[Review] Quick and Tasty Steamed Bapao

Quoted from Wikipedia:
Bakpau is found in Indonesia as a take away food sold by cart street hawkers.
Bakpau in Indonesia is usually sold in dabao size (lit: "big pau"), around 10 centimetres (3.9 in) in diameter.

To accommodate the dietary restrictions of Indonesia's Muslim majority, the original pork filling has been replaced with minced beef, diced chicken, or even sweet mung bean paste and red bean paste.

These pao with non-meat fillings are still called bakpau by Indonesians, despite the lack of meat usually served with sweet chili sauce.
It was brought to The Netherlands by Indos of Chinese heritage during the repatriation following the independence of Indonesia.

Tried the Dutch Bapao which were bought from the local supermarket.
They are individually wrapped and well labelled.

To eat, you just reheat them in the microwave or steam them.
I was a bit disappointed with both of them as the meat was weird.

For the chicken bapao, the pieces of chicken were mostly chicken fat and bone fragment was found.

The beef was ok but again the quality of beef was poor and there was a strange smell.

OREO coconut delight‏

Oreo biscuit comes in so many flavours around the world.
In Indonesia, there is a coconut filled oreo called Oreo coconut delight.

The filling is quite fragrant and tastes like a British coconut cream biscuit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0I1ZSodoKU

FOX's glacier fruit sweets - strawberry flavour

www.foxs.co.uk

Fox's glacier sweets are a British brand, but somehow the one I have here is an Indonesian version which is wrapped differently probably due to their hot climate.

In UK they are wrapped in wrappers with the two ends twisted, but the Indonesian version is seal.

The shape of the sweet is also different.

Guruda Kacang Telur - Egg coated peanuts

These are egg coated peanuts according to its description, overall they were quite nice but they were slightly oily.
The coating was quite thick too!

Cassachips

Before eating them I assumed they were normal potato crisps, but when I tried them, they were hard and the patterns were slightly different, with lines radiating from the centre.

After googling Cassiva, it turns out that it is a root vegetable because I thought Cassiva was the brand name before that. It is also used for making tapioca pearls.

http://www.garudafood.com/

Dua Kelinci Tic Tac Snacks

These snacks from Tic Tac are quite interesting, they are tiny balls of fried tapioca and taste like starchy crisps/snacks.

There are lots of flavour and I tried chicken and garlic, seaweed and prawn.

The flavouring was really strong and had lots of MSG.

http://www.dk-peanuts.com/

Indonesian garlic peanut crunchies

Tried these coated peanuts which come convenient packed in small packs.

The peanuts inside are slightly smaller than the usual peanuts the coating on the outside is thicker which is really nice because it tastes really garlicky.

McDonalds: Indonesia

McDonalds in Indonesia

http://www.mcdonalds.co.id/

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Rice, fried chicken and scrambled eggs

Panans special

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Soup: chicken, carrots, sweetcorn and peas

Sup Ayam

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bubur ayam: porridge with chicken and cheese!

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Egg burger

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McFlurry with special edition orange oreos!!

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IndoMie Pop Mie Rasa Ayam instant cup noodles

Basically the same as "IndoMie Pop Mie Rasa Soto Ayam instant cup noodles" except there are only three sachets of soup powder inside.
Again, the chili powder is packaged separately.
After trying the Soto one first, this one just tasted the same but purely of chicken stock.

Indomie Pop Mie Rasa Soto Ayam instant cup noodles

I was surprised to find out from Wikipedia that Indomie is the world's largest instant noodle manufacturer located in Indonesia.
It is distributed in New Zealand and United States so it can't taste that bad.
The price of these cup noodles were dirt cheap! They cost about 20p (British currency) per cup however the portion is not that big.
I was impressed that the chili was in a separate sachet and there was no plastic odour/taste in the noodles.
As the noodles are thicker than other brands, I had to let it stand longer before eating.
The soup was quite viscous.
After I finished the noodles, the remaining soup was quite oily and slick, but then if you are health conscious you can leave out putting that sachet of oil seasoning in it.