi then add a fried egg on top.
Welcome in the Netherlands and enjoy all the food weer have here perhaps you could try the Surinaamse kitchen or perhaps the Turkish kitchen. Eet smakelijk Greetings from Enschede naar the German border
proud indonesian living in amsterdam here!
Emping is a side-dish snack and is realy good with some other main cours... (Asian food)
In my military time everybody did want the nasi and bami cans (mostly made by struik) if we had those emergency cans. In the navy there is a large tradition of Indonesian food. Every Wednesday and Sunday there is served a rijsttafel and if there is a special event rijsttafel is the menu. Did you know there is something called a Zeeuwse rijsttafel, that’s rice bacon and everything else you could prepare with the ingredients in your fridge. The ideal meal for a last dinner on a trip, cruise or holiday
is that because zeeland is such a popular vacation destination?
@@buncharted no it’s a fancy way of saying a made a meal with every thing a have in store. Because rice is the base it is rijsttafel, and Zeeland is known for being careful with Money , ons bin zunig (wij zijn zuinig) is a saying there, the trademark Zeeuws Meisje (margarine factory) used it in his commercials with the text “not a penny to much” so if you have an more stay for dinner guests you can convert your dinner in to a zeeuwserijsttafel by making a buffet with al kind of food you had on the self starting with the rice ( almost everybody has rice on the self😀)
Damn! I just returned from shopping.
- Never heard or seen 'Javaantjes'. Being from Toko Lien they must be good. So on the look out for next time shopping.
- Emping is da bomb. It is not kroepoek or casave chips but something in between. Very nice. 'Bitter flavour but you keep eating it'. Combine them with katjang pedis and a beer.
- Kopiko is not readily available, alas. It is on various websites of supermarkets but rarely avaiilable in reality. I Have been eating these for over 30 years and they are absolutely the best. It really is a cup of coffee in a sweet. The 'Haagse Hopje' is pathetic compared.
- Rempejeh is delicious. Period.
- Spekkoek. I hate it. My parents loved it.
- Bami Goreng in a can. You aren't supposed to eat it cold. Duh! There also is Nasi Goreng. Not really authentic but close. I always have one or two cans in my pantry. Best is to heat it slowly in a non-stick pan, add a little water, and cover with lid. When hot add 4 eggs on top, spread over the surface and let stir. Then mix the stirred eggs into the nasis or bami. Meanwhile bake 1 egg per person. Serve on plate, add the fried egg on top, add some atjar. Optionally add some sateh. Makes for a very cheap, but satifying, mini-rijsttafel within half an hour.
In Indonesia emping is used to scoop up little mouthfuls of tapai, fermented rice, which is slightly alcoholic, and slightly sweet. It becomes less sweet and more alcoholic the longer it ferments. I have never found tapai in the Netherlands, apart from an unpleasantly sweet, non-alcoholic version in a small glass jar in a Chinese supermarket, not recommended. I don't know if there are Vietnamese shops in the Netherlands, but in Brussels they sell tapai, albeit not under that name. Another snack you might want to seek out is tapai singkong, which is fermented cassava. It is also slightly sweet, with an interesting winey taste. I have not seen it recently, but you used to find it in Indonesian shops, frozen in a plastic bag packaged in a woven basket.
You eat emping plain (with some salt). No dip. It is just a snack. I adore the bitter flavour. They are my absolute favourite! You can buy them raw and then fry them at home too. The shrimp flavoured crisps are kroepoek. They are actually made with /from shrimp.
Most of the snacks are not snacks. They're are supposed to be served along side the dish. Krupuk is the most common, at least here in NL. So you can fry up the nasi goreng and have these things by the side.
Emping is a side dish that can be eaten with other dishes like nasi or bami or soup.
Emping is made from almost ripe melindjoe nuts. These are squashend and then dried in the sun. Before you eat them they are (gebakken in zonnebloemolie) fried in sunflower oil.
Rule of thumb when you are going to measure a knob of butter. Measure about 12 to 25 grams of butter which is around one to two tablespoons of butter. You need to judge whether you need a tiny knob or a large knob of butter to put in your dish.
