MEGONO

Hi, what is in your mind when you read word Megono? Hmm, wierd word at glance... There is connection with Pekalongan. Ahaa...what!!,what!!, ... cannot stand to know it...

Pekalongan is a city in north coast , 2 hours from Semarang, capital city of Central Java. Only that? How about Batik? Correct!! Pekalongan is well known for batik product. Together with Solo Batik, Yogya, Madura and Cirebon batik.

FYI, batik is traditional fabric of Indonesia who has traditional motif represent culture of some specific place.

Anyway, besides B\batik, you can find traditional food in this area. One of them is Megono. For sure, you will be addicted to eat it everytime you come to Pekalongan.

Megono is slice of young jackfruit combine with coconut spice sauce. It is delicious and spicy because of mixed coconut and traditional spices as laos (ginger family), cinnamon and clove. It can be aeten with hot rice, fried fish, dish of mixes spicy raw vegetables (lalapan-Ind) and pete (ind) - kind of beans with pungent odor, popular in Indonesia)

How to make it? Easy. Just boiling the young jackfruit then slice it to be small pieces. Nix it with spicy scraped coconut. Yummy, ready to be served.

Dont be confused with Gudeg, traditional food from Yogyakarta. Gudeg is made by bolied youhng jackfruit, but it is not sliced. Also, dont be trapeed with Urap-urap from East Jave. This traditional food is made by mix vegetables & spicy scraped coconut only.