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Kerak telor or Egg crust is a Betawi (Jakarta) traditional spicy omelette dish in Indonesian cuisine. It is made from glutinous rice cooked with egg and served with serundeng (fried shredded coconut), fried shallots and dried shrimp topping. It is considered as a snack and not as a main dish. The vendors of kerak telor are easily the most ubiquitous during annual Jakarta Fair and it has also become a must-have menu item for visitors at the event.
The food was probably named after a slightly charred apparently is said to have been there when Jakarta was called Batavia. It was at Batavia there are many coconut trees which are used by people for various purposes. One of them is to scrape the flesh and mix it with sticky rice, eggs and some seasoning and then cooked in such a way that the confectionary called egg crust.
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