Zonnebloemolie is sunflower oil, where the emping gets baked/fried in. ;)
I prefer kroepoek.
Kopiko coffee candies are great but they are nothing compared to the pure excellence that are the Trefin coffee bonbons from Lokeren, Belgium. They sell 'em at certain Jamin candy shops.
For the better Indonesian snacks I usually go to the local “Toko” or Indonesian food place. They often have homemade snacks. I just enjoy dipping kroepoek/stokbrood into pindasaus.
the layered one is spekkoek baconcake
canned nasi goreng looks disgusting tbh
Just easy can food,bami and ravioli ❤❤❤also canned at jumbo/ah, should bake first😂
Baru tau ada Nasi Goreng instan di dalam kaleng, seharusnya rempeyek itu warnanya putih kekuningan bukan warna hitam seperti itu ✌️
Kayak nya cuman luar negeri yg ada
@@mulyadimasibrahimlamusu8373 sepertinya, tetapi kalau di jual di indo juga bagus
I would eat the peanut/minifries not as a snack but with a rice dish or even with soup. But i’m weird.
I think you got emping mixed up with kroepoek. This one was emping, but most of those crisps are kroepoek, made from tapioca and/or shrimp i think. About emping: try the sticky-spicy kind from the toko: when the bag is open, it’s really hard to not finish it right away…spekkoek is amazing but soo expensive. I know it’s a lot of work to make at home (not hard, but timeconsuming) but for a factory it would be easy, and ingredients are cheap, so i don’t get why it has to be expensive. No pumpkin pie is not a thing here. And if you’re looking for the spices i would go for speculaaskruiden.
No Katjang Pedis? It's available at Jumbo
we could only fit so much into a video - but those sound tasty! we’ll have to do a follow up and try them 😋
@@buncharted It's peanuts in a hot spicy crust. I believe it's authentic and some Toko's have home mades.
Emping; no flavors no dip required ❤
I like kroepoek, pisang goreng = fried banana as a side dish with nasi goreng. And def spekkoek or Haagse hopjes as a treat with coffee afterwards. Spekkoek with all the layers is too time consuming to bake at home. So I am glad for the toko.
I think you will like the Pasar Malam from 6 to 9 august at the Statenplein and Sarisgang in Dordrecht; lots of Indonesian food and spice stalls.
very much looking forward to this
I'm first generation aussie with Indonesian parents. Emping in english is a Bitternut cracker. It does have a slight bitter taste. My favourite kind is a sweet/spicy flavouring and highly addictive.
for my snacks I don't go to the supermarket but to a toko, often homemade and fresh.
100% same
In Indonesia, we eat:
1. The potato and nut chip (sambal goreng kentang) with yellow rice (Nasi Kuning).
2. Emping with Soto, Indonesian chicken porridge (bubur ayam), Indonesian goat curry (gulai kambing), oxtail soup (sop buntut), and coconut-milk-braised chicken (opor ayam)
Oh btw, I never know that there is Nasi Goreng in a can! It's BIG NO from me as an Indonesian!!! 🧐
*We always eat fresh Nasi Goreng! There is no correlation between Nasi Goreng and Kung Fu🙄
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There's a lot of Indonesian dishes that combine very well with certain kinds of chips. Emping is one of them. It's pretty delicous when combined with Indonesian nasi goreng. Just take a chip, put some on it and then eat it. Kroepoek can also be combined with food that way along with some others like cassave chips.
I'm also not a fan of premade Indonesian food from the supermarket. Canned is edible I guess, but not nearly as good as homemade. But the ones in plastic packages you just have to warm up in the microwave... those are disgusting.
Tip: Eat some mango chutney with the Emping. It's awesome.
Yes, I can recommend Lekker Bekkie.
You should actually go to a toko for the real Asian snacks. Amazing Oriental is a big Asian grocery store, but simply googling 'toko' would be fine aswel.
Most Asian items in ah and jumbo are westernized and not like the original food at all.
Emping is normally made from "melinjo" , you can ask for melinjo in the toko and compare it , Cheers .
