Culinary of Pontianak, West Kalimantan - Assignment

This time I will tell you about a typical of culinary of Pontianak, West Kalimantan. This food may be a little familiar to us when we first saw it, much like lemper, made ​​from glutinous rice formed a triangle and wrapped in banana leaves. In it there ebi which makes this food aroma is sharper. This food called pengkang. How to cook pretty unique, two pengkang clamped using wood, then baked in the embers of the fire. The delicious taste makes it hard to stop opening the pages of this pengkang coatings banana leaf. This food can be found in the cottage Pengkang, about 30km from the city of Pontianak.

To add the enjoyment when eating pengkang, reserved sambal kepah or mussel souce as a condiment complement, this sauce is made with the main ingredient of many a kind of mussels that live in the forest of mangroves near the coast. When pengkang eaten with the uniqueness of sambal kepah, will feel a sense of spicy, savory, and sweet, very fitting in our tounge.

When you get to West Kalimantan, I thing you have to try pengkang, and it is very suitable to serve as a souvenir.