Serabi Notosuman
Is a popular traditional pancake made from coconut milk, flour,sugar and other ingredients often sprinkled with chocolate as a variation. they taste sweet. you may notice that in certain holiday periods they are often sold out quick, also often taken as a gift oleh-oleh. such is the popularity of this dish that one may endure a wait of 2 hr. you can find them in notosuman street most solonese knows serabi notosuman and several their other outlets.
Gudeg is also worth a try, even though people said that gudeg originally comes from Jogja, however, Gudeg Solo is quite different from the one from Jogja. Gudeg Jogja is dried and sweet. While Gudeg Solo is saltier in flavor with more gravy. Gudeg Margoyudan is a famous example. Its specialty are chicken feet thus the moniker 'Gudeg Ceker'. The other unique feature is, it opens 1AM in the morning and by 5AM it will close. After the night travel around Solo, warm Nasi Gudeg will be a great treat for stomach. Even though this is street food, most of the time you have to take the long line up before served.
Nasi Liwet is almost similar to "Nasi Uduk" which is very famous in Jakarta or west Java.It is rice, which is cooked with santan coconut milk. The vendors for traditional nasi liwet easily be found in Keprabon street. The most famous vendor is Bu Lemu, but along the Keprabon you can find many of the vendors add the name Lemu after their own name.
Other than Serabi, Solo offers a rich varities of snack, ranged from dry snack, onde-onde ceplus, kripik cakar, kripik paru, kerak nasi goreng to keleman fresh snack solo, wajik, jadah, kue ku, lapis, cara bikang. Sosis Solo has been identified as the specialty snack from Solo, is made of chopped beef combined with spices wrapped in a thin egg pancake. You can find many varieties of traditional fresh snacks once you walk into Pasar Gede.