Food review

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Glancing into the West Kalimantan region there is a typical snack Ramadan very popular community, especially in the area of ​​Pontianak. It is sweet and soft texture, so that pas enjoy when breaking the fast. This traditional cake is also popular among tourists who visit West Kalimantan, so made a souvenir typical of this area.

The main ingredients of this bingke pontianak cake are quite simple and can be obtained in stalls or markets, such as wheat flour, eggs, coconut milk, sugar and salt. There are baked bingke cakes, some are steamed called bingke berandam. Generally bingke printed like a flower shape that has a circle of six, but there is also a round shape. The color is also varied, ranging from yellow, brown or green yellow. Now, the variants are diverse, not just original. There are bingke tapai, potatoes, pumpkin, pandanus, jackfruit, young coconut, chocolate until cheese. 

So, you can choose according to taste.

On a typical day, Bingke Berendam Cake becomes a typical souvenir of Pontianak City. But in the month of fasting, this cake is hunted to be a mainstay breaking the fast. The Bingke Cake seller is easily found on the street imam bonjol and street adi sucipto. The price also varies from 15k to 25k. The delicious taste made me addicted to buy it. And coincidence the place was not far from where I live.

My mother once tried to recreate the bingke cake at home and it tasted very different and her experiments failed. And after I open google and finally it feels too little bit the same bingke cake that sold it.