When it comes to Indonesian pancake, we can think about surabi bandung, a sweet dish that processed like pancake (but instead of pan, it cooked in a tiny wok pan fired in charcoal). The traditional version don't add toppings, just plain or with sauce that made with coconut milk and palm sugar. The modern version adds various topping, both sweet and savory. You can find surabi with pizza flavour, cheese, banana, or strawberry ice cream.
Surabi that I had in Waroeng Setiabudi when I visited Bandung, back in 2014.
The trend goes into martabak manis (literally means sweet martabak). In Indonesia, some call it kue bangka (because it is originally invented in Bangka, an Island in the east of Sumatera, before spread throughout the country), kue bandung (famous in Semarang, maybe because the dish firstly introduced there by Bandung people), or terang bulan (popular here in Yogyakarta). Basically it is a large pancake cooked in a pan with many holes that nested inside it, formed by the addition of baking soda. The standard cake just added with chocolate and chopped nuts, but lately people add some premium condiments like toblerone, ovomaltine, nutella, marshmallow, chopped kitkat, and anything else. Sure, those make it more delicious, but the prices rise very high. From the regular martabak costs about 20k IDR become more than 100k IDR! So... i never buy it. The regular martabak with chocolate topping is enough for me.
When i was visiting my sister a week ago, we decided to make martabak in home. My sister got the recipe from internet, and have tried successfully. Then we had crazy idea to buy many sweet treats to make the martabak even more premium than those sold outside. So I rushed to the convenience store to buy many things like matcha powder (to be mixed in the mixture), nutella, chunky bar (premium chocolate bar with cashew or almond, produced by delfi), cha-cha (a type of m&m-like candy coated chocolate), koko crunch (nestle's chocolate cereal), and many more. So here we go....
The mixture starts bubbling....
The first trial, matcha flavored martabak with chopped chocolate
Another variation, chocolate powder with crunch from chocolate cereal
Martabak four flavors made by my sister: Oreo, nutella, chocolate candy, and grated cheese, with the addition of condensed milk.
All of them taste sooooooo delicious!! No wonder, the toppings itself taste great. I take one plate back to Yogyakarta, the most beautiful and tastiest of all we made that day. I posted it in my instagram account (you can see the photos here).
So happy cooking together while gathered with families....