KOMPAS.com – Located near Cikini Station, there is a legendary gado-gado restaurant that has been around since the 1970s, namely Gado-Gado Boplo.
This gado-gado restaurant is located on Jalan Cikini Raya No.111 10, RT.10/RW.4, Cikini, Menteng District, Central Jakarta.
This restaurant serves a variety of food and drink menus, but the main menu of this restaurant is gado-gado.
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On this occasion, Thursday (12/12/2024), Kompas.com visited the Gado-Gado Boplo Cikini restaurant to enjoy delicious gado-gado which many people buy from this restaurant.
The pleasure of gado-gado
I ordered gado-gado lontong which was served with chips and shrimp crackers which was priced at IDR 41,000.
One portion contains quite large pieces of rice cake, lettuce, bean sprouts, white tofu, cucumber, potatoes, cabbage, corn, spinach, long beans, boiled eggs, fried onions, along with a special peanut sauce that uses a mixture of peanuts and cashews.
After ordering, all the ingredients will be prepared on a plate then sprinkled with freshly ground peanut sauce, then served immediately after the gado-gado arrangement is complete.
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The gado-gado that I tasted had perfect doneness of the ingredients from the vegetables to the lontong and the peanut sauce which had a fairly smooth texture but still had a slightly rough texture, so that was a good thing.
Gado Gado Lontong menu at Gado Gado Boplo Cikini, Central Jakarta, Thursday (12/12/2024).The gado-gado here has quite a large portion because it has large pieces of lontong and lots of vegetables, making Kompas.com feel full when eating this gado-gado.
The peanut sauce which is the star of this gado-gado has a delicious and quite strong taste with a sweet and savory taste.
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Apart from having a sweet and savory taste from the peanut sauce, this Boplo gado-gado also has a fresh taste from the vegetables.
Apart from that, there is also sweet soy sauce available which tastes different from sweet soy sauce in general because the sweet soy sauce here is not too sweet and increases the savory taste of the gado-gado which makes it even more delicious.
Egg Tofu Menu at Gado Gado Boplo Cikini, Central Jakarta, Thursday (12/12/2024).Apart from enjoying gado-gado which is the mainstay menu at this gado-gado restaurant, I also tried another menu, namely egg tofu which is priced at IDR 40,000 for one portion.
The contents are tofu omelet and vegetables, such as bean sprouts, lettuce, potatoes served with peanut sauce which is a little thinner than gado-gado peanut sauce and there are three shrimp crackers.
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This egg tofu has quite a large portion because it has tofu and a large omelet and lots of vegetables.
Different from gado-gado peanut sauce, the taste of peanut sauce in this egg tofu menu has a stronger garlic flavor and a slightly spicy taste, and the level of maturity of the vegetables is the same as gado-gado.
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