KOMPAS.com – Blok M is not only busy with trendy cafes. In this South Jakarta shopping center, street food called gultik is also a favorite.
Bend curry (gultik) is basically made from beef in the form of offal, meatballs, and fat, which is cut into small pieces, cooked with lots of herbs and spices.
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The gultik sauce is yellow in color and tastes delicious because of the mixture of coconut milk and seasonings.
Usually, gultik sellers in Blok M sell this food in small portions for tens of thousands.
Even though it is served with rice, gultik is often not enough to consume in one portion. Buyers generally order additional gultik after finishing a portion of this food.
Quoted from Indonesia Go, Friday (3/1/2025), the name gultik comes from the corner where this food was first sold.
Many gultik sellers were lined up behind Blok M Plaza, precisely at the corner of Jalan Mahakan and Jalan Bulungan, as reported Kompas.comTuesday (10/9/2013).
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It can be seen from buyers who come on foot, on motorbikes and in cars.
Gareng, one of the gultik sellers in Blok M, admitted that he had been selling this food for decades, since the 1990s.
Around 1985 to the 1990s is marked as the beginning of gultik appearing in Blok M. The price is still IDR 500 per portion, quoted from Delicious Dish.
After appearing in the mass media, the success of the gultik seller in Blok M began to be heard and he added many other sellers since 1992.
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