How did I miss this? Anyway, yes, _emping_ is eaten "plain" as you say, although there are variants that have a … shall we say coating? It's not eaten like chips, by itself or with a dip. It's like _kerupuk_, more like a side dish. Dutch friends treat it like chips, though.
Whoehahaha....nasi goreng straight from the can ????
I have my doubts about this sort of food from a can to be honest but anyway.......at least, heat it up next time, it will be much better :-) :-)>
And if you throw in a fried egg, some peanut (sate) sauce and add some sambal and seroendeng (coconut, sugar and peanut, best bought at the toko but also available at Jumbo and AH), it'll be quite nice, I promise !!
Ohw and the kroepoek (or krupuk) is delicious...I could really chew away on a couple of bags on an evening easily but....I won't......for obvious reasons ;-)
Cute cat you got there! ❤
3:56 I’m impressed that you know that _emping_ is made from a nut! The plant is called _Gnetum gnemon_ and we also consume the leaves here in Indonesia. While we do have many flavored _emping_ we definitely love the plain ones as well. In Indonesia, we have _krupuk_ cracker pairings with almost every dish, in which case we always go for the plain ones.
8:14 those look way too thick to be _rempeyek_ whoa! 😳 That definitely looks more like peanut brittles than _rempeyek_ LOL. In Indonesia _rempeyek_ are considered a type of _krupuk_ so they are really thin. You can have it as a snack, or paired with an entree.
10:42 I don’t think _lapis legit_ (what we call _spekkoek_ in Indonesia) has any pumpkin in it, but I think the spice mix is very similar with what you would have in pumpkin spice, and that’s why you made that connection with it.
10:54 I can practically hear many Indonesians clutching their pearls over the thought of _nasi goreng_ in a can 😂 But personally, I don’t mind it if they can do it the right way. That being said, what you had didn’t look like Indonesian fried rice at all 😁
BTW don’t believe the Dutch commenting about _krupuk_ being prawn crackers, they don’t know what they’re talking about 😝 In Indonesia _krupuk_ comes in many forms and flavors 😁
Ik ben gek op nasi uit blik! Het is echt camping-eten, goede herinneringen met pittige sambal. Mijn vrouw vindt het vreselijk, het is echt een Nederlandse "acquired taste". Leuk dat jullie het reviewen ;-)
Hi, i just found this video and I am Indonesian (Chinese-Indonesian to be exact), from all the snack you have in this video none of the brands i have ever seen in Indonesia (personally) except KOPIKO.
At a time KOPIKO is super popular in Indonesia it was everywhere and the ads was everywhere, now not so much but its still exist though maybe because.
About Emping, it is made from Melinjo fruit (scientific : Gnetum gnemon) which has a soft skin layer and somewhat hard layer after it then the white meat inside is crush into flat form and made into emping, yes it has a little kind of bitter taste. Usually Melinjo is one of the ingredient for Sayur Asem (Sour Vegetable soup)
About Spekkoek in Indonesia its called Lapis Legit, real Lapis Legit is made from mixture of lots of yellow eggs, butter, salt and sugar and flour. It is made layer per layer in slow steam cook, it is very delicious, buttery and sweet. Some Spekkoek taste not as good as real Lapis Legit, because they made it using lesser yellow eggs to cut down the price. Real Lapis legit usually cost more then normal cake.
I suggest you should travel to Indonesia directly to try other foods here. Many foreigners who come to Indonesia found Indonesian foods are much much more flavourful then their own country.
Also indonesia is a very diverse country that made it has very diverse foods, each region has each different speciality foods it is heaven on earth for foodie.
Other that that Indonesia also a very safe country and its people are super friendly, crime to foreigners almost never happen, i never heard it happened.
Ask me anything about Indonesia if you want.
You are eating it wrong,, you are eating the snacks with a typical Indonesian meal!!
had that kungfu nasi once....made me cry.
also everything from conimex makes me cry.
