Monday, December 15, 2008

City of People # 19: Tukang Kue Bandros (Bandros Cake Vendor)



Kue bandros (bandros cake) is a traditional Indonesian cake. It's made of grated coconut, coconut milk, rice flour and a little bit of salt. The cake is usually sold by a street vendor like this, and is usually eaten for breakfast or at tea time in the afternoon.

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15 comments:

Anonymous said...

Seems that might be related to the coconut slices my mother used to make. Yum... melting.

Catherine said...

Beautiful B&W portrait.I wonder whether you were close to him, or far with a zoom. Did he know you were taken a picture of him? He looks so natural occupied.

Daryl said...

Interesting .. you may have mine, I dont like coconut

:-Daryl

Anonymous said...

lovely photo, I wish I could eat some of that cake, seems delicious!!

Ida said...

This photo is amazing - breathtaking acutally.

Photo Cache said...

i love the combination of coconut and rice flour. it always produces something wonderfully tasty.

Jane Hards Photography said...

It must be wonderful to live here where a delicacy such as this can be made and sold before your eyes.

michael bird said...

Nifty street scene. I can't tell whether he is actually making and baking (cooking?) the cakes on site. I'll take Daryl's piece - one is never enough...

Unknown said...

Look good both for breakfast & tea time.well,Kuching is popular with the goreng pisang & apam balik(look like pancake)for tea time.
Salam & have a nice day.

escape said...

i would love to try that.

Hilda said...

Sounds yummy! We have lots of "kakanin" made of sticky rice and coconut too. Lovely portrait of the street vendor, Eki.

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Anonymous said...

Yummy-licious! I'm hungry. :)

Dina said...

Nice man. The cake sounds good; anything with coconut sounds good.

Virginia said...

Another excellent street portrait Eki!

Anonymous said...

I have never heard of anything like that. We don't use coconut much, but it sounds good..like street fast food...