Tanjung Pinang Breakfast II

This post still talk about breakfast of our trip in Tanjung Pinang. Day 1 we tried the Chinese style breakfast, on day 2 we decided to try Indonesian style. We saw few eateries along the street of Jalan Bintan, the street where our hotel located - Hotel Laguna. As it packed with locals, so we decided to give it a try. 

Same as the restaurant we had on day 1, we could order foods from other stalls beside the restaurant we visited. Here the foods we had. Typical Indonesian breakfast.

(1st photo) Local calls it Mee Rebus, yellow noodle with sweet curry-like gravy. I could not taste the dried shrimp ingredient in the gravy as compare to those in Singapore. It came with peanut fragrance. These are the different against Singaporean Mee Rebus. 

The 2nd photo is Lontong. In Singapore, the rice cake served with coconut based spicy soup with cabbage and carrots. But in Indonesia, rice cake still as main but the content in the coconut based spicy soup are different. The soup came with young jackfruit, tofu, green long bean. Topped with tempe  (soybean cake), anchovies and prawn crackers. 

Usually the Lontong stall also serve Nasi Lemak - fragrant rice dish cooked in coconut milk. The topping almost the same as Lontong, they are crackers, tofu, tempe. But the fish is not anchovy, it is small fish fried with sambal chili paste. It is crispy and the whole fish is edible.  

Nasi Lemak

We also ordered kaya toast, Nanyang coffee and milk tea, taste like those in Singapore. 

Kaya toast: Toast with coconut jam and butter.

Nanyang coffee: Southeast Asian way of roasted coffee mix with condensed milk.

Milk tea: Tea with condensed milk. 

The locals like their beverage more sweeter compare to Singapore. So if you want to avoid that, give a request to the seller. In Indonesian, less sweet calls 'kurang manis'. When making order, you need to mention the tea or coffee wants milk. Otherwise, they will not add milk for you.

We discovered just few shops beside the hotel there is a bakery. This bakery started since 1932, a long history bakery. It is a good choice to buy some bread back to hotel just to satisfy your hunger late night if you want to avoid room service. We tried the bread, it was soft and nice. 

Generally we were enjoyed this day 2 Indonesian breakfast. Everything were nice. We loved it.