Semanggi Suroboyo and Gado-Gado...

Indonesia is a country with  17,508 islands and it has 33 provinces. Each region has its own characteristics and also for the food. Each area has a typical food. Surabaya, is a capital city of East Java, a province in Indonesia, has its own typical food also. 
Surabaya is my hometown so I will share 2 typical dishes of Surabaya that I love. :D

Semanggi
This food is a traditional food from Surabaya. Nowadays, it is very hard to find semanggi in Surabaya. But, I still can find semanggi around my house because every morning there is a middle-aged woman who carrying a basket on her back and walk away to peddle semanggi. Semanggi is also available in some traditional restaurant in Surabaya.
For the first time, you will feel weird when you take a look to the semanggi because its presentation is not really good. But, when you start eating semanggi, you will know that the taste is not like the presentation. The taste is good for me and that's why I very love semanggi.
Semanggi is a dish that consists of clover leaves and bean sprouts served with peanut sauce. Semanggi doesn't need a plate for eating. It uses a banana leaf as a plate and kerupuk puli as a spoon. Kerupuk puli is a yellow color cracker and the size for semanggi is big. You need to chunk the cracker then scoop the vegetables that already mix with the peanut sauce. The taste is very delicious. All is mix in your mouth. You can also add sambal if you like hot taste. 

Gado-Gado

Gado-gado is an Indonesian salad consists of boiling green vegetables (shredded or chopped cabbage, kangkung, bean sprouts, string bean), sliced cucumber and lettuce, fried tofu and tempeh, boiled potatoes, and sliced boiled eggs served with peanut sauce. Gado-gado is always served with shrimp crackers and emping, a cracker which made from melinjo. Usually, gado-gado is served with lontong (rice cake wrapped in banana leaf). Then, mix all together.

The taste of gado-gado is delicious. I am a kind of person who don't really like to eat vegetables. But, gado-gado makes me like to eat vegetables because of the peanut sauce. The peanut sauce in gado-gado makes all the vegetables tastes better and delicious.