Lumpia Semarang in Jakarta

Today i bought a street snack called Lumpia.
Lumpia is known originated from Semarang, the capital city of Central Java Province, Indonesia.

There are so many well-known brand of lumpia in Indonesia, especially in Semarang. But, today i just gonna write about lumpia i bought from a street stall in Jakarta.

Overview

Lumpia shaped like a cylinder, having dimension of 15 cm in length and 3-4 cm in diameter.
Lumpia consists of two parts: the filling and the skin.

The filling is made from mixture of sliced bamboo shoots, scrambled eggs, minced chicken meat, and some spices. While the skin is made of wheat powder dough that made into round and thin skin.
The filling is in someway wrapped inside the skin, and shaped into closed cylinder so the filling won't be scaterred-out.

Then, the now-ready lumpia is deep fried in hot cooking oil for about 5 minutes until the skin is brownish and crispy.

We usually eat lumpia with special sweet-sauce made from tapioca powder and brown sugar.
Additional 'side-dish' like small hot chilli (cabai rawit), pickled cucumber (acar ketimun), and young shallot sprout (lokio) are common.

Ingredients

Haha, this is not recipe, cause actually i don't know exactly what the recipe is. I just write down the ingredients based on my observation, to help people imagine the taste.'

Filling :
sliced bamboo shoot
minced chicken meat
dried small prawn
scrambled egg
garlic
shallot
very small amount of chilli
very small amount of soy sauce

All of these is pan fried with cooking oil (palm oil)

Skin:

Wheat powder
Water
egg (without the yolk)
some salt

The dough is somehow made into thin and round skin.


Where to Buy and Price

You can buy one of the best Lumpia in Semarang at Jalan Lombok. Well, this isn't a must because there are so many Lumpia factory in Semarang. Mostly taste good i think.

Currently (Nov 2008), price for one Lumpia is about Rp5000-9000 (depends on where you buy it).

I myself bought the lumpia i use for photo in this post at small stall in Tanjung Duren, West Jakarta. The price is only Rp 5000 a piece. The taste is quite delicious... yummy

This is the photo of lumpia : (i'll update this later)

Let's Learn Bahasa Indonesia

How do you say Lumpia in Bahasa Indonesia?

Lum as in Loom

pi as in pee

a as in ya

Visit Indonesia

So, for you guys who haven't try Lumpia, just fly over here to Indonesia, especially to Semarang.

Believe me, the fried bamboo shoots is very exotic!

Have a taste of beautiful Indonesia :)