Indulgences

1. Peuyeum

   Peuyeum (fermented cassava)

   Usage

   Sweet-sour snack of fermented cassava, a Bandung souvenir

   Grammar Note

   Being fermented, it can contain a trace of alcohol; check if you avoid it

2. Colénak

   Colénak (grilled peuyeum with sweet coconut sauce)

   Usage

   Bandung snack: grilled peuyeum with a coconut and palm sugar sauce

   Grammar Note

   Its name is explained as a contraction of dicocol énak (delicious when dipped)

3. Dodol

   Dodol (chewy sweet)

   Usage

   Soft, sticky sweet made by cooking glutinous rice flour, palm sugar and coconut milk for a long time

   Grammar Note

   Takes skill and time to make; keeps well, so it makes a good souvenir

4. Dodol Garut

   Garut dodol

   Usage

   Dodol from Garut, the regional souvenir sweet

   Grammar Note

   Wrapped individually and sold in many flavours

5. Wajit

   Wajit (glutinous rice sweet)

   Usage

   Sweet of glutinous rice and sugar, sold wrapped in leaves or husk

   Grammar Note

   Often sold wrapped in leaf or husk

6. Opak

   Opak (glutinous rice cracker)

   Usage

   Thin glutinous rice cracker, dried and then toasted or fried

   Grammar Note

   Thin and fragile, so pack it carefully

7. Borondong

   Borondong (puffed corn sweet)

   Usage

   Snack of popped grain, such as corn, bound with sugar

8. Ranginang

   Ranginang (glutinous rice cracker)

   Usage

   Disc-shaped glutinous rice cracker, dried then fried, also eaten with meals

   Grammar Note

   Spelled both rangginang and ranginang

9. Ali agrem

   Ali agrem (ring-shaped cake)

   Usage

   Traditional cake from Karawang, shaped like a small doughnut

   Grammar Note

   Traditional sweet, often sold with other snacks

10. Ladu

    Ladu (fried flour sweet)

    Usage

    Flour and egg dough shaped like an eight, fried and coated with white sugar

    Grammar Note

    Sundanese Wikipedia says it is coated with white sugar after frying

11. Awug

    Awug (steamed rice flour cake)

    Usage

    Steamed cake of rice flour and palm sugar, topped with coconut

    Grammar Note

    A stall sweet traditionally steamed in a bamboo cone

12. Kuéh balok

    Kuéh balok (block-shaped cake)

    Usage

    Rectangular baked cake available in flavours such as cheese and chocolate

    Grammar Note

    Kuéh is the Sundanese word for cakes and sweets; Indonesian kue

13. Kuéh cubit

    Kuéh cubit (small pinched cake)

    Usage

    Small cake about 4 cm across, often sold in school canteens

    Grammar Note

    Named for pinching the batter

14. Kuéh saroja

    Kuéh saroja (flower-shaped fried cookie)

    Usage

    Dry fried cookie made with a flower-shaped mould, also called kembang goyang

    Grammar Note

    Also called kembang goyang; the shape resembles the saroja flower

15. Kuéh lapis

    Kuéh lapis (layered cake)

    Usage

    Steamed cake with two or more alternating coloured layers

    Grammar Note

    Made from rice flour, tapioca starch and coconut milk

16. Klepon

    Klepon (palm sugar rice balls)

    Usage

    Small glutinous rice balls filled with palm sugar, boiled and rolled in grated coconut

    Grammar Note

    Palm sugar bursts out when bitten; eat it in one go

17. Lemper

    Lemper (glutinous rice roll)

    Usage

    Glutinous rice filled with shredded chicken or abon, wrapped in banana leaf

    Grammar Note

    The filling is meat, usually chicken; ask the seller if you avoid meat

18. Putu

    Putu (steamed rice flour cake)

    Usage

    Steamed rice flour cake with palm sugar and coconut, cooked in short bamboo moulds

    Grammar Note

    Borrowed from Javanese puthu

19. Bubur kacang héjo

    Bubur kacang héjo (mung bean porridge)

    Usage

    Sweet porridge of mung beans cooked with palm sugar and pandan leaf

    Grammar Note

    Served warm, sometimes with coconut milk

20. Permén

    Candy

    Usage

    Small hard sweets, often sold in small bags at stalls

    Grammar Note

    É = /e/; Indonesian is permen

21. Bolu

    Bolu (sponge cake)

    Usage

    Soft baked cake of flour, egg and sugar

    Grammar Note

    Steamed bolu kukus and regional bolu are also sold

22. Lapis legit

    Lapis legit (spiced layer cake)

    Usage

    Rich cake baked layer by layer, with roots in Dutch colonial times

    Grammar Note

    An expensive cake, often given as a gift

23. Misro

    Misro (cassava fritter with palm sugar)

    Usage

    Sweet fritter of grated cassava stuffed with palm sugar and fried

    Grammar Note

    The name is explained as amis di jero (sweet inside); the savoury version is Comro

24. Gemblong

    Gemblong (fried glutinous rice ball)

    Usage

    Fried balls of glutinous rice flour and coconut dough, coated with sugar

25. Ulén

    Ulén (glutinous rice cake)

    Usage

    Sundanese cake of pounded glutinous rice, grilled or fried

    Grammar Note

    Traditionally eaten with coffee in the rainy season

26. Surabi

    Surabi (rice flour pancake)

    Usage

    Small pancake of rice flour and coconut, cooked in an earthenware mould

    Grammar Note

    Also spelled sorabi; sweet and savoury versions exist

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