
Greetings from Surabaya! Haven't been to a country where I haven't fallen in love with some of their food, so Sura shouldn't be an exception.... After 2 days after eating buffet breakfast/lunch at the Tretes Resort, it's finally back to the earthly pleasures of roadside stalls...
Having pride of place on the menu in Waru (a place) warungs ( foodstalls) is the bakso... meatballs in soup. Most are of the supermarket frozen variety but there is a jumbo-sized one which is the best I've eaten so far. A gem of a find, and coming in a monster size of diammeter 10cm, I'll be returning soon to Alun Alun to find the pak who whips this up.
Anyway, it was a surrendpitous find as I was originally occupied with the cumi-cumi (squid), udang (prawns- which proved too hot for Xu Li ), bebek (duck meat), crabs , gurami (a freshwater fish) in asam manis (sweet and sour sauce) . A sumptuous meal for only 75,000 rp..... Add to that the chips we bought.... We'll all return home fatsos....