Surabaya

Surabaya

This is the hometown of Puteri Indonesia 2014, Elvira Devinamira, okaaay. Elvira said that it is the perfect place for her, a developed city but not really crowded yet. Surabaya famous with the park and the patriotisme history, so let's see ^^

1. Tourism Object

a. Tugu Pahlawan/ Patriot monument

(photo by : tripadvisor.com)
 There is museum that tell us about the history of patriot in Indonesia.
b. Sura- Baya sculpture icon

(Foto by: tripadvisor.com)
It's a monument that be the icon of surabaya, Surabaya is name taken from sura (means shark) and baya (crocodile). The monument located in front of Surabaya zoo.

c. Monumen kapal selam / Submarine museum

(photo by: tnial.mil.id)
It's a museum of submarine in Indonesia.

d. TamanBungkul / Bungkul park

(photo by : Surabaya.panduanwisata.com)

e. Taman Pelangi (tugu selamat datang)
f. Taman Bacaan
g. Taman lansia
h. Jembatan Suramadu

(photo by : gameedukasi.com)
This is a bridge connecting between Surabaya and Madura island. The longest bridge in Indonesia. When you reach there, don't forget to try bebek sinjay(sinjay duck)that really famous.

2. Culinary Object

a. Rujak Cingur

 Rujak means a portion of Indonesian fruits that cutted and pur with indonesian peanut-sugar sauce. And Cingur means : mouth. So Rujak Cingur consist of fruit and the mouth art of cow, eaten with lontong(rice that cooked inside banana leaf), bean sprouts, and peanut sauce with petis.
Someone take me to a place that sell rujak cingur since 1942 in Genteng durasim street. And yaa it's delicious.

b.Lontong kupang
c. Lontong Balap
d. Sate Kerang
e. Semanggi
f. Rawon Setan

This is me with my family from Surabaya, me, and my cousin. the first time I heard Rawon Setan, i thought it going to be a super spicy rawon. But it's not, it's just rawon that open at night. Rawon is an Indonesian food that consist of meat and black sauce. Eat with bean sprout and rice, this is a my Dad's favourite food.

g.Lontong Mie
h. Bu Rudy
i. Bebek Palupi, bebek sinjay, bebek tugu pahlawan

bebek sinjay (photo by: foodspotting.com)

bebek palupi (foodspotting.com)

bebektugu pahlawan (foodspotting.com)

j. Sambel Mak Yeye
k. Ice cream zangrandi

3. Oleh- Oleh / Handicraft

a. Almond Crispy

(photo by: blog.ub.ac.id)

It's a tasty snack!! like a crispy crepe with almond in the middle of it. There are three variants : choco cheese, cheese, and green tea. When you try it, you'll never stop of craving it. You should take about  Rp 45.000,- each
b. Lapis Surabaya

 (photo by: resepmasakanku.com)
It's just a little bit different between Lapis and spikoe, lapis has 3 layer of cake and spikoe has 2 layer, About the taste, i don't really know, because i never try lapis surabaya before,so may be you should try it and share to me)

c. Spikoe

(photo by: doyankuliner.com)
This is a cake from Surabaya that has two layer, chocolate and original with a pineapple jam between them, in my city we called it Mandarin cake, it's tasty. One of the famous spikoe is spikoe wich has old recipe.

4. Hotel

 

i was staying in a good hotel that have old theme, it's quite good hotel. Having a room for guest and a terrace, an old looking toilet and good old wood furniture. They use boogie for moving the guest to room, because it looks like a housing.

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If I'm not mistaken, it's spent about 600k pernight.

(photo by: travelcare.co.id)

If you still remember about history, there is a hotel in Surabaya where Netherland Flag cut by Indonesian patriot, called hotel Yamato. Yap, that hotel is still exist and called Hotel Majapahit now.