Pondok Ikan Bakar khas Kalimantan

Yesterday's trip back from Bogor was painful, I mean 5.5 hours painful. In between, we had to even leave the highway to take a lunch/dinner break. My aunty knew of a very popular place amongst Jakartans where you can get the best smoked fish in town (or ikan pepes). The fish are coated with a golden paste of spices and herbs and put in side bamboo shoots where they are slowly cooked ontop of coals. When we got here, the queue was long but the people here eat and leave so the change-over was rather quick. We ordered a couple of fish and here is what they looked like.

The fish is served on the bamboos

It comes with three types of sauces; a watery sweet and sour sauce, freshly cooked chilli and chilli and sour mango sauce.

At the carpark, a couple of guys were preparing the bamboo shoots for cooking