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28 Dec, 2007

Food in Indonesia : Martabak

Posted by: sylv In: Trivial Things

Not the Indian murtabak I often encountered in Singapore.

This martabak is so sweet, oily, and rich that it’s super sinful.

It’s available in many flavours, but my favourite is the cheese one.. Here it is..

martabak keju

And yes, I forgot to tell you, it’s super thick. Usually it’s made in a whole round pan, then eventually the cook will fold it so it becomes half-circle and then cut it into 5-6 pieces.

5 to 6 thick pieces, I might say.

And then the cook will stack them in one box, that will look like this :
stack of martabak

Another flavour my dad bought yesterday is chocolate…
martabak coklat

This one even more sinful… Sigh. They even put peanuts inside.

Close up of the layers..

martabak close up

Geez.. So sinful, rite? But tastes so good… Well but if you can’t take sweet things, better pass =P

Inside the martabak.. (I messed it up with my fork =P)
messed up martabak

One box of martabak (the “special edition” one) usually costs +/- 25000 Rupiahs, which is +/- 4 Singapore Dollars.

A great side dish… Even though it’s very fulfilling for a side dish =P

Do try one if you drop by Jakarta or Bandung! =D

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6 Responses to "Food in Indonesia : Martabak"

1 | hendri SINGAPORE Windows XP Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.11

December 28th, 2007 at 11:57 pm

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OMG, I so miss Martabak! I like the chocolate one and the egg one as well!

2 | arzhou (adrian) SINGAPORE Windows XP Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.11

December 29th, 2007 at 12:04 am

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It looks a lot like the peanut pancakes that were selling pretty hot in singapore at 1 point of time. But its much smaller.

3 | theresia SINGAPORE Windows XP Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.11

December 29th, 2007 at 12:09 am

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i miss martabak, especially thecheese and peanut wijen (sesame?)

i miss indonesian food in general

4 | Sophie SINGAPORE Windows XP Internet Explorer 7.0

December 29th, 2007 at 2:29 am

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Martabak is like Indonesia’s answer to min jian kuay in Singapore, so its not really an oddity, just that its definitely much more oily and the contents are interesting to say the least.

Pancake King in sg is really nice. You might wanna try locating in outlet :)

5 | Alvin Poh SINGAPORE Windows XP Internet Explorer 7.0

December 29th, 2007 at 12:50 pm

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hey slyvia! thanks for coming by my blog, i saw your comment on my blog, so i popped by to check out your blog too :P take care and see you soon!

6 | hendri SINGAPORE Windows XP Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.11

January 11th, 2008 at 6:28 pm

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I finally ate martabak again when I was in Indo! Woohoo!

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