The Rarest food in town...

In the middle of each year, the city of "Ondel ondel" celebrates its Birthday. This year is the 482nd anniversary. Some of Jakarta citizens join the happiness of their beloved city's birthday by attending Gambir Expo or so called "Jakarta Fair". In the entire month, the exhibition will always been crowded by bunch of people who would like to feel and share historical joy.

However, the main story isn't about the Jakarta Fair, but the Rarest food in the town, KERAK TELOR...Maybe some of you are not familiar with this food because this Kerak Telor is only been sold once a year in a single area, which is Kemayoran. If you visit Kemayoran on the month of June, you will definitely see so many Kerak Telor sellers in every 3 meters of the road.


For those who do not know what Kerat Telor is... Basically, Telor is egg, and Kerak means crust rice which been barely cooked in order to keep the crunch of raw rice, and the rice will stick to the bottom of the small cooking pan, so the maker should put a little bit more effort to take it out ..
Thus, Kerak telor is the mix of egg and the "Kerak" combined with some dried coconut powder and Fried red onion ( i hope you understand, I have a hard time translating local foods)....

For the price, this Kerak telor is very very cheap. If you convert it into US currency, it only costs 0.9 cents. but the demand during the month of June reaches the peak. People from every corner of Jakarta come to Kemayoran to attend Jakarta fair as well as to buy Kerak telor as "souvenir"...

Since Kerak Telor appears only once a year, you may wonder where the sellers are doing throughout the year. I asked them about this matter, and I found that some of them are not originally Kerak Telor makers. The ones whom I asked were driver, house builder, small store keeper and other not so high class workers. However, becoming a temporary Kerak telor Seller is very attractive because of the high demand and income for a month.

I guess this is what I could share about one of Jakarta's unique trade marked food.
I really wish you are inspired and have some new info from this one....en