The next day was our last full day in Jogja.... breakfast at the hotel, similar as before, but a couple new additions:
A different kind of chicken stew
Fish with "barbecue sauce" which is like kecap manis (sweet soy sauce)
various types of kueh - mostly made from glutinous rice - colorful, but all relatively flavorless... the brown one was sweet with palm sugar
After breakfast, we went to Taman Sari (translated as the Water Castle), which were the baths area for the Sultan... they were heavily damaged during an earthquake, but have been partially restored...
Like most sites here, the ticket prices are higher for international tourists than they are for domestic tourists... still not expensive though - 15,000RP is a little more than $1...
After that, we were going to go for lunch... we still haven't had the local specialty gudeg outside of the hotel, so we went to a very famous place for it, open since 1950 or so....
Gudeg Sagan, the palace that Gudeg built...
The large menu... unfortunately, many of the things that went with the gudeg were sold out... for example, Paha is chicken leg/thigh... the only thing part of the chicken they had left were Kepala (head) and Dada (translated as chest - but it's what would be called an airline breast)
This is it... the gudeg is on the right, much more moist, and not as sweet as it was in the hotel. To the left of it is the krecek, the beef skin cooked in coconut milk - it was pretty spicy, and so tender that it would cut itself in a strong breeze... on top is the chicken cooked in coconut milk - they use the kampung chicken here, so not too meaty and a the joints are really tough to get through, but good flavor. Had with sweetened ice tea... this tea had a REALLY strong flavor - it was like nothing I've ever tasted before...
This sight is something that is pretty common in Asia....
While the toilet looks like a normal toilet, the way you flush it is by using the bucket of water to the right...
