Tourist Destinations Semarang You Must Visit

Tourist Destinations Semarang you must visit - Are you in Semarang City, Central Java? Or are you planning to go on holiday to Semarang city? There are many tourist destinations that you can visit if you come to this city, ranging from natural attractions to historical attractions. Do not worry about transportation problems, as the capital city of Central Java province, Semarang city already has various transportation facilities that you can use. If you are unfamiliar with this city, do not be shy to ask, because the people here are very friendly.

Tourist Destinations Semarang
What are the Semarang tourist destinations that you must visit, let's see?

Great Mosque of Central Java

Great Mosque of Central Java is located at Jalan Gajah Raya Semarang, this is a magnificent religious tourism of Muslims. With a phenomenal mosque tower, you can see the city from the top of this tower. In addition, there are Islamic museums and architects similar to the atmosphere in Mecca-Medina.

Maron Beach

Maron Beach is an offshore tour which takes about 10 minutes from Ahmad Yani Airport. You can enjoy on the beach with your children and your family, this beach is fairly new. As it is close to the airport, you can also see the passing airplanes. If you are hungry, try to enjoy cheap culinary such as fried foods, rice, ice degan (es degan) and other presented complete.

Lawang Sewu

Lawang Sewu is a tour of ancient buildings in the middle of Semarang with unique historical and architectural value. Built 1904 by the Dutch, Lawang Sewu used to function as the office of the Dutch railway company. Lawang Sewu's name, which means having a thousand doors, comes from a building that has many doors and windows. Not far from Lawang Sewu also there is a young monument in the middle of the circumference of the circle, a suitable place to take pictures.

Benteng Pendem Ambarawa

Benteng Pendem Ambarawa is located in the middle of Semarang city. Benteng Pendem Ambarawa is a building built during the reign of Colonel Hoorn in 1834 is still standing firm. You can take pictures with the background of the exotic fortress. When you are there, you must guard your attitude, do not damage or say harshly. At least you should keep this historic building.

Lele Park

Lele Park is a natural tourist village as well as a family amusement park in the city of Semarang. It has an area of 2 hectares and various water and land family games. There is also a mini zoo and lodging.

Wonderia Park

Wonderia Park is a Recreational Park located at JalanSriwijaya Semarang Kota Semarang, it is a favorite location, especially on weekends and holidays. Many facilities and area of child and family games such as Merry Go Round, Kiddy Boat, Typhoon Coaster, Super Rally, Boom Boom Car, and Space Gyro. Entrance fee Rp 5.000 and for parking Rp 2.000.

Pagoda

The Buddhagaya Watugong temple is a 45 meter high Vihara which enters MURI as the highest pagoda in Indonesia. Located on Jalan Perintis Kemerdekaan Watugong, 45 minutes from the center of Semarang City. This monastery has many buildings located in a large area. As the center of Buddhist worship in the world.

Curug Lawe

Curug Lawe is a waterfall that takes about 10 meters on Mount Ungaran. There are Curug Lawe and Curug Benowo which is still one area of Mount Ungaran Semarang regency. This waterfall is in the middle of the clove plantation of mountain slopes and forest that is still awake its authenticity. CurugLawe's name is from the number of waterfalls totaling 25 pieces, in Javanese "selawe". If you plan to come here, you must walk about 4 Km down the road along the river flowing cold.

Sam Po Kong

Sam Po Kong is a religious tourism object of Hindus and Buddhists. Sam Po Kong is located at Jalan Simongan No.129, Bongsari, Semarang, about 1 Km from Simpanglima. Sam Po Kong stands majestically with the building of a glowing temple. Can worship or simply see the grandeur of the building. There can be found giant candles that are dedicated and then burned.

Simpanglima Square

Simpanglima Square is a public area with children's and family play facilities in the city center. Equipped tourist rickshaw, toy car, mad bicycle (Sepeda Gila), lounge chair, pedestrian twist, MCK, rollerblading, traditional toys, grass field, and others.

Siwarak bath (Pemandian Siwarak)

Siwarak bath is a tourist attraction of children and family pool in the west of Ungaran City, Semarang regency about 1 Km. With natural water that is still clean and cold. You and your family can sit on a mat under a tree and enjoy the food. Many snack beans, fried rice, rice, meatballs, and others. In addition, you can see a variety of fish with an entrance ticket of about Rp 10,000.

Umbul Sidomukti

Umbul Sidomukti is a water bath area that pops up on a high mountain in Jimbaran Bandungan Semarang regency. Located on the north side of the Jimbaran market which covers a distance of about 2 Km. Umbul Sidomukti equipped with the longest flying fox, viewing a post, horse riding, roasted corn, village snacks, natural coffee, lodging, and others. For admission price around Rp 10.000.

