CILOK: SUBURBAN LOVE FOR AN AMATEUR SUBURBAN GEEK.

you might think I'm outta my mind or being mentally ill, but, one thing for sure, I was just, like, err, you know, having this kind of relatively permanent disorder of the mind. Oh no, not again.

cilok is an abbreviation of aCI dicoLOK. Originated from West Java, now it ubiquitously and pervasively spreads out all over Java, or may be , Indonesia. It is made from starch dough. The super-duper-stitious notion told us that the name Cilok came out as a result of the main ingredient of the food itself, which is starch, and the way we eat it up; using a kind of bamboo skewer.

there are like hundreds kinds of cilok. I have seen and tasted "Cilok Asmara" in ITC BSD. it's just another cilok, but the seller has successfully over-persuaded the target market and over-exaggerate the name of the product. well, uhm, lemme see.. we have Fried Cilok, Grilled Cilok, Cilok Bandung, Filled Cilok, etc. My 'honeybite' is Cilok Goreng. I once tasted Cilok Goreng for the very first time when I was in Bandung. I was about to go to Dipati Ukur to eat Surabi Bandung, but apparently I took the wrong way and had to stay for hours waiting for the angkots. It was a gloomy Satnite *HOW GREAT THOU ART* I waited for you, LOL, not you, I mean, the angkots. This lovely tummy couldn't be compromised, so at a glimpse I stopped at a Fried Cilok stall in front of PVJ. It was just unforgettable nighty nite with the Fried Cilok......... that I realized I have just fallen in love, AGAIN, A-FRIGGING-GAIN.. Thanks to cilok brother-sisterhood splattered all around Java. I could eat you up like a chocolate chunk. Eat you up. You'll dig it. Truly, madly, deeply. Like for eternity. 

Here's a secretively open recipe for Cilok Goreng Bandung. The best cilok I've been craving forever like ever. 

I N G R E D I E N T S
For The Cilok:

• 200 grams starch
• 200 grams wheat
• 2 garlic cloves
• 1 teaspoon broth powder
• 1/4 teaspoon pepper
• 2 chopped chive stalks
• 400 ml water, for the dough
• 1 teaspoon salt

For the Peanut Sauce :

• 150 grams grind roasted peanut
• 1 teaspoon sugar
• 1 teaspoon vinegar
• salt
• warm water to thin out the sauce

D I R E C T I O N S
Peanut Sauce :

• Mix the ingredients all together.
• Whisk well until the sugar has dissolved and the peanuts are thoroughly distributed.
• Cook for 3-4 mins in medium heat until it gets thicken.
• add some chilies if you like it

The ULTIMATE FRIED CILOK :

1. First thing first, combine the starch, wheat, chopped chives, and garlic. Mix evenly until they're perfectly combined. 
2. Boil 400 ml water, add some salt, broth powder, and pepper.
3. Pour the boiled broth into the flour mixture little by little. Stir slowly until the dough dull enough to be mold.
4. Take a tablespoon of the dough, mold it with yer bare hands. It's up to you to mold the dough into whatever shape. If I may suggest, make a Saturn-look-a-like cilok, which has a ring on it. No, kidding. 
5. Boil your teeny tiny pieces of heaven, no, I mean, cilok, into a saucepan of boiled water. It will be floating to the surface if it's well-done cooked. Drain the well-done cooked cilok for about 2 mins before you steam it.
6. Soon after you finished steaming the ciloks, you can directly deep fried them, or just served them with splashes of peanut sauce. YUM!

CILOK

~CHEWY, DEWY, YUMMY~

It's simply massive, addictive, and explosive.

This photo was taken back in 2010. Where? You know where? The Mud Lake of Lapindo - Sidoarjo, East Java. 

BONUS

ABANG CILOK

Sore ze Band: Whirling Thru Cultic Music

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Price The Lorde!

Summarecon Mall Serpong

Thursday, May 1st, 2014

instantly got ear-gasm and eye-gasm.

OH, MAN!

seriously, as the end result of a succession
after 9 years fan-girling, I WATCHED SORE's LIVE PERFORMANCE!!!

T'was just totally MAGNIFYING!!!

I got Sore's newest album, contains their selected tracks and one new song entitled "SSSST..."

I also took some photographs with 'em!

HEAVEN.........

Lemme hear you sing!

"...and I'm so GLAD you're mine..."

with Bang Ade.. :))

with Bang Awan.. :))

He noticed my Beatles' Hello-Goodbye Tees.

