Lontong - Good for breakfast, lunch and dinner
Lontong is a popular traditional malay dish, which can be eaten anytime, during breakfast, lunch, even dinner. The dish comprised of compressed rice cakes with vegetable curry-ish gravy (sayur lemak or lodeh) whose ingredients include cabbage (lots of it), long beans, fried tofu, carrots, and egg. The rice cakes are similar to ketupat found in satay dish, except lontong is roundish due to the shape of the banana-leaf wrapped rice metal mould. Sambal chilli is optional too for those who wants the added zest. But what is lontong without the sambal right? The sambal tend to be of the sweeter type, not the spicy sambal belacan type. Do you notice the serunding? Lontong would not be complete without the serunding! Serunding is the golden brown fried coconut flakes. Lontong You can get lontong like the one shown here for about $3.50. Egg is optional. You can add one for about 50 cents more. The boiled egg can come in half or full. You can find lontong at some Malay stalls at hawker centres