Enjoying Bandeng Presto (Presto Milkfish) Semarang Culinary

Enjoying Bandeng Presto (Presto Milkfish) Semarang Culinary - Bandeng Presto is a typical Indonesian food. Bandeng Presto is quite popular with the community, this culinary comes from the capital of Central Java more precisely in the Semarang City. If you visit Semarang don't forget to stop by to the center of Semarang typical foods, there are many sold Semarang typical food, one of them is Bandeng Presto.

Bandeng Presto Semarang
Semarang city is close to the beach and the pier, so it is easy to get the catch of fishermen in the form of fish. Bandeng presto itself created by the creativity of the Semarang People, in processing the natural results in the form of Bandeng, it aims to overcome the many thorns contained in the Bandeng flesh. Bandeng that has been flavored with garlic, turmeric, and salt and then cooked on a banana leaf using presto technique.

Presto is a way of cooking by utilizing high pressure water vapor. Bandeng that have been given spices placed in the pot and then locked tight. The water in the pan is then heated to boiling and produces water vapor that will soften the Bandeng thorns. This technique is a complement to Bandeng, which became known as Presto Bandeng FishBandeng Presto.

Bandeng Presto Culinary has a savory taste and texture from soft fish to the bones, so you can eat all the fish. There is usually a sauce as a complement. In addition to the durability of this food is also quite long, you can keep it for 2 weeks and 2 months if stored in the refrigerator. So it is suitable for gift and not to worry about the stale in the journey, then this culinary match serves as a side dish of warm rice.

For the center of the souvenir/gift itself is located around Jalan Pandaran, you can use Google Map or use transportation services there and ask to be escorted to the center of Semarang.

Read More: Favorite Destinations Hunting Bandeng Presto in Semarang

Or if you are curious to try to cook it yourself, you can make it at home. Surely you have to prepare a presto tool.

Other Recipes: Soft and Delicious Bandeng Presto Recipes

Sweet Ice Cendol Drink Recipe

Sweet Ice Cendol Drink Recipe - Ice Cendol is a typical Indonesian drink made from rice flour, served with grated ice and brown sugar and coconut milk. The taste of this drink is sweet and savory. In the area of Sunda, this ice drink is known by the name of "cendol" while in Central Java known as ice "dawet". Growing popular belief in Indonesian society that the term "cendol" is probably derived from the word "jendol", found in Sunda, Javanese and Indonesian; this refers to the sensation that is felt when the cendol grain through the mouth while drinking ice cendol.

Ice Cendol
Rice flour is processed with a green dye and printed through a special filter, making it bulbous. The dye used initially is a natural dye from pandan leaves, but nowadays it has been used artificial food coloring. In Sunda ice cendol made by sieving steamed rice flour stained with suji leaves with a sieve to obtain a round shape of a tapering elongate at the end, in Sunda drink cendol called "nyendol".

Ice cendol drink usually found on the roadside or in a peddle around is ice cendol dawet ayu. This ice dawet recipe is the most popular cendol processed creations originating from the city of Banjarnegara, Central Java. There are many cendol creations with seductive colors. Like green cendol (green dawet) made from natural dye leaves suji or pandan leaves.

To make Flour Rice Cendol, you can use the recipe and these steps below.

Cendol Materials:

• 100 gram "hunkwe" flour
• 50 gram rice flour
• 100 ml Water pandan leaves and suji
• 700 ml water
• 1 teaspoon salt

How to make Cendol:

• First, mix all ingredients together.
• Cook while continuing in stir until the dough is cooked and thick. Lift, set aside.
• Then prepare cold water or ice water in the container.
• Place the cendol mold on top of the water-filled container.
• Pour the cendol dough into the mold.
• Tap-tap until the cendol dough become cendol granules exit and entry into the water.
• Do until the dough runs out. Set aside.

This is how to make rice flour grain green cendol, if you want to create other ways you can do such as dawet ayu cendol recipe below.

Es Dawet Materials:

• As many green cendol is made according to the recipe above.
• Ice cubes as needed.

Red Sugar Syrup Material:

• 500 grams red sugar
• 100 grams sugar
• 200 ml water
• 3 pieces pandan leaves
• Mix and simmer all ingredients until dissolved and then strain.

Coconut Milk Sauce:

• 1500 ml coconut milk
• 1 teaspoon Salt
• 2 pieces pandan leaves
• Mix all ingredients and bring to a boil but do not let the coconut milk break.

Suggested Presentation Es Dawet Ayu:

1. Prepare a serving glass.
2. Arrange ice cubes, cendol and coconut milk and red sugar syrup on top.
3. Ice dawet ayu a la banjarnegara ready to drink.

That is sweet fresh ice cendol recipe creations.

Happy cooking.

