[caption id="attachment_166847" align="aligncenter" width="400" caption="Kupat Sayur Jakarta"][/caption] "Make your gastronomy experience tastier by leaving your "candle light dinner-elegance" and hunting Kupat Sayur in the heat of old city complex of Jakarta"
As the capital city of Indonesia, Jakarta offers you enough facilities to live as modern people. Including in fulfilling your need of eating, Jakarta has so many modern restaurants with various types of International menus. But, your gastronomy experience in Jakarta will not be enough if you just sit in the cozy sofa of restaurant, get served by good-looking waitress/waiter with International service standard, or eat in super duper hygiene indoor area. To make "tastier" experience, just forget a moment of your "candle light dinner-elegance", walk around in the heat of city and find bunch of traditional menus of Jakarta sold on the street. Kota Tua of Batavia, the 1,3 km2 old Dutch style complex along north and west of Jakarta can be your option as the spot of hunting Jakartanese traditional food. Not only looking for the food, but also enjoying the grandeur of Jakarta  in 17th century.  One of the popular traditional food easily found in Kota Tua in Kupat Sayur or Ketupat Sayur.
Kupat Sayur consists of:
1. Kupat
Kupat is rice which is covered by coconut leafed and then steamed.
2. Sayur
In literal meaning, sayur means vegetable. Here the vegetable is papaya which is cut like matches sticks and string beans. Those are boiled on coconut milk with the spices of onion, garlic, red chili, hazelnut, shrimp paste, lemon grass leaf, galangal, and pepper powder plus sugar and salt.
3. Egg
Egg is boiled together when cooking sayur.
4. Kerupuk Kanji
