Little Feet Round the World: Palembang Trip - Happily Ever After, Ahin & Juli!

The final day was finally coming.

We planned to have traditional Palembang breakfast, visit the sport complex of Palembang in Jakabaring, have traditional Palembang lunch, have legendary Palembang snack, and go to Ahin & Juli's wedding.

We achieved all the itineraries that have the 'food' element in it.

We started our day by having a morning chit-chat in my house.

With all the foods from Palembang, Manado, Medan :)

We set out of the house to have our late breakfast: mie celor! Mie celor is traditional Palembang food. It consists of thick egg noodle with thick prawn curry soup. Topped with fish crackers or melinjo crackers, it is heavenly delicious.

The place to eat this food is Mie Celor 26 Ilir. No other place can beat mie celor in this place.

Pretty mie celor

Because of traffic jam, we reached here pretty late and finished pretty late as well. Therefore, we decided not to go to Jakabaring and straightaway go to our second food destination: traditional Palembang lunch. Pindang Meranjat Ibu Ucha.

This is the place where you can get the best pindang ikan, the best pepes ikan, the best ikan seluang goreng, and the best ambiance of traditional Palembang.

Pindang Meranjat Ibu Ucha is located somewhere in Demang Lebar Daun. The venue is considered huge with traditional wooden huts all over the place. Inside the huts, there is only low table. Basically, you are required to sit on the floor and eat traditionally, too.

Friends from the sea

The highlights here are:

Pindang ikan - spicy and sour fish soup
Pepes ikan - grilled onion & chilli spiced fish wrapped in banana leaf
Ikan seluang goreng - crispy fried rasbora fish

The fish are usually panga catfish or ikan patin, coming from the river. However now, people farm it in the pond for industry purpose.

Other than those menu, Pindang Meranjat Ibu Ucha also serves gurame bakar (grilled carp), sambal udang petai (spicy shrimp & petai), pepes tempoyak (grilled fermented durian spiced fish wrapped in banana leaf), lalapan (vegetables), many types of chilli sauces, and other seafood products cooked in traditional Palembang way.

Eating here can cost IDR 50,000 to IDR 100,000 (~SGD 5-10) per person depending on the varieties of food that you order. It is not necessarily inexpensive, but it is worth it.

Group photo time! See the ambience? Like it?

After lunch, we sat around for awhile before making a move to our next destination: Martabak Bangka Pulau Mas. This is one of the iconic snack of Palembang. Nobody can ever leave Palembang without tasting this. My favourite is the original flavour, peanut. When I recommended this flavour to my friends, they thought no good of it. Until they tried it.