😂
things you missed as it is not available at the grocery store:
bapao
pasteitjes
risolles
indische kroket
lapis
pandancake
tjendol
roti kukus
pisang goreng
lapis Surabaya
and last but certainly not least, if you got guts and want to test your resilience ..... try a doerian.
i suggest eating that one outside though !
can get some at that big "oriental" grocery store franchise in rotterdam, it is in the frozen section ;)
would love to see you try to conquer that fruit !
when i lived in indonesia for a year, as a kid, back in the 80ties, my grandpa always took one back, had to keep it outside or my grandmother would get pissed.
so i am used to it, but for most it takes some heroics to even put a piece in their mouths hehehe
You are funny eaters, cold nasi goring from a tin 🤔. You should bake it and try again.
Then full bites spekkoek? I always take a very thin slice of it next to my coffee. The spekkoek takes a long time to prepare, layer by layer under the grill. The first two items you tried are actually not snacks, but are eaten as an add on to a hot meal, like part of Nasi Rames or an ingredient of a rijst tafel.
My favorite? Dadar Isi. Sort of filled omelette
Try also sate from, pork or vegan. To make the peanut saus more spicy you can try Surinamese ‘pinda sambal’peanut sauce. You buy it in a packet and heat a part of it with milk or water to make a sauce. The remaining can can stored in a fridge.
As an Indonesian, I honestly don't know how I feel watching this. All the snacks look so... wrong. Except for Kopiko.
there are many types of Emping, but the most popular is Emping Mlinjo "Gnetum gnemon" probably that was the one you tried. we boiled it first, and then smashed it to flatten it, "not" grounded into flour then shaped it. In Indonesia Emping is eaten plain, and to pair it with gado-gado or other food is a recent trend. yes, it has that bitter taste that we.. I personally love.
Maybe read up on the Dutch history ;) I am of Dutch kolonial decent. I love that you tried emping! Most foreigners don’t like it. Next time go to a pasar malam and try the food there.
I was quite surprised, they packed emping and rempeyek in factory packaging. They even package fried rice in cans.
Most of these items are not snacks, but are intended as a side dish for an Indonesian meal. The Sambal Goreng Kentang and others like "Kroepoek" are used to add crispness to the meal. The sweets are, as it were, the same as the "Haagse Hopjes". The canned nasi goreng is just gross and I think made for the less picky consumer...haha. The "spekkoek" is one of my addictions, but from the toko or if I make it myself. It is a lot of work because it is baked layer by layer under the grill. As you said, for real snacks you have to go to the TOKO, which you should definitely do. Nice vid again.
i think we’d go to the toko for anything (we cook a lot of japanese food at home and we buy all of those ingredients from a toko), but it was fun to make the video anyway 😂
@@buncharted Was fun to watch too 😉
Spekkoek, real kroepoek, pandang pancakes.
13:50 my parents always take 1 or 2 with them with camper xd
for when you don't feel like cooking you only have to add herbs and done :P
My mom used to slap me whenever I tried to eat the Spekkoek like you guys did. The way to eat it is to cut thin slices, take a slice and try to eat it layer by layer (as you peel off a layer).
Don’t buy Indonesian snacks at a grocery store!😢 For the real thing you have to go to an Indonesian toko. And we Indo’s never eat nasi goreng from a can…🤮
You are supposed to eat most of those snacks in combination with the rice/sate sauce
I just had Emping Blado, sticky sweet and spicy :)
As an Indonesian i Don't satisfied with all snacks you have 😂 except kopiko
Usually we Indonesian just put salt on emping 😀 if that chip bland just put salt and shake it 😀
You supose to warm up yje nassi goreng to taste the mix of flavours; cold it isn't half as good.
It's not bad to eat nasi out of a can cold, it would just be better heated. But nasi in a can is more something to go too when you can't really cook it is not the best quality.
OMG nasi in a can, didn't know they still sell it. It's a childhood trauma for me hahahaha
wait! where is the katjang pedis? and the kroepoek... the cassave crackers?
Btw nasi in a can is just gross... its in every supermarkt so i guess some people actually buy it.
Back in the days people had no money for snacks. So most things you showed where adeted to the dinner for people in Indonesië and the netherlands to make it a Indonesiëan rijsttafel
Holds up a bag I've never seen before: "these are absolutely *everywhere*!" Oh, you city-folk.
😅😅😅
Ew! Canned food? Really? Nasi is such a great dish and easy to make.