Full Day of Eating in Jakarta 🇮🇩 | Best Street Food + Must-Visit Night Market!

jasmine rice

🥗Healthier: brown rice

💰Cheaper: white rice

Brown rice adds fiber and nutrients.

chicken

🥗Healthier: tofu

💰Cheaper: chicken thighs

Tofu is a plant-based protein option.

soy sauce

🥗Healthier: tamari

💰Cheaper: liquid aminos

Tamari is gluten-free.

chili sauce

🥗Healthier: salsa

💰Cheaper: hot sauce

Salsa offers a fresh alternative.

Cross the road to the first food location.

Order wheat noodles with diced chicken on top.

Taste the Indonesian tea in a bottle (te bottle).

Enjoy the wheat noodles with bok choy and braised chicken in savory sauce.

Drink the broth that accompanies the noodles.

Try the chili sauce with the noodles.

Visit Stoawi H Maru to try sawi dug, a milky broth made from coconut milk with dagging (meat) and crackers.

Taste the rich and coconutty sawi dug with rice and calamansi.

Add calamansi juice and chili to the sawi dug for extra flavor.

Visit Salero Jumbo, a padang restaurant, to try a set menu.

Explain the contents of the plate: rice cooked in coconut, vegetables, egg in curry sauce, and beef stewed in coconut milk (reang).

Taste the reang and note its tenderness and flavor.

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