Rice is a staple food for the majority of Indonesian people, and it includes our diet from breakfast, lunch and dinner alongside with side dishes, soup or stir fry vegetables.
When the rice is leftover, then it becomes cool and hard (it is the best rice to make fried rice), of course it doesn't taste nice, so some homes use it to feed their chicken (if they have), or more creative to invent a delicious fried rice recipe.
Here, in Salatiga, if we don't want to be bothered. We can have tripe fried rice at "Nasi Goreng Asem", although the real name is "Warung Makan Ungaran Putra" (Ungaran Putra Food Stall), but it's popularly called by people for the place bellow "an Asem Tree" (a tamarind tree), which is on jalan Ahmad Yani, Salatiga.
Indonesia, a home of hundreds ethnic groups, owns a lot of delicious local cuisines, one of them is fried rice, which has some varieties depend on each main ingredient, such as Tripe Fried Rice, Chicken Fried Rice, Seafood Fried Rice and Vegetarian Fried Rice, which is considered as Indonesian national dish.
In big hotels in Indonesia, fried rice is served as Indonesian breakfast choice, although Indonesian people, commonly, have fried rice for dinner.
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| David enjoys having Tripe Fried Rice
"Nasi Goreng Asem Stall", which has been existed for 33 years, opens early in the morning and closes at 00.30 am (the longest operating hour of fried rice stall in Salatiga).
One portion of Tripe Fried Rice costs at IDR 13,000, if added "pete" (stink bean or parkia speciosa) will be cost IDR 16,000.
Many people enjoy having Tripe Fried Rice here for it has a special taste (i think because of tallow, in form of oil, added in the ingredients). So, when you have this fried rice, you will experience the delicacy of Tripe Fried Rice.
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