Food in Surabaya

Surabaya is famous for its traditional food. People in Surabaya loves to eat. Surabaya is home to a huge number of restaurants - this is an eating culture. Below are some of its famous food with the place to get them : 

Rujak Cingur

• Rujak Cingur, a local salad with brown sauce from shrimp paste and cingur (slices of cooked cow nose). The place where you could get them :
• Rujak Cingur Ahmad Jais, Jl. Ahmad Jais No. 40 Surabaya
• Rujak Cingur Kayoon, there are two places, Jalan Kayon Blok D No.46, Embong Kemiri, Surabaya and Palza Surabaya, Jl. Pemuda Surabaya No.33-37, Surabaya
• Rujak Cingur Genteng, Jl. Genteng Durasim No.29, Surabaya



Sate Klopo

• Sate Klopo, which is a satay (usually it's beef meat) with coconut rasp with sweet peanut sauce. The most famous in Surabaya is Sate Klopo ONDOMOHEN which you can find it at Jalan Walikota Mustajab No. 36 Surabaya.

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  Lontong Balap

  Lontong Balap, consist of slices of lontong (compressed rice), added with bean sprouts soup, fried tahu (fried tofu), lentho, sweet soy sauce, and sambal petis. Why it is called lontong balap (Balap in English mean Race)? This name emerges from the style of lontong balap merchant in the past. All merchant used the big bamboo stick accommodating two clay frying-pans. Big size measure, it is clear weight shouldered. As a result, the merchant have to quicken its journey, provoking race. Since then, the term of lontong balap was emerged. You could get this food in these places : 
• Lontong Balap Garuda Pak Gendut, Jl. Kranggan No.60, Surabaya
• Lontong Balap Rajawali, Jl. Krembangan Timur No. 32D, Surabaya

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  Tahu Campur

  Tahu Campur, some sort of beef soup served with green salad, bean sprout, egg noodle, fried tofu, lentho (spiced fried cassava) and krupuk bawang (garlic crackers). For some people the taste is probably a little bit strange because it has petis udang (black shrimp paste) inside. The places you could get them are :
• Tahu Campur Kalasan, Jalan Kalasan No 22 TambakSari, Surabaya
• Tahu Campur Cak Kahar, Jl Embong Malang No. 78H (In front of JW Marriot Hotel)
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  Tahu Tek/Tahu Gunting

  Tahu Tek and Tahu Telor, Tahu Tek or loosely translated as Tofu and Bean Sprout Salad with Dark Peanut Sauce. The name came from the noises made by hitting a spoon on the wok “tek tek tek…” These little noises are a sign to let people in the house or on the street that there is a tahu tek seller. They are usually out off and start selling on the streets after 7 pm. The name also significant with the sound of the scissor that being use to cut the fried tofu. Because of this kind of cutting some also call this dish as Tahu Gunting (Scissors = Gunting). While the Tahu Tek (Tahu Gunting) that's being add to an omelet is named Tahu Telor (Telor = Egg). There's some places to find it in Surabaya :
• Tahu Telor Pak Jayen, Jl. Dharmahusada No.112, Surabaya
• Tahu Campur Cak Kahar, you could find Tahu Tek and Tahu Telor on their menu too. It's at Jl Embong Malang No. 78H (In front of JW Marriot Hotel)
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  Gado Gado

  Gado-Gado, is an Indonesian salad of slightly boiled, blanched or steamed vegetables (usuallya bean sprout and green salad) and hard-boiled eggs, fried tofu and tempeh, and lontong (rice wrapped in a banana leaf), served with a peanut sauce dressing. You could get this food in here :
• Gado-gado Handayani, Jl. Jolotundo Baru No.20, Pacar Keling, Surabaya 
• Gado-gado Arjuno Pak Satumin, Jl. Raya Arjuno No.127, Sawahan, Surabaya
• Gado-gado Jumbo Pak Tikno, this place sells a big portion (more portion than regular one) of gado-gado. It's at Jalan Ngagel Jaya Tengah No 120, Surabaya
• Gado-gado Pak Eko, Food Court Warung Pacar, Jl. Pacar No. 8, Genteng, Surabaya

• Semanggi, or sometimes being called as pecel semanggi, is one of Surabaya traditional culinary. The ingredient in pecel semanggi is, of course, Semanggi leave (Marsilea crenata) or boiled clover leaves, there is also boiled bean sprouts. Those leaves are completed by the seasoning sauce that made of boiled sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas) mix with palm sugar, salt, shrimp paste, little bit peanut and chili. Mix all the ingredients until it form of sauce.This pecel served without rice, only clover and bean sprouts vegetables which sprinkled the seasoning sauce and served in banana leaf Pincuk, it is kind of banana leaf that folded and used as kind of plate. There is no spoon or fork to eat this food but krupuk. We can eat this pecel semanggi using particular cracker called kerupuk puli. This cracker is made of rice, some Javanese people call this cracker as kerupuk gendar. This cracker is large enough, and we can just chunk the cracker to be the spoon and eat together with the dishes. This food is rare to be found, and tends very difficult to find. The problem is about the rareness of the semanggi or clover leaves as the main ingredient. The seller who sell Semanggi is commonly middle-aged ladies who walk around the menu by lifting up the basket while making some particular noise like “Semanggiiiiiii” in order to let the people know their existence. But you could also found it in some food court, like here :
• De Cafesera, Jl. Sam Ratulangi  No 20, Surabaya
• Semanggi Dempo, Jalan Dempo nomor 19 Surabaya
• Bungkul Park, Jl Raya Darmo, usually at Sunday Morning when there's Car Free Day Program.