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Visit to Pekanbaru can never be complete without trying out this restaurant out. Pondok Gurih. Its sheltered under a large traditional wooden house, with natural looking surroundings. Very cooling and green feel.

Pondok is a shelter place, and Gurih is Crispy. So, it would mean that a comfy restaurant that served crispy foods.

There was a gong right on the entrance, thus for every customers that came, they will sound the gong as the symbol of welcome.

Favourite foods here were BBQ fish, which we choose to have Gurame. Gepuk upi, which is cassava’s leaves. And the others were satay and fried fish.

The appetizers served were awesome and nice. Appetizers were corn jelly, and prawn crackers.

Let me show you to each of the dishes one by one…

Appetizers: Corn Jelly

And here is the prawn crackers, which is served in most Indonesian dishes, be it fried rice, fried noodle, and available almost everywhere.

The white rice is served in a rattan bowl, with banana leaf base. This shows the traditional way of storing cooked rice in Indonesia.

And here comes a little fish, fried to crispy and can be eaten as a whole…

Following is Chicken Satay….

And the main dish, which is the BBQ Gurame Fish. Nice…….

Lastly, this is the gepuk ubi, not really sure what it is called in English, perhaps we can call it steamed sweet potatoes leaf.

And after finish enjoying all these great food, now comes the bill… with this, we can see that there are few other branches outside of Pekanbaru. Do check it out if you happen to drop by the town.

written by surfnux | tags: IndoFood

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