Lontong Recipe - Indonesian Typical Food

"Lontong" Recipe, Indonesian Typical Food - Lontong is one of the typical food from Indonesia and growing in Java island, the basic ingredients of lontong are rice. Lontong usually ate with side dishes such as Satay, Chicken Opor, Sambal Tahu, or other. The taste of lontong is the same as rice, but with a softer texture.

Lontong
In a big moment like Ied Fitr, Indonesian society makes a variant of lontong commonly called “ketupat”. The difference between the two is the wrapper of the basic ingredients, for lontong is usually made with a wrapper from the banana leaf while the ketupat usually uses young coconut leaf / "janur".

To cook lontong, the materials needed are very simple. Here is a list of the necessary ingredients and how to cook them.

Necessary materials :

1. Banana leaf or young "klutuk (one kind of banana tree)" leaf. Dry banana leaf until wilted and cut to the size of lontong you will make.
2. Rice according to your needs. Soak them in cold water for up to 1 hour.
3. 1 sheet of pandan leaves.
4. Enough cold and hot water.
5. Lidi to embed later.

Cooking steps:

1. The first step is to take 2 pieces of banana leaves and then roll, do not forget to make sure the bottom of banana leaves to be inside.
2. If done, then you can pierce one end of the roll of leaves using a stick (to close the end of the banana leaves roll).
3. Then fill the of banana leaves rolls using the rice you have soaked before. The dosage is half rolls.
4. Pierce the other end of the roll using a stick, which is useful as a cover of banana leaves roll.
5. Then you can put the material you have made it (lontong) into the pan. The position of lontong placement is by standing.
6. Add cold water until lontong is submerged in the water.
7. Put the pandan 1 sheetleaves. Then boiled using medium heat.
8. If it is approximately 2 hours, then you can add hot water until lontong completely submerged.
9. Boil the lontong until the texture is dense and chewy.
10. If it is cooked then you can lift and drain it.

That's the recipe how to make lontong. It is easy, is not it? You can save Lontong for a long timethat is between 2 to 3 days, place on a dry place so that lontong can last long.

Other Recipes : Madura Chicken Satay (Sate Ayam Madura)

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Madura Chicken Satay (Sate Ayam Madura)

Madura Chicken Satay / Sate Ayam Madura - Satay is one of Indonesian cuisine that has become a favorite food of Indonesian. Indonesia has a variety type of satay, usually given the name in accordance with the area name where the satay was made, that satay has a distinctive characteristic and taste sensation between one regions with another.

Sate Ayam Madura
One of them is Madura Satay which has its own characteristic and taste that is also different from other satay producing areas. But indeed among the various areas of the most famous satay producer is Madura Satay. Seasonings are thick and the characteristic that makes Madura Satay into a culinary tour that until now still remains for the pride of the Indonesian.

In the process of cooking, the chicken of Madura Satay burned with charcoal by giving spices while burning it. The delicious smell will smell when the chicken begins to burn.

Do you curious how to make this Madura chicken satay? Let's cook,

INGREDIENTS

SATAY:
450 grams Chicken
2 pieces Lime (Indonesian: Jeruk Limau)
75 ml Sweet Soy Sauce
1/4 teaspoon Salt

CHICKEN OIL:
75 ml Cooking Oil
1 tablespoon Garlic
1 teaspoon Coriander

PEANUT SAUCE:
1 tablespoon Red Chili
3 tablespoons Cooking Oil
1 teaspoon Onion
1 teaspoon Garlic
250 ml Water
150 grams Peanut

STEPS

SATAY :

1. First, wash the chicken fillet. Second, cut into thin cubes. Third, put the lime water and then mix well.
2. Then, add the sweet soy sauce and salt. Let stand for a moment to spice up.
3. Next, skewer the chicken.
4. Before burning, apply on chicken oil. (Don’t forget to sprinkle the lime to the burning charcoal).
5. Finally, baked satay until cooked, with medium heat.

Voila, the homemade chicken satay ready to serve.

Serve with peanut sauce, and you can also serve with pickle cucumber.

HOW TO MAKE OIL FOR CHICKEN:

1. First, mix oil, coriander, and garlic in a frying pan.
2. Second, cook over low heat until garlic turns yellow.
3. Then lift and chill.
4. Finally, strain and take the oil only.

HOW TO MAKE PEANUT SAUCE

1. First, blend the spices, then stir-fry.
2. Second, put water into the seasoning stir.
3. Third, add the peanuts that have been mashed.
4. Then, stir until the water thickens. (Add brown sugar if you like).
5. Finally, once the sauce has thickened, lift and serve.

Looks delicious, is not it? Certainly, you should try to cook it.

Usually, Madura Satay is also eaten with other foods either as a side dish with rice or eaten with "lontong", this will be a very delicious lunch when you are hungry.

In addition made from chicken meat, Madura Satay also usually also made from goat meat. Both have tasty flavors and different taste sensations.

Happy cooking.