Soto Ojolali

This is a culinary story long time ago, when my friends in Gemati and I went for a trip to Pameungpeuk, remember? When we went back to Bandung, we decided to eat first before reaching campus. Bayu did the browsing. They said they wanted something fresh. And since it's kinda rainy that day, soto is a good choice. Then Bayu found this blog talking about Soto Ojolali in Jalan Cibadak 79. And we decided to go there. Actually, it's pretty far from the exit toll gate in Buah Batu, but we thought it's fine, since we still have a lot of time before the due hour to return the car.

As you know, soto is one of Indonesian's food. It's more less like soup with vegetables, meat or chicken, and sometimes vermicelli. There're so many kinds of soto here in Indonesia, you might find different kind of soto in different place. First, I thought that Soto Ojolali served Javanese soto because the term "ojolali" is actually Javanese mean "do not forget", (by the term Javanese here, I mean Central Java, East Java, and Yogyakarta). Javanese soto usually use turmeric as one of its ingredients. But when they served the soto, it's soto Bandung instead. Different from other Javanese soto that had yellow color of turmeric, soto Bandung have a clear soup with meat, radish, and fried soybean. It tasted a little bland for me, but you can add salt or soy sauce to match your taste. But overall the soto felt so fresh. I liked it pretty much. At first I thought, we won't be full enough with the portion served especially for the boys, but I was wrong, they all said that they're full. :)


There're also side dishes like tempe, tahu, and fried satay if you want some. Each soto was priced Rp 20.000,00 if I'm not mistaken, it's about USD 2.5 excluded the rice. I forgot if this is the right price or not, but it's approximately sold at that price. I'm really bad at remembering something. :(

Soto Ojolali

us :)

When we're looking for Soto Ojolali at first place, I kind of remember a place called the same that I passed it often, but I just can't tell where the exact place. And someday I went to Palasari bookstore block, then I saw Soto Ojolali just right before Palasari block, on Jalan Banteng. All I can said in my heart was, "I wished I had remembered this place that day, then we didn't have to go that really far from campus." hahaha... It's chronic I guess, keep forgetting something easily. Need to give more attention for everything surrounds me. haha..

Adios! ^^