Rujak Cingur, Is it really Slice of Beef Mouth?

Absolutely! It probably sounds disgusting. But this is not a Fear Factor challenge. This is Surabaya’s salad, and it tastes delicious. Before moving to Surabaya, I had known rujak cingur. But I had no idea about its taste. There is actually Surabaya restaurant in Bandung that serves East Javanese culinary, but I had never there. Basically, rujak is a meal made from fruits such as pineapple, mango, rose-apple, star fruit, juicy tuber, papaya, and so on. Sometimes we add some sweet potato too. Then the slices of those fruits are poured by the sauce made from brown sugar, tamarind, fried peanut, water, chili, and salt. The sauce also can be served in the different place, then we pick it with the fruits as you eat French fries with the chili sauce. But rujak cingur is tottally different from that. First, the composition isn’t only about fruits, but also some boiled vegetables such as cucumber, krai (a kind of cucumber from East Java), water spinach, chickpea, sprouts, and bengkowang (a kind of yam). Other composition are lontong (made of rice like ketupat), fried tofu and tempeh. The most unique ingredient is cingur sapi (cartilage and meat of the nostrils and ears [...]