The Original Fried Chicken of Kalasan

Ayam mBok Berek

Preparation info
  • For

    2 or 4

    people
    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in

By Sri Owen

Published 1994

  • About

Every visitor to Yogyakarta goes to see the temple complex at Prambanan, about 15 kilometres out of town on the Solo road. In 1960, the scene was very different from what it is today; there were virtually no tourists, and very few Indonesians could afford to travel any distance to see their own historic monuments. Many of the smaller temples that now stand proudly on the site were heaps of rubble. The open-air Ramayana Theatre did not exist. There were several kilometres of green rice field