KOMPAS.com – Throughout 2024, the culinary world will be enlivened by the emergence of viral food variants.
One of the viral foods in 2024 is Dubai chocolate, gohyong and Thai milk bun.
Check out the foods that are going viral in Indonesia throughout 2024, have you tried them?
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1. Cromboloni
Cromboloni is a combination of croissant pastry and bomboloni, round in shape filled with various pasta-flavored fillings.
Cromboloni first went viral on Tiktok social media in 2023, and will continue in 2024. Now you can find cromboloni menus in cafes or bakeries.
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2. Gohyong
Gohyong first went viral on social media in 2023 and then remained popular in 2024.
Gohyong is street food, a combination of Chinese and Betawi culture. This viral food is made from a mixture of finely chopped chicken, shrimp and eggs then wrapped in spring roll skin or tofu skin.
After that, the gohyong is cut into pieces and fried, served with sauce.
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3. Cucumber salad
Cucumber salad or Logan salad was first popularized by a social media user named Logan.
Cucumber salad is made from thinly sliced cucumber, cream cheese, salmon or can be replaced with crab sticks, chopped red onion, and a little seasoning.
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Next, there is Dubai chocolate which is being talked about a lot by people during 2024.
Starting from a typical Dubai souvenir chocolate with the Fix Dessert Chocolatier brand, the unique chocolate display contains a mixture of knafeh and pistachio nut paste.
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After that, recipes began to emerge on how to make it yourself at home and several cake shops had this Dubai chocolate on the menu.
5. Thai Milk Bun
Bread lovers definitely know the Milk Bun bread which went viral some time ago. Milk Bun is a menu at a cafe called After You in Thailand.
Milk Bun itself is a soft bread filled with milk and then sprinkled with a mixture of sugar and powdered milk.
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Currently you can buy it in several bakeries, even with various variants ranging from original, strawberry and chocolate.
6. Balloon shrimp
Balloon prawns are one of the viral foods widely discussed, starting from a recipe shared by social media food influencer Tiktok.
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You can try different fried shrimp recipes, made from a mixture of rice flour, cornstarch, baking powder and wheat flour.
