Original Recipe

    Nowadays, there is very popular among the people of east java and a story behind it.   It was created by an unknown someone who selling Soto Ayam. One day, when he came back from his routine at the field, he found out at home that no food except there were some ingredient such as cabbage, sprout, some tofu, petis, and spices of Soto. Afterward, he thought about how to make a portion of food by using those ingredients. Then, he tried to make the beef stew of Soto, mixing the ingredients, giving a little bit of petis, and pouring the mixing ingredients with the broth of Soto.   Amazingly the taste was very good and he named the food “Tahu Campur”, then his friend suggested selling it tomorrow. In the afternoon, he went to a traditional market to buy the additional ingredient and the spices, but there was no cabbage and he changed the cabbage to lettuce which make the taste much better than before. From the story that is already famous, Tahu Campur or mixed tofu bec...

  Rawon is a beef soup from east java that have the different soup color in Indonesia. This dish had existed 1000 years ago that had been found from an inscription called Prasasti Taji. In the inscription, this dish was called Rarawwan. Everyone in Indonesia has familiar with this soup with the various special recipe in each region notably from the east part of the center java to the east java. The people aboard know the dish as a black soup. Why black soup? it is because the black soup comes from a flavor called Kluwak. Kluwak/kapayang is wild growing tree that producer of Indonesian spices, but nowadays it is already cultivated.  In every region of Indonesia kluwak seeds have some different names such as Sundanese called picung or pucung, Javanese called kluwak or kluwek, and in Toraja called pamarrasan. The kernel of kluwak seed is the based flavor that gives the dark chocolate color to the rawon soup. It is not only to give a thick color to the soup, but the rawon seasonin...