This menu specially imported directly from Kapuas Hulu West Kalimantan, Kerupuk Basah.

I first heard the name of Keruput Basah, surely people would imagine crackers "kepleh-kepleh" because the water soaked or shadow of that sort.

However, Kerupuk Basah this one is different from the term cracker that is often used in Java / Sumatra where crackers in general is secondary side dish to accompany rice to make it more tasty and enjoyed.

So unsupported crackers in Indonesia, from Sabang to Merauke so we're always easy to find Crackers in food stalls and in restaurants.

I was so familiar with Crackers even in Pondok Modern Gontor Ponorogo, Crackers is a mandatory menu of the students

With crackers, people will easily imagine how the flavors and types of crackers. In general, crackers is a mixture of rice flour / wheat / starch / tapioca is given a specific aroma and then fried in hot skillet, so the taste is crisp and "kriuk-kriuk".

Therefore, an automatic one would imagine crackers as crunchy and crispy foods

But make no mistake, in the area of ​​Kapuas Hulu West Kalimantan crackers not only dry crackers or crisp. Here there is also a wet crackers. Remember, not dry crackers soaked know!

But it's crackers are deliberately not dry wet aliases

Actually, if in the view of the common people will crackers, food is not appropriate when called crackers. Because connotation crackers will always lead to goods that brittle, hard, dry and crisp. While these foods and soft chewy so far from the shadow of a snack.

Kerupuk Basah

More like Siomay if in Java or Empek-empek reply in Sumatra.

To create a wet Crackers needed materials as follows:

1. Fillet the fish, the most delicious fish belida (Notopetrus Chitala) / Toman fish (Channa micropeltes)

2. sago flour

3. Wheat starch

4. Salts

5. Pepper

6. Garlic

whereas for sauce sauces:

1. Great chili

2. Peanuts

3. Salt

4. Sugar

Fish batter and flour is milled and mixed until the blend while adding a little water, then dab of salt, garlic and pepper that has been refined. Once the dough is then formed into a fused lungkung (elongated circle as large sausage) and then steamed until cooked.

For the sauce sauces, fried peanuts then stay smoothed all the above ingredients and blended into one and added water.

Wet crackers commonly enjoyed in cafes or at roadside stalls in town Putussibau West Kalimantan. Ordinary accompanied with a cup of coffee as an addition to this delicious food.

However, in addition to its delicious taste, wet crackers susceptible to taken away, as well as non-durable also be reduced deliciousness.

Methods for preservation (naturally) usually done by wrapping a wet crackers with wheat flour, the method is durable for 1-2 day trips. After reaching the destination, the wet crackers washed with warm water to flour-flour wrappers missing then steamed again and served warm

Lately too many variants wet crackers in addition be enjoyed warm after a steamed, can also be fried or grilled.

It feels?

Similar to dumplings or batagor, it's just a delicious aroma of fish belida more pronounced in this wet crackers ..

Moreover, dipped in sauce with chili, soggy crackers joy is second to none. Even wet crackers Putussibau famous Kapuas Hulu has its own distinctive taste compared Wet crackers that exist in other areas although equally in West Kalimantan.

Indeed Fish Belida from upstream areas are relatively more delicious than the fish in the estuary.

After godres drool, visitors Angkringan Kang Wed greedily trying souvenirs upstream region of Borneo is sinambi joking ... Crackers Wet from Kapuas Hulu