Hello community friends, how are you today, I hope you have a happy day, and I hope you are all always healthy.
This time I will share a story about my and my friend's dinner at a lesehan restaurant in Dimalioboro, Yogyakarta, Indonesia. It's called Lesehan Borobudur.
We were given a list of food menus when we sat on the floor, and my choice fell on the menu of fried chicken with rice and fresh vegetables. It didn't take long to wait for our order to arrive. On my food plate neatly arranged rice, a piece of chicken, a small bowl of chili sauce, cucumber slices, basil leaves, and raw cabbage. Wow it looks really good.
And I started trying my dinner. Here we don't eat using spoons, they only provide a bowl of water for washing hands. And I tasted the fried chicken first, and it turned out that the fried chicken was very tasty. The outside is dry, but the chicken meat is tender, very delicious. Very different from my fried chicken.
I started tasting the fried chicken using chili sauce and rice, and it turned out that it tasted really good, the chili sauce was really good too, not too spicy. I asked for more chili sauce, and the waiter gave me three small bowls of chili sauce. Even though I usually don't eat much chili sauce, this chili sauce is different, making me want to add more. What's more, combined with delicious and savory fried chicken, the taste is truly complete.
Eating rice with savory fried chicken, plus chili sauce and cucumber fresh vegetables wow really makes me hungry. I didn't eat the raw cabbage because I don't like eating raw cabbage.
It didn't feel like my food was finished. It's a really filling dinner, especially when eating accompanied by slow, pleasant music. The atmosphere at dinner became even more enjoyable.
After finishing eating, and sitting for a while enjoying the music, we immediately approached the cashier to pay for our dinner. Near the cashier you can see their cooking ingredients. There was chicken that had not been fried but had been boiled using spices and there was also a lot of chili sauce in a large container. There was also a waiter frying chicken.
When paying, I tried asking the cashier what the recipe for savory chicken and chili sauce was. The cashier laughed and said he only used simple spices. I was curious about what spices they actually used. And I asked again while paying the bill that the cashier handed me, he said they only use crushed garlic, shallots, candlenuts and coriander to season the chicken, and for the sauce only chilies, shallots and garlic. I also thanked the cashier for giving me a peek at their recipe.
But while walking home I thought, I also use the same spices when frying chicken, but it's not as delicious as their cooking. Maybe their cooking techniques are experts, and of course they have secret ingredients that customers are not allowed to reveal.
But what is certain is that my dinner was very tasty, relaxing and filling.
OK, community friends, that's the story of my dinner with a simple menu but it tasted delicious and certainly not expensive.
Thank you, I hope you always have a pleasant day. regards