In addition to chicken soup and tofu mix, the
famous food of Lamongan is boranan rice. Presentation similar to rice sauce in
Surabaya. However, container and sauce ingredients to make this food is unique
and difficult to find it elsewhere. Entering the archway Lamongan City,there is
slogan writing that Lamongan is Soto City. Chicken soup is a typical regional
food that are located on the northern coast of East Java. However, when
exploring the city, other kinds of foods we will find. They are tofu mix ( tahu
campur),boranan rice (sego boranan),
tofu tek ( tahu tek), wingko of
Babat, and jumbreg. If the boranan
rice like the sauce rice, jumbreg
more like talam. Tahu campur and tahu
tek often found in various cities, as well as wingko, sego boranan and jumbreg
can only be found in Lamongan.
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| a portion of boranan rice |
Maybe you'll be wondering, what is a sego boranan? Sego boranan like chili sauce rice, white rice or corn rice served
with various side dishes and sauce on top of a container of banana leaf and paper.
Do not expect to see sego boranan in
a restaurant or diner. Therefore, this dish is only sold around the roads by
the woman. They traveled to all corners of the city, including the town square
and in the evening along Jl Basuki Rahmat, from the square turn right and then
straight. many of mothers sat lined up to sell sego boranan.