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.

Surabaya

Surabaya is a city in Indonesia. It's the second largest city in Indonesia after Jakarta, with a population of over 2,7 million. Surabaya is the capital of the East Java province. Surabaya was an industrial city with an industrial area named SIER, which now manly consist of warehouse, while the factory is majorly moved to another town near Surabaya (Mojokerto, Sidoarjo, Gresik). Surabaya have the biggest shipping and loading port in Indonesia, which is Tanjung Perak (means : Silver Cape). This port is essential to the trade in Indonesia, mostly for east Indonesia region. Surabaya is home to the Eastern Armada, one of two in the Indonesian Navy, and have its Navy Academy in this town and its main airport which is side by side with the commercial airport, Juanda Airport. Its strong maritime heritage is also reflected with the Submarine Monument, a real retired Russian submarine, called Pasopati, that was converted into a museum ship in the city centre.

This city is also known as "the city of heroes" due to the importance of the Battle of Surabaya in galvanizing Indonesian and international support for Indonesian Independence during the Indonesian National Revolution. The Battle of Surabaya was one of the most important battles of the Indonesian revolution. It was started after British Brigadier Mallaby was killed on October 30, 1945 near Jembatan Merah (the "Red Bridge") (picture above), allegedly by a stray bullet. The Allies gave an ultimatum to the Indonesian freedom fighters inside the city to surrender, but this was refused. The ensuing battle, which took thousands of lives, took place on 10 November, and is nowadays celebrated as Heroes' Day (Hari Pahlawan). The incident of the red-white flag (the Dutch national red-white-and-blue flag at the top of Yamato Hotel's tower that was torn into the Indonesian red-white flag) by Bung Tomo is also recorded as a heroic feat during the struggle of this city.

Legend said that two creatures  a giant white shark and a giant white crocodile fought each other in order to gain the title of "the strongest and most powerful animal" in the area where Surabaya is now. This legend came from Jayabaya propechy which its been said that's how the word Surabaya came from, which is from the words SURA or SURO (shark) and BAYA or BOYO (crocodile). These two creatures are being faetured as the city symbol and have its own sculptures in front of the Surabaya Zoo. Surabaya Zoo itself was opened in 1916, and was the first in the world to have successfully bred orangutans in captivity. Sadly, it begins to have many problems lately, from old and dangerous buildings that tends to fall apart to some of the animal's death. Until now, the city still try to rebuild this zoo to its glorious time.

On Wednesday, 10 June 2009 the Suramadu Bridge between Surabaya and the island of Madura; was completed and it is currently the longest bridge in the country. Madura can also be accessed by a ferry service that operates regularly from Surabaya's port, Tanjung Perak (which literally means: "Silver Cape" in Indonesian). As the main seaport and commercial center in the eastern region of Indonesia, Surabaya has become one of the largest cities in Southeast Asia. Today, Surabaya's population is around three million, and the surrounding rural area houses at least 7 million. The areas surrounding Surabaya include Lamongan to the northwest, Gresik to the west, Bangkalan to the northeast, Sidoarjo to the south, and Mojokerto and Jombang to the southwest.

Food
Surabaya is famous for its traditional food. People in Surabaya loves to eat. Its famous food that's an heritage from this town are Rujak Cingur, a local salad with brown sauce from shrimp paste and cingur (slices of cooked cow nose). There's also Sate Kelopo, which is a satay with coconut rasp. Another dish are Lontong Balap, Tahu Campur, Rawon, Tahu Tek, Gado-Gado and Semanggi. Surabaya is home to a huge number of restaurants - this is an eating culture.

Activities in Surabaya
There are few places to visit in Surabaya. There are some tourist spot, which are :

• Grand Mosque of Surabaya, the largest mosque in East Java.
• Cheng Ho Mosque, the first mosque in Indonesia built with Chinese-style architecture
• Jales Veva Jaya Mahe Monument, a large, admiral-like statue which commemorates the Indonesian Navy.
• Mpu Tantular Museum, has a large collection of ancient Javanese artifacts.
• Bonbin Surabaya is one of the famous zoos in Southeast Asia
• Heroic Monument is the main symbol and one of the attractive tourist destinations in Surabaya and Southeast Asia
• House of Sampoerna is a cigarette museum, and also one of the factory of Sampoerna brand cigarette. It also provides a City Sightseeing bus for free (Surabaya Heritage Track) which operates daily with the particular schedule. It also provides an English tour guide for the sightseeing.

Another activities to do is shopping. Surabaya has many mall all over the city.

• Tunjungan Plaza
• Surabaya Plaza
• Galaxy Mall
• Surabaya Town Square
• Pakuwon City Mall / Pakuwon Trade Center
• Royal Plaza
• Grand City Mall
• City of Tomorrow Mall
• Ciputra World Mall
• East Cost Center

Source : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surabaya
http://wikitravel.org/en/Surabaya