Let's Enjoy Belitung! These Various Typical Belitung Foods are Suitable for Souvenirs

POSBELITUNG.CO , BELITUNG - Let's enjoy Belitung! Belitung Island, a small island off the east coast of Sumatra Island, is not only known for its beautiful marine tourism.

Belitung Island also has interesting culinary delights to try.

When you visit Belitung Island, you can make the following culinary souvenirs or souvenirs for your family and close friends.

These are some of them:

Stuffed crab

As a small island surrounded by the sea, it is natural that Belitung's culinary delights are rich in processed seafood, such as stuffed crab.

Stuffed crab is processed crab meat that has been mixed with spices, green onions and eggs.

The crab meat has been mixed with spices, then put back into the crab shell and fried.

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The taste of this stuffed crab is very tasty and delicious, because it is made from pure crab or crab meat.

Peletek

Peletek or getas is the next typical Belitung souvenir made from processed seafood, namely spanish mackerel fish.

Spanish mackerel fish was chosen because it was considered to have the best quality for processing peletek, because it has soft meat and a delicious taste.

The spanish mackerel fish is first separated from the bones, then ground until smooth.

Once the mixture is smooth, continue by adding salt, seasonings and eggs.

After it is evenly distributed, mix it with the sago.

Once everything is evenly distributed, continue to shape the dough until it is evenly long and cut into small pieces.

Then the dough that has been shaped is fried in hot oil for approximately 1 hour.

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Peletek can be used as a side dish or snack, its delicious taste is guaranteed to make your tongue reluctant to stop wagging.

It's not difficult to get this typical Belitung souvenir, there are many shops selling peletek that you can find.

White pepper

Reporting from Kompas.com, Bangka Belitung is the best pepper producing area because its piperine value is at seven.

Piperine is a typical compound found in pepper, which is good for fighting diseases related to obesity.

Belitung pepper has been famous for a long time. In fact, Belitung pepper was included in a note in the book Tijdschrift voor nijverheid en landbouw in Nederlandsch-Indie which was published in 1874.

The typical Belitung pepper sold to tourists is still raw with unique packaging, namely placed in a transparent bottle

Belacan or shrimp paste

People may be more familiar with the name shrimp paste, but local residents of Bangka Belitung are more familiar with this type of processed rebon shrimp called belacan.

The most famous belacan in Belitung is the Belacan Sijuk.

Namely processed fermented rebon shrimp caught by Belitung fishermen, which has a distinctive taste compared to other regions.

Belacan is usually used as an additional seasoning to flavor food, such as an ingredient for making gangan (a signature Belitung food), stir-fried water spinach, and chili sauce or sambal.

Basically, the process of making belacan is not that difficult, it's just that getting the raw materials is quite complicated.

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This is because Belitung fishermen still do it in the traditional way.

The rebon shrimp that have been obtained are then put into a burlap sack and tied tightly, then these shrimp are buried in the beach sand for some time.

Once it is sufficient, then the shrimps are taken back and ready to be dried in the hot sun.

Once half dry, the shrimp can be directly processed into belacan by pounding them.

Coffee

In Belitung there are many coffee shops. There is even a coffee shop that is very legendary and very famous in Belitung, namely Kopi Kong Djie.

Kong Djie Coffee has been around since 1943, the originator of the coffee shop owner was a resident from Bangka Island named Ho Kong Djie.

The history of the opening of the Kong Djie coffee shop was motivated by poverty due to the Japanese colonialism.

The coffee at Kong Djie coffee shop is very strong with a distinctive taste.

Made from selected coffee ingredients, such as Lampung robusta coffee combined with Arabica coffee from Java.

Usually the composition used is around 70 percent robusta and 30 percent arabica.

As a result, the taste that appears is quite strong on the tongue, the aroma and sourness of Arabica coffee seem to remind the taste of Sanger Arabica coffee in Aceh.

(Posbelitung.co/Novita)