Thanks to dhimagine for giving me this bloody awesome tees FOR FREE :))

Bang Awan said, "KAOSNYA KEREN!"

IN THE LIMELIGHT!

with Bang Echa.. :))

He's undoubtedly kindhearted and very pretty yet soooooo extraordinarily handsome!!!

oh, those photos of my foolish-looking face!

what's being a truly lamentable state was that I couldn't have any chance to take another foolish-looking face with Bang Bemby..

I was on my 11th grade at that time, when I first peripherally listened to "Somos Libres". It was back in 2005, as I withdrew. I began to unconsciously sing the song by no means. It turned out to me that I soon began savoring the song's radically distinctive ambiance and conspicuous harmony.

ATM, we still had MTv on the national television channel. I ran into this video clip of "Somos Libres" and I found out that Sore was the band behind those pleasingly music.
I started to request "Somos Libres" in one of capitalistic youth-segmented radio in Solo. Even one of the radio DJ noticed me since I always requested the same song. One evening, (Wednesday, October 25th, 2006) my ex surprisingly came to my house bringing me a bouquet of red roses and Sore's very first album, "CENTRALISMO"

MUEHEHE, I used to call him, "My Bxx" :P

SORE - Indonesian Indie Band Symphonizing Oldie Goldie Pop Sound

from my own way of regarding topics, as a common people who don't really perceive and comprehend the nature and significance of musicality, I was simply being hypnotized by Sore's euphony. Sore is a Jakarta-based indie band that is totally unique and outstanding. They classify their music genre as "Indonesiana Rock Revival" and I don't really get it. Their musical variety is just indescribable. It's exceptionally beyond a kind of sort; they are one of a kind, at least for me. LOL. 

They are heavily influenced by The Beatles, Morrissey, Steely Dan, Interpol, Gino Vannelli, Frank Zappa, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Smashing Pumpkins, Sonic Youth, Procol Harum, America, Paul Simon, Burt Bacharach, Charles Mingus, Miles Davis, Ludwig van Beethoven, Masaru Satoh, Krzysztof Komeda, Michael Franks, Gil Evans. Enriched by similarly obsecure harmony from  Eggstone, Andrew Bird, Arcade Fire, Badly Drawn Boy, Last Shadow Puppets, Beirut, The Wondermints. 

Their music is a pleasing combination of elements in a whole which is adorned by any melodious strings and brass instruments. Sore comprises 4-main members who are all multi-instrumentalist and are able to play their guitars and bases left-handed-ly. Some of them deliberately claimed their-selves ambidextrous. (I can't remember, either Ade, Echa, Awan, or Ade and Echa, or Awan and Echa, haha, nervermind). All of the members take part as vocalist, too. To a very great extent, it's so obviously mind-blogging having different vocals divulging different tones wrapped in one album. PERPLEXING! 

SORE's first album received mostly critical receptions. The Time Magazine Asia admitted the existence of 'CENTRALISMO' as "One of Five Asian Albums Worth Buying", and ranked number 40 in "150 Greatest Indonesian Albums of All Time" in the Rolling Stone Indonesia magazine. Their second album entitled 'PORTS OF LIMA' (Aksara Records - 2008) got great critical acclaim. It was voted "Best Album of 2008' (number one) by the Rolling Stone Indonesia magazine.  

Sore, first renowned.

from left to right: Bemby Gusti Pramudya, Ade Firza Paloh, Awan Garnida, Ramondo Gascaro, and Reza Dwiputranto. Additional player: Dono Firman.

Sore, nowadays.

Mondo left the band to concentrate on his own project.

my favorite tracks:

*Centralismo*

Mata Berdebu

Somos Libres

No Fruits for Today

Etalase

Lihat

*Ports of Lima*

Bogor Biru

Senyum dari Selatan

ESSENSIMO

Setengah Lima 

Vrijeman

Apatis Ria

Karolina

IMHO, Sore is not merely a band; it's a cult. It's my object of such devotion. It serves me that kind of disposition, a strong feeling; implies some control over my own thinking, actions, and emotions.

 udah ah, cape!

yuk mari, ngopi!

wassalam!

:))

#np: Sore ze Band - SSSST...

READ THESE!
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Traveling 101: Trippy Trip to Bandoengsche

Been drowning here and there by the piles of students' werk, finally I could step into this undeniably sweet escapism.

