LAMONGAN CULINARY TOUR

Tugu Lele (Catfish Monument)

Lamongan Regency is one of tourism place in East Java, which has potency of nature, culture and tourism attraction that be able to expose the completely tourism enchantment (The East Java Natural Enchantment). Lamongan is one of tourism object in East Java that has glamour nature and marvelous culture, such as the unique of Maharani Cave, or the fascinating of marine / WBL tourism area, the amazing of Gondang Dam tourism area and there are still a lot of tourism object which is interesting to be visited. Lamongan regency is belongs to Satuan Wilayah Pembangunan (SWP) of GERBANGKERTOSUSILA, a district development unit covering the regency of Gresik, Bangkalan, Mojokerto, Sumenep, Sidoarjo and Lamongan. Beside its tourism object, Lamongan also has industrial area and special food which has its own characteristic, such as; Bamboo industry, wooden industry, pottery craft, batik craft, bag craft, carpet, etc.

Lamongan has many kind beautiful and historical of place that can be visited. such as Maharani Cave, Marine Tourism, Brondong Fish Auction, and also there are some culinary tour that can be tasted well in Lamongan. So, not oly the beautiful place that can be enjoyed, but also the traditional food of Lamongan will make your journey so tasteful. Several of Lamongan traditional food are such as Soto Lamongan, Sego Boranan, Wingko Babat, Tahu tek tek, Tahu campur, Jumbreg, Es Siwalan, etc. Here are some of them.

Boranan Rice

Boranan rice become favorite food for Lamongan inhabitant. This food is serve with banana's leaf which makes it more traditional, it also serve in many side dishes like soy bean cake or Tempe, Tofu, Fishes, Chicken, Rempeyek or chips and for sure, rice. Boranan rice or 'Sego Boranan' is a traditional food from Lamongan, East Java. It is not very popular from other area, for Lamongan is the one that has this food. We can find this food around the traditional market in Lamongan. Boranan rice is consist of: rice, the sauce, the side dishes, rempeyek or chips. The sauce for this rice is very rich, the side dishes also in variant like meat, chicken, the innards, milk fish, scrambled egg, salty egg, tofu, soy bean cake, and the most expensive fish - the Sili fish.

Soto Lamongan

Soto lamongan is different with any other Soto. Soto Lamongan is the only Soto which using Koya or some kind of garlic powder. The side dish for this food is chicken, that is a free-range chicken, which is been steam with the spices before. Soto Lamongan is consist of, rice, chicken, egg, the young egg or 'Uritan', celery, so'un noddle, and soup. There two ways to serve Soto Lamongan, in partly or mix in one bowl. In partly means that your rice will be parted from the soup and the dishes, or you can mix all the ingredient into one bowl. The ingredients from this Soto are coriander, caraway seed, lemon grass, onion, garlic, ginger, galangale, pepper, salt, candle nut andfried onion. Beside, Soto Lamongan also consist of carbohydrate, protein, fat, vitamin and some other mineral from the meat, milk fish and the green vegetable.

Tahu Campur

Tahu campur or Mix Tofu is such an icon for Lamongan. As mentioned, the main ingredient from this food is must be tofu, but sometimes tofu itself is not dominate the whole component from this food, together with Lontong, oddle, bean sprouts, meat, and shrimp cracker. The additional ingredient which makes this food more awesome is coming from petis, kind of sauce made by fermented shrimp. Tahu campur consist of, tofu, meat, lontong, noddle, bean sprout, lettuce, and lento. Lento is like piece of cake made from cassava. The existence of tahu campur nowadays is become a healthy food among any other junk food, because it contain more vitamin, protein, fat and carbohydrate.

Beside that there are still some Lamongantraditional food such as below:

Tahu Tek Tek

Jumbregg, so sweet and tasteful

Es Dawet Siwalan

Siwalan Fruit

Wingko

Wingko