In Indonesia, there are two types of martabak, namely Sweet Martabak and Martabak Telur. According to the Big Indonesian Dictionary, Martabak Manis is a food made from a mixture of flour, eggs, sugar, which is sprinkled with peanut powder and chocolate, then baked and folded; While the definition of Egg Martabak is food made from flour dough (for the outer layer) and egg mixture, ground meat (minced), and spices (for the contents) which are then fried.
History of Sweet Martabak
Martabak Manis or originally named Hok Lo Pan was originally a Bangka Belitung specialty food. Hok Lo Pan or Martabak was created by the people of Hakka (Khek) Bangka. The only one in the world, the food of the Hakka (khek) people who use the Hoklo tribe. Nearly everyone in big cities like Jakarta knows Martabak Bangka, the original name in Bangka is Hok Lo Pan (Martabak). Meaning Hurfiah Hok Lo Pan (Martabak) is Hok Lo People's Cake.
Hok Lo Pan (Martabak) is a very simple cake. Making it also seems easy. Only 12 minutes waiting for Hok Lo Pan (Martabak) to become. Using flour, smeared with butter, sprinkled with chocolate mixed with peanuts and sesame, or Sesame grated cheese, then given sweetened condensed milk, finished. Simply put it like that. Now, the contents in Hok Lo Pan (Martabak) are diverse, there are bananas, strawberries, blueberries, etc. The original is only sesame.
History of Egg Martabak
After searching it turns out that the word Martabak is an Arabic language which means "folded". The history of the Martabak cake itself is also quite interesting to observe, beginning with a young man from Tegal, Central Java named Ahmad bin Abdul Karim traveled to the big city of Semarang to trade in 1930. Then he met an Indian citizen named Abdullah bin Hasan al- Malibary who is good at cooking and become friends.
One time Abdullah who came from India was invited to Ahmad's yard and introduced to his sister, and the introduction resulted in a marriage between the two. Abdullah is also good at making a dish made from flour called martabak, because he lives in Indonesia so he makes a Martabak cake that is more adapted to the tongue of Javanese who like to eat vegetables, namely martabak which contains vegetables mixed with other ingredients.
Because this food is well liked, many relatives and neighbors of Ahmad, his friend and his wife, were taught to make martabak cakes, and even these foods are often introduced in various events outside the city such as the night market, as well as secular events in Yogyakarta and dugderan in Semarang. And now the egg martabak is very popular in our beloved country and has spread.
The uniqueness of egg martabak that has a savory taste, often sold along with sweet martabak by street vendors in various cities in Indonesia, even though the two foods are very different, or maybe this is because the name is almost similar so that traders sell them simultaneously.
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