 

Couple weeks ago, I got the chance to visit the absobloodylootely indiest city in Indonesia, BANDOENGSCHE (((so far, AFAIK, IMHO))) I've been waiting like forever for those days to come. Me and my truly amazing friends @Antoniatztztz and @cicuph have planned to stay in Bandung for 3 days and two nights. T'was a some-sorta backpacker trip, so we have sorted places we'd like to pay a brief visit without paying too much. hahaha. Since @cicuph lives in Bandung, we took an advantage of getting her as a for-free tour guide *fingers crossed~

First thing we did before we sailed there was finding a hostel or motel to stay, at affordable price, of course.We ended up at Samudra Hotel. It's located on Cihampelas 274. We spent IDR 340k for 3 days 2 nights. The room's quite neat and clean for an un-air-conditionered one (Bandung is already freezing cold in the morning and at night). The rate included 2 breakfast set for 2 days. We were cautious openly distrustful and unwilling to confide what hotel we stayed in. Why? Because we saw lotsa young love birds came in back and forth. I was kinda (((kepo))) so I took a long fixed look at their ring fingers, intending to see a ring, but there's nothing. So the telly apparently got it right. Moral degradation. Present generation. It might be you, might be me. Blimey.

The place to sleep: CHECK.

How to get there  : RANDOM.

Up until the night before we off to Bandung, we haven't booked the travel agent who supposed to bring us there. Oh crap. We dashed into the nearest travel agent and no more seats left. great. Out of nowhere, I got an omen. The only hope. We finally reached the other travel agent. Thank goodness there were two seats left, but they were at the very back and would go at the very late schedule, we said no probs and nailed it. This cost us to pay more, tho. But that's fine, the thing was, how to get these ass off to Bandung! YEA.

Day #1

it took us 3 hours from BSD to Bandung. we arrived there around 7 pm. bloody starving. after met up with @cicuph, @Antoniatztztz and I decided to find something to eat, checked in at the hotel, and walked to Ciwalk, which is supposed to be walked around. 

Day #2

We woke up quite early that day. @omuniuum was the scheduled place to drop by. It was a small shop sells various books, records from indie artist and singers, and also indie bands' merchs. @Antoniatztztz was the one who urged us to go there. She said she wanted to buy some CDs for her partner. What kinda partner? Don't ask me any further. It's absurd. Strikingly absurd. LOL.

Actually, I didn't have any plan to buy something here, but the stuffs are SPARKLES. So I decided to buy a @bottlesmoker tees for IDR 125k. 

BEEN THERE, DONE THAT, GOT THE T-SHIRT (LITERALLY) 

GIGA LOL!

Done with the shopping thingy, we took the angkot to Braga. As we all know, Bandung is widely-known as the place where amounts of Dutch colonial architectural buildings began and flourished; particularly the tropical Art Deco architectural style. Braga street's so astounding and overwhelmingly impressive. 

The deprivation for food seemingly came and stroke back, so we hurried ourselves to Warung Misbar. An eating place which fosters a warm or friendly and informal atmosphere designated in an oldschool-like movie theater. It supplies us traditional Sundanese food, tastes quite good and at a good price too. We were welcomed by gigantic vintage movie posters at the facade and inside, right in the middle, there's a giant screen played vintage movies and surrounded by giant posters of legendary actors and actresses.

IT'S TIME TO HAVE OUR FAITH RECHARGED. :))

@ St. Laurentius Church, Sukajadi.

Next destination was Paris Van Java mall. I didn't take many pictures in here. It's just normal TOFF-Class shopping avenue. I stepped into this popular shoe-store, tried the boots and took off, hahaha.

We waited for another angkot to take us to Dipatiukur street but it didn't appear for long. Walking is not an option but we were starving to death. we were about to have a munch of the famous and scrumptious Surabi Bandung. it is indeed extremely pleasing to the sense of taste.

We have another appointment with another friend, Surya, or Mas Sur, I recalled. After having our mouth and tummy fully loaded, we headed to Gasibu.

On our way back home to the hotel, we encounter an unpleasant moment in which we were involved in an unexpectedly car accident. Our car hit another car and Mas Sur had to pay for the damage. Uh I'm terribly sorry for that...

Day #3
Gasibu in the morning. Everyone's there. I couldn't barely breathe. Unfortunately I didn't make it. I didn't go to the most popular flea market around Indonesia, GEDEBAGE :((((((((
But I got this, for only IDR 30k.

Batagor KirCon was our lunch menu that day. IDR 15k you got 3 jumbo batagor. Magnifying.

The last destination...
Cimuncang, where @cicuph resides.

I think I need to get another inclination to retreat from unpleasant realities through diversion or fantasy for the sake of my mental's health. LOL.