Check out my blog post about Warung Mak Dower► https://migrationology.com/betawi-food-warung-mak-dower/
When I was in Jakarta, along with eating all sorts of regional Indonesian food from around the country, I really wanted to eat a full spread of Betawi dishes, which are the people originally from the Jakarta area.
After doing some research I came across Warung Mak Dower, and decided to take the trip from across Jakarta to eat there. It was well worth visiting, and the food was incredible.
Here are the dishes I ordered:
Sayur asem (vegetable tamarind soup)
Ikan cue goreng bawang (fried fish with shallots)
Cumi asin lenong (salted squid dish)
Jengkol nampol (dogfruit chili)
Pete goreng (fried stink beans)
Pete bawang (stink beans and fried shallots)
Everything was pretty good, but nothing compared to the dishes that included stink beans and crispy shallots, and the jengkol nampol, a dish of cooked dogfruit in lots of chili and garlic. It was simply an overload of flavor.
Warung Mak Dower is a great friendly family run Betawi restaurant that’s well worth checking out when you’re in Jakarta.
Warung Mak Dower
Address: Jl. Pemuda No. 72, Rawamangun, Jakarta
Open hours: 9 am - 9 pm daily
Total price: 140,800 IDR ($10.33)
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13 thoughts on “Amazing betawi food – warning: stink beans jengkol in jakarta, indonesia!”
  1. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Ami Masak says:

    Betawi mantap👍

  2. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Mycroft Holmes says:

  3. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Dhiya Fida Pangestu says:

    Pete can cure depression??!! I wish i knew it sooner! Its 6 years old video, where was i all these time? 🥲

  4. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars 6 KR says:

    Jengkol is the best hahaha

  5. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars David Woelke says:

    Hi Mark. I love your videos. Your descriptions are quite vivid as well as entertaining. You are quite positive in your reviews, perhaps too much so? Is there nothing in Indonesian food you don't like? I think if you drank water, you would roll your eyes, roll your head and say how amazing and delicious the water is. – lol. I would like to see a little more criticism of foods that you thought were not up to your hopes or expectations. Perhaps a rating from 1 to 10? My wife is Indonesian by the way, and I love Indonesian food for the most part except for stinky beans and ikan asin (stinky fish).

  6. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars areyouri says:

    Mr Mark, pleas come again to our country Indonesia, Jakarta 🙏

  7. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Febriana Oemar says:

    Betawi has spicy food also..like spicy jengkol bean..beside that jengkol bean can also be cooked as rendang jengkol and semur jengkol (sweat flavour)..I like both 😁⚘

  8. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars salva salva says:

    Once you try Indonesian food, you can never go back. The variety of the taste cannot be compared, only in Indonesia you can eat sour vegetable soup but you will never feel it is wrong.

  9. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Yadi Yuwandi says:

    Ke sini gegara abis liat video ken & grat

  10. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Samuel Julio says:

    I always love the intro song

  11. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Jarpo Marcopo says:

    If u look for some seafood, u need to travel around those island. .

    May be at Kalimantan or Manado u can get chinese food with more kind meat and some orienthal food. .
    At Bangka, Belitung, or Sulawesi have a lot seafood as same as thailand. .
    At jakarta u will find more of junk food goverment. .hahaha
    And ACEH or Padang, they have more and more kind of foods and unbelieveable taste. . U know as well it causes, we have REMPAH. .

  12. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Jarpo Marcopo says:

    Betawi/Batavia(VOC)

  13. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Hengky Dotulong says:

    U should try to eat this sayur asam dish with fried Empal beef and Fried egg with sweet soy ketchup, will make you have 3 tastes Salt from Empal, sweet from the egg, and sour from the soup !

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