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What is soto??

Wikipedia ~ Soto, sroto, tauto or coto is a common dish to be found in various regional variations of Indonesian cuisine. It is a soup mainly composed of broth, meat and vegetables. The meats that are most commonly used are chicken and beef, but there are also variations with offal, mutton, water buffalo meat and pork. The soup is usually accompanied by rice or compressed rice cakes (ketupat or buras). Sotos are commonly differentiated by the meat ingredient in them, e.g. soto ayam (chicken soto) and soto daging (beef soto). Offal is a very common ingredient in soto, and is considered as a delicacy: the rumen (blanket/flat/smooth tripe), reticulum (honeycomb and pocket tripe), omasum (book/bible/leaf tripe) and the intestines are all eaten.

Other ingredients of soto include soon alternatively spelled as sohun (rice vermicelli), mung bean sprouts and scallion.

Soto spices include the following: shallot, garlic, turmeric root, galangal, ginger, coriander, salt and pepper.

Soto can have a clear broth, a yellow transparent broth (coloured with turmeric) or a milkiy coconut-milk broth.

Now you understand it. Well, I missed soto so much that I kept on repeating to my mom and sisters about me having a craving for soto. I have not found any of this here yet. Maybe I should check out Indonesian restaurant instead.

On day 3, Calvin and I still woke up early as usually due to our jet lag. We had a deep sleep the night before coz we very very tired but not expecting to wake up early. This time we did not drop my sister to school as we prefer to get ready and go for breakfast. I woke Jessica up to check on her whether she want to join us for breakfast or not. That’s when they decided to bring me for my soto. Soooooo excited about it.

As fast as I can remember, I’m kinda disappointed a little bit. It doesn’t taste the same as I remember. The broth is not as yummy as before but I can’t complain coz it’s a different person who made it. The broth tasted a little bit watery to me. Think they lack of some beef or chicken bone on it. That’s why; I did not go for the 2^nd time. LOL……….

Think the next trip, I should ask my sister to try the whole town and bring me to the best one. By the time I got there, she soto out already.