Pecel

This is another vegetable salad for people who live in East Java up to Central Java, it contains lots of boiled vegetables: bean sprout, sliced cabbage, water spinach or spinach and flooded with peanut sauce on top.

People like to add fried flour with shrimp or crunched peanut, they fried until brown and crunchy.

Where to find:

Pecel Pandegiling

This place ever became a favorit for Surabaya people, it locate at Jalan Pandegiling a small corner in front of old theater, open from evening till midnight. Now this is no longer top Pecel, however some oldiest still like to eat here only to recollect their good memory.

Pecel Tretes

Locate on the way to Tretes, a mountain hill 60 kilos from Surabaya, small restaurant with nice and cold weather which serve traditional food.

Pecel Jatirasa

Located near with SCTV television station at West Surabaya or near with Darmo Permai area, only open in the morning from 6 to 11 a.m. Beside pecel they sell another kind of traditional foods.

Sambal

Sambal or chili sauce although this is not a main dish it commonly find out at Indonesian food. People believe by adding sambal can enrich or strengthen the food flavor.

Many types of sambal that you can find out in Indonesia, and people are so innovative with everything to make this chili sauce, you can have: shrimp paste sambal, onion sambal, soy sauce sambal, young mango sambal, tomato sambal and so many more.

The trick is to match one food to correct kind of sambal, because one food can match beautifully with one sambal or can be taste yucky with other type sambal, yes it just like matching